News Archives
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
06/07/2023
The second half of Robyn's thesis work on Reduced GS domain serine/threonine requirements of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva mutant type I BMP receptor ACVR1 in the zebrafish has been published! Even better, Robyn's zebrafish photo was featured on the cover of Volume 38, Number 9 of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research! Congratulations, Robyn!
Mullins Lab Members Attend Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish Meeting 2023
05/26/2023
Graduate student William presented a Poster Blitz talk at Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish Meeting 2023 at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland! Mary and graduate student Meg also attended the meeting. William won a 2nd place poster prize for his presentation!
Mullins Lab Members Present at Mid-Atlantic Regional Society for Developmental Biology Meeting 2023
04/22/2023
Post-docs Jeet and Jose and graduate student William presented at Mid-Atlantic Regional Society for Developmental Biology Meeting 2023 in Princeton, New Jersey from April 20-22, 2023! William presented a short talk, Jose presented a Poster Blitz talk and poster, and Jeet presented a poster. It was exciting to attend a conference together and enjoy a tour of Princeton's campus led by Princeton alumnus Jose. William won a 2nd place prize for his short talk, and Jeet won an honorable mention for his poster!
Bakary Samasa Wins Ford Fellowship
03/22/2023
Graduate student Bakary Samasa has won a prestigious Ford Fellowship! Congratulations, Bakary!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
02/01/2023
Mary and post-doc Joe Zinski provide zebrafish data for the paper Formation and characterization of BMP2/GDF5 and BMP4/GDF5 heterodimers!
Jeet Patel Joins the Mullins Lab!
10/17/2022
The Mullins lab is excited to welcome a new postdoc, Jeet Patel! Jeet joins us from the University of Washington, where he recently received his PhD in Andrea Wills's lab. In his new project in the Mullins Lab, Jeet will be studying the function of different BMP receptors in dorsoventral patterning. Welcome, Jeet!
Bakary Appointed to UPenn Genetics T32 Training Grant
07/14/2022
New graduate student Bakary Samasa has been appointed to UPenn's competitive Genetics T32 training grant! Congratulations on your new funding, Bakary!
Mullins Lab Members Present at International Zebrafish Conference 2022
06/26/2022
Post-docs Manami and Jose and graduate student William presented at International Zebrafish Conference 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, from June 22-26, 2022! Manami and William joined Mary in Montreal to present in-person, while Jose presented virtually at the hybrid meeting. It was exciting to attend our first in-person conference in years due to the pandemic! Manami presented a 10-minute talk, William presented a 1-minute Rapid Fire talk, and William and Jose presented posters. William won a poster prize for his presentation!
Megan Guerin Joins the Mullins Lab!
06/21/2022
The Mullins lab is excited to welcome a new graduate student, Megan Guerin! What an exciting year to get three new students in the lab! Megan joins us from the Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology Program and will be studying zebrafish mutants of Balbiani body components cirbpa and cirbpb. Welcome, Megan!
Allison Marvin Joins the Mullins Lab!
06/21/2022
The Mullins lab is excited to welcome a new graduate student, Allison Marvin! Allison joins us from the Cell Physiology and Metabolism Graduate Program and will be studying the split top zebrafish mutant. Welcome, Allison!
Bakary Samasa Joins the Mullins Lab!
05/31/2022
The Mullins lab is excited to welcome a new graduate student, Bakary Samasa! Bakary joins us from the Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology Graduate Program and will be studying the betty boop zebrafish mutant. Welcome, Bakary!
Jira Leaves to Start MD/PhD Program!
05/27/2022
The Mullins Lab bids a fond farewell to post-bac student and former undergraduate lab member Jira White, who is starting her MD/PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City! While we will certainly miss our favorite resident roller coaster tycoon and snake enthusiast, we send Jira our best fishes for an exceptional career as a physician-scientist! Congratulations, Jira!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
04/29/2022
William's chapter on the dorsal organizer, "Cell signaling pathways controlling an axis organizing center in the zebrafish," has been published!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
04/01/2022
AJ's Thesis work, "A proteomics approach identifies novel resident zebrafish Balbiani body proteins Cirbpa and Cirbpb," has been published!
Amy Kugath Leaves to Start New Position!
02/14/2022
Our long-time lab manager, Amy Kugath, swims off to a new position in Rodney Stewart's lab at the University of Utah! We will miss Amy's wise words and witty conversations, but we send her off with our Best Fishes for a new chapter of her life! Thank you Amy for your many years of hard work.
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
12/15/2021
In "The zebrafish issue: 25 years on," Mary describes her early experience in the zebrafish mutagenesis screen at the University of Tübingen and the publication of the 1996 "Zebrafish Issue" of Development.
Joe Zinski Returns to the Mullins Lab!
09/27/2021
The Mullins Lab is excited to welcome back former graduate student Joseph Zinski (2011-2017) as a post-doc in the lab! Joe has just finished a post-doc in Shawn Little's lab at UPenn. Welcome back, Joe!
