Is it time to take the tree down yet?

@saumya_s Good times!

Two years ago today, it was Orange Sky Day at Stanford 😦

@saumya_s These guys are taking over @DevBioStanford, as seen on our outside balcony with the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell building in the background.

Hi Fly People! We are thinking of upgrading our 33 year old fly food pump to a Gilson GX-281 and we would love to hear from others if this pump works for you? Is it hard to use? To clean? Pros? Cons?
Much Thanks!

#Drosphila @DevBioStanford

Congratulations to Minx Fuller on the presentation of her GSA award for "distinguished service in the field of genetics"! She is as devoted to her lab members as she is to the advancement of genetics, we are all better for having her in the field!

@DevBioStanford @GeneticsGSA

@BrunLabCaulo @goleylab @CauloCon That was a great piece of equipment, it ran for years with hardly any maintenance. The water pump broke a few times, that was it. When we sold it for parts(!) I helped take it apart, it was solid! Now our people have access to one a little more modern.

Snapped this walking into work this morning, looking down Discovery Walk, Beckman Center in the background left, Stanford Institute of Medicine (SIM I) foreground right. 😀
@DevBioStanford @Stanford @StanfordMed

Interested in how Seung Kim's lab @StanfordDRC @DevBioStanford is investigating pig islet development as a treatment option for diabetes? Check out this video!
youtu.be/lLnbnS0DNyw via @YouTube

I don't have any cute cat pictures today, but I did have a visiter from the lab. 😀
@DevBioStanford

Monday morning office dogs!

@DevBioStanford is organizing a virtual PhD Applicant Recruitment Panel Discussion to meet and encourage pre-doctoral students to apply to our department.
Please spread the word and sign up to join us on Nov 1, 2021, 3:00-4:30 pm: forms.gle/YJGs2Ve1jFA9eh…
#DiversityandInclusion

The Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University is looking to build connections and solidarity with senior Ph.D. candidates from a diversity of disciplines and backgrounds.

Check out the latest work from the Seung Kim lab! "SIX2 and SIX3 coordinately regulate functional maturity and fate
of human pancreatic β cells" bit.ly/3raTZ4p

@DevBioStanford @Romina39356029

@DevBioStanford @StanfordMed

Looking forward to a new year! Things are looking up at @DevBioStanford @StanfordMed

Went outside to get some fresh air and ran into this!

Fire to the left of me, fire to the right!
This is the transformer that burned, and the smoke from CA wildfires. It's been a fun time the last few days!
@DevBioStanford

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Dale Kaiser peacefully passed away last Friday. Dale was a creative and original scientist, one of the founders of molecular genetics during the time the field emerged.

@DevBioStanford

This is what "Stage 1" reopening in @DevBioStanford looks like! It's good to see some life in the department!

Today is the first day of Barbara Hill's retirement! Well deserved after 47 years of work at Stanford. 😀
@DevBioStanford @Stanford

David Hogness has passed away. Words cannot express our depth of feelings about David, but we will simply say that it was a privilege to know him. David, you will be missed.

stan.md/2T9slac
@DevBioStanford

Today marks 30 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Beckman Center had just opened a few months before and as an institution we didn't pay as much attention to earthquake safety. We were lucky partly because many rooms were empty! Still . . .

These are the tree outside my office window. Three think it is still summer, one is really getting into Fall. But why? Genetics perhaps? Or the way the light is filtered by the buildings?
@DevBioStanford

The results of last Friday's Social Hour. 😀😀😀

Bats and Whales and Gill Bejerano, Oh My!

What do these three have in common?

stan.md/2OmFMBi
@DevBioStanford

Spotted today on @Stanford campus (not far from Herrin Labs!)
@DevBioStanford

Irv Weissman will share the 2019 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research with Johns Hopkins’ Bert Vogelstein for discoveries in stem cell and cancer biology!
stan.md/2NmpR5z

@DevBioStanford @Stanford @StanfordMed @AlbanyMed @HopkinsMedicine

When someone puts the wrong soap in the glassware washer. 🤪
@DevBioStanford

Seung Kim's lab has been busy!
Here an adult mouse pancreas was injected with collagenase to digest the excrete tissue. The pancreatic islets were purified from digested pancreatic tissue by using a gradient centrifugation technique.
stanford.io/30bjJAn @DevBioStanford

Basic science research in developmental biology leads to promising new treatment of medulloblastoma.

“We’d put these angry medulloblastoma cells into the flanks of mice and see complete tumor regression when CK2 was inhibited"

stan.md/2JYf0xb @DevBioStanford

A group effort.

waiting . . .

Learning from the master.

Nothing says SCIENCE like dry ice.

You have to learn how to use a microscope sometime.

Looking at worms!

It's the annual 2nd grade field trip to the Villeneuve lab!(stanford.io/2VF83Ic) Perhaps some of our attendees will be back in about 15 years?
@DevBioStanford

Congratulations to Anne Villeneuve and her lab members past and present!

Genetics Society of America Awards 2019 GSA Medal to Anne Villeneuve bit.ly/2H9SLCy via @GeneticsGSA
@DevBioStanford

This is what happens when you don't clean out your orbital shaker!
So . . .

@DevBioStanford

"The internet search may have scoured the entire world, but the best idea came from a lab just a few buildings away"

Working on regeneration in planaria, the best tools were right here at Stanford! news.stanford.edu/?p=27576 via @Stanford

wanglab.stanford.edu
@DevBioStanford

4th Annual Frontiers in Diabetes Symposium is on!
@DevBioStanford

I'm pretty sure a drying oven is not supposed to work this way. :)

@BrunLabCaulo I did however find this picture from the 1989 earthquake!

Have you seen the new wall of fame? Check out the retreat photos from the current to the past. They are right outside the administration office.

#stanford #devbio

It's interview week! #admissions #interview #graduatestudents

Found this on the whiteboard in our library. I'm not sure what to make of it, but you have to admire the effort!

Alistair Boettiger, PhD, assistant professor in @DevBioStanford , received a New Innovator Award for his work in researching how genomes fold within a cell’s nucleus to affect gene expression!

#monday_labtips
On your chemical storage shelf, don't forget to look at the back row once in awhile to stop this from happening!

#monday_labtips
Invest in a good quality toolkit! Nothing is worse than trying to fix something important with the wrong tool. (It also makes you look smarter and more competent!)
@DevBioStanford @tjgalitz

1973, Nixon is President (and Watergate hearings start), gas is 40 cents a gallon, eggs are 45 cents a dozen, TV's have 3 networks, and --Barbara Hill starts to work at @Stanford! Congratulations to Barbara Hill on her 45th anniversary!
@DevBioStanford

#monday_labtips
Be careful with what you throw out, last week I rescued two pipette controllers from the trash because the users did not know that they had a replaceable rechargeable battery!
@DevBioStanford @tjgalitz

Doors are open for the 3rd Annual Stanford Diabetes Research Center Frontiers symposium! stanford.io/2rfe4Kq
@DevBioStanford

#monday_labtips
Here is an easy way to minimize the mess when you defrost a -80 freezer. The towels act as a wick putting most of the water into the bin. The bins on the inside catch most of the meltwater keeping it out off the floor.
@DevBioStanford @tjgalitz