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 @odtnews:

Exceptional grant opportunity for NZ/Australia based genetics students to access sequencing! Have a peek:

What if you could deliver molecular tools directly into oocytes without microinjection? In our new paper, online today @Dev_journal ( https://t.co/ryxCG1MVKy), we introduce VitelloTag, a new cargo delivery tool to enable injection-free genome editing. 👇Read on for a short 🧵

I am looking for a post-doc to work on our ⁦@MBIEsci⁩ project on #phages for #biocontrol #microbiology #genomics #genetics ⁦@microtago⁩ ⁦@otago⁩ pls repost

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! https://t.co/BvWnWDKnrG

Ban on gene technology outside lab to end

Happy to share @AnastasiaLabud1 PhD paper now out in @Dev_journal 🐟🧬 Cohesin composition and dosage independently affect early development in zebrafish https://t.co/nZFIRQQWIN - we show that cohesin 'amount' vs 'flavour' matters differently to zebrafish embryos!

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 👇 https://t.co/I2j2pAel69

1st Asian Xenopus Conference. November 24, 2024 (Sun) to November 26, 2024 (Tues). Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Abstract Submission: September 30, 2024. https://t.co/x88xak1wyN https://t.co/iHkGD7P6Yu #science #biology #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Excited to announce that GO has secured funding through 2028 as one of 14 @otago Research Themes! Looking forward to continuing to support our community and bringing in some new initiatives too! https://t.co/fF17Skpg2e

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 https://t.co/PrCPOXqCy7… to take the survey! #science #biology #devbio #xenopus #frogs

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..

PanelApp is our virtual #gene panel tool - free to share, view & download. Check it out here: https://t.co/W91VHKnj1j #genomics

Looking forward to reading this from @hamishgspencer !

We are looking for an Assistant Research Fellow to join the group and work on #phages as part of our @MBIEsci funded work. You must have right to live and work in NZ to be eligible. Details below https://t.co/jLOmcXaOqH please share

Thrilled to have this piece on the wonder, mystery, and very long history of #devbiol out in @aeonmag. https://t.co/iDGmoLPJtP

Five children who were born deaf can now hear after receiving gene therapy to provide a normal copy of a mutated gene. https://t.co/H85wHUzZ4I

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 🧵 https://t.co/Ki4COIjVcl

..This is a fascinating result implicating the splicing variation in brain development and showing the value of publicly available genome databases in pinpointing the causes of #rare disease. Congratulations to all the authors!

...So could this be the most common cause of #DEE as well as the second most common cause of neurodevelopmental delay after MECP2/Rett syndrome? MECP2 is a huge gene, though, and this RNU4-2 is tiny- so it is being hit at a remarkably high rate of mutation..