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Moving proteins within living embryos using light

Posted by , on 24 February 2016

By Clare Buckley and Rachel Moore One of the things that we find most challenging about working with whole vertebrate organisms is how we can tie ourselves in knots trying ...

Controlling development in a flash: optogenetic modulation of cell contractility during Drosophila morphogenesis

Posted by , on 24 February 2016

Morphogenesis, the shaping of tissues and organs, is driven by a series of events that proceed in a coordinated manner, both spatially and temporally. Such events include changes in cell ...

From Stem Cells to Human Development- applications open!

Posted by , on 24 February 2016

  In 2014, Development organised a very successful meeting on how the use of stem cell technologies can inform our understanding of human development (you can read about it here or watch ...

Research Associate in understanding the role of heterogeneity in development

Posted by , on 23 February 2016

https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=10973   We are seeking an enthusiastic and outstanding postdoctoral researcher to join a multidisciplinary team led by Prof. Chris Thompson.  This project aims to address the role and regulation ...

New Community Manager for the Node

Posted by , on 18 February 2016

The Company of Biologists and its journal Development are seeking to appoint a new Community Manager to run its successful community website the Node and the journal’s social media activities. Launched ...

A day in the life of a Spider Lab

Posted by , on 17 February 2016

We (Anna Schönauer, Daniel Leite and Christian Bonatto) are PhD students in Alistair McGregor’s group (http://mcgregor-evo-devo-lab.net) at Oxford Brookes University, and it is a pleasure to briefly present our research ...

Forgotten classics- T. H. Morgan and planarian regeneration

Posted by , on 16 February 2016

  Morgan, T.H. (1898) Experimental studies of the regeneration of Planaria maculata. Archiv für Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 7, 364-397 Recommended by Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (Stowers Institute)   Some classic papers ...

How far is India from Europe?

Posted by , on 12 February 2016

The launch of a new partnership between EMBO and India made me think about what international connections mean to European research. One of the pleasures of being a research scientist ...

PhD Studentship - Discovering Novel Brain Tumour Initiation Mechanisms

Posted by , on 10 February 2016

REF: PUPSMD-04-INT-15-16 Start date: October 2016 A 3-year PhD studentship is available in the group of Dr. Claudia Barros, Peninsula School of Medicine, Plymouth University, UK. The project will examine the role of ...

Zürich to Dresden and back: of small fish and big data

Posted by , on 9 February 2016

In Spring 2015, just a couple of months into my PhD, I started to settle with my new surroundings in Zürich, making friends in my PhD lab of Dr. Christian ...

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