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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> Please consider applying for the Embryology course that is held each summer here at the MBL. Deadline has been extended.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Woods Hole Embryology Course Applications Due February 11, 2020</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">The application deadline has been extended for the Embryology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. This fantastic course has been offered each summer
since 1893. Students receive very unique and broad training in animal developmental biology, covering numerous and diverse species. In addition, they are able to directly interact with top scientists from around the world in the field of developmental biology, establishing
lifetime scientific networks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">The course runs this year from May 31 – July 13, 2020 Course directors: Dave Sherwood (Duke) and Carole LaBonne (Northwestern).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Please encourage your students and post-docs to apply - former students of this course uniformly say that it had a tremendous impact on their career. Don’t be off-put by the
sticker price - significant financial aid is available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Course webpage:<a href="https://www.mbl.edu/embryology/" title="https://www.mbl.edu/embryology/"> https://www.mbl.edu/embryology</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><i><span style="color:black">If the NXR contributed to your work please cite us in your papers.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Cite us in Materials and Methods as National Xenopus Resource RRID:SCR_013731 at the Marine Biological Laboratory</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Cite us in your references: </span>
</i></b><b><i>Horb M. et. al. (2019). Xenopus resources: transgenic, inbred and mutant animals, training opportunities, and web-based support. Front Physiol. 10:387. PMCID: PMC6497014</i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Marko Horb, Ph.D. |Director, National <i>Xenopus</i> Resource (NXR) |Senior Scientist, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering<br>
Marine Biological Laboratory | 7 MBL Street | Woods Hole, MA 02543</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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