Finally i am back here on Hoxful Monsters after being away for almost two months. These 60 days were hectic as i was busy with my thesis writing and later with defense, which took place on December 10, 2009. I am really happy to inform you all that i successfully defended my thesis and subsequently awarded PhD by Université de la Méditerranée. I take this opportunity to thank entire group of Yacine Graba and Jacques Pradel ( Marseille Ibdml) .I owe a lot to entire team of ( 2001-2005) of …

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 …

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 …

India is second most populous country and makes up around one-sixth of the world’s population, yet it has been sorely under-represented in genome-wide studies of human genetic variation. Recently a group led by Lalji Singh of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India and David Reich of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, analyzed more than 500,000 genetic markers across the genomes of 132 individuals from 25 diverse groups, representing 13 states, all six language families, traditionally “upper” and “lower” castes, and tribal groups in order …

A fully funded Ph.D. position is available in the Developmental Genetics Group to study the BMP signalling/antagonist pathway in controlling vertebrate organogenesis with particular emphasis on limb bud development. Our aim is to understand how stem-cell like progenitor cells integrate inputs from different pathways to regulate their fates, survival and proliferation potential. We combine advanced mouse molecular genetics with systems biology approaches that include genome-wide transcriptome, ChIP Seq and proteome analysis. Some of these studies and modelling of limb development are done in collaboration with the neighbouring ETH Systems Biology …