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Embryonic hydraulics triumphs

Posted by , on 26 June 2019

In this article I share with you a more personal, chronological account of how our story unfolds (recently published in Nature), and highlight some key events and insights that help ...

Data manipulation? It's normal(ization)!

Posted by , on 25 June 2019

In a previous blog, I have highlighted several ways to visualize the cell-to-cell heterogeneity from time-lapse imaging data. However, I have ignored that data is often rescaled in a way ...

Beyond morphogen signaling

Posted by , on 25 June 2019

By Dörthe Jülich & Scott Holley   Organizers pattern surrounding tissues via secreted morphogens that specify different cell states as a function of concentration. Wolpert’s French Flag model is commonly ...

The people behind the papers – Masanori Abe and Reiko Kuroda

Posted by , on 19 June 2019

This interview, the 64th in our series, was recently published in Development One of the most obvious examples of left-right asymmetry in animal bodies comes from snails: in most species or strains, ...

Research Assistant/Associate - Bioinformatics (Smith Lab)

Posted by , on 13 June 2019

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Salary: £26,243 – £30,395 or £30,395 – £39,609 Reference: PS19502 Closing date: 10 July 2019 The Wellcome Trust – ...

Research Associates (Molecular Embryology and Molecular Biology/Biochemistry) (Smith Lab)

Posted by , on 13 June 2019

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Salary: £32,236-£39,609 Reference: PS18395 Closing date: 10 July 2019   The Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem ...

Decoding light for developmental timing

Posted by , on 13 June 2019

Shruti Vemaraju¹ and Richard A. Lang¹-²  ¹Center for Chronobiology,¹The Visual Systems Group, Abrahamson Pediatric Eye Institute, Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, ²Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH ...

Position for a Cell / Developmental Biologist or Biophysicist at the University of Geneva (Switzerland)

Posted by , on 12 June 2019

In the context of a multidisciplinary study funded by an ERC advanced grant, the Milinkovitch lab offers one position for an outstanding, highly motivated, and creative experimental wet-lab biologist or ...

Understanding Human Birth Defects in the Genomic Age - Early Career Places Available

Posted by , on 5 June 2019

The Company of Bioloists’ 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. The programmes are ...

Collaboration: All the things we cannot see (alone).

Posted by , on 3 June 2019

By Miriam Rosenberg and Suparna Ray Most of what we know about axial patterning in insects comes from decades of careful, beautiful work done in flies. Thanks to the genetic ...

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