The final paper from my PhD is out in Developmental Biology! 🐸
We show that the #microRNA miR-219 is needed for neural border and neural crest development in #Xenopus neurulas 🧬
Highlights
•MiR-219 depletion expands the neural border territory and disrupts neural crest specification.
More below!
We show that the #microRNA miR-219 is needed for neural border and neural crest development in #Xenopus neurulas 🧬
Highlights
•MiR-219 depletion expands the neural border territory and disrupts neural crest specification.
More below!
MicroRNA miR-219 is required for neural border and neural crest development in Xenopus neurulas
At head levels, neural crest (NC) multipotent stem cells are specified in the ectoderm territory located between the anterior neural plate ectoderm an…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Xenopus?
October 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Xenopus?
Alterations in phototransduction timing, dark adaptation and GNAT1 trafficking in GNAT1-edited Xenopus laevis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.26.761424v1
October 30, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Alterations in phototransduction timing, dark adaptation and GNAT1 trafficking in GNAT1-edited Xenopus laevis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.26.761424v1
BSG.S regulates ionocyte radial intercalation and function in the developing Xenopus mucociliary epithelium. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763153v1
November 2, 2026 at 5:32 PM
BSG.S regulates ionocyte radial intercalation and function in the developing Xenopus mucociliary epithelium. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763153v1
BSG.S regulates ionocyte radial intercalation and function in the developing Xenopus mucociliary epithelium. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763153v1
November 2, 2026 at 5:32 PM
BSG.S regulates ionocyte radial intercalation and function in the developing Xenopus mucociliary epithelium. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.30.763153v1
Register now for our welfare webinar exploring refinements for laboratory Xenopus.
📅 26 November, 12.00 – 13.00
🙋🏻 For researchers, animal technicians and veterinarians
📜 Certificates of attendance available
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📅 26 November, 12.00 – 13.00
🙋🏻 For researchers, animal technicians and veterinarians
📜 Certificates of attendance available
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October 28, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Register now for our welfare webinar exploring refinements for laboratory Xenopus.
📅 26 November, 12.00 – 13.00
🙋🏻 For researchers, animal technicians and veterinarians
📜 Certificates of attendance available
👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/welfa...
📅 26 November, 12.00 – 13.00
🙋🏻 For researchers, animal technicians and veterinarians
📜 Certificates of attendance available
👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/welfa...
Alterations in phototransduction timing, dark adaptation and GNAT1 trafficking in GNAT1-edited Xenopus laevis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.26.761424v1
October 30, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Alterations in phototransduction timing, dark adaptation and GNAT1 trafficking in GNAT1-edited Xenopus laevis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.26.761424v1
The authors included RRIDs in their in eLife paper! We value the author's support of reproducibility. #reproducibility #OpenResearch #accelerateopenscience
TMEM79/MATTRIN defines a pathway for Frizzled regulation and is required for Xenopus embryogenesis
Read the full paper: TMEM79/MATTRIN defines a pathway for Frizzled regulation and is required for Xenopus embryogenesis
doi.org
October 30, 2026 at 7:02 AM
The authors included RRIDs in their in eLife paper! We value the author's support of reproducibility. #reproducibility #OpenResearch #accelerateopenscience
Authors published a paper in Biorxiv, they used FastQC in the study. Including #RRIDs will make this less ambiguous.
SciScore made a table with this resource, see “Automated Services” module (download as csv, xml or #jats) #RRID #OpenScience
SciScore made a table with this resource, see “Automated Services” module (download as csv, xml or #jats) #RRID #OpenScience
Limb-localized induction of regeneration reshapes brain and amputation-site transcriptional states in adult Xenopus laevis
www.biorxiv.org
October 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Authors published a paper in Biorxiv, they used FastQC in the study. Including #RRIDs will make this less ambiguous.
SciScore made a table with this resource, see “Automated Services” module (download as csv, xml or #jats) #RRID #OpenScience
SciScore made a table with this resource, see “Automated Services” module (download as csv, xml or #jats) #RRID #OpenScience
Limb-localized induction of regeneration reshapes brain and amputation-site transcriptional states in adult Xenopus laevis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.23.761414v1
October 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Limb-localized induction of regeneration reshapes brain and amputation-site transcriptional states in adult Xenopus laevis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.23.761414v1
Limb-localized induction of regeneration reshapes brain and amputation-site transcriptional states in adult Xenopus laevis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.23.761414v1
October 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Limb-localized induction of regeneration reshapes brain and amputation-site transcriptional states in adult Xenopus laevis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.23.761414v1
Today was the last time I did the Xenopus practical lab demonstration to the students at UCL. The first photo was when I first joined the @mayorlab.bsky.social lab, and the second photo is from today, 4 years later. We hope the students enjoy learning about wound healing and #devbio!
