2020 Xenopus White Paper

The 2020 Xenopus Community White Paper is now available!

PIs: Please reference the White Paper in your NIH grant proposals and contact your program officers.

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The Allied Genetics Conference 2020 Online

TAGC is going virtual.

April 22-25, 2020. Registration is free. Attend via Zoom.

Click here to view the announcement.

TAGC2020 website

Uncovering selective cooperation between the retinoblastoma and p53 cancer pathways in X. tropicalis

Naert, Dimitrakopoulou et al. (2020) published in Oncogene their study describing the first frog model for the Li-Fraumeni Syndrome to study leukemia and malignant sarcoma.

SDB 79th Annual Meeting

Society for Developmental Biology 79th Annual Meeting

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL

July 9-13, 2020

Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2020

Ray Keller Awarded the 2020 SDB Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Dr. Ray Keller on receiving the 2020 Society of Development Biology (SDB) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ray is a pioneer in the biomechanics of morphogenesis introducing conversion extension in gastrulation to generations of Xenopus researchers.

18th International Xenopus Conference

The meeting has been postponed to August 22-26, 2021

Portsmouth, UK at the EXRC

Trachea-esophageal Disease Studies Using Xenopus

Back to back papers published in Developmental Cell from Nasr et al. and Kim et al. recapitulate human congenital trachea-esophageal birth defects using Xenopus.

Xenopus tropicalis v10 genome

- available to BLAST

- view on JBrowse

99.86% of the genome mapped to chromosomes
~4500 new and refined models, 18% not present in trop v9.1

Click here to view the release document.

2020 Xenopus White Paper

The 2020 Xenopus Community White Paper is now available!

PIs: Please reference the White Paper in your NIH grant proposals and contact your program officers.

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