https://www.med.upenn.edu/bgs/index.shtml 34153981 Congratulations to Joseph Zinski and Matias Escobar for successfully defending their theses. Joseph Zinski will be post-doc'ing in the lab of Dr. Shawn Little at the University of Pennsylvania. Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0400 http://zdmsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/zebrafish-and-human1.png 33094484 Joseph Zinski will present his work on quantitative imaging and mathematical modeling of the BMP morphogen gradient patterning the DV axis of the zebrafish at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish meeting at the NIH in Washington DC on December 9th. Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0500 http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/bmp2016conference_boston/event/bmp-2016-conference 21456823 Joseph Zinski, Hannah Greenfeld, Robyn Allen, and Benjamin Tajer will present at the 11th International BMP Conference in Boston on October 26-30. Joseph Zinski will give a talk entitled "How the Bmp Antagonists Shape the Dynamic BMP Gradient Patterning the Zebrafish Gastrula". Wed, 19 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319460932 19590203 Matias Escobar, Yaniv Elkouby, and Mary Mullins authored a chapter entitled "Localization in Oogenesis of Maternal Regulators of Embryonic Development" in the book Vertebrate development: Maternal to Zygotic Control published by Springer. Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:22:45 -0400 http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/symposium.shtml 19581761 Congratulations to graduate Student Ben Tajer who won best poster at the 19th Annual Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group Symposium! Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:27:00 -0400 https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=GERM&year=16 19590221 Allison Jamieson-Lucy will present her work at the Cold Spring Harbor Germ Cell Meeting in October. Sun, 02 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26893345 19590222 Congratulations to Langdon YG, Fuentes R, Zhang H, Abrams EW, Marlow FL, Mullins MC for publishing their work entitled "Split top: a maternal cathepsin B that regulates dorsoventral patterning and morphogenesis" in Development this March. Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0400 http://thenode.biologists.com/sdb-isd-2016-meeting-report/events/ 13165747 Congratulations to Yaniv Elkouby for winning the Award for Best Postdoctoral Presentation at the Society for Developmental Biology 75th annual meeting and International Society of Differentiation 19th International Conference! Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.genetics2016.org/ 6282726 Francesca Tuazon will present her work entitled "Tails of DV Patterning: Spatiotemporal regulation of metalloprotease activity patterns the DV Axis" on July 15th, Emerging Technologies during the Imaging Session! Yaniv Elkouby, Matias Escobar, and Ricardo Fuentes will also present. Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=16714 19590202 Matias Escobar will present his work on "Dissecting Microtubule-Actin Crosslinking Factor (Macf1) Function in Establishing Oocyte Polarity and Nuclear Positioning" at the Gordon Research Seminar in Cell Polarity Signaling in June at the Mt. Snow Resort in West Dover, Vermont. Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.med.upenn.edu/crrwh/index.shtml 459567 Congratulation to Yaniv Elkouby for receiving the the Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health Bayard Storey Award for Excellence in Research! Fri, 06 May 2016 17:04:50 -0400 http://www.med.upenn.edu/ 459566 Congratulation to Yaniv Elkouby for receiving the the 2016 Perelman School of Medicine Art in Medicine Award! Fri, 06 May 2016 17:02:59 -0400 http://www.biolreprod.org/content/early/2016/01/22/biolreprod.116.139105.abstract 372499 Yaniv et al.'s most recent paper is now featured as a highlight of Biology of Reproduction! Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26741740 351040 Yaniv, Allison, and Mary together published "Oocyte Polarization Is Coupled to the Chromosomal Bouquet, a Conserved Polarized Nuclear Configuration in Meiosis." in PloS Biology. This paper identifies chromosomal bouquet as the earliest asymmetry in the Oocyte that leads to the later definition of the body axis. Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0500 6a286fbf483c0 We'd like to send a warm welcome to Hannah Greenfeld, the newest graduate student to join the Mullins Lab. Hannah will be working on BMP signaling and BMP target gene expression. Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.faseb.org/SRC-TGFB/Home.aspx 144073 Mary Mullins will give a talk at the FASEB meeting: TGF‐β Superfamily: Signaling in Development and Disease at Snowmass Village, CO, July 12-17. Ben Tajer will present a poster on his work on the BMP receptor complex. Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sdbonline.org/2015mtg 144088 Yaniv Elkouby will present a poster on his work on the origin of Oocyte anterior-posterior polarity at the 74th Annual SDB Meeting taking place from July 9-13 in Snowbird, Utah. Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf483cd Congratulations to Mullins Lab graduate students Francesca Tuazon and Allison Jamieson-Lucy on being awarded NRSA predoc awards from NIGMS! Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.ccnorway.no/zebrafish/ 144072 Mary Mullins will speak and chair a session at the 9th European Zebrafish Meeting in Oslo, Norway that took place June 28-July 2. Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=11169 144071 Joseph Zinski will present his work entitled “The roll of the BMP antagonists zebrafish DV patterning” on Wednesday June 24 at the Gordon Developmental Biology Conference at Mount Holyoke College, MA. Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sdbonline.org/meeting?ResourceID=2337 121089 Mary Mullins will give the keynote address at the upcoming Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting this Friday. James Dutko will also speak about the differential function of BMP type I receptors in signaling complexes. Joseph Zinski, Ben Tajer, Matias Escobar, and Yvette Langdon will present posters on their work. Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0400 http://izfs.org/ 115741 The Mullins Lab encourages you to join the International Zebrafish Society. The IZFS is dedicated to maximizing the good that zebrafish research can do for society, as detailed in their mission statement (linked to above). Mary Mullins has been instrumental in starting this organization, and now serves as acting Vice President. Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500 http://ascb.org/weareresearch/ 115361 The Mullins Lab won second place at the 2014 ASCB meeting for their submission to the #weareresearch photo competition. Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500 6a286fbf483e3 Francesca Tuazon will present her poster titled "Shaping the BMP morphogen gradient through regulation of metallography ease activity" at the upcoming UPenn Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Retreat on November 20th. Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ascb.org/2014meeting/ 113308 Ricardo Fuentes, Matias Escobar, James Dutko, and Joseph Zinski will present at the upcoming 2014 American Society for Cell Biology Meeting. Each will present a poster on his work, and Joseph Zinski will give a 5 minute lightning talk. Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.csh-asia.org/2014meetings/fish.html 101464 Mary Mullins will be presenting her work entitiled "Adult Trait Phenomics" at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Genetics, Genomics and Phenomics of Fish Conference. The conference will be held from October 20th to the 24th in Suzhou, China. Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0400 http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/2014/germ14.shtml 101463 Yaniv Elkouby will be speaking and Allison Jamieson-Lucy will be presenting a poster at the upcoming Cold Spring Harbor Germ Cell Meeting being held from October 7th to the 12th. Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf483f2 Congratulations to former lab member Eliott Abrams for securing an Assistant Professorship of Biology at SUNY Purchase. While in our lab, Eliott helped perform a maternal-effect mutagenesis screen in zebrafish and identified two important mutant classes that disrupt the cleavage stage of development. He published his work on one of these, the brambleberry protein, in Cell in 2012. Eliott was a fixture in the lab for 5 years and will be sorely missed. Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf483f6 Francesca was invited to speak to incoming STEM Posse Scholars at Bryn Mawr College to describe both her path to choosing graduate research, present her work, and advise the incoming freshman. Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf483f9 Mary Mullins and Francesca Tuazon will teach techniques and methodology of zebrafish embryo RNA and morpholino injections at the upcoming Zebrafish Development and Genetics course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400 http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/bmp/ 83701 James Dutko will present his work titled “Differential Function of Type I Receptors in BMP Heterodimer-assembeled Complexes” on Sept 17th and co-chair the BMPs And Common Mechanisms In Development And Disease session on Sept 19th at the 10th International BMP Conference. Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.sdbonline.org/uploads/files/Final_Complete_Program.pdf 83187 Mary Mullins will serve as a discussant for the Saturday morning discussion on "Funding and Developmental Biology: The View from the Study Sections/Panels". Joseph Zinski will present his work on the BMP signalling gradient in the Tissue Formation and Engineering Session on Friday Morning (9:45, Program Number 7). Yvette Langdon will present her work on the Split Top mutant Saturday night (Program Abstract #494 and Board #B110). Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400 http:// 72163 The Mullins lab will attend with poster and oral presentations. Joseph Zinski will present his work orally on Wednesday June 25th at the Early Embryo Patterning section. James Dutko (PBN 272), Francesca Tuazon, Allison Jamieson-Lucy, Yvette Langdon (PBN B110), and Ricardo Fuentes (170) will all present posters. Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0400 http:// 72162 Congratulations to Francesca Tuazon for presenting her work titled “Shaping the BMP morphogen Gradient through Regulation of Metaloprotease Activity” at the Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting on May 31st. Sat, 31 May 2014 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24204286 83159 The Ints6 story was published in PLOS Genetics this past October. Congrats to the authors Lee, Elliott, and Flo! Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://hermes.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/zebra.html 22561 Mary Mullins and James Dutko will both be instructing at this year's Zebrafish Development and Genetics Special topics Course at Woods Hole. Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://news.pennmedicine.org/blog/2013/07/cycling-for-cancer-and-zebrafish.html 20841 Congratulations to James Dutko for being featured in the Penn Medicine News Blog! The article, entitled “Cycling for Cancer and Zebrafish” describes James’ fervor for both scientific endeavors and cycling for the cause. We thank James for his tireless efforts to push back the frontiers of science, both in the lab and on charitable biking marathons. Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http:// 20461 Dr. Mullins will be speaking on BMP receptors and signaling at the upcoming conference "The TGF-B Superfamily: Signaling in Development & Disease" taking place in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Francesca Tuazon and Joseph Zinski will be presenting posters. Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http:// 19101 The Mullin Lab welcomes incoming graduate student Ben Tajer to the lab. His thesis work will address how the BMP type I and II receptors function in forming the BMP gradient that patterns the dorsal-ventral axis of the developing zerbafish gastrula. Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf48428 The Mullins Lab happily welcomes graduate student Allison Jamieson-Lucy to the lab! Allison will be working on oocyte development and maternal RNAs localization. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf4842c Today we bid a sad farewell to our talented post-doc Lee Kapp. He has tajen a position as an assistant professor in the department of Genetics, Cell, and Molecular Biology at A.T. Still University in Arizona. Lee has been with our lab for seven years now working on maternal effect mutants affecting the germ line and dorsal organizer. We wish him the best of luck! Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf4842f Congratulations to Mullins Lab post-doc Elliott Abrams for being selected as the winner of the 2013 Holtzer Prize for his work on "Dynamic Assembly of Brambleberry Mediates Nuclear Envelope Fusion during Early Development," published in Cell. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf48433 Congratulations to Joseph Zinski for being receiving an award for having the best student oral presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Society for Developmental Biology Meeting! Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://masdb13.blogs.wm.edu/final-program/ 9101 Joseph Zinski will be presenting his work entitled, "Dynamics and Shaping of the BMP Signaling Gradient in DV axial Patterning of the Zebrafish Gastrula" at the Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting on Friday April 19th at 9:00 PM. Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf48439 Yvette Langdon will present her work entitled, "split top: A Maternal Regulator of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning and Morphogenesis," at the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish Meeting on May 17th. Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23536566 8201 The connection between Dorsal-Ventral and Anterior-Posterior patterning in Zfish is unraveled in the latest article by Megumi Hashiguchi published this March in Development! Her data reveals that the temporal progression of DV patterning is directly coordinated with AP patterning, and that this patterning is coordinated by interplay between the BMP and FGF/MAPK pathways. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400 6a286fbf48440 Today we bid a sad farewell to our talented post-doc Megumi Hashiguchi. She will be joining the Adam Antebi Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing. Megumi has been with our lab for four years now, and has become a beloved member of our lab family. We wish her the best of luck! Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867412008306 2861 Congratulations to Elliott Abrams along with Hong Zhang, Lee Kapp, Florence Marlow, and Sumei Lu for publishing their work on the brambleberry mutant! Their paper is entitled ‘Dynamic assembly of brambleberry mediates nuclear envelope fusion during early development.’ Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132517 21 Congratulations to Yvette G. Langdon on her recently published article for Annual Review of Genetics entitled Maternal and Zygotic Control of Zebrafish Dorsoventral Axial Patterning. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400