A day in the life…
Developmental biology is characterised by the diversity of organisms we put under the microscope. Each one comes with its own strengths and challenges, quirks and even personalities, and researchers often develop a close affinity with their particular model. Our ‘A day in the life’ series gives insights into what it is like to work with a given organism, day in, day out, as well as showcasing the particular questions the organism is most suited to address.
Recent posts
A day in the life of a lizard lab
Posted by NoelineS, on 22 May 2015
Welcome to the Eublephosphere! Eublephosphere (noun) – A place in which those who study the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) reside. Our names are Noeline Subramaniam and Kathy Jacyniak and we …A day in the life of a Marchantia lab
Posted by Mario Arteaga-Vazquez, on 12 May 2015
Cecilia Lara-Mondragón and Mario Arteaga-Vázquez Hello, my name is Cecilia Lara. I am an undergrad student working under the supervision of Dr. Mario Arteaga-Vazquez at the Laboratory of Epigenetics and …A day in the life of a Planarian lab
Posted by sounak.sahu, on 12 April 2015
Greetings and warm welcome to the “Planarian lab @ Oxford” The lab is based in the Department of Zoology in The Tinbergen Building on South parks Road in the “Land …A day in the life of an Axolotl lab
Posted by Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez, on 25 February 2015
Annie Espinal-Centeno & Luis Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez Hello! I am Annie, a research assistant in the group of Molecular and Developmental Complexity, under the supervision of Dr. Luis Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez. Our …A day in the life of a maize lab
Posted by China Lunde, on 1 February 2015
Maize has a rich history as a model organism for genetics; Rollins Emerson began describing mutants in the 1930’s. Large chromosomes, amenable to cytology, aided Barbara McClintock in her critical …A day in the life of a Honeybee lab
Posted by meganleask, on 19 January 2015
Welcome to the Lab for Evolution and Development. The lab is situated in the deep south of New Zealand in the quaint Scottish inspired little city of Dunedin. 1/5 of …A Day in the Life of a Turtle lab
Posted by Juan Pascual-Anaya, on 9 December 2014
We are Juan Pascual-Anaya and Tatsuya Hirasawa, two postdoctoral fellows at RIKEN (Kobe, Japan), in the laboratory of Shigeru Kuratani. We both have been working for the last 4-5 years …A day in the life of a cnidarian lab
Posted by Iva Kelava, on 4 December 2014
I presume the first question that comes into people’s mind when they read the title would be “What are cnidarians?” I also presume a logical follow-up question would be “Why …Featured movie: going underwater with Parhyale, from Erin Jarvis’ post
A day in the life of one lab starts at 6.30 AM at the Point View Marina in Rhode Island – read Cat Munro’s piece to find out which hard-to-catch animals they are after
Is your model missing? Let us know – we’d love you to write a ‘day in the life’ for us
Browse the zoo!
- Arabidopsis
- Ascidian
- Axolotl
- Bat
- Butterfly
- C. elegans
- Capitella
- Chick
- Cnidarian
- Colonial tunicate
- Coral
- Cricket
- Ctenophore
- Drosophila
- Embryonic stem cells
- Gar
- Hofstenia
- Honeybee
- Hydractinia
- Killifish
- Lamprey
- Larval-microbe
- Lizard
- Marchantia
- Maize
- Mayfly
- Moss
- Mouse
- Oikopleura
- Onychophoran
- Parhyale
- Planarian
- Platynereis
- Rhinoceros beetle
- Sea star
- Sea urchin
- Shark
- Siphonophore
- Skate
- Spider
- Sponge
- Termite
- Trichoplax
- Turtle
- Xenopus
- Zebrafish
We’ve collated various model organism databases and useful links over on our Resources page