New posts:
Merry Christmas from the oysters and the ghosts of your SCS runs
Merry Christmas everyone, The Telford lab is proud to present you... The Christmas oysters and the Christmas 10x kits. (I personally never had such expensive decorations on my tree all my life!!!) Have a lovely holidays, Ho Ho Ho! Laura
Ines Fournon Berodia
Hello Fellows! I am one of the two newest additions to the EvoCELL ITN and will embark myself in a short-term Early Stage Research position involving sea urchins, at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn. Having studied my Bsc in Biology and a Msc in Marine Biology I have a...
A summer of science
Hello everyone, A lot of exciting things happened this past summer. To start off, we were all sent off to Ville-Franche-Sur-Mer to learn about computers, how to turn them on and how to analyse single cell sequencing results. We had some great teachers, nice food, good...
How I learned to stop worrying, and care for research
Why Molecular Biology? I've always enjoyed searching for Biology. At kindergarten, I've had watched the 1st Jurassic Park movie being released in 1993, and that opened my youthful eyes to a completely different world. I couldn't even read properly at that age, but it...
FILLED: Short-term Early Stage Researcher (MSCA) at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli
A 12 month short term fellowship is available under the supervision of Maria Ina Arnone at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN) in Napoli, Italy, within the Marie Curie ITN “EvoCELL” (https://evocell-itn.eu). The preferred starting date is 1st October 2019.
Spider-Man and the model organism
Like people say in Sweden, "Hej, allihop!" Long time no see. Summer break is over and autumn is here, the temperature has dropped and rain pours almost daily. Last time, I talked about the spiders I am breeding in my lab. Following this post, I want to talk in deep...
Luca Santangeli
My interests in biology have always been very broad, spanning from the smallest chemical and molecular interactions to animal’s biology, behaviour and the big picture of evolution. I find astonishing how evolution led to the biodiversity of our planet and shaped...
Nervous system and networks
Hey all! Welcome to my new blog post. Today, I’m gonna channel my inner professor and try to explain in simple words how the sea urchin larva nervous system is structured and what is a gene regulatory network. Us, humans when we want to perform a task, e.g. picking up...
Why studying “ugly” species matters?
Hey there. In this second video I talk about the importance of studying what we call "ugly" species for biomedical, biological and conservation research. Enjoy it. [video width="1920" height="1080"...
EvoCell podcast #3 – special mini edition: Tell us something weird about your animal
Welcome back to the EvoCell podcast! In this special mini edition, we go around and ask the fellows (and anyone else who was willing to be recorded) for odd, grim, gory, fun facts about the animals they work with. This podcast should probably be labelled NSFW for...
Life aquatic with Parhyale hawaiensis
Better late than never, today I am going to introduce the organism I am working with: Parhyale hawaiensis! These “little shrimps” as my mom called them, are...
More about the joy of single cell sequencing: Cell dissociation
How to dissociate samples into single cells *whilst not lose all hope of eventually becoming a Doctor of Philosophy* There are a LOT of different protocols to dissociate samples into single cells. However, to boil it down, they all use three main drivers: trituration...
Unveiling neural cell-type(s)
[Opinion] Neural cell types, like other many cell types, come in a constellation of different morphologies and connectivity amongst other cell-types. For the past century, neurobiologists (and anatomists alike) have pursued the descriptions of neural cell types at the...
FILLED: 12-month Marie Curie fellowship on the regulatory genomics of regeneration
A 12 month fellowship in molecular biology and developmental genetics is available at the Institut de Genomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL) in France, under the co-supervision of Michalis Averof and Mathilde Paris. The fellowship is funded by the Marie Curie ITN EvoCELL (https://evocell-itn.eu/).
Charlie Hillier
I am interested in exploring the relationship between cell types across species in order to understand their evolutionary lineage, and the evolution of novel functionality. Do cell types follow a phylogenetic relationship in a way analogous to animal evolution? If so,...