| Volume 96, No. 2: June 2017
DON'T BLINK. Lateral view of a 40-hour-old zebrafish retina with the cells expressing the neurogenic gene, atoh7, highlighted with the green fluorescent protein (GFP). This image is a projection of 60 1 碌m z-slices captured on the Nikon A1+ laser scanning confocal microscope in the Cerveny Lab.
猫咪社区 made a big splash at the annual in Vancouver, Washington, this month. Prof. [biology 2012–] and three students, Alison Bryant ’15, Will Horner ’15, and McKenzie Givens ’17 presented the results of their summer research. We’re proud to announce that Will earned the for his explanation of how retinoic acid influences retinal growth and neurogenesis in the zebrafish retina.
Students in explore fundamental questions such as how a single cell becomes a complex organism, how undifferentiated cells choose their fate, and why some tissues regenerate after injury-- all through studying zebrafish eye and brain development.
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