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Positions available: Regulation of cytoskeletal networks during tubular organ formation

Posted by , on 14 November 2017

We are recruiting 1-2 PhD students (to begin Fall 2018) and a postdoctoral fellow (position immediately available) to study cell shape changes and rearrangement and underlying cytoskeletal regulation during organ ...

In Development this week (Vol. 144, Issue 22)

Posted by , on 14 November 2017

Here are the highlights form the current issue of Development:   Cross-border control of stem cell behaviour Cell identity and proliferation differs between organs, raising the question of how cells ...

Addgene Resources to Grow Your Developmental Biology Toolkit

Posted by , on 8 November 2017

Addgene is a global, nonprofit repository that was created to help scientists share plasmids. Before we go over the developmental biology resources available at Addgene, here’s a little background on ...

Musings of an accidental scientist

Posted by , on 6 November 2017

As we sat together at a farewell dinner after I graduated from Princeton University, my advisers asked me, “What got you into science?”. Although a simple, straightforward question on the ...

Research Assistant in Developmental and Regenerative Medicine - University of Oxford

Posted by , on 6 November 2017

Research Assistant in Developmental and Regenerative Medicine Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics & Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford Grade 6: £28,098 p.a. Applications are invited for an ...

The people behind the papers - David Turner & Peter Baillie-Johnson

Posted by , on 6 November 2017

Embryonic patterning is dependent on the establishment of the anteroposterior (AP) and dorsoventral axes early in development. In mammals this occurs by a breaking of symmetry in the epiblast, however ...

28th Mammalian Genetics & Development Workshop

Posted by , on 6 November 2017

Date: 30th November 2017 Venue: UCL Institute of Child Health, Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH Organisers: Nick Greene (UCL), Cynthia Andoniadou (KCL), Andy Copp (UCL)   https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/research/developmental-biology-cancer/developmental-biology-birth-defects/mgdw   The Mammalian ...

An interview with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Posted by , on 3 November 2017

This interview by Katherine Brown originally appeared in Development, Vol 144 Issue 21 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. In ...

PhD position studying Development of the Innate Immune System - University of Bonn

Posted by , on 3 November 2017

The research group of Dr. Elvira Mass is looking to recruit a highly motivated PhD student to join her group Developmental Biology of the Innate Immune System. Our research focuses ...

October in preprints

Posted by , on 2 November 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   October was a monster month for preprinting (a burst of post-summer ...

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