Xenbase v4.11 Release

Xenopus expression data from GEO available. Viewable on JBrowse.

View our tutorial video.

X. laevis protein expression profiles on gene pages.

Rebecca Heald Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Heald for being elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

She is a pioneer in cell biology studying cell spindle assembly and biological size control using Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis.

The Allied Genetics Conference 2020

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
Metro Washington, DC
April 22–26, 2020

The Xenopus Keynote Speaker will be John Wallingford (UT Austin, USA).

TAGC2020 website

Richard Harland Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

Congratulations to Richard Harland, a newly elected Fellow of The Royal Society of London. Professor Harland is a pioneer in the field of developmental biology whose major contributions include understanding dorsal ventral patterning and neural plate induction and patterning.

Prdm12 is a conserved regulator of pain-sensing neurons: a potential target for pain therapy

Prdm12 is necessary for survival of developing nociceptors. It initiates and maintains expression of the neurotrophin receptor, TrkA, whose pathway is disrupted in human congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP). Desederio et al. publish in Cell Reports using Xenopus as part of their study, find retinoic acid induces prdm12 which then cooperates with ngn1 and ngn2 to promote nociceptor fate.

Xenopus Resources and Emerging Technologies Meeting 2019

October 11-14, 2019 at the National Xenopus Resource Center, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

Genome Editing Workshop 2019

October 14-24, 2019

National Xenopus Research Center, MBL at Woods Hole, MA, USA.

SDB 78th Annual Meeting

SDB 78th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts
July 26-30, 2019

meeting website

Message from SDB President, Lila Solnica-Krezel, Ph.D. 

Xenopus ORFeome v2

Updated Xenopus ORFeome clones include:

~10,250 genes, ~7,700 with human orthologues in X. laevis
~3,970 genes, ~3,800 with human orthologues in X. tropicalis

2nd European Amphibian Conference

Second European Amphibian Club conference to be held 26th-29th June 2019, in Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, Germany.
Abstract deadline: April 15, 2019.

Xenbase v4.11 Release

Xenopus expression data from GEO available. Viewable on JBrowse.

View our tutorial video.

X. laevis protein expression profiles on gene pages.