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Making Multiciliated Cells: The Guardians of Our Airways

Posted by , on 1 April 2019

With air pollution on the rise, our respiratory system is continually abused by a barrage of harmful substances that we breathe in with each inhalation. Fortunately, we are equipped with ...

March in preprints

Posted by , on 1 April 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month we found three hydra preprints, lots of developmental mechanics, a typically hearty serving of single cell transcriptomic ...

Competitive recruitment for doctoral contracts 2019 - IBDM, Marseille, France

Posted by , on 28 March 2019

2019 PhD Projects @ IBDM :    Investigating basic principles of tumor hierarchy in Drosophila Tumors are often heterogeneous, composed by different cell types that exhibit a hierarchical organization reminiscent ...

Imaging by computer and drawing by hand

Posted by , on 19 March 2019

An artist and a cultural historian of science visiting the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) Gemma Anderson (University of Exeter) and Janina Wellmann (MECS, Leuphana University Lüneburg) Since Steve Woolgar’s ...

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 ...

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