Don’t know much about the role of transcriptional autoregulation during development? No need to remain in the dark any longer. Steve Crews and Joe Pearson published a Primer on this subject in Current Biology. Transcriptional autoregulation during development

MidExDB, Drosophila CNS Midline Gene Expression Database, is available on the Home page of our website. This searchable database contains images and expression information regarding 286 midline-expressed genes. There are also primers describing midline cell types and midline cell development.

Paper by Scott Wheeler et al. on Neurexin IV and Wrapper mediating midline glia-neuron adhesion was published in Development. This work was a collaboration between our lab and the UNC labs of Manzoor Bhat and Steve Rogers. Neurexin IV and … Read more

Postdoc, Joseph Watson, joins the lab. Joseph was a graduate student with David Miller at Vanderbilt working on C. elegans neurobiology.

Former undergrad, Marce Abare, begins medical school at the University of Michigan.

Paper by Scott Wheeler and Stephanie Stagg on the role of Notch signaling in midline cell development was published in Development. Multiple Notch signaling events control Drosophila CNS midline neurogenesis, gliogenesis and neuronal identity

Former undergrad, James Oh, is now working as a research tech in the labs of Joy Wu and Sean Wu at Massachusetts General Hospital. The work involves the use of embryonic stem cells in studying bone and cardiovascular system development.

Former “Honorary” lab member, Duojia Pan, now an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Former undergraduate, Kenneth Hoadley, currently in Utila, Honduras will begin graduate school at UNC-Wilmington this fall to study marine biology.

Postdoctoral fellow, Amaris Guardiola, will join the Biology Department at Angelo State University (San Angelo, TX) as an Assistant Professor this fall.