Fantauzzo Lab

Applications are due this Friday, March 13th!

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Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

Congratulations to Departmental faculty Dr. Kristin Watt @wattlab.bsky.social on winning the H.W. Mossman Award in Developmental Biology through the American Association for Anatomy @anatomyorg.bsky.social!

Applications for the 2026 CSHL Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social are due March 13th. Don't miss this great opportunity to learn all about the mouse model from leaders in the field!

Thanks, Linda! ❤️

Our work out in @devbiol.bsky.social, PDGFra is needed for 🧠 perivascular fibroblast development... ⬇️ perivascular fibroblast = ⬇️ perivascular macrophage...cross-talk? 👀
Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!

Additive effects on craniofacial development upon conditional ablation of PDGFRα and SHP2 in the mouse neural crest lineage Background Activity of the receptor tyrosine kinase PDGFRα and the tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 is critical for vertebrate craniofacial development. SHP2 has been shown to both positively and negativel.....

New paper alert from the lab: "Additive effects on craniofacial development upon conditional ablation of PDGFRa and SHP2 in the mouse neural crest lineage" published in @devdynamics.bsky.social: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....

Half of the lab attended #SCGDB2025 and had a great time! @ecbrooks96.bsky.social

It was an honor and a pleasure serving as @scgdb.bsky.social Secretary the past two years!

We kicked off #SCGDB2025 with exciting award talks from Dr. Timothy Cox @craniofacialprof.bsky.social and Dr. Jennifer
Fish, pictured here with SCGDB President Dr. Matthew Harris @fish4walking.bsky.social and local meeting host Dr. Kristin Artinger @artingerlab.bsky.social.

So excited to be serving as Guest Editor for a special issue in @devbiol.bsky.social on receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development. Please consider contributing!

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week to Dr. Maria Campaña and @ecbrooks96.bsky.social! Very much appreciate the expertise, curiosity and collegiality that they bring to our lab.

Congratulations to Erin Binne, who won the Outstanding Laboratory Research Service Professionals Award through the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine!

This Sunday, September 7th is the registration deadline and the due date for abstracts to be considered for a poster presentation at the SCGDB annual meeting this month in Minneapolis. More information and program highlights available at scgdb.org.

Abstracts are due by Monday, August 25th to be considered for a short talk at the SCGDB annual meeting this September in Minneapolis. More information and program highlights available at scgdb.org.

Mentorship and acts of kindness Abstract. As the inaugural recipient of the Genetics Society of America Mentorship Award, Gaut is being recognized for the mentorship of PhD students and p

"Mentorship and acts of kindness" by Brandon S. Gout: academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

Eighth annual Fantauzzo lab hike, this year at Silver Dollar Lake Trail, followed by lunch at Westbound & Down in Idaho Springs. Another beautiful Colorado day!

We are currently seeking to hire a new faculty member at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor to join our collegial, research-intensive Department. Job posting: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Fish on the SCGDB 2025 Marylou Buyse Distinguished Scientist in Craniofacial Research Award! Sponsored by Developmental Dynamics @devdynamics.bsky.social. Don't miss her award presentation - register for the annual meeting by September 7th.

Congratulations to Dr. Timothy Cox @craniofacialprof.bsky.social on the SCGDB 2025 David Bixler Distinguished Scientist in Craniofacial Research Award! Sponsored by Developmental Dynamics @devdynamics.bsky.social. Don't miss his award presentation - register for the annual meeting by September 7th.

Registration and abstract submission are open for the SCGDB annual meeting in Minneapolis! Deadlines: 8/25 abstract for short talk, 9/7 abstract for poster, 9/7 registration. More information at scgdb.org.

Congratulations, Brady Lab! 🎉

Biological Differentiation Across the Scales—July 11, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. Central—Retinoic acid signaliing in mouse retina endothelial cells is required for early angiogenic growth—Register Now!

Join the editors-in-chief of Differentiation on July 11 at 1:30 p.m. Central for a virtual seminar with Julie Siegenthaler on retinoic acid signaling in retina endothelial cells and early angiogenesis. 👁️🔬💉 Register for free: www.isdifferentiation.org/Events/Semin...

One last #Fluorescence Friday from the Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social. E14.5 coronal brain section stained with Sox9 (green), laminin (yellow), neurofilament (magenta) antibodies plus DAPI (blue). Image taken by student Ricardo Albanus using Nikon AX R.

More #Fluorescence Friday from the Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social! E9.5 labeled with Shh (magenta), Sox9 (yellow), DAPI (cyan) using @hcrimaging.bsky.social. Image taken by student Roberta Fiorino using Nikon AX R with @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social Imaris.

Happy #Fluorescence Friday from the @cshlaboratory.bsky.social Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social! First up: E13.5 MEFs stained with phalloidin (magenta) and DAPI (green). Image taken by student @debojitsaha.bsky.social using Agilent BioTek Lionheart FX.

The Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer CSHL course @cshlcourses.bsky.social is underway! This crew of TAs and Instructors did a great job of getting everything up and running. Looking forward to a fun three weeks of science and networking!

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow @ecbrooks96.bsky.social who won a poster award and @molbcu.bsky.social graduate student Cassie Minne who received honorable mention at the 4th annual Rocky Mountain RNA Symposium held today at @cuanschutz.bsky.social!

PDGFRα/β heterodimer activation negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation Nature Communications - Here they show that heterodimerization of the receptor tyrosine kinases PDGFRa and PDGFRb negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation, due in...

Delighted to share our updated work, led by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Maria Campaña, published in @natcomms.nature.com: rdcu.be/em66g, PDGFRalpha/beta heterodimer activation negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation