From xenopus at mbl.edu Thu Jun 14 15:21:29 2018 From: xenopus at mbl.edu (National Xenopus Resource) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:21:29 +0000 Subject: [Xenopus] 2018 Genome Editing Workshop Message-ID: Hello Xenopus Community I am happy to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 Genome Editing Workshop being held Oct 18-27: http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshops/genomeediting-workshop This year we have expanded the time of the workshop, and at the same time kept the costs the same. $1360 for a shared room and $1926 for a single room for 9 nights, meals housing, reagents all included. The instructors for this year?s workshop are Ira Blitz, Sang-Wook Cha, Rachel Miller and NXR staff (Marko Horb, Marcin Wlizla, Sean McNamara) as well as Hitoshi Yoshida and technicians from my lab. We encourage you to consider attending the workshop or sending your students, postdocs or technicians to the workshop. The costs this year are reduced due to the generous support of the NSF through the EDGE grant I received with Gary Gorbsky, the NIH as part of NXR funding and the MBL for their continued support of the NXR. If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask. I encourage you to register early - we already have two people registered and space is limited to 20 participants. Sincerely, Marko Horb ************************************************************************** If the NXR contributed to your work please cite us in your papers. Cite us in Materials and Methods as National Xenopus Resource RRID:SCR_013731 at the Marine Biological Laboratory Cite us in your references: Pearl, E. et al "Development of Xenopus resource centers: the National Xenopus Resource and the European Xenopus Resource Center" Genesis 50, 155-163 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marko Horb, Ph.D. |Director, National Xenopus Resource (NXR) |Senior Scientist, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering Marine Biological Laboratory | 7 MBL Street | Woods Hole, MA 02543 Email: mhorb at mbl.edu | Office: 508-289-7627 | Lab: 508-289-7370 | Cell: 508-564-3764 http://www.mbl.edu/horb http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus https://twitter.com/xenopusnxr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mbl.edu/pipermail/xenopus/attachments/20180614/dab74760/attachment.html From lara.al-zoubi at curie.fr Wed Jun 20 07:10:18 2018 From: lara.al-zoubi at curie.fr (Al Zoubi Lara) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:10:18 +0000 Subject: [Xenopus] =?utf-8?q?9th_international_Institut_Curie/_Sorbonne_Un?= =?utf-8?q?iversit=C3=A9_Course_on_Developmental_Biology?= In-Reply-To: <97e95e9b55fd44a690293d33aba4dafd@curie.fr> References: <03c49c7e6db145a1b8c6ed80b14f574f@curie.fr> <080844cd2ebe49288a6ef93848869322@curie.fr> <97e95e9b55fd44a690293d33aba4dafd@curie.fr> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Jointly with the Sorbonne Universit?, Institut Curie is organising the 9th International Course on Developmental Biology in October 2018. The aim of the course is to provide participants (masters/PhD students/ interested postdocs) with a comprehensive coverage of the paradigms, problems and technologies of modern Developmental Biology with particular emphasis on stem cells. For the program, more information and registration, please follow this link: https://enseignement.curie.fr/en/content/9th-course-developmental-biology-2018 I have attached the poster of the course and would greatly appreciate it if you could forward this email and advertise this event in the Xenopus society. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any queries. Many thanks! Lara Al-zouabi on behalf of the scientific committee: Allison Bardin, Yohanns Bella?che and Jean Leon Maitre- Institut Curie Claire Fournier-Thibault and Muriel Umbhauer- Sorbonne Universit? [cid:1D4F6F8E-A278-4EAA-8E00-130CCE15CB54] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mbl.edu/pipermail/xenopus/attachments/20180620/a4950400/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The DO Disease Pages cover acquired diseases (e.g., metabolic and mental health disorders), diseases with environmental, infectious, or parasitic causes (e.g. sleeping sickness), developmental disorders (e.g., cleft palate), diseases that have uncharacterized genetic components (e.g., idiopathic scoliosis), as well as all OMIM diseases. As the DO is an ontology, we also have DO Disease Pages for broader, parent terms such as ?cancer?, ?physical disorder?, and ?immune system disease?. ? Xenbase will use the DO and OMIM to curate disease model research and phenotypes. ? Disease Pages link out to Xenopus gene pages, an ontology viewing service, and to human disease resources. ? Research articles that are tagged with a DO and/or OMIM term are on the ?Literature Tab?. ? To find a Disease Page: Click Search Disease on the Anatomy Tile OR Use the Quick Search menu in top corner. ? In the Quick Search menu, select ?Disease Ontology (below top) or OMIM Diseases search (below bottom). Type-ahead will match terms, or the ID number, for a disease. Mouse down to select a specific term or hit Search to return all matches. [cid:237e6925-0ec0-4b2c-a32a-047eb78919e3] [cid:d33669fc-3c49-4732-bc83-f185595d0a67] ? DO Disease Pages (below top) give a definition and synonyms, have all the curated articles aggregated on Literature tab, list associated OMIMs, link to other model organism databases (including the AGR =Alliance of Genome Resources), and link to Xenbase gene pages as well as human disease resources, such as the DO website. ? OMIM Disease Pages (below bottom) link to Xenbase gene pages, to the DO Disease Page, OMIM and specific literature. [cid:285f9691-89c3-4326-b5d8-7bee19adae7f] [cid:79f71eb1-b06c-4b7a-bf79-7c3db12102d1] 2. New Dynamic XAO Anatomy Trees, and updated XAO v6.0 now available for download. The Xenopus Anatomy Ontology- aka the XAO -describes embryonic development in Xenopus, from egg to adult, in a hierarchy. ? Use the XAO v6.0 to your single cell RNA-Seq experiments. Download the latest XAO, v6.0 here: http://www.xenbase.org/other/static/ftpDatafiles.jsp#Anatomy Our new Anatomy Trees visualize the ?is a? and, ?part of? relationship(s) (see example below for brain). ? Explore the XAO v6 Anatomy Trees via the Anatomy & Development menu/tiles, under the Search Anatomy Tab. ? Click blue nodes (with terms to left) to expand parts of the tree. ? Use Expand / Collapse Tree buttons to fully expand/collapse all nodes. Download the tree view in SVG format. ? Hint! Read tree from right to left: rhombomere R1, ?is a? rhombomere, is ?part of? the hindbrain, which is ?part of? the brain. ? Click underlined terms to open the specific XAO term page. 100?s of terms now have illustrations + marker gene ISH images. [cid:1cfee154-583a-4b9c-b516-9461b9b49ec5] 3. Download the data from X laevis RNA Seq graphs- new Save to CSV and Save to SVG buttons. 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