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Wave at the frogs - they're waving at you

Posted by , on 26 July 2013

  Perhaps, like me, you’ve been microinjecting Xenopus embryos for so long that you start seeing strange things – maybe that they’re waving at you.  But perhaps that’s not so ...

Things that look like Xenopus

Posted by , on 18 February 2013

Have you ever thought to yourself ‘Hey, that inanimate object looks just like a xenopus!’ No? Well maybe after reading this you will. I started a PhD in a Xenopus lab ...

Post-doctoral position available: Neural crest development in Xenopus

Posted by , on 20 November 2012

SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION AVAILABLE   Neural Crest Development in Xenopus   £30,122 to £35,938 per annum   A Post ...

PhD position available: The role of microRNAs in neural crest development

Posted by , on 20 November 2012

SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   PhD POSITION AVAILABLE   The role of microRNAs in neural crest development   MicroRNAs (miR) are short, non-coding RNAs around 22 ...

Developmental Biology in the Wellcome Image Awards

Posted by , on 14 September 2012

Given that most readers of this post will be developmental biologists, it seems slightly unnecessary to point out that development is an amazing, beautiful process.  But it’s true!  The expansion ...

The 2012 UK National Xenopus Conference

Posted by , on 10 April 2012

The UK national Xenopus conference is an annual event held to discuss the exciting and extremely varied work carried out across the UK using the African clawed frog (Xenopus) as ...

Young Embryologist Meeting 2012 (YEM:2012)

Posted by , on 29 February 2012

  4th Young Embryologist Meeting Friday 1st June 2012 UCL Institute of Child Health, London   Registration and Abstract Submission NOW OPEN (until March 31st)       The 4th ...

A wave from Quintay

Posted by , on 31 January 2012

The International course on Developmental Biology was a great experience, both instructive and mind-opening. All the students were shuttled to the remote and very small fishing village of Quintay, where ...

Eye-ing the body electric

Posted by , on 20 December 2011

How do you make an eye? One early trigger for eye formation in Xenopus, as a new Development paper from Michael Levin’s lab shows, is a small change in bioelectric ...

Mapping the cardiac neural crest in the frog’s heart

Posted by , on 27 April 2011

The Node’s staff asked me to write a short “behind the scenes” on our paper just released in the May 15 issue of Development, “Cardiac neural crest is dispensable for ...

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