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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!

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:
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via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/05/30/art…

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?

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…

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

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!

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...

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…

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…

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

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

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

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...

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!

Ida Chow Licia Selleri Gail Martin.

Make your own list of women developmental biologists throughout March.