Make your own list of women developmental biologists throughout March.

Ida Chow Licia Selleri Gail Martin.

International Women's Day! To many women colleagues, to many senior and junior women scientists, I say "Let's keep going"! I want to celebrate Zena Werb and Nicole Le Douarin!

Missing Zena, an inspiration, a giant of science, and an amazing human being. In June 2020 UCSF lost a voice that will not be easy to replace...

'The Art of Being Happy' (Schopenhauer), rule No 51: Always consider that your manuscript has flaws; rejection then comes as a relief.

Researchers re-create key human embryo stage in lab sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/r…

Scientists Grow Mouse Embryos in a Mechanical Womb nytimes.com/2021/03/17/hea…

Fascinating... the powers of sequencing genomes of different species... A towering genome: Experimentally validated adaptations to high blood pressure and extreme stature in the giraffe advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/12/e…

3D rendering of the Sistine Chapel: use your finger or mouse and see the details! No wonder Michelangelo fell into a depression (nervous breakdown) while painting it. It took four years - less than a mouse project... "La terribilita' di questa impresa" vatican.va/various/cappel…

Interesting paper in Plos Genetics: mutation within the RAR related orphan receptor B gene underpins the ability of some rabbits (Sauteur Rabbits) to jump and walk on their head...

Very excited that our paper studying EPH/EPHRIN regulation of tissue boundary formation at the biophysical level is out now. Want to highlight first author @abbykindberg an amazing student who is now going on to a postdoc in Scott Holley's lab at Yale- watch out for her!

Human–chimpanzee fused cells reveal cis-regulatory divergence underlying skeletal evolution www-nature-com.ucsf.idm.oclc.org/articles/s4158…

Many congratulations to Jeff Jeff Bush for promotion to full professor UC San Francisco! Jeff was our first recruit into the Craniofacial Program and has done fantastic work as a PI- we're all very proud of him and his research group.

A Construction Crew Working at the Uffizi in Florence Accidentally Uncovered Two Long-Lost Renaissance-Era Frescoes news.artnet.com/art-world/uffi…

At the end of Camus' The Plague, the plague subsides and the citizenry returns to its pre-outbreak behavior as if nothing had happened. I'm curious to learn what doesn't return to status quo ante post-pandemic. What don't you want to return to baseline?

via The New York Times nytimes.com/2021/05/30/art…

I am back after many months - too much to do, too little time. Happy New Year Everybody! We are seeking motivated & wonderful postdocs to join our lab. Exciting projects, generous new NIH funding - we need new blood! See link below for more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1kdpYOO…

upliftingathletes.org/young-investig… Maurizio Risolino, Instructor in our lab, won one of the "Uplifting Athletes Young Investigator Awards" for rare diseases for his work on Human Congenital Asplenia! Way to go Maurizio!