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Post docs in developmental vascular biology

Posted by , on 28 October 2018

Several postdoctoral positions are available in the group of Taija Mäkinen at Uppsala University. The lab studies fundamental mechanisms of tissue morphogenesis in the vascular system. The aim is to ...

Scaling the Fish: An L.A. Story

Posted by , on 18 October 2018

Jeff Rasmussen tells the story behind his recent paper from the Sagasti Lab in Dev Cell. This project began as an extension of my earlier postdoc work in Alvaro Sagasti’s ...

National Museum of Brazil Disaster: What did we learn and what should we do differently?

Posted by , on 3 October 2018

  On the Sunday night of 2nd September of 2018, one month ago, most Brazilians were watching TV shows while a large part of our national story was burning out ...

Technician position in Molecular Biology - Lecuit Team, IBDM, Marseille, France

Posted by , on 27 September 2018

  A Technician position in Molecular Biology is available starting November 2018 in the group of Thomas Lecuit at the Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille (IBDM, CNRS UMR7288), Marseille, France. ...

An odyssey through the genesis of hematopoietic stem cells

Posted by , on 21 September 2018

Here, Mylène Lancino and myself will introduce our motivation to investigate and delve deeper into one essential and very peculiar process of Stem Cell Biology: the de novo genesis of hematopoietic ...

Revisiting an old puzzle with high-resolution, three-dimensional eyes

Posted by , on 19 September 2018

Sha Wang, Deborah Gumucio This article shares the story behind our recent Developmental Cell paper. It tells the history of this project and how three-dimensional (3D) observations at the individual ...

Salamander Models in Cross-Disciplinary Research - Meeting Report

Posted by , on 18 September 2018

  Vienna, Austria July 2018     The use of salamanders in regeneration and developmental research has a long history filled with luminaries of the life sciences. Thomas Hunt Morgan, ...

This month in preLights - August

Posted by , on 5 September 2018

Welcome to our monthly summary of developmental biology (and related) preLights.   preLighters are early-career researchers who select and highlight preprints which they feel are interesting for the life-science community. ...

A day in the life of a colonial tunicate laboratory

Posted by , on 28 August 2018

Have you heard of an animal that can lose most of its body tissues and the remnant tissues aggregate to regenerate the lost parts and recovery its original form? Do ...

Pitx2c sets the stage for gastrulation

Posted by , on 23 August 2018

In our recently published paper https://elifesciences.org/articles/34880, we report that the transcription factor Pitx2c has an unexpected role during gastrulation, where it acts cell non-autonomously to promote mesendodermal cell migration required ...

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