Grace Gustafson
@graceinsci.bsky.social
Molec Bio PhD Candidate at CU AMC in the Nichols Lab 👩🏻🔬 studying developmental buffering mechanisms 🧬 semi-practicing intellectual 🐟 NSF GRFP Fellow
The Dept was well represented at the Rocky Mountain RNA Symposium today! Congratulations to student Camille Goo and postdoc @ecbrooks96.bsky.social on their poster awards and students Cassie Minne and @graceinsci.bsky.social on their honorable mentions. @wattlab.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social
The Nichols Lab isn't very present on BlueSky yet, but check out our recent paper on a dorsal and anal fin mutant that unlocked our lab's recent interest in limb development: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
The sclerotome is the source of the dorsal and anal fin skeleton and its expansion is required for median fin development
Summary: The sclerotome, an embryonic structure within the somites, is the source of median fin cells and is reduced in smoothback mutant embryos, which do not form dorsal fins as adults.
journals.biologists.com
JP Martin, grad student in @thefrancolab.bsky.social lab, is about to tell us how he proposes to discover mechanisms that drove human brain evolution for his thesis research! Stay tuned for the answer- in about 3 years when he defends!
🚀 FaceBase is now on BlueSky! We are a public, NIDCR-funded data repository and resource driving innovation in dental, oral, & craniofacial (DOC) research. Follow us for updates on datasets, events, & tools that advance science! #CraniofacialDevelopment #Genomics #BiomedicalResearch #Bioinformatics