Allison Lastra Joins the Mullins Lab!
09/01/2021
The Mullins Lab is excited to welcome a new technician, Allison Lastra, who will study and manage a variety of zebrafish mutants and help keep our lab running smoothly!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
11/08/2021
A methods paper from Manami Kobayashi and AJ Jamieson-Lucy, "Microinjection Method for Analyzing Zebrafish Early Stage Oocytes," has been published!
Congrats to Dr. Allison Jamieson-Lucy!
07/14/2021
Congratulations to Dr. Allison (AJ) Jamieson-Lucy, who successfully defended her thesis titled "A Proteomics Approach Identifies Novel Resident Zebrafish Balbiani Body Proteins Cirbpa and Cirpbb." AJ is the first Mullins Lab student to defend in person since the lifting of Penn's COVID-19 restrictions. Congrats, AJ! At AJ's defense, lab members aggregated into a Balbiani body: check out the photos in the Gallery!
Ben Leaves to Start Post-Doc!
04/30/2021
Ben Tajer swims off to his post-doc in the Whited Lab at Harvard University. We'll miss Ben's funny puns and wise crax-a-lotl, but we know in his new lab he'll continue taking science to the max-alotl.
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
04/13/2021
Ben's Thesis work, "BMP heterodimers signal via distinct type I receptor class functions," has been published!
Robyn Leaves to Start Post-Doc!
02/14/2021
Robyn Allen has gone to the University of Kentucky to start her Post Doc in the Seifert Lab. It's hard to over-express our feelings of loss, but we hope her career remains constitutively active.
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
4/13/2021
Ben's Thesis work, BMP heterodimers signal via distinct type I receptor class functions, has been published!
Robyn Leaves to start Post Doc!
2/14/2021
Robyn Allen has gone to the University of Kentucky to start her Post Doc in the Seifert lab. It's hard to over-express our feelings of loss, but we hope her career remains constitutively active.
Hannah Leaves to start Post Doc!
2/1/2021
Hannah Greenfeld heads off to start her Post Doc in the Zernicka-Goetz lab at Cal Tech. We're very Smad to see her go, but we look forward to seeing how her career develops!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
1/22/2021
Hannah's Thesis work on The BMP signaling gradient is interpreted through concentration thresholds in dorsal-ventral axial patterning has been published!
Congrats to Dr. Hannah Greenfeld!
11/23/2020
November must be a special month for the Mullins lab! Mullins Lab Graduate Student Hannah Greenfeld successfully defends her thesis!
Congrats to Dr. Benjamin Tajer!
11/12/2020
Feels weird to be writing my own congratulations message, but here we are... I defended my Ph.D!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
9/8/2020
Robyn's Thesis work on Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva mutant ACVR1 signals by multiple modalities in the developing zebrafish has been published!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
8/25/2020
Francesca's Thesis work on Proteolytic Restriction of Chordin Range Underlies BMP Gradient Formation. has been published!
A Fond Farewell to Francesca
7/24/2020
After completing her studies, Dr. Francesca Tuazon is ready to swim off into the wider world. We send herour best fishes, and we hope her future is tolloidally fintastic!
A New Paper from the Mullins Lab
Mullins lab alumni join forces with current lab members in the textbook chapter:The maternal coordinate system: Molecular-genetics of embryonic axis formation and patterning in the zebrafish.Ricardo Fuentes, Benjamin Tajer, Manami Kobayashi, Jose L Pelliccia, Yvette Langdon, Elliott W Abrams, Mary C Mullins.
Jira White Joins the Mullins Lab
6/3/2020
The Mullins lab gives a warm and enthusiastic welcome to Jira White, who is joining the lab through Upenn's Post Bac program. Jira already did fantastic work with the lab last summer as an undergrad, and we are thrilled to have her back!
Pandemic Doesn't Stop Mullins Lab Students from Graduating
5/18/2020
Even though the school was closed, recent Mullins lab graduates Francesca Tuazon and Robyn Allen were celebrated with a virtual commencement ceremony. Click here to view the announcement.
Mullins lab speaks at TAGC
4/24/2020
Mullins lab graduate student Hannah Greenfeld presented her work "The BMP signaling gradient is interpreted as concentration thresholds during dorsal-ventral patterning of the embryonic axis." at the virtual TAGC 2020 conference.
New Paper from the Mullins Lab!
4/8/2020
Mullin's lab alumni and and current members join forces in the publicationMolecular Genetics of Maternally-Controlled Cell Divisions. Elliott W Abrams, Ricardo Fuentes, Florence L Marlow, Manami Kobayashi, Hong Zhang, Sumei Lu, Lee Kapp, Shai R Joseph, Amy Kugath, Tripti Gupta, Virginia Lemon, Greg Runke, Amanda A Amodeo, Nadine L Vastenhouw, Mary C Mullins
New Paper from the Mullins Lab!
