UDS Writing Club
<500 word summaries of some of our favorite publications, written by UDS members
And we’re live! – A real time readout of Erk signaling dynamics in zebrafish
Summary by Will Anderson: “An improved Erk biosensor reveals oscillatory Erk dynamics driven by mitotic erasure during early development”
Manipulate, Watch, & Learn: OptoSOS sheds light on how the fly earns its stripes
Summary by Cat Rogers: “Dynamics of an incoherent feedforward loop drive ERK-dependent pattern formation in the early Drosophila embryo”
Hot on the trail of molecular optogenetic signaling activators
Summary by Leanne Iannucci: “Temperature-responsive optogenetic probes of cell signaling”
Cells use signal and noise to make gut decisions
Summary by Katherine Rogers: “Nodal signaling establishes a competency window for stochastic cell fate switching”
Deducing cell fate choreography using light
Summary by Allison Saul: “Signaling, Deconstructed: Using Optogenetics to Dissect and Direct Information Flow in Biological Systems”
Reining in translation with optogenetics
Summary by Will Anderson: “Optogenetic control of mRNA localization and translation in live cells”
The bright future of developmental biology
Summary by Cat Rogers: “Illuminating developmental biology with cellular optogenetics” & “Optogenetic approaches to investigate spatiotemporal signaling during development”
How to genetically engineer zebrafish
Summary by Will Anderson: “A beginner's guide to understanding and implementing the genetic modification of zebrafish”
Build a better brain with optogenetics
Summary by Katherine Rogers: ”Self-organization of human dorsal-ventral forebrain structures by light induced SHH”
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