Fluorescent microscopy images of transgenic chicken resources maintained at the NARF, The Roslin Institute. (A) GFP chicken embryo with a ‘red’ graft placed into the limb bud with micro-surgery. The graft is about 50–100 μM. (B) Stage 32 HH limb bud from the CSF1R-eGFP embryo. Macrophages (green) are concentrated in areas of cell death, blood vessels (red) are labelled with SNA lectin. (C) ACTN line embryo spinal cord stage 16 HH. (D) Dorsal Root Ganglion of the nervous system of a Chameleon transgenic chicken embryo. Nerves going into the dorsal root ganglion are red, and nerves coming out are green. (E) Fluorescent image of the dorsal skin (periderm) from a membrane GFP chick embryo. (F) FUCHI cell cycle reporter embryo stage 23 HH. All images were provided by members of The Roslin Institute Chicken Embryology (RICE) group.

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Research facilities in the UK, France, and Japan maintaining transgenic lines for Avian developmental biology

By Lindsay Henderson, Yuya Okuzaki, Christophe Marcelle, Mike McGrew, and Ken-ichi Nishijima

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#SpecialIssue on Avian model systems

It definitely helps, because in the last hour, the status changed to one of the reviewers accepting the invitation to review. 🤣

Not that anyone is checking... a million times a day👀👀👀

If a cute picture of your pet was uploaded along with the manuscript you intended to submit to a journal would the likelihood of the manuscript going out for review increase? Asking for a friend

Pro tip for whatever middle manager still needs to hear this... but nobody in all of history has ever wanted to spend a meeting doing ice breakers.

Nice view while I try and fail at writing

Lhx1/5 positive neurons in red within the chick neural tube. Or as my child likes to call it, a Christmas tree split in half!

My writing buddy is not very helpful

My work from home buddy

Headshots of Richard Behringer and Carole LaBonne

SDB President-elect Richard Behringer and SDB President Carole LaBonne published an opinion piece in The Hill on how President Trump's executive order entitled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" ignores science. bit.ly/41OM694

Sox10 expression in magenta in the DRG and around motor axons in the embryonic PNS

German and US flags

To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

If it helps brighten up anyone's day here's the expression of SHH in two different colors that I took this afternoon to prevent myself from being stuck on the phone doomscrolling.

UT Austin professor says Trump's policies could disrupt scientific research and hurt the economy The Trump administration directed federal health officials to pause external communications last week, which prompted the National Institutes of Health to cancel meetings used to determine which resea...

Anyone lucky enough to have seen @jbwallingford.bsky.social present a research seminar knows what a great communicator he is. 🙌 This clearly conveys the potential impact of disrupting NIH operations in a way that makes sense to those outside the scientific enterprise.

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MSc or PhD Student Positions: Cytoneme mediated cell-cell communication in development and disease at Hall Lab

🧪🧑‍🔬 We are actively recruiting graduate students in the lab right now at UM!
If you are, or know a student looking to do cool research involving cell signaling, development, and 🔬, please share with your networks. For more information, checkout the link below.
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I do that all the time. I was told it's not cheating 😉

Here's my terrible picture of the full moon yesterday with Mars appearing as a tiny reddish dot below it! This is a great astronomical wonder filled week where Saturn and Venus will be seen in the sky very close to each other!

Mars was also visible just below the moon before the lunar occultation!

***great opportunity for senior grad students or postdocs interest in teaching***

I’m looking for a guest lecturer to speak to cover Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder at Stanford on 1/30 (on zoom). Possible honoraria & teaching evals available - if you know anyone please share :)

Snow day fun continues

It's rare to get snow where I live, so naturally we make full use of this opportunity!

Images of mouse embryos spanning the stages of cranial neural tube closure

A new single-cell atlas of gene expression provides insights into the patterning of the neural plate of mice.

🔗 https://elifesciences.org/articles/105042?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

Zakir Hussain, legendary tabla virtuoso who defied genres, dies at 73 Hussain's career spanned over five decades, during which he was revered as both a national treasure in India and admired worldwide.

JUST IN: Hussain's career spanned over five decades, during which he was revered as both a national treasure in India and admired worldwide.

What Does a Career in Science Policy Entail? Science policy plays a crucial role in shaping research and funding, but its science policy analysts who evaluate and refine these policies to ensure that they effectively support scientific progress ...

Interesting article from The Scientist about careers in science policy. I've loved working with so many people like this at NIH!

www.the-scientist.com/what-does-a-...

Home Winners

🧪🔬 Check-out my (mostly undergrad) microscopy class's annual photo contest! sites.google.com/view/jmu-mic... Each week, my students bring in something (anything) and try to take a photo with a microscope. And it's not just for fun... 1/2

A cell photographed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (cyan), the powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria (yellow), and actin filaments (magenta) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy

Feuerzangenbowle this evening and the perfect way to start grading😉

For the dev bio crowd : there is a call for junior group leader at Institut Pasteur in Paris and one of the axis covered is related to development. Come and join us in this exciting place and become one of our colleague @devstempasteur.bsky.social
Please RT !!
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AER-270 and TGN-020 are not aquaporin-4 water channel blockers Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is the most abundant water channel protein in the brain. It controls water homeostasis, facilitates glymphatic function and is a drug target for brain edema following injury or stro...

Our lab's first Biorxiv deposition is live!

We show that two commercially-available "aquaporin-4 inhibitors" do not inhibit aquaporin-4 as previously described.

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