October 22, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Today was the last time I did the Xenopus practical lab demonstration to the students at UCL. The first photo was when I first joined the @mayorlab.bsky.social lab, and the second photo is from today, 4 years later. We hope the students enjoy learning about wound healing and #devbio!
Before we go forward, look back.
Dec 2019: myself, and my professors delivered a high impact senior thesis project at
Cell Bio Society annual meeting in Washington DC.
Hard to imagine just 7yrs later I would be again in the epicenter of politics.
Representing science.
Dec 2019: myself, and my professors delivered a high impact senior thesis project at
Cell Bio Society annual meeting in Washington DC.
Hard to imagine just 7yrs later I would be again in the epicenter of politics.
Representing science.
October 27, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Before we go forward, look back.
Dec 2019: myself, and my professors delivered a high impact senior thesis project at
Cell Bio Society annual meeting in Washington DC.
Hard to imagine just 7yrs later I would be again in the epicenter of politics.
Representing science.
Dec 2019: myself, and my professors delivered a high impact senior thesis project at
Cell Bio Society annual meeting in Washington DC.
Hard to imagine just 7yrs later I would be again in the epicenter of politics.
Representing science.
RRIDs were included in this in Developmental Biology paper. We value the author's support of reproducibility. #methodsmatter #reproducibility #ReproducibleResearch
Epilepsy-associated potassium channel KCNT1 is required for multiciliated cell specification in Xenopus
Read the full paper: Epilepsy-associated potassium channel KCNT1 is required for multiciliated cell specification in Xenopus
doi.org
October 23, 2026 at 7:01 AM
RRIDs were included in this in Developmental Biology paper. We value the author's support of reproducibility. #methodsmatter #reproducibility #ReproducibleResearch
The authors included RRIDs in their in General and Comparative Endocrinology paper! RRIDs improve reproducibility in scientific research. #RRID #accelerateopenscience #STMpublishing
Generation of a ror2-EGFP transgenic Xenopus line for tracking Ror2-expressing cells during limb and intestinal development
Read the full paper: Generation of a ror2-EGFP transgenic Xenopus line for tracking Ror2-expressing cells during limb and intestinal development
doi.org
October 23, 2026 at 7:01 AM
The authors included RRIDs in their in General and Comparative Endocrinology paper! RRIDs improve reproducibility in scientific research. #RRID #accelerateopenscience #STMpublishing
Our latest work: Following our 2021 paper, in which we already demonstrated that TPR and ZC3HC1 form regular, repeating structures in Xenopus oocytes, we now show that these structures also exist in human cells, such as HeLa cells.
Hierarchical TPR:ZC3HC1 interactions drive stepwise assembly of nuclear basket extensions projecting into vertebrate cell nuclei https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.08.757499v1
October 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Our latest work: Following our 2021 paper, in which we already demonstrated that TPR and ZC3HC1 form regular, repeating structures in Xenopus oocytes, we now show that these structures also exist in human cells, such as HeLa cells.
Final days to submit your abstract for our upcoming minisymposium, 'Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on #ALife.' Philosophers & scientists from all backgrounds are welcome! Please help us share this skeet!
🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...
#philsci #philsky #AI #academicsky 🧪
🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...
#philsci #philsky #AI #academicsky 🧪
October 20, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Final days to submit your abstract for our upcoming minisymposium, 'Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on #ALife.' Philosophers & scientists from all backgrounds are welcome! Please help us share this skeet!
🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...
#philsci #philsky #AI #academicsky 🧪
🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...
#philsci #philsky #AI #academicsky 🧪
New article in DGD.
