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New Xenopus Genome Assemblies

The Xenopus Genome Consortium has released the newest laevis v7.1 and tropicalis v8.0 assemblies.

2014 Xenopus White Paper

Representatives of the research community have released the 2014 Xenopus White Paper summarizing strategic resource development.
 

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Richard Harland Awarded 2014 Conklin Medal

Dr. Harland discovered that BMP antagonists are fundamental for the patterning of early germ layers. His research also expands our knowledge of neural induction and patterning, FGF signaling, planar cell polarity, and the developmental control of RNA splicing.

Christopher Wylie and Janet Heasman Honored with SDB Lifetime Achievement Award

Wylie and Heasman are being honored for their outstanding and sustained research and mentoring contributions to the field of developmental biology.

15th International Xenopus Meeting

Save the date!

The biennial gathering of Xenopus biomedical researchers:

August 24th - 28th, 2014 in Asilomar, CA

Abstract submissions are now being accepted until Jun 10.

Conference registration is now open until July 24.

Click here to go to the meeting website.

SDB 73rd Annual Meeting

Dr. Richard Harland will be honored with the The Society for Developmental Biology’s E.G. Conklin Medal.

Dr. Janet Heasman and Dr. Christopher Wylie will recognized for their lifetime achievements in developmental biology.

For meeting information please visit: sdbonline.org/2014mtg

3rd Annual Xenopus Bioinformatics Workshop

Registration now open. The workshop will be held May 11-18 at the MBL in Woods Hole, MA.

PCP and Septins Compartmentalize Cortical Actomyosin to Direct Collective Cell Movement

Shindo & Wallingford, published in the journal, Science that planar cell polarity (PCP) proteins control convergent extension by exploiting an evolutionarily ancient function of the septin cytoskeleton.

(shown: phospho-myosin light chain in embryonic notochord cell membranes)

CRISPr/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis in Xenopus

In back-to-back articles published in genesis, Blitz et al. and Nakayama et al. each report CRISPr/Cas targeted transgenesis works well in Xenopus tropicalis.

For additional information on genome editing techonologies, click here.

(shown: targeted silencing of six6 and tyrosinase genes)

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