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 …

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; and Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.

The ribosome translates the DNA code into life
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life’s core processes: the ribosome’s translation of DNA information into life. Ribosomes produce proteins, …

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 …

Like Drosophila so here is an opportunity, a postdoctoral position is available to investigate the genetic basis of morphological evolution in Drosophila in the group of Dr. Alistair McGregor at the Institute for Population Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
Candidates with experience in Drosophila genetics, molecular biology and population genetics are particularly encouraged to apply.
The initial appointment will be made for one year, with a possible extension to up to three years. The annual salary is 54,180 Euro (before deductions). The position is available from January 1st 2010, but …

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.
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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. (796)

The script could not have got any better than this for the Grant’s who spent major part of their life studying Darwin finches evolutionary responses to environmental changes on islands of Galapagos. In this special year of evolution which celebrates 200th year of Darwin’s Birth and 150 years of publication of Darwin’s magnum opus “Origin of species”, Peter Raymond Grant and his wife Barbara Rosemary Grant won the prestigious Kyoto prize for their work “Demonstrating Rapid Evolution Caused by Natural Selection in Response to Environmental Changes”in basic sciences category. The …