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Beddington medal 2019 goes to David Munro

Posted by , on 7 April 2019

The Beddington Medal is the BSDB’s major commendation to promising young biologists, awarded for the best PhD thesis in Developmental Biology defended in the year previous to the award. Rosa ...

Making Multiciliated Cells: The Guardians of Our Airways

Posted by , on 1 April 2019

With air pollution on the rise, our respiratory system is continually abused by a barrage of harmful substances that we breathe in with each inhalation. Fortunately, we are equipped with ...

The people behind the papers – Sungwook Choi

Posted by , on 13 March 2019

This interview, the 59th in our series, was recently published in Development The control of timing in development is crucial, both within and between tissues. Heterochrony involves shifts in the rate of ...

Reflections on the ‘Evo-chromo’ Workshop (November 2018)

Posted by , on 5 March 2019

Alexander Blackwell and James Gahan   At the beginning of November 2018, thirty researchers congregated at Wiston House to attend a workshop titled ‘Evo-chromo: towards an integrative approach of chromatin ...

Community Manager, Microscopy Resource Site

Posted by , on 25 February 2019

Journal of Cell Science and its publisher, The Company of Biologists, are seeking to appoint a Community Manager, based in Cambridge, UK, to run a new microscopy resource website. An ...

PHD STUDENT AND POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN BIOINFORMATICS OR FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Posted by , on 13 February 2019

PhD student and postdoc positions available in the laboratory headed by Prof. Jussi Taipale and Dr. Norman Zielke at the Finnish Center of Excellence in Tumor Genetics Research (CoETG) at ...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Vascular Development at Washington University

Posted by , on 10 February 2019

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Vascular Development at Washington University  Seeking applicants for postdoctoral fellowship positions in the lab of Dr. Amber Stratman at Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Cell ...

CRISPR babies: a view from the centre of the storm

Posted by , on 8 February 2019

This article by Robin Lovell-Badge, published this week in Development, gives a front-row view of the CRISPR babies scandal from last year. When the story broke, we collated reactions from ...

The people behind the papers – Masanori Kawaguchi, Kota Sugiyama and Yoshiyuki Seki

Posted by , on 8 February 2019

This interview, the 57th in our series, was recently published in Development The molecular regulation of pluripotency has been most intensively studied in early mammalian development, but whether the transcriptional networks ...

Hox genes: the key to decipher limb position – the story behind the paper

Posted by , on 6 February 2019

In our recent paper published in Current Biology, we unravel the direct and early role for Hox genes in the regulation and natural variation of the forelimb position in birds. ...

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