A new preprint from the lab!

Check out our new preprint found on bioRxiv titled: Temporal and anteriorly positioned mitotic zones drive asymmetric microtubule patterns needed for Left-Right Organizer development.

This study was a group effort led by postdoc Yan Wu and graduate students Yiling Lan and Favour Ononiwu. We were able to look at #microtubule dynamics in the #zebrafish Left Right Organizer for the first time allowing us to find lots of cool stuff about its development!

You can check it out here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.12.593765v1

A teaser of how cool the MT dynamics are during zebrafish KV development.

Congrats to Abrar Aljiboury on her Review in Journal of Cell Science

Check out Abbi’s awesome review titled “The centrosome-diverse functions in fertilization and development across species.”

Rab8, Rab11, and Rab35 coordinate lumen and cilia formation during zebrafish left-right organizer development

The paper is finally up at PLoS Genetics, congrats to everyone involved! You can check out the study titled “Rab8, Rab11, and Rab35 coordinate lumen and cilia formation during zebrafish left-right organizer development” here.

Figure 1 from the study that argues Left-Right Organizer cells start making cilia before they start assembling a lumen! This observations was first found by undergraduate Julie Manikas, who is an author on the study. Check it out!

They are up!

The Halls on 2nd Floor LSC in Biology are looking fabulous. Thank you Scott Pitnick! You are transforming the 2nd floor. Come check out the beautiful cover art from labs in Biology.