Wnt5a Is Critical for the Maintenance of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in Xenopus Tadpole Tail Regeneration
Nakamura M, Nishijima R, Kyoda T, Moriyama Y, Yoshida H, Koike R, Takebayashi‐Suzuki K, Horb ME, Suzuki A
https://doi.org/10.1111/dgd.70071
Wnt5a Is Critical for the Maintenance of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in Xenopus Tadpole Tail Regeneration
Nakamura M, Nishijima R, Kyoda T, Moriyama Y, Yoshida H, Koike R, Takebayashi‐Suzuki K, Horb ME, Suzuki A
https://doi.org/10.1111/dgd.70071
October 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
New article in DGD.
Wnt5a Is Critical for the Maintenance of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in Xenopus Tadpole Tail Regeneration
Nakamura M, Nishijima R, Kyoda T, Moriyama Y, Yoshida H, Koike R, Takebayashi‐Suzuki K, Horb ME, Suzuki A
https://doi.org/10.1111/dgd.70071
Wnt5a Is Critical for the Maintenance of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in Xenopus Tadpole Tail Regeneration
Nakamura M, Nishijima R, Kyoda T, Moriyama Y, Yoshida H, Koike R, Takebayashi‐Suzuki K, Horb ME, Suzuki A
https://doi.org/10.1111/dgd.70071
#TidyTuesday 41: AmphibiaWeb
I'm a PhD student working with African clawed frogs. I dug into the dataset to find all of the Xenopus spp.! I wondered about X. laevis's distribution in Africa, as well as other Xenopus spp. Click to next posts for frog pics and what I learnt from making this graph.
I'm a PhD student working with African clawed frogs. I dug into the dataset to find all of the Xenopus spp.! I wondered about X. laevis's distribution in Africa, as well as other Xenopus spp. Click to next posts for frog pics and what I learnt from making this graph.
October 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
#TidyTuesday 41: AmphibiaWeb
I'm a PhD student working with African clawed frogs. I dug into the dataset to find all of the Xenopus spp.! I wondered about X. laevis's distribution in Africa, as well as other Xenopus spp. Click to next posts for frog pics and what I learnt from making this graph.
I'm a PhD student working with African clawed frogs. I dug into the dataset to find all of the Xenopus spp.! I wondered about X. laevis's distribution in Africa, as well as other Xenopus spp. Click to next posts for frog pics and what I learnt from making this graph.
We have a fascinating line up coming up in Pittsburgh !
cf23.xcddev.com/sicb/program...
including
SICB's s3 Lost and found: how #animals rebuild bodies, #brains and #behaviors
organized by Cheyenne Tait & Harshada Sant, Ph.D.
cf23.xcddev.com/sicb/program...
including
SICB's s3 Lost and found: how #animals rebuild bodies, #brains and #behaviors
organized by Cheyenne Tait & Harshada Sant, Ph.D.
October 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM
We have a fascinating line up coming up in Pittsburgh !
cf23.xcddev.com/sicb/program...
including
SICB's s3 Lost and found: how #animals rebuild bodies, #brains and #behaviors
organized by Cheyenne Tait & Harshada Sant, Ph.D.
cf23.xcddev.com/sicb/program...
including
SICB's s3 Lost and found: how #animals rebuild bodies, #brains and #behaviors
organized by Cheyenne Tait & Harshada Sant, Ph.D.
Mitchell et al., 2007 — flow builds its own polarity 🔁 Kintner's lab showed that on Xenopus skin, tissue patterning gives cilia an initial bias, then flow is necessary and sufficient to refine it ➡️ a positive feedback loop sets ciliary planar polarity.
doi.org/10.1038/natu...
doi.org/10.1038/natu...
October 18, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Mitchell et al., 2007 — flow builds its own polarity 🔁 Kintner's lab showed that on Xenopus skin, tissue patterning gives cilia an initial bias, then flow is necessary and sufficient to refine it ➡️ a positive feedback loop sets ciliary planar polarity.
doi.org/10.1038/natu...
doi.org/10.1038/natu...
Hi Cahir, you can actually download this same video with the scale bar from my paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It's Supp Video 2. It's the same video, just different colours. Hope this helps!
Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration - Nature Cell Biology
Le et al. show that in Xenopus embryos, local ectodermal tissue flows provide a directional cue that polarizes and guides embryonic myeloid cells migration via cell-on-cell interactions.
www.nature.com
October 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Hi Cahir, you can actually download this same video with the scale bar from my paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It's Supp Video 2. It's the same video, just different colours. Hope this helps!
Glamour shots from xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe...
October 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Glamour shots from xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe...