DISCOVER HOW WE SEE THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE FROM A CELL TYPE PERSPECTIVE
Eleven young scientists share their research, perspectives, and PhD life at 10 different research organisations from 6 European countries, all connected through the EvoCELL network and a common interest in the genome, cells, and animal evolution.
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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...
read moreIntroduction 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...
read moreWhat 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...
read moreWelcome 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...
read moreWhat 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...
read moreExploring 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...
read moreValborg 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...
read moreGraduate 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...
read moreVisit 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...
read moreBlue 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"...
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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.

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/).