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EvoCell podcast #2: Jellyfish talk with Cat Munro
The 2nd episode of the EvoCell podcast is brought to you from the Oceanographic Observatory in Villefranche-Sur-Mer, where we chatted with Catriona Munro mostly about jellyfish, R, and surviving a PhD. Cat got her PhD from Brown University, working on the evolution...
Introduction to Single Cell Sequencing (SCS)
There are many different reasons why single cell sequencing is a cool and exciting tool. Surely by reading our different blogs you might have caught a glimpse of some of those. But what is it exactly? And how does it work? It starts with a very simple idea: to...
What is all of this fuss about cells?
A cell is the building block of living organisms (what about viruses? are they like Schrödinger’s cat? :p). Cells have all sorts of roles in organisms such as find, obtain, deliver & metabolise nutrients etc. Currently, there are three domains for the...
Welcome to the first ever episode of the EvoCell podcast! Our guest today is Detlev Arendt, our network coordinator, and a great source of knowledge and inspiration. We talk about cell types, neurons, photoreceptors, body plans, single cell sequencing, Anton Dohrn...
What a conference: The Identity and Evolution of Cell types
It was an eventful couple of days in Heidelberg at The Identity and Evolution of Cell Types conference: 4 days, around 150 participants, 20 speakers, and a variety of model organisms and research approaches (but mostly single cell RNA sequencing). Endless forms most...
Exploring Platynereis
Hallo Erde!! 🙂 Exploring organisation of the Platynereis nervous system - specifically the brain. Let’s hope I get to learn something interesting along the way 🙂 Below is an image of some neural projections accessed from a single Platynereis dumerilii larval...
Valborg and spiders
A SPECIAL DAY Greetings, everyone! Last week's 30th of April, was Walpurgis Eve (Valborg or Sista April in Swedish), in which residents of Uppsala celebrated the arrival of spring in Sweden. According to the Uppsala University website, the annual itinerary goes like...
Graduate School at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
From the 9th until the 12th of April 2019 everyone came together for the first Graduate School, held at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples. During the four days, the eleven labs and in particular the fellows presented their work progress since the last...
Visit at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Napoli
This week I visited Ina Arnone's lab at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples, Italy. I got an insight into their research on gene regulatory networks that control the development of body parts and organs in animals, using sea urchins as their study model. I...
Blue Velvet, the fluffy predator
What’s up, everybody! On today's post, I will talk a bit more about one of the animals I work with for my EvoCELL project titled "The evolution of Panarthropoda from a cell type perspective." Who is it? Euperipatoides kanangrensis [video width="1920" height="1080"...
FILLED: EvoCELL Short Early Stage Researcher (MSCA) at the EMBL Heidelberg
Identification of piRNAs and microRNAs involved in cell lineages.
We are looking for a dedicated Early Stage Researcher to join the EvoCELL Network to establish protocols for small RNA expression studies in Platynereis dumerelii, to obtain a first view on the diversity and distribution of microRNAs in individual cell types, building on the cellular expression atlas. The 13 months position is part of the EvoCELL Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative training Network (www.evocell-itn.eu).
Once upon a time there was a furry ball swimmin’ in the sea
Welcome back to my blog! If you are back here reading, you might be wondering about my obsession for fantastic eggs (and where to find them!). So let me tell you a bit more about my project... We all know what happens after a sperm fertilises an egg (and “the miracle...
FILLED: Short-term Early Stage Researcher (MSCA)
A 9 month short term fellowship is available under the co-supervision of Evelyn Houliston and
Richard Copley at the Villefranche-sur-mer Developmental Biology Laboratory (LBDV) near Nice in
France, within the Marie Curie ITN “EvoCELL” (https://evocell-itn.eu).
8 Short-term Early Stage Researcher positions available through the EvoCELL ITN
8 Short-term Early Stage Researcher positions available through the EvoCELL ITN (single cell genomics, evo-devo and science outreach)
The EvoCELL network is looking for 8 short-term Early Stage Researchers to work in the field of animal evolution from a cell-type perspective, evo-devo and scientific outreach.
Something about my PhD: The origin of the brain
Hey there, my name is Francisca and I welcome you to “Something about my PhD: The origin of the brain”, a discussion where I share updates about my PhD project.