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The Turing Centre for Living Systems is recruiting a lead Data analyst/scientist

Posted by , on 22 October 2018

The Turing Centre for Living Systems is seeking a highly motivated research engineer to fill the post of ‘leading data scientist/data analyst’, within CENTURI’s technology transfer platform. This position will ...

Scaling the Fish: An L.A. Story

Posted by , on 18 October 2018

Jeff Rasmussen tells the story behind his recent paper from the Sagasti Lab in Dev Cell. This project began as an extension of my earlier postdoc work in Alvaro Sagasti’s ...

1 PhD Position : Characterization of Hedgehog morphogens in vitro and in vivo

Posted by , on 18 October 2018

1 PhD Position : Characterization of Hedgehog morphogens in vitro and in vivo Hedgehog (Hh) morphogens play important roles in development and cancer, but their mode of extracellular transport to ...

Spider segmentation gets its SOX on!

Posted by , on 15 October 2018

There is a vast amount of information known about how some animals pattern their bodies into repeated segments, especially in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster. However, when compared to other arthropods, ...

This month in preLights - September

Posted by , on 12 October 2018

Welcome to our monthly summary of developmental biology (and related) preLights.   It’s been almost eight months since the launch of preLights, and we are very excited about the hugely ...

Singapore Fish Meeting 2018

Posted by , on 11 October 2018

On 2nd October 2018, the Mechanobiology Institute in Singapore hosted a meeting of Singapore-based researchers using fish in their work. We wanted to bring together the local community to build ...

PhD position Denholm lab

Posted by , on 10 October 2018

Emergence of functional polarity in a tubular epithelium Epithelial tubes often have a functional polarity written along their proximo-distal (P-D) axis, with different segments of specialised cell-types carrying out distinct ...

PhD in Developmental Systems Biology – The Origins of Retinal Self-Organisation

Posted by , on 9 October 2018

A fully-funded 4-year BBSRC PhD project on The Origins of Retinal Self-Organisation   Application Deadline: 26th November 2018   Location: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK   ...

The 29th Mammalian Genetics and Development Workshop

Posted by , on 9 October 2018

A meeting of the Genetics Society on 29th November 2018 at the UCL Institute of Child Health, London. Organisers: Nick Greene (UCL), Cynthia Andoniadou (KCL), Andy Copp (UCL) Abstract submission deadline: 5pm, ...

Biology and Disease Mechanisms of Drosophila Axonal Endoplasmic Reticulum

Posted by , on 9 October 2018

We have a vacancy for a postdoctoral research associate, funded by a BBSRC grant, to work on the roles of spastic paraplegia gene products in formation of axonal ER, and ...

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