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A Day in the Life of... a Zebrafish lab

Posted by , on 8 October 2013

My name is Andrew Mathewson and I am a fourth year graduate student in the University of Washington’s Molecular and Cellular Biology program. Whereas most my friends from college are ...

Proepicardial cells go for a swim: how fluid flows guide epicardial progenitors to the heart

Posted by , on 12 September 2013

The epicardium, the layer of cells covering the myocardium, plays an essential role in heart maturation and formation of the heart valves and coronary vasculature. It derives from the proepicardium ...

The maternal squint puzzle - part 2

Posted by , on 11 September 2013

 The maternal squint puzzle – part 2 Karuna Sampath         Here is the background story for a recent paper from my lab in eLife, “An Essential Role ...

Woods Hole images round 4- choose a movie to be a Development cover!

Posted by , on 5 September 2013

For the last round of Woods Hole images this year we have an exciting development- the last round is a movie round! Below are 4 great movies from last year’s ...

Sex-reversal in adult fish

Posted by , on 27 July 2013

Dranow DB, Tucker RP and Draper BW. Germ cells are required to maintain a stable sexual phenotype in adult zebrafish. Developmental Biology 376: 43-50. Adult sex-reversal  –  the change of ...

Fish, pharma & flamenco: highlights of the 6th Zebrafish Disease Models workshop

Posted by , on 24 July 2013

Set against a beautiful backdrop of baroque architecture and cobbled streets in Murcia, Spain, the 6th Zebrafish Disease Models workshop (ZDM6) kicked off with an awe-inspiring keynote talk on developing ...

“Working with Zebrafish Genome Resources” Workshop during the 8th European Zebrafish Meeting

Posted by , on 18 July 2013

This was my first time in lovely Barcelona. I travelled from London the day before the zebrafish meeting kicked-off (in order to be well rested and alert for all the ...

My first encounter with the fish community

Posted by , on 15 July 2013

I was really looking forward to attending the European Zebrafish Meeting. The fact that it took place in the amazing Barcelona was, of course, a bonus point, but the main ...

The Node at the Zebrafish meeting in Barcelona

Posted by , on 5 July 2013

Next week will see the 8th european zebrafish meeting happening in Barcelona, Spain. The Node will be there, and (if there is internet available) we will be tweeting from the ...

From Sequence to Function

Posted by , on 17 May 2013

  It took longer than the human genome, if by only a few years, but it has finally arrived. The sequencing of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) genome reported in Howe ...

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