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Lecturer positions at the University of Sheffield

Posted by , on 13 November 2022

Ranking 4th in the recent Research Excellence Framework, the School of Biosciences is one of the broadest groupings of biologists in the UK, with our research and teaching spanning the full ...

The 2nd Crick-Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium: Meeting Summary

Posted by , on 20 October 2022

The 2nd Crick-Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium took place at The Francis Crick Institute between 9-10 October 2022. The hybrid symposium was generously funded by the MRC Rosa Beddington fund, which ...

Community Manager and Online Editor

Posted by , on 18 October 2022

Journal of Cell Science and its publisher The Company of Biologists are seeking to appoint a new Community Manager to run our microscopy community website, FocalPlane. Launched in 2020, FocalPlane ...

Behind the paper: Characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of microglia across the human lifespan

Posted by , on 17 October 2022

Dr David A. Menassa and Professor Diego Gomez-Nicola at the University of Southampton, UK recently published an article in Developmental Cell where they reveal how the microglial population colonises the human ...

Peer Review Week 2022: Research Integrity

Posted by , on 22 September 2022

This week (September 19-23) is Peer Review Week, and the theme this year is “Research integrity: creating and supporting trust in research”. This is a topic very close to Development’s ...

Developing news

Posted by , on 20 September 2022

This week is #PostdocAppreciationWeek (#NPAW22), and we’d love to hear about the postdocs that contribute to your working life! Last year, we asked for shout-outs on our Twitter feed and ...

Reviews of the Edinburgh Gallus Genomics and Embryonic Development (EGGED) Workshop 2022

Posted by , on 14 September 2022

Mel White, a Principal Investigator and Lakshmi Balasubramaniam, a Postdoctoral Researcher, both attendees of EGGED 2022, provide accounts of their experiences at the workshop in July.

August in preprints

Posted by , on 5 September 2022

Whether you are just back from vacation, been buried with lab work/grant writing, or been away at a conference, we hope our preprint list helps you catch up with the ...

Behind the paper: Uncovering the dual origins of human cortical astrocytes

Posted by , on 18 August 2022

Behind the paper story from Denise Allen and Tomasz Nowakowski

Does Wnt promote the switch from cardiac to skeletal muscle programme? - Summer Placement

Posted by , on 13 August 2022

Posting my lab report from last summer again since I can’t log into my last account. Update: I’ll be starting an Mres looking at the mutual suppression of the cardiac ...

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