bcn_evodevo January 2013

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[bcn_evodevo] Reminder: Ariel Chipman seminar - CRG, Thu, Jan 31, 4pm

by Yogi Jaeger

Hi Evo-Devo People, Just a quick reminder that Ariel Chipman's seminar will be today at 16:00h, at the PRBB (Charles Darwin Room, ground floor). Ariel has done some extremely interesting work, systematically dissecting the upper tiers of the segmentation gene cascade in the milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus, a very promising emerging model system for hemipteran insects. Hope to see you there! Best, Yogi ________________________________________ From: Yogi Jaeger Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:34 PM To: bcn_evodevo(a)lists.crg.es Subject: Ariel Chipman seminar - CRG, Thu, Jan 31, 4pm Dear Barcelona Evo-Devoists, The following seminar at the CRG may be of interest to you: ARIEL CHIPMAN Dept. of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem IL "The evolution of insect blastoderm patterning - insights from the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus" Systems Biology Programme Seminar 31/01/2013 at 16:00h, Charles Darwin Room (PRBB, ground floor) Host: Yogi Jäger (CRG) Abstract: The insect body plan is conserved and stereotypical. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the embryonic processes leading to this conserved body plan are highly variable. We have been studying the early embryonic patterning in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, with the aim of understanding the earliest processes involved in laying out the insect body plan. We have looked at three separate patterning systems – the gap gene network, the head patterning network, and the terminal system – and analyzed the expression and function of key candidate genes, as well as the interactions between them. Using this data we are starting to assemble a full picture of the early blastoderm patterning network, with the aim of determining which aspects of this network are conserved and which are more variable in insect evolution. Please let me know if you would like to chat with this speaker before or after his seminar. Check the updated info of this seminar and all the CRG Scientific Sessions here: www.crg.eu/scientificsessions. ----- Have a good day! Yogi

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[bcn_evodevo] Ariel Chipman seminar - CRG, Thu, Jan 31, 4pm

by Yogi Jaeger

Dear Barcelona Evo-Devoists, The following seminar at the CRG may be of interest to you: ARIEL CHIPMAN Dept. of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem IL "The evolution of insect blastoderm patterning - insights from the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus" Systems Biology Programme Seminar 31/01/2013 at 16:00h, Charles Darwin Room (PRBB, ground floor) Host: Yogi Jäger (CRG) Abstract: The insect body plan is conserved and stereotypical. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the embryonic processes leading to this conserved body plan are highly variable. We have been studying the early embryonic patterning in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, with the aim of understanding the earliest processes involved in laying out the insect body plan. We have looked at three separate patterning systems – the gap gene network, the head patterning network, and the terminal system – and analyzed the expression and function of key candidate genes, as well as the interactions between them. Using this data we are starting to assemble a full picture of the early blastoderm patterning network, with the aim of determining which aspects of this network are conserved and which are more variable in insect evolution. Please let me know if you would like to chat with this speaker before or after his seminar. Check the updated info of this seminar and all the CRG Scientific Sessions here: www.crg.eu/scientificsessions. ----- Have a good day! Yogi

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[bcn_evodevo] PhD position in theoretical Evo-devo Helsinki-Barcelona

by Isaac Salazar Ciudad

Dear Colleages, If you know of anybody who may be interested in that position lead him/she know Thanks, Isaac Salazar-Ciudad University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology: PhD position in Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology and Systems Biology We are looking for a student, preferably a biologists, to start a grant for a PhD on the interrelationship between the evolution of gene networks, development and the phenotype: - Simulation of the evolution of the genotype-phenotype map of complex organs based on development. or/and - Quantitative study of the patterns of phenotypic variation across ontogeny and phylogeny or/and - Computational models of pattern formation and morphogenesis in animal development One of the current challenges of evolutionary biology is to understand how genetic variation leads to specific morphological variation (the genotype-phenotype map) and how that process affects the direction of morphological change in evolution. Our group is devoted to address this question by using gene network models. Programming skills or a willingness to acquire them is required. The project involves spending some time with collaborators in Barcelona and close collaboration with Jukka Jernvall's group (http://www.biocenter.helsinki.fi/bi/evodevo/index.shtml). The exact topic of the theses would be discussed in detail during interview. of morphological variation. Nature. 2010 Mar 25;464(7288):583-6. The University of Helsinki is a public University that has regularly been ranked among Europe's 10 to 15 best universities on worldwide ranking lists of research universities. Some 470 doctorates are completed annually and nearly 10,000 scientific articles or monographs are published yearly by the university's researchers.

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