Thrilled to have this piece on the wonder, mystery, and very long history of #devbiol out in Aeon Magazine. aeon.co/essays/after-3…

Our latest: a new optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of gene expression We use it to dissect the dynamics of Shh gradient formation & patterning A thread 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Five children who were born deaf can now hear after receiving gene therapy to provide a normal copy of a mutated gene. newscientist.com/article/243418…

We are looking for an Assistant Research Fellow to join the group and work on #phages as part of our MBIE Science funded work. You must have right to live and work in NZ to be eligible. Details below otago.taleo.net/careersection/… please share

Looking forward to reading this from Hamish Spencer !

Last Friday, many Zoology_Otago staff and students gathered in the Benham Garage for a midwinter BBQ organised by Neuroscientists @BartGeurten and @PaulSzyszka. Good times, happy faces and many, many sausages..

Open now! We want to hear from you about how you use Xenbase and what we can do to make Xenbase even better. Everyone is invited to opine! Just click forms.gle/5WFANQTKA6TuSy…… to take the survey! #science #biology #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Excited to announce that GO has secured funding through 2028 as one of 14 University of Otago Research Themes! Looking forward to continuing to support our community and bringing in some new initiatives too! otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

It took more than a DECADE... but finally it’s published!!! It started as a CRAZY idea but after tons of hard work we built it: We hijacked the endogenous secretion systems of Toxoplasma gondii, a brain parasite, to deliver active proteins to neurons 👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

1st Asian Xenopus Conference. November 24, 2024 (Sun) to November 26, 2024 (Tues). Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Abstract Submission: September 30, 2024. 2024.xenopus-asia.org xenbase.org/xenbase/doNews… #science #biology #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Happy to share Anastasia Labudina PhD paper now out in Development 🐟🧬 Cohesin composition and dosage independently affect early development in zebrafish journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15… - we show that cohesin 'amount' vs 'flavour' matters differently to zebrafish embryos!

Ban on gene technology outside lab to end rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Loss of ETS sites in the ZRS enhancer of Shh has been linked to limb reduction in snakes. Here is another example of independent ETS site mutations in the ZRS linked to fin reduction in some lungfishes. Congrats to all authors of this tour de force study! nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am looking for a post-doc to work on our ⁦MBIE Science⁩ project on #phages for #biocontrol #microbiology #genomics #genetics ⁦Microbiology and Immunology Otago⁩ ⁦University of Otago⁩ pls repost otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

What if you could deliver molecular tools directly into oocytes without microinjection? In our new paper, online today Development (doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…), we introduce VitelloTag, a new cargo delivery tool to enable injection-free genome editing. 👇Read on for a short 🧵

Exceptional grant opportunity for NZ/Australia based genetics students to access sequencing! Have a peek: genetics.org.au/student-grants/

Congratulations to Alexander Matthews who has been awarded a Woolf Fisher Scholarship, to undertake his PhD studies using computational modelling to understand the neural responses to anxiety, at Cambridge University! More in the ODT - Otago Daily Times: odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/c…

PanelApp is our virtual #gene panel tool - free to share, view & download. Check it out here: panelapp.genomicsengland.co.uk #genomics