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Fully funded Healing Foundation PhD Studentship available to UK/EU or international students 1

Posted by , on 11 December 2014

Title: The role and regulation of metabolic reprogramming during successful appendage regeneration Supervisors: Professors Enrique Amaya and Royston Goodacre, University of Manchester Application deadline: January 30, 2015 Description: Many vertebrate ...
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An interview with Christopher Wylie and Janet Heasman

Posted by , on 18 November 2014

This interview first appeared in Development.   The 2014 Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Lifetime Achievement Award was jointly awarded to Christopher Wylie and Janet Heasman in recognition of their outstanding and sustained contributions ...
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I left my frog in San Francisco:

The 15th International Xenopus Conference

Asilomar CA, 2014

Posted by , on 22 September 2014

Every two years, the international Xenopus community gathers to meet. Two years ago I wrote about the meeting in Toulon, France and this time we crossed the pond to Asilomar, ...
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The Node at the GSA Xenopus Meeting

Posted by , on 21 August 2014

The Node is on its way to California, to attend the GSA Xenopus meeting, starting in Monterey this Sunday (24th August). If you are attending the meeting, do say hello ...
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Accelerated Frogs: Developmental Biology meets Particle Physics

Posted by , on 20 August 2014

I previously wrote a post about the development of a 4-D X-Ray Tomography technique for imaging early Xenopus embryos. Frog embryos are opaque due to their yolky composition and this ...
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The first Xenopus imaging course

Posted by , on 17 February 2014

The first Xenopus imaging workshop was held at the Xenopus Resource Centre at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Wood’s Hole, MA from November 17th – 22nd.    Kymograph of a ...
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Xenopus Bioinformatics Workshop

Posted by , on 5 February 2014

This 7 day workshop is intended for wet lab researchers who want, at least, to extend their understanding of computational analysis tools and methods, but will probably also want to ...
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A Day in the Life of…a Xenopus lab

Posted by , on 2 October 2013

  I am Gary McDowell, a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts Centre for Regenerative Biology and Developmental Biology.  I have just finished a postdoctoral position in a mass spectrometry lab at ...
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Frogs shed new light on the midblastula transition

Posted by , on 3 September 2013

  After fertilization, embryos undergo rapid, synchronous cell divisions until the point of the midblastula transition (MBT) where the cell cycle lengthens.  This transition is also known as the maternal-zygotic ...
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X-rays and frog embryos: new features of gastrulation revealed

Posted by , on 19 August 2013

For decades, the development of the early embryo and patterning of tissues has been studied with the help of a workhorse of developmental biology, the frog embryo.  Xenopus embryos are ...
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