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Genetically modified non-human primate fetuses as models to study the role of candidate genes for increasing size and folding of the human neocortex during development and evolution

Posted by , on 27 July 2020

By Michael Heide and Wieland B. Huttner   Introduction The neocortex is the seat of our higher cognitive abilities that distinguish us from other mammals and that make us human ...

Building plant weapons

Posted by , on 27 July 2020

By Fei Zhang and Vivian F. Irish Flowering plants, from giant sequoias to miniscule duckweed, all depend on the action of small populations of cells, called meristems, to grow.  Meristems ...

Retracting sheaths and words

Posted by , on 17 July 2020

My mentor, Bruce Appel, emphasizes the importance of communicating science clearly and precisely. Consequently, I have watched my peers and myself deliver ever-improving talks, posters, and manuscripts during our time ...

Neuronal dendrite structure: new manuscript on Biorxiv

Posted by , on 16 July 2020

Happy to share the latest manuscript by André Castro @castro_neuro from the @HCuntz with @GTavosanis labs! We show how a temporal arrangement of stochastic developmental processes achieves efficient dendritic trees ...

PhD student and postdoc positions in the Tavosanis lab at DZNE, Bonn, Germany

Posted by , on 14 July 2020

One PhD student and one postdoc position will be available in the @GTavosanis lab starting from September 2020. The two planned projects will focus on: The cellular mechanisms that support ...

Back to bench is resetting my mental clock

Posted by , on 13 July 2020

My university has reopened and being reunited with the lab bench after months have reminded me again how much I love what I do for a living. Of course I ...

Phase separation mediated Par complex cluster formation in cell polarity

Posted by , on 13 July 2020

Ziheng Liu and Ying Yang The asymmetry in cell morphology and the asymmetric distribution of intracellular organelles, proteins, nucleic acids and other components are the hallmarks of cellular polarity, possessed ...

Introducing ACME: the species-versatile fixation and dissociation solution for single cell analysis

Posted by , on 1 July 2020

This post highlights the approach and findings of a new research article available in preprint on BioRxiv. This feature was written by members of the Solana lab, authors of that ...

Now we need arrest… A long journey into the end-of-flowering

Posted by , on 29 June 2020

By Tom Bennett & Catriona Walker   25th May 2020: Publication TB: The joy of seeing an article finally published is always slightly tempered by the long-drawn out process of ...

Conversations with my parents (about adult chondrogenesis and spontaneous cartilage repair in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea)

Posted by , on 23 June 2020

One night, during the summer of 2012, I found myself sitting in a cottage in Woods Hole, trying to explain to my parents why I’d spent much of my professional ...

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