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Tenure Track Faculty Position: Duke Medical School Regeneration Next Initiative / Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Posted by , on 14 August 2018

The Duke Regeneration Next Initiative (RNI) is partnering with the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology (PCB) to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. ...

Preprints promote transparency and communication

Posted by , on 12 August 2018

Carmen Adriaens1, Gautam Dey2, Amanda Haage3, Wouter Masselink4 *, Sundar Ram Naganathan5, Lauren Neves6, Teresa Rayon7, Samantha Seah8, Srivats Venkataramanan9.   1. Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ...

The people behind the papers - Takanori Wakatake & Ken Shirasu

Posted by , on 23 July 2018

Parasitic plants are fascinating and agriculturally relevant organisms that rely for their success on the haustorium, a specialised root structure that invades host root vasculature to derive nutrients and water. A ...

The people behind the papers - Ximena Anleu Gil & Dominique Bergmann

Posted by , on 18 July 2018

Asymmetric division is a widespread mechanism for generating cellular diversity during developmental patterning. The stomata of flowering plants are epidermal valves that regulate gas exchange, and provide an accessible system to investigate the mechanisms ...

C. elegans Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression and 2018 European Worm Meeting report

Posted by , on 9 July 2018

I recently attended the biennial Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression C. elegans Meeting, this time in combination with the 2018 European Worm Meeting, in Barcelona. C. elegans meetings are ...

Editorial: Advocating developmental biology

Posted by , on 27 June 2018

This editorial by Aidan Maartens, Andreas Prokop, Katherine Brown and Olivier Pourquié originally appeared in Development   Developmental biology is a discipline with a long and rich history, a vibrant and diverse present, and ...

The people behind the papers - Kana Ishimatsu, Tom Hiscock & Sean Megason

Posted by , on 12 June 2018

Somites are segmented structures  which give rise to numerous tissues in the vertebrate body. It has long been observed that somites scale in size with the overall size of the ...

Rare is Everywhere

Posted by , on 5 June 2018

The story behind FOXL1+ telocytes You can find our recently published Nature paper here   Our story began two decades ago when my mentor, Klaus H. Kaestner, identified and cloned ...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem) offers a postdoc position in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Cell Therapy in Type 1 Diabetes

Posted by , on 31 May 2018

DanStem is looking for a postdoctoral candidate with a strong cell biological and cell signaling background in directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cell biology. The candidate is expected to ...

The story of my PhD…

Posted by , on 25 May 2018

(Chapter II – The Travelling Fellowship)   Hi! My name is André Dias and I am a PhD student in Portugal. I work in a wonderful institute called Instituto Gulbenkian ...

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