A Still Life of Academia moment from my desk on the promotion with tenure. A note of thanks to all trainees, colleagues, and mentors who made the past years and effort so exciting and enjoyable. Now..the next phase. Thanks to HMSGenetics/BCH OrthoSurgery - and me parents.
Fun to read the greats. Ross Harrison invented cell culture, but his first love was development of fish fins: "when I told a lady that I was writing my thesis on this subject, her reply was, "What earthly good are fins? I never eat them."
jstor.org/stable/1661017@fishyskeleton
ALT THAT's right...time to submit abstracts to the 13th Structural Birth Defects Meeting held September 16-18, 2024 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore! Do it before The C's get #18!!! https://x.com/SocDevBio/status/1798723183677493398
Growth patterns of caudal fin rays are informed by both external signals from the regenerating organ and remembered identity autonomous to the local tissue dlvr.it/T4thR8
Latest news: will be moving back to WI at end of this year after 30 years away from home. Transitioning our program to @Morgridge_Inst and @UWMadisonCRB. Excited for our lab members to visit & plan things out. Madison has phenomenal regeneration and zebrafish communities &...
Announcing the fantastic keynote speakers for the 11th AQMHD Conference: Leonard Zon, Jochen Wittbrodt, and Duygu Ozpolat. Registration and more information can be found here: aqmhd.xiphophorus.txst.edu/.
To clarify, Alienacanthus malkowskii isn't a new genus/species. It was named in 1957, but the lower jaw was originally thought to be a fin spine/armor piece.
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Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
Blue days, all of them gone, gone, gone
Nothin' but blue skies from now on...
@fish4walking.bsky.social
After ten years of scheming and about 8 of trying stuff, a paper finally emerged from my lab’s mangrove killifish work. Further proof that albino anything is cute…
doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23216
New Siegfried Lab publication! We show that the Adad1 RNA-binding protein functions in germline stem cell maintenance in zebrafish testis.
#PLOSGenetics: The RNA-binding protein Adad1 is necessary for germ cell maintenance and meiosis in zebrafish dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…