Xenbase Tutorials: GEO Data Simple and Advanced Search

Please view the Xenbase tutorial videos for the simple and advanced search interface for Xenopus GEO datasets.

Added tutorial: Navigating a GSE page.

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.

IXB Young Investigator Award

Outstanding junior faculty awardees will be recognized at the International Xenopus Conference in Portsmouth, UK (August 23-27, 2020) where they will present an award lecture.

Nominations must be received by June 30th, 2020.

Spatiotemporal Patterning of Zygotic Genome Activation

Chen et al. published in Developmental Cell imaging nascent transripts (dependent on cell size) at the single-cell level in Xenopus during zygotic genome activation (ZGA).

Click here to view their press release.

10th Course Developmental Biology Institut Curie

September 16 - October 16, 2019 - practicals and lectures
October 7-17, 2019 - lectures

Registration deadline: July 15, 2019

website

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.

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.

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

Xenbase Tutorials: GEO Data Simple and Advanced Search

Please view the Xenbase tutorial videos for the simple and advanced search interface for Xenopus GEO datasets.

Added tutorial: Navigating a GSE page.