This is so wrong-headed. You could not pay me to take a drug that was not tested in animals, and animal models remain absolutely essential for discovery research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

What Carole said -

It is absolutely crazy to think we no longer need model organism research. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It is absolutely crazy to think we no longer need model organism research. - Carole Labonne www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

here is the link: www.fda.gov/news-events/...

This is mission CRITICAL. Please comment.

Legend!

Congratulations to Ray Keller, PhD for his election to the National Academy of Sciences. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenops #frogs

Dr. Dominique Alfandari seeks requests for producing Xenopus antibodies. Fill out the form in the link to make your suggestions. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

The International Xenopus Board (IXB) Young Investigator Award recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member from any country making significant scientific achievements using Xenopus. Nominations due June 20, 2025. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Thank you for the opportunity to speak about our work amongst so many cool talks! 🐸✨

Excited for day one of the first @ epilepsyinst.bsky.social conference! If you ever wanted to know how tadpoles can help us understand DEE please come and chat at poster 2

Froggers post up!

So incredibly happy that Ray Keller was elected to the AAAS! He's a pioneer of the cell biology of morphogenesis and of embryo mechanics, and a hero of mine. So grateful for his outstanding work. Even more grateful that he always took me seriously congrats Ray!!! www.amacad.org/new-members-...

CRISPRi in frogs! cellandbioscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Cool new work on metabolic activity in embryonic cell migration using #xenopus! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

#xenopus and chickens coming together to parse Six1 targets and deafness risk genes! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Check it out! #xenopus 🐸

“We want to do something more interactive,” my graduate cell biology students said. “Like what?” I replied.

Cool new #xenopus paper on the contribution of sperm epigenetic marks on development! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does anyone know why Ensembl no longer have genome sequence of Xenopus laevis anymore??? Or am I missing something? Has this always been the case? @ensembl.bsky.social

Check it out! #xenopus to the rescue for functional genetics! 🧬 🐸

Check it out! 🤩🐸✨

Think you’re stressed? Check out this new work on inducing tissue strain coupled to live imaging 🐸✨ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40059484/

Preprint Alert! Juyeon Hong in the lab has dissected the molecular organization of distal tips of vertebrate motile cilia. She even found a new compartment in the extreme distal tip marked by Ccdc78 and Ccdc33. Give it a read! @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our Xenopus team in action! 🐸🐸P.S.: they shared this photo with their PI voluntarily 👍👏🥹

Give yourself the highest Valentine of all and apply to the Xenopus CSHL course! Applications due Feb 14! ❤️🐸❤️

Birth defects are diseases of development and are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life. And birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. 4% of ALL hospitalizations (for all ages) are due to birth defects. Economic impact of birth defects is > 22 billion dollars per year.

A happy lab update. We have healthy froglets! 🐸💚 We switched everything to RO, and that fixed it. Not sure exactly what's going on, but we think that somewhere, someone is accidentally backwashing acid into the demineralized water system. More investigation is required. 🐸 🧪

We have extended the deadline until Feb. 14th. Take the opportunity, funding support is avaliable! 🐸⚠️ meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Remember, we have extended the deadline for applications until Feb 14th. Apply here: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Cool new #xenopus 🐸 ✨preprint✨ on klf family genes and neural crest development! Check it out! @labonnelab.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39868152/

Anyone tried/trying expansion microscopy on Xenopus? Would LOVE to talk shop. @frogwranglers.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social #xenopus

Love this video!

Check out this cool new #xenopus work! 🐸✨

Awesome new #xenopus work! Check it out! 🐸✨

Happy #xenopus #fluorescencefriday from this timelapse of beads transiting a tadpole gut- in honor of @pieceofkate.bsky.social graduating! 🐸💩

Cool new #Xenopus work on stretch, cell migration, and electrical fields in vivo! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Everyone's favorite sight in the lab. IYKYK #Xenopus

Cool new paper on the relationship between microtubule dynamics and temperature taking advantage of different #xenopus frog species that live at different temperatures! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Monday vibes, froglets chillin'

Cool new ✨preprint✨ on temperature scaling in early embryonic cell divisions using #xenopus! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out this cool new preprint on limb regeneration and oxygen sensing using #xenopus! @canaztekin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool new paper on proton sensing using #xenopus! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cool!

A special present from my lab during our jumping frog lab holiday party.

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Last #FluorescenceFriday of the year! (at least from me) This fluorescent in situ probe worked much better than I expected. Chordin expression seen here at early gastrula stage of a #xenopus embryo.

Jaeger et al. screened Adeno-associated viral tools (AAVs) in three different amphibian species brains identifying serotypes that transduce neurons. Published in Developmental Cell. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs