The 21st European Drosophila Research Conference, to be held November 18 th – 21 st 2009 at the Acropolis Conference Center, Nice, France. The conference will be on for four days beginning 18th of November 2009 till 21st ,which includes 10 plenary lectures and 18 concurrent sessions with a blend of invited speakers and selected abstracts.
Plenary lectures will be given by :

Expansion of transcription factor families correlates with organism complexity. Dr. Marian Walhout and her colleagues have carried out a large-scale systematic analysis of three primary influences on the evolution of functionally divergent transcription factors.

Wim Damen’s lab in University of Cologne is interested in understanding the evolutionary basis of biological pattern formation using spider’s as model system. The chelicerates to which the spiders belong form a monophyletic group that has already split during the Cambrian from the other arthropod groups. Damen’s group famous for studying Spider’s started with Cupiennius salei,a tropical spider and now shifted to another spider species Achaearanea tepidariorum. These spiders can currently be found all over the world. In these spiders males are smaller than the females and range from 3.8 …

The Sars International Centre is a partner of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and a department of Unifob, affiliated with the University of Bergen. The Centre is focused on basic research in marine molecular biology, developmental biology and evolution, through genetic and comparative studies of invertebrates and vertebrates.
The research group headed by Dr. Di Jiang is offering two postdoctoral positions. The group focuses its research on morphogenesis during animal development, more specifically on the tube formation process in ascidian Ciona intestinalis notochord.

I want to offer my sincere apologies to all the readers of Hoxfulmonsters for my long absence. As i have mentioned earlier also that i wont be able to blog on normal basis as i am at the end of my p.hd and hence finding it tough to squeeze some time out. I am afraid things on this blog will be in on and off mode till October this year and hopefully i will find enough time after my thesis defense in october. Hope you all understand and still find …

Researchers have always puzzled for ages over how some animals can regenerate their lost or damaged body parts. It all began way back in 1740 when Swiss researcher Abraham Trembley observed that hydra-when chopped into two pieces could remarkably grow back into two complete, new organisms. However not all animals have same capacity of regeneration , for instance the planarians (flat worms) can be cut into 50 pieces and you will end up with 50 smaller worms and same can be said about beautiful star fishes, If an arm …

Juan Pablo Couso’s lab have identified hundreds of noncanonical genes containing small, phylogenetically conserved, ORFs. Several are polycistronic and involved in cell signalling.
The position is funded for up to 5 years and requires successful previous research experience in Genetics or Cell Biology.
Full details will appear in Naturejobs.com and sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs. Informal enquires
can be made in advance to: j.p.couso@sussex.ac.uk