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BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report – Anna Granés

Posted by , on 21 December 2022

The making of colorful neuromesodermal progenitors During the embryonic development, while the gastrulation process is taking place, cells within embryos self-organize by creating groups and layers of cells, where each ...

Molecular study of changing expression of photoreceptor genes throughout development of Anopheles gambiae

Posted by , on 18 December 2022

Hannah Cowling, MBiol at Durham University Introduction Over summer 2022, I had the opportunity to work with Dr Olena Riabinina in Insect Neuro Lab at Durham University. Her team specialises ...

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report – Rihova

Posted by , on 15 December 2022

Determining the Effects of FOXG1 Mutations on Early Neurodevelopmental Structures Using iPSCs I am an undergraduate Neuroscience student at University College London interested in researching neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. I ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 15 December 2022

Welcome to our monthly trawl for preprints in developmental and stem cell biology (and related topics). The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv.

Behind the paper: Using OptoShroom3 to alter organoid shape with light

Posted by , on 15 December 2022

Guillermo Martínez-Ara and colleagues from Miki Ebisuya lab have developed a new optogenetic tool that induces apical constriction in mammalian epithelia. The new tool called OptoShroom3 induces tissue folding in ...

Community Manager of the Node

Posted by , on 6 December 2022

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. ...

The future of model organism research

Posted by , on 1 December 2022

The September issue of our journal Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) has a focus on how researchers can best leverage model organisms to improve our understanding of human health and ...

Bioinformatician staff position at reNEW Copenhagen Node

Posted by , on 28 November 2022

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW) at Faculty of Health & Medical Science at the University of ...

October in preprints

Posted by , on 25 November 2022

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.

Postdoctoral position in Zebrafish mechanobiology in Cambridge

Posted by , on 18 November 2022

We are pleased to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Dr Elena Scarpa’s group to investigate the role of tissue-scale mechanical stress during in vivo cell migration and cell ...

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