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Cold yet warm Sweden and my research animals
Hi, Brenda here! This is my first time in Sweden, and winter is really cold in this part of the World. Nonetheless, I am enjoying my stay
Hey everyone, i’m Periklis!
Hey everyone! I’m Periklis and this is my first attempt to blog post about my PhD-life experience so far. I’m from beautiful Greece and
The lophotrochozoan trio
Hello everyone and welcome to my sciency-blog about my PhD project at UCL.
Zooming in on Platynereis
Platynereis dumerilii - Platy, for short - is a marine worm that has long been the focus of neurobiologists and evolutionary biologists alike. Since it evolved more slowly than its more popular invertebrate counterparts (e.g. the fruit fly), Platy...
Clytia hemisphaerica
Clytia hemisphaerica is a hydrozoan of the Campanulariidae family. This species was chosen some years ago as a promising model for molecular and cellular studies in development and evolution thanks to its phylogenetic position, the ease of culturing all life cycle...
Hello lovely people out there!
My name is Siri (yes it is!) and this is my first blog post as a EvoCELL PhD student at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. To be honest, I find it quite hard to find something smart to say about what I am doing right now. I’m one and a half months into my PhD and...
Oh, you study biology?
HELLO COLD WORLD!! I feel like this is as much of a big deal for me as the “young adult transition” portrayed in the Paramore song with the same name.. (And currently, it is indeed cold outside). I’m Petra and I'm glad you came across this blog. I’m a fresh PhD...
What are piRNAs and what about RNA(s) in general. Part I
Welcome to the wonderfully strange world of piRNAs (Domingues, 2018) What are piRNAs, and what about RNA(s) in general? To understand what piRNAs are and what their function is, we should first understand how a single cell, the fundamental unit of life, works. For...
#hownottobloglikekevin
Hello World! Hope this finds you well! My name is kevin. I am a new PhD student (yesssssss!!!!!) and i’m really lucky to be part of EvoCELL 🙂 (there’s a lot of amazing scientists - at least in my view - and i don’t feel like one of them but i’ll do my best to keep...
When the experiments do not work
Hey there! I've been thinking largely about what to write for my first blog post. At the beginning, my options were either an introduction of the organism which I am working with, or talking about my project itself - what is the current progress or, digging deeper,...
Practical course on single cell dissociation and analysis
From the 7th until the 13th of October 2018 all fellows and almost all principal investigators (PIs) came together for a practical course on single cell dissociation and analysis held at the EMBL in Heidelberg. Since the kick-off meeting in February 2018 all eleven...
Laura Piovani
The Lophotrochozoa, one of the three main branches of Bilateria, includes very diverse animals such as annelids, molluscs and flatworms. Despite their divergent adult forms, they have striking developmental similarities and a distinctive larva (the trochophore)....
Kevin Nzumbi Mutemi
Perhaps naive or foolish, but I would love to understand why nervous systems emerged in nature? What selection pressures drive the diversity in nervous system organization? How do such features facilitate animal behavior, physiology and ecology? Plus, the nervous...
Petra Kovacikova
The moment I began to disentangle the events of early development of living organisms at DevBio courses, I knew I did not want to let go of that tingling fascination and amazement I felt. Now I get to look closer at the origin of programme specifying the new progeny....
Siri Kellner
The EvoCELL project is giving me the opportunity to communicate highly specialized research in a critical and reflective way to the public. Moreover, I will be able to express my creativity and fascination in molecular biology by researching for and developing a...