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GENETICS SOCIETY OF AMERICA HONORED ANDREA PAULI [SCHIER LAB]

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) has selected Andrea Pauli, PhD, a postdoc in Alex Schier’s lab, for the Chi-Bin Chien Award, which is given to an outstanding…

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MOVING LIKE A TODDLER [SCHIER LAB]

(l to r) Alex Schier, Andi Pauli, Megan Norris, Eivind Valen,  and Guo-Liang Chew According to the British embryologist Lewis Wolpert, “it is not birth, marriage, or death,…

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MORPHOGEN GRADIENTS, NON-CODING RNAS, AND MULTICOLORED FISH [SCHIER LAB]

A Zebrabow fish circled by a rainbow of ribosome profiles. In three papers published in Development, the Schier lab suggests that signals move through developing tissues by hindered…

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THE CHROMATIN SIGNATURE OF PLURIPOTENT CELLS

(L to R)Nadine Vastenhouw and Alexander Schier The genomes of most animals are inactive for hours or days after fertilization. Transcription is only initiated during the maternal-zygotic transition…

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PREDICTING DRUG TARGETS BY WATCHING ZEBRAFISH SLEEP

(L to R)Alexander Schier and Jason Rihel Many psychiatric drugs were discovered decades ago through serendipity. For example, a tuberculosis drug called iproniazid also happened to make people…

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