Back to back years of best talk awards!

Abitua Lab on a tear at the Northwest Developmental Biology Meeting!

NIH research grant funding rates plummeted in 2025 Agency acknowledges young investigators are losing out as result of multiyear funding policy imposed by White House

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Someone told me after class that they enjoyed the lecture I spent 12 hours preparing over the weekend while ignoring my parental duties. Thank you.

See you at Gastrulation Revolutions

Rich Losick’s Farewell Publication Reexamines a Molecular Biology Milestone - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Richard Losick, Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, Emeritus in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, is about to publish what he describes as his “last paper”—though […]

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Working on a gigantic gorgeous grant.

The more I look at this 3d rendering, the more it looks like an Ames window.

PASEDB 2025 Service Award:
Chris Amemiya
University of California-Merced, USA. School of Natural Sciences.

For significant contributions to the evo-devo community and PASEDB organization

Do you want to learn more: amemiyalab.com

Bonus HCR 😜

Some B-roll from Eliza Barkan’s new preprint out of the Trapnell Lab. I think it will be a fin-tastic resource for the zebrafish community, especially for those trying to get a handle on the signaling pathways involved in specific cell types. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I met a Searle Scholar who had done six rotations... talk about resilience.

Syd Sattler took home the Best Graduate Student Talk award at the 58th annual NWDB meeting—a proud PI moment to remember! 🥲

Opened a bottle of LB that no one in the lab could open. Good to know I’m still useful around the lab.

Excited to host Nipam Patel this week—an OG of evo-devo!