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Crocheted embryo models — featured artwork from the Node-BSDB virtual art exhibition

Posted by , 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 ...

Developing news — September 2023

Posted by , on 1 September 2023

Is it time to re-define what a human embryo is? Plus #devbio preLights and news from the community.

Zika evades early pregnancy protections, MSU research shows

Posted by , 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 ...

PhD project: Multi-scale computational analysis of embryonic variability in ascidians

Posted by , 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.

2-year post-doctoral funding: robustness of ascidian embryogenesis to environmental and experimental variation

Posted by , 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 ...

A journey towards understanding the embryo - maternal vasculature interactions during implantation

Posted by , 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.

“My balance comes from instability” thought Herzog (Saul Bellow, Herzog)

Posted by , 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 ...

Notch awakens: transitioning to the first differentiation step

Posted by , 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 ...

EmbryoPhenomics: An open-source technological platform

Posted by , 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 ...

Embryonic-Extraembryonic Interactions: from Genetics to Environment

Posted by , 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 ...

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