Ricardo Zayas

Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish:
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Overdue congratulations to Mallory Cathell, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation back in June!

Since then, she has been hard at work preparing a manuscript based on her thesis.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SoxB1-Mediated Chromatin Remodeling Promotes Sensory Neuron Differentiation in Planarians Understanding how adult stem cells generate neurons is critical for advancing regenerative medicine. However, few in vivo models enable studying how stem cell fates are specified as neurons in an adul...

Check out our new lab preprint, which provides mechanistic insights into how the SoxB1 transcription factor influences chromatin dynamics and transcriptional programs during adult neurogenesis in planarians.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bummer!

Congratulations! That's great news! Good luck, Christian.

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Website and registration will open soon for the West Coast SDB meeting, Aug 14–17 at Cal-Poly SLO! Abstract deadline for talks is July 7. Final deadline for abstracts (posters) and registration is July 31. We will have prizes for best undergrad, grad, and post doc presentations! #wcsdb2025 1/4

Opinion: Why public science funding matters more than ever Not long ago, I ran into a longtime Fleet Science Center member outside our Giant Dome theater. He had just seen a film about researchers behind the publicly funded James Webb Space Telescope. With…

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Forgotten classics- T. H. Morgan and planarian regeneration - the Node Morgan, T.H. (1898) Experimental studies of the regeneration of Planaria maculata. Archiv für Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 7, 364-397

Interested in planarian regeneration? Here is an oldie-but-goodie article featuring comments from pioneers in the field.

thenode.biologists.com/forgotten-cl...

A different view of planaria and some marine flatworms. Most images and… | Nipam Patel A different view of planaria and some marine flatworms. Most images and movies of the freshwater planarian, Schmidtea mediterranea, show them on the surface of a Petri dish and are taken from directl...

Are you interested in learning about planarians? Check out this beautiful video!

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Smed-pou4-2 regulates mechanosensory neuron regeneration and function in planarians POU4 homologs are involved in the development of sensory cell types across diverse species, including cnidarians, ascidians, and mammals. Whether these developmental regulators are reused during adult...

A new preprint from the lab analyzing mechanisms underlying sensory neuron regeneration and function.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...