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Posted by andrewgillis on June 23rd, 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 life studying the little skate (Figure 1). I was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University at the time, and working almost exclusively with skate as[…]
Posted by Paul Gerald Layague Sanchez on August 16th, 2018
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being,[…]
Posted by Navajas on August 1st, 2016
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” L. Carroll ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ We write this while we finish the last experiments for the final Show n’ Tell on[…]
Posted by andrewgillis on April 19th, 2016
The origin of paired fins is a major unresolved issue in vertebrate evolutionary biology, and has been a topic of debate among palaeontologists, comparative anatomists and developmental biologists for over a century. Central to any question of “evolutionary origins” is the concept of homology: the sharing of features due to common ancestry. Homology may explain[…]
Posted by the Node on March 30th, 2016
The results are out! The winner of this year’s movie round from the 2014 Woods Hole Embryology course is… the Drosophila embryo imaged in 7 channels! Here are the full results: Fly embryo (Dorso-Ventral Split): 29 Fly embryo (Sections): 32 Fly Eye Disk: 10 Fly Embryo (7 channels): 76 Many congratulations to Connie Rich (University[…]
Posted by the Node on March 2nd, 2016
Earlier this year we asked you to vote for your favourite image from a selection of 4 beautiful pictures taken by the students of the 2014 Woods Hole Embryology course. You chose a stunning image of a bat embryo, which features in the cover of the latest issue of Development. It is now time to vote[…]
Posted by the Node on February 4th, 2016
And the winner of the latest round of images from the Woods Hole embryology course is… the short-tailed fruit bat embryo! Here are the full results: – Pig embryo: 102 votes – Longfish inshore squid embryo: 67 votes – Short-tailed fruit bat embryo: 296 votes – Mouse embryo: 129 votes Many[…]
Posted by the Node on January 18th, 2016
Every year, students from the Woods Hole Embryology course produce some stunning images. It’s now time for readers of the Node to vote which of images from the 2014 Woods Hole Embryology course will be a Development cover! Below you will find 4 beautiful images from the course. Choose the one you would like to see[…]
Posted by Joe Hanly on July 10th, 2015
For the second instalment of our blog from the 2015 Woods Hole Embryology course, we decided to do something a little bit different this time around, and write a “Day in the Life” style blog, to complement the excellent Day in the Life of a Model Organism series which The Node has recently been running.[…]
Posted by Joe Hanly on June 29th, 2015
Elena Boer, Shun Sogabe and Joe Hanly are currently attending the MBL Embryology course in Woods Hole MA. 2015 marks the 122nd year of the Woods Hole Embryology course. This program has a long and prestigious history, as exemplified by the long list of alumni who grace the the wall of class photos in the[…]
