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full-time Research Assistant and Research Associate positions

Posted by , on 27 April 2018

The Marine Biological Laboratory is seeking applicants for full-time Research Assistant and Research Associate positions with the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution (http://www.mbl.edu/jbpc/).   To ...

First impressions of the BSDB Spring Meeting

Posted by , on 24 April 2018

This year, is the BSDB’s 70th anniversary, and this was clearly reflected at our Spring Meeting, 15-18 April 2018 in Warwick! Apart from an outstanding speaker list, and the award ...

Medaka fish sheds light on the evolutionary origin of vertebrate pair appendages

Posted by , on 23 April 2018

Link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0080-5   The evolutionary history of vertebrate appendages Have you ever wondered how our hands and feet evolved? This question, which commonly evokes fish crawling from ...

Laboratory Technician Position - Millman Lab

Posted by , on 23 April 2018

We are looking for someone to join our team in a NIH R01-funded laboratory technician position. The Millman lab is located at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) ...

BSDB Medal & Award winners of 2018

Posted by , on 19 April 2018

This year was a special BSDB Spring Meeting! We celebrated the 70th anniversary of our society. If you weren’t there and would like to get a taste of the meeting, ...

Stressed out: Mechanisms of how C. elegans copes with unfavorable environments

Posted by , on 19 April 2018

Sarah E. Hall Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244   For over a century, the nature versus nurture debate has questioned the relative contributions of genetic sequences and ...

The people behind the papers – Sa Geng & James Umen

Posted by , on 19 April 2018

The transition to multicellularity in eukaryotes appears to be intimately linked to the transition from isogamy (gametes of the same size) to anisogamy (gametes of distinct sizes), and indeed to ...

PhD position: Chromosome Dynamics During Spermatogenesis in Drosophila, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Posted by , on 19 April 2018

We seek candidates interested in completing a PhD thesis within the framework of a research project (46 months) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). Chromosome reorganization during spermatogenesis ...

A better bar

Posted by , on 18 April 2018

After leaving the bar, what are we to do? I propose to move on to a better bar (and I hope that you will not be disappointed when you find ...

Daniyal Jafree winner of the BSDB advocacy writing competition

Posted by , on 17 April 2018

In preparation of the 70th anniversary celebrations at the special Spring Meeting in Warwick (15-18 April 2018), the student and postdoc representatives of the BSDB, Alexandra Ashcroft and Michelle Ware, ...

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