1. Carlos Ribeiro

    registration for the second JEDI meeting is open

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    It is our pleasure to announce that the registration for the second JEDI meeting which will take place from the 18th to the 20th of October 2012 at the hotel INATEL in the beautiful beach town of Foz do Arelho, Portugal is open. You can register at http://www.fly-jedi.org/registration2012/ Registration for the meeting...
  2. Alexander Stark

    HOT stuff…

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    (Genomic-) JEDIs, my first student published his first paper, characterizing modEncode’s “HOT regions” as patterned developmental enhancers. Let’s use the force to understand how the fly orchestrates all its 14,000 or so genes’ expression Best, Alex  
  3. Pavel Tomancak

    HFSP grants to JEDIs

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    Casey Bergman, Uwe Ohler and myself have been awarded an HFSP grant to continue working on the developmental hourglass. This is a renewal of the grant we received in 2008 and it is the first time in the history of HFSP when a grant was renewed. We acknowledge the contribution...
  4. Eduardo Moreno

    Not sure if that is moving towards the dark side, we published our first paper in mice,

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    As said, it may qualify as being attracted by the dark side, but we are proud to have published our first paper in mice: http://dmm.biologists.org/content/early/2012/02/23/dmm.008623.full.pdf+html It is also linked to our first European Patent Application and we are very excited about the possibility of blocking clonal selection as a novel...
  5. Pavel Tomancak

    Crete meeting

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    Dear JEDIs, I am curious how we fare at the coveted Crete meeting that will be held this summer at Kolymbari. Here is a little poll to find out. Click Crete meeting or Read more to enter the poll. Its voluntary, anonymous and fun. Please don’t vote twice. PAvel
  6. Hernan Lopez-Schier

    Postdoctoral positions in Munich

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    I am looking for candidates to take up postdoctoral positions (PhD positions may also be available for unusually talented students) in the López-Schier group, when it moves to Germany to the Helmholtz Zentrum München early in 2012, for the following four research lines: 1) Develop a project on cellular mechanics...