March 2023

Dr. Schilling gave a talk in the Dept of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Merced on March 24 entitled “A Simple Twist of Fate: Genetic Analysis of Neural Crest Cell Fate Determination”…….

October 2022

Daniel Dranow gave a poster at the Gordon Conference on Craniofacial Genetics and Tissue Regeneration entitled “The non-canonical Wnt receptor Ror2 is required for cartilage cell polarity and morphogenesis of the craniofacial skeleton in zebrafish”…

October 2022

Dr. Schilling gave a talk at the Gordon Research Conference for Craniofacial Genetics and Tissue Regneration entitled “Craniofacial Evolution and Development in African Cichlids”….

September 2022

Dr. Arul Subramanian presented a poster at the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology entitled “Single cell approaches reveal cranial tenocyte heterogeneity in developing zebrafish” and won third place among the postdoctoral poster presentations. Congratulations Arul!…

September 2022

Dr. Schilling gave a plenary talk at the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology entitled “Genetic Analysis of Cranial Growth Zones”….

April 2022

Dr. Schilling gave a talk in the Dept of Biology at the University of Washington on April 27 entitled “A Simple Twist of Fate: Genetic Analysis of Neural Crest Cell Fate Determination”….

November 2021

Pavan Nayak gave a talk at the West Coast Regional Zebrafish Meeting at UCLA on Nov 5 (held virtually) entitled “Transcriptome Profiling of Tendon Fibroblasts at Muscle Contraction Reveals Novel Force-Responsive Genes”….

March 2021

Dr. Schilling gave a talk at the Southern California Rare Disorders Symposium at UCI on March 18 (held virtually) entitled “Using Zebrafish Models to Understand Rare Craniofacial Birth Defects”….

February 2021

Dr. Subramanian and Pavan Nayak both attended the annual meeting of the Orthopedic Research Society from Feb 12-16 in Phoenix, AZ, and presented posters entitled: “Mechanical Force Regulates Scleraxis and Sox9 Expression Dynamics at the Enthesis” – Subramanian et al. “Investigating Novel Gene Function and Mechanotransduction in Vertebrate Tendon Development” – Nayak et al….

September 2020

David Tatarakis gave a talk at the Center for Multiscale Cell Fate symposium held Sept 21 at UCI (held virtually) entitled “Stochastic Dynamics of Cranial Neural Crest Cell Fates”…….