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Group Leader Positions (Researcher I, code 1110) – 6 year contracts

Posted by , on 16 March 2019

University of Bergen Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology The University of Bergen (UiB) is an internationally recognized research university with more than 14,000 students and close to 3,500 ...

PhD – Bacterial symbiosis in deep-sea annelids

Posted by , on 11 March 2019

Background Mutualistic relationships between bacteria and complex organisms have repeatedly evolved and this has allowed host organisms to exploit new environments and foods. One of the most extreme and fascinating ...

IRIBHM INTERNATIONAL Ph.D. PROGRAM 2019

Posted by , on 5 March 2019

IRIBHM is a research institute of the Medical School of the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB). The institute offers an internationally prominent research environment in molecular ...

Reflections on the ‘Evo-chromo’ Workshop (November 2018)

Posted by , on 5 March 2019

Alexander Blackwell and James Gahan   At the beginning of November 2018, thirty researchers congregated at Wiston House to attend a workshop titled ‘Evo-chromo: towards an integrative approach of chromatin ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 4 March 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  February was notable for the amount of neural development, from retina to cortex and fly to fish. We also ...

Research Assistant, Brain Tumour research, University of Plymouth - short term

Posted by , on 1 March 2019

Fixed term contract (available now until 30th September 2019); Full time preferred Salary: Grade 5 – £25,482/ year Deadline for applications: 10th March 2019 A Brain Tumour Research-sponsored research assistant position ...

The people behind the papers – Elena Popa and Abigail Tucker

Posted by , on 28 February 2019

This interview, the 58th in our series, was recently published in Development While many vertebrates have multiple sets of teeth over their lifetime, some, like humans, have just a single set ...

Preprints and science news - how can they co-exist? A meeting summary

Posted by , on 25 February 2019

Mate Palfy & Gautam Dey   In the summer of 2018, two commentaries from the Science Media Center (an open letter from Chief Executive Fiona Fox and a ‘World View’ ...

Community Manager, Microscopy Resource Site

Posted by , on 25 February 2019

Journal of Cell Science and its publisher, The Company of Biologists, are seeking to appoint a Community Manager, based in Cambridge, UK, to run a new microscopy resource website. An ...

The BSDB Archive now available at the John Innes Centre

Posted by , on 19 February 2019

The BSDB Archive covers 70 years of our society’s history, providing deep insights into its early years, its long trail of scientific conferences, workshops and committee meetings; it includes an ...

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