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Research Assistant/Associate: Zebrafish Optogenetics and Live-Imaging

Posted by , on 9 January 2018

The Buckley lab at the department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN), University of Cambridge is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate or research assistant. The lab uses cutting edge optogenetic ...

2018 resolutions? Become fearless by attending the MBL Embryology course!

Posted by , on 8 January 2018

Last summer I had the great pleasure and privilege to attend the six-week, summer Embryology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in the beautiful town of Woods Hole, MA. The ...

Report: Joint BSDB/Nordic Autumn Meeting

Posted by , on 8 January 2018

BSDB Autumn Meetings can be organised by members. So do not hesitate to approach meetings@bsdb.org if you have any ideas. However, note that we are booked for meetings through to ...

Helen Weavers – BSDB's Dennis Summerbell Awardee 2017

Posted by , on 4 January 2018

Following a generous donation, the BSDB has instituted the Dennis Summerbell Lecture, to be delivered at its annual Autumn Meeting by a junior researcher at either PhD or Post-doctoral level. ...

December in preprints

Posted by , on 4 January 2018

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   In their end of year round up, Science magazine picked ‘Biology ...

The BSDB’s advocacy strategy

Posted by , on 26 December 2017

The BSDB will soon publish its next newsletter. An important topic in that issue will be communication within our community and advocacy of Developmental Biology. See here a preview of ...

Senior Research Technician

Posted by , on 22 December 2017

We are looking for an organised and enthusiastic research technician to join Professor St Johnston’s research group at the Gurdon Institute. The group works on how epithelial cells polarise using ...

Spindle asymmetry drives non-Mendelian chromosome segregation

Posted by , on 20 December 2017

I studied molecular mechanisms of faithful chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis during my PhD and wanted to continue studying chromosome segregation but from a different angle. While looking for ...

Tenure-Track Group Leader Position in Pancreatic Cancer Biology

Posted by , on 20 December 2017

The University of Copenhagen, DanStem, seeks to appoint a Tenure-Track Group Leader Position in Pancreatic Cancer Biology to the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem) to commence ...

The people behind the papers – Alok Javali, Aritra Misra & Ramkumar Sambasivan

Posted by , on 20 December 2017

Neuromesoderm progenitors are a population of stem cells that contribute to the neural tube and somite-forming paraxial mesoderm, and promote axial growth of the vertebrate embryo. In the latest issue ...

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