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October in preprints

Posted by , on 1 November 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month we decided to reinstate our Plant Development section after a Twitter chat, and as it happened October ...

1st Crick-Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium

Posted by , on 30 October 2018

The 1st Developmental Biology Symposium will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London on 4-5 February 2019: https://www.crick.ac.uk/crick-beddington-symposium This two-day symposium will showcase the best in developmental biology across the life ...

Utah Fish Conference 2018: Meeting Summary

Posted by , on 25 October 2018

The Zebrafish Interest Group at the University of Utah held its first Utah Fish Conference (UFC) on October 8, 2018. The conference was organized by pre- and post-doctoral trainees to ...

The people behind the papers - Joe Shawky & Lance Davidson

Posted by , on 24 October 2018

The construction of complex three-dimensional tissue structures during embryogenesis requires precise control of cell and tissue mechanics. The Xenopus embryo provides a powerful tool for interrogating this relationship, as demonstrated ...

PhD positions in computational biology of stem cells & regeneration

Posted by , on 23 October 2018

We are looking for ambitious and motivated postgraduate candidates to join the new computational biology group, led by Dr. Linus Schumacher, at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Edinburgh. ...

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 ...

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