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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node, on 4 December 2023
In the recent BSDB-the Node virtual art exhibition, Tahani Baakdhah’s crocheted embryo models were selected as the Judges’ Choice runner-up in the ‘Science-inspired art’ category. We briefly caught up with ...Posted by the Node, on 1 September 2023
Is it time to re-define what a human embryo is? Plus #devbio preLights and news from the community.Posted by the Node, on 28 July 2022
A new paper in Development, from Jennifer Watts and Amy Ralston, dissects the impact of Zika virus on mouse preimplantation embryos and find that the virus can infect all three ...Posted by Patrick Lemaire, on 1 April 2022
Advert for a computational PhD project in animal developmental biology to characterise inter-individual and inter-species embryo variability at the geometric, mechanical and transcriptional scales.Posted by Patrick Lemaire, on 1 April 2022
The tunicate team at CRBM (Montpellier, France), headed by Patrick Lemaire, is offering a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship (or a 3-year PhD fellowship for an exceptional candidate) to study the robustness ...Posted by Niraimathi Govindasamy, on 27 March 2022
Niraimathi Govindasamy from the Bedzhov lab, takes us through the story behind their paper on the interactions between the embryo and maternal vasculature.Posted by zelhanil, on 28 October 2019
A bit of background The dependence of a protein’s function on its structure is a well-known phenomenon. Back in 1970’s, it was suggested that most proteins would fold into one ...Posted by Sergio Menchero, on 3 May 2019
The story behind our recent paper in eLife. In the mid-1900s, Conrad Hal Waddington introduced the idea of development as a series of branching decisions taken under the control ...Posted by Oli Tills, on 5 February 2019
Tills O, Spicer JI, Grimmer A, Marini S, Jie VW, Tully E, Rundle SD. 2018. A high-throughput and open-source platform for embryo phenomics. PLOS Biology, 16:1-19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000074 Background A seasoned ...Posted by the Node, on 28 June 2018
The BSDB’s Autumn Meeting, to be held in Oxford this September, is the third in a series of international workshops on the extraembryonic-embryonic interface, bringing together researchers that address this ...