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Research Associate/Assistant - Division of Infection and Immunity - University College London

Posted by , on 13 September 2016

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate within the Division of Infection & Immunity at UCL in Dr Gillian Tomlinson’s laboratory. We are seeking highly motivated individuals interested in integrating ...

Assistant Professor of Systems Biology at Swarthmore College

Posted by , on 8 September 2016

The Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level, beginning Fall 2017. Applicants should have a Ph.D.; post-doctoral experience is desirable. The strongest candidates ...

Research Associate (Laurenti Lab)

Posted by , on 7 September 2016

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge Salary: £28,982-£37,768 Reference: PS10005 Closing date: 04 October 2016 Post-doctoral fellow: healthy ageing of human haematopoietic ...

August in preprints

Posted by , on 5 September 2016

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See June’s post for background, and let us know if we missed anything It was another bumper month for preprints, as bioRxiv’s ...

This month on the Node

Posted by , on 5 September 2016

August was meant to be a quiet month, with researchers (in Europe, at least)  leaving the lab for a well earned break and winding down before the start of the ...

Assistant Professor Tenure Track Faculty, Division of Developmental Biology (DB) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC)

Posted by , on 2 September 2016

Applications are invited for a tenure track Assistant Professor faculty position in the Division of Developmental Biology (DB) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC).  DB is home to a ...

The people behind the papers: Kristen Koenig & Jeffrey Gross

Posted by , on 2 September 2016

Today’s paper is from the latest issue of Development and  introduces the squid Doryteuthis pealeii as a lophotrochozoan model for eye development. And the people are PI Jeffrey Gross, Director of the ...

A Tale of Trunks or Zen and the art of doing a PhD

Posted by , on 1 September 2016

The story of this paper is also the story of my PhD. It begins as most papers and PhDs do: with a distinct and often unrelated starting project or plan. ...

Introducing cross-referee commenting in peer review

Posted by , on 31 August 2016

This Editorial originally appeared in Development, Vol 143, Issue 17. Olivier Pourquié and Katherine Brown   At Development, we are always trying to improve our processes and service – for authors ...

#BarBarPlots!

Posted by , on 31 August 2016

(or: how to avoid misleading representations of statistical data)   Recently, a kickstarter project raised more than 3000€ in one month to campaign for banning the wrong usage of bar ...

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