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Layered patterning systems in hair development

Posted by , on 28 September 2017

The story behind our recent paper  ‘Hierarchical patterning modes orchestrate hair follicle morphogenesis‘ , finding that distinct patterning mechanisms can co-exist during embryonic organ formation.   From the spots of ...

Older wombs linked to complications in pregnant mice

Posted by , on 6 September 2017

This article is recent news from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, view the original post here and the Nature Communications research paper here. Deciding to start a family later in ...

Developmental Biologists meet in the Lion City

Posted by , on 30 August 2017

  Meeting Report: Congress of the International Society for Developmental Biology (ISDB 2017)   Singapore, the Lion City, attracted hundreds of developmental biologists from around the world to attend the ...

Biocurator position at Xenbase

Posted by , on 9 August 2017

Curator position at Xenbase, the Xenopus Model Organism database Xenbase (www.xenbase.org) is the Xenopus bioinformatics and genomics resource. Xenopus is a major model for fundamental cell and developmental biology and ...

Discovery Through Collaboration: Brain Lymphatic Endothelial Cells

Posted by , on 8 August 2017

Looking back on the journey: Intracellular uptake of macromolecules by brain lymphatic endothelial cells during zebrafish embryonic development eLife van Lessen et al., 2017   Just over two years ago, while ...

Research assistant in Development Biology, Sheffield University

Posted by , on 3 August 2017

A Wellcome Trust/Royal Society funded Research Assistant position is available in Dr Kyra Campbell’s research group. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Campbell group, who are focused on ...

January 2018: Summer! Beach! New friends and Top Developmental Biologists in course in Chile

Posted by , on 31 July 2017

New fellowships from SDB for students from USA and Canada to attend the International Course on Developmental Biology on January 9-21, 2018 in Quintay Chile. Fellowship for Latin American students ...

A day in the life of a modern Lernaean Hydra…

Posted by , on 3 July 2017

I am Eleni Chrysostomou, a PhD student in Uri Frank‘s lab at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The Frank lab’s general interest is development and regeneration, stem and germ ...

Multiple stem cells, population asymmetry and position-dependent heterogeneity emerge as common features of a niche for Drosophila Follicle Stem Cells and mammalian Intestinal Stem Cells

Posted by , on 16 June 2017

A discussion of “Alternative direct stem cell derivatives defined by stem cell location and graded Wnt signalling,” Nat Cell Biol, 2017. 19(5): p. 433-444.   We have recently revised the model ...

A day in the life of an Oikopleura Lab

Posted by , on 23 May 2017

The recent bloom of genomic data from all of life’s kingdoms is revealing a novel perspective of gene loss as a pervasive source of genetic variation with a great potential ...

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