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A day in the life of an onychophoran lab

Posted by , on 7 August 2019

What are onychophorans and why do we study them? My name is Sandra Treffkorn, and I recently finished my PhD in the department of zoology lead by Georg Mayer at ...

July in preprints

Posted by , on 5 August 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints. The preprints were hosted on bioRxiv, PeerJ, and arXiv. Let us know if we missed anything, and use these links to get to the ...

Senior Research Technician in the Panfilio Lab, University of Warwick, UK

Posted by , on 5 August 2019

School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK   A full-time, twelve-month Senior Research Technician position is available for an immediate start in the laboratory of Dr Kristen Panfilio, for ...

How to “Run” embryonic development

Posted by , on 24 July 2019

The term “embryonic development” was originally proposed some 2,400 years ago by Aristotle, however, many aspects of how the genome regulates development remain unclear. One major challenge of the modern ...

Epigenetic regulation of cell fate choice and differentiation

Posted by , on 12 July 2019

A post-doctoral position is available to study  transcriptional regulation of lineage fidelity during fate specification and differentiation of ES cells.  This project focuses on uncovering epigenetic and co-factor-dependent mechanisms underlying ...

Gene Regulatory Networks for Development Course - apply by 17 July

Posted by , on 11 July 2019

Applications are now open for this year’s Gene Regulatory Networks for Development at The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, USA from October 13-26.  The application deadline is July 17th. The course is for ...

Funded early career places at Company of Biologists Workshop 'Understanding Human Birth Defects in the Genomic Age'

Posted by , on 9 July 2019

The Company of Biologists Workshops provide leading experts and early-career researchers from a diverse range of scientific backgrounds with a stimulating environment for the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary ideas. In November, experts ...

The people behind the papers – Eduardo Leyva-Díaz and Oliver Hobert

Posted by , on 9 July 2019

This interview, the 66th in our series, was recently published in Development Transcriptional autoregulation occurs when transcription factors bind their own cis-regulatory sequences, ensuring their own continuous expression along with expression of other ...

Fundraising for Suzanne Eaton search effort

Posted by , on 8 July 2019

Update: please read the latest statement from the MPI-CBG https://www.mpi-cbg.de/news-events/latest-news/article/news/statement-on-the-tragic-demise-of-suzanne-eaton/ Our thoughts are with Suzanne’s family, friends and colleagues.       Suzanne Eaton, the molecular and developmental biologist based ...

June in preprints

Posted by , on 5 July 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  Another big haul this month covering everything from great ape cerebral organoids to collectively contracting choanoflagellates, the genes that ...

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