Frog Wranglers

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 -

National Xenopus Resource on X: "https://t.co/q9x70xVVLs Please watch video and post a comment in support of use of animal models. They are seeking our input and if we don’t provide it then they will simply say well we didn’t hear anything" / X https://t.co/q9x70xVVLs Please watch video and post a comment in support of use of animal models. They are seeking our input and if we don’t provide it then they will simply say well we didn’t hear anything

x.com/XenopusNXR/s...

There is no replacement for animal models in medical research

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

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

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

This is mission CRITICAL. Please comment.

It will work but only if Debbie made the hyb

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! 🐸✨

Epilepsy Research Institute (@epilepsyinst.bsky.social) Radically advancing epilepsy research.

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!

New Academy Members Elected in 2025

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-...

CRISPR/Cas-mediated mRNA knockdown in the embryos of Xenopus tropicalis - Cell & Bioscience The Xenopus tropicalis (Western clawed frog) is an important amphibian model for genetics, developmental and regenerative biology, due to its diploid genetic background and short generation time. CRIS...

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/

Molecular organization of the distal tip of vertebrate motile cilia The beating of cilia on multi-ciliated cells (MCCs) is essential for normal development and homeostasis in animals. Unlike basal bodies or axonemes, the distal tips of MCC cilia remain poorly defined....

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.