Apologies for this long absence from the Blog and this will continue till 10th December , the day of my thesis defence. Today just dropped in to give some small information about two nice articles in Forums section of Molecular Cell.
These articles by Uri Alon ,from Weizmann Institute of Science, are well written and might be helpful for many budding scientists. First one deals with How one should go about in giving a good talk and another one explain how to choose a scientific problem.
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A postdoctoral position is open in the research group of Hitoyoshi YASUO. The group focuses on developmental events shaping the chordate body plan, in particular on the mechanisms leading to the generation of the neural tube and notochord, two defining structures of chordates. We are using ascidian embryos as a model system and our research topics include cell fate specifications, cell lineages, cell shape changes and the orientation of cell divisions. Applicants for this position should have a strong interest in developmental biology and a solid background in molecular and/or …

UCMP is seeking applicants to serve on a Teacher Advisory Board to develop an Undergraduate Library of evolution resources!
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The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), in partnership with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) has received NSF funding to expand the highly successful Understanding Evolution website (UE) with the aim of improving evolution education at the college level.
UE’s Undergraduate Library would target college instructors of introductory biology to help them clarify evolutionary concepts in pedagogically sound ways, integrate evolution throughout their …

This is the preview of the two-hour special shown this Sunday October 11th on Discovery channel. Following publication in the journal Science on the discovery and study of a 4.4 million-year-old female partial skeleton nicknamed “Ardi,” Discovery Channel presented a world premiere special, DISCOVERING ARDI, Sunday October 11 documenting the sustained, intensive investigation leading up to this landmark publication of the Ardipithecus ramidus fossils.

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An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago in what is now the Liaoning Province in northeastern China. The newly discovered animal, Maotherium asiaticus, comes from famous fossil-rich beds of the Yixian Formation. This new remarkably well preserved fossil, as reported in the October 9 issue of the prestigious journal Science, offers an important insight into how the mammalian middle ear evolved. The discoveries of such exquisite dinosaur-age mammals from China provide developmental biologists and paleontologists with evidence of how …

Lewis Wolpert once famously stated “”It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation, which is truly the most important time in your life.”
What is Gastrulation?
During early development in majority of animals, the morphology of the embryo is dramatically reorganized by cell migration and this is termed as Gastrulation. During gastrulation, many cells which are near the surface of the embryo move to a new, more interior location.The main purpose of gastrulation is to position the 3 embryonic germ layers, the endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm. ( See animations …

This video features a talk by Sean Carroll at Strosacker Auditorium in September 2008
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