11/26/2019
Doctor Mullins contributes to the paper Evaluation of BMP-mediated patterning in a 3D mathematical model of the zebrafish blastula embryo. Li L, Wang X, Mullins MC, Umulis DM.
Congratulations to Dr. Robyn Allen and Dr. Francesca Tuazon!
11/21/2019
Congratulations to Mullins Lab Graduate students Robyn Allen and Francesca Tuazon who both defended on the same day!
A Warm Welcome to Willius!
6/17/2019
Graduate student William (a.k.a. Willius) Jones joins the lab, becoming our newest graduate student! He will be working on the zebrafishints6mutant and its effects on embryonic development.
New Paper from the Mullins Lab!
5/03/2019
Graduate student Allison Jamieson-Lucy and Mary Mullins publish a new review titled "The vertebrate Balbiani body, germ plasm, and oocyte polarity."
Jose Pelliccia Joins the Lab!
3/01/2019
Welcome to new Post-doc Dr. Jose Pelliccia, who has joined the lab to work on the Oocyte to Embryo Transition.
Ricardo Fuentes Begins Faculty position
3/01/2019
The Mullins lab bids a fond farewell to Ricardo as he leaves the Mullins lab to start his own lab at the University of Concepción in Chile.
New Paper from the Mullins Lab!
2/09/2019
Graduate student Allison Jamieson-Lucy had published her innovative method for isolating the Balbiani body from Zebrafish Oocytes.Isolation of Zebrafish Balbiani Bodies for Proteomic Analysis. Jamieson-Lucy A, Mullins MC.
Dondra Bailey Accepts and Starts Faculty Position!
2/1/2019
Mullins lab post doc Dondra Bailey has started an assistant professor position at Coppin State University in Baltimore!
New Paper from the Mullins Lab!
1/22/2019
Mary and graduate student Benjamin Tajer provide zebrafish data for the publication Non-acylated Wnts Can Promote Signaling. Speer KF, Sommer A, Tajer B, Mullins MC, Klein PS, Lemmon MA.
Francesca Gives a Talk at MARZ!
12/7/2018
Mullins lab graduate student Francesca Tuazon gives a talk at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish meeting!
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
11/22/2018
The Hippo pathway effector Taz is required for cell morphogenesis and fertilization in zebrafish. Dingare C, Niedzwetzki A, Klemmt PA, Godbersen S, Fuentes R, Mullins MC, Lecaudey V.
Mullins Lab gets NEW WEBSITE
10/30/2018
It’s about time! Check out our archives for two years of Mullins lab news!
Francesca Wins Image Competition!
8/23/2018
Graduate Student Francesca Tuazon wins the Perelman School of Medicine Art in Science competition.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
8/18/2018
Fishing forward and reverse: Advances in zebrafish phenomics. Fuentes R, Letelier J, Tajer B, Valdivia LE, Mullins MC.
Ricardo Fuentes accepts faculty position
8/15/2018
Congratulations to Mullins lab postdoc Ricardo Fuentes who has been hired for a faculty position at the University of Concepción in Chile.
Mullins Lab teaches Woods Hole
8/3/2018
This year Mary will be teaching the technique of microinjection with graduate student Hannah Greenfeld as a teaching assistant.
Manami Kobayashi joins the Mullins lab
8/3/2018
Welcome to new post doc Manami Kobayashi, who has joined the lab to work on Oocyte polarity.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
8/2/2018
Formation and dynamics of cytoplasmic domains and their genetic regulation during the zebrafish oocyte-to-embryo transition. Fuentes R, Mullins MC, Fernández J.
Mullins lab Wins at International Zebrafish Meeting!
6/23/2018
Graduate student Benjamin Tajer wins Poster Prize at International Zebrafish Meeting.
Mullins Lab Gives Talks at International Zebrafish Meeting
6/20/2018
Hannah Greenfeld, Ricardo Fuentes, and Robyn Allen all present their research at the 2018 International Zebrafish meeting
Mullins Lab Wins at Mid-Atlantic SDB!
6/1/2018
Graduate student Benjamin Tajer wins Best Talk at Mid Atlantic SDB meeting
Mullins lab wins big at CDB retreat!
5/4/2018
Robyn Allen wins Best Talk at the CDB retreat, while Francesca Tuazon wins Best Blitz Talk
Mullins lab speaks at CDB retreat!
5/3/2018
Robyn Allen gives talk at CDB retreat, while Hannah Greenfeld and Francesca Tuazon give blitz talks
Mullins lab speaks at MARZ
4/13/2018
Graduate student Robyn Allen presents her work on FOP at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish Meeting.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
1/4/2018
Variant BMP receptor mutations causing fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) in humans show BMP ligand-independent receptor activation in zebrafish. Mucha BE, Hashiguchi M, Zinski J, Shore EM, Mullins MC.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
1/1/2018
Effectiveness of Rapid Cooling as a Method of Euthanasia for Young Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Wallace CK, Bright LA, Marx JO, Andersen RP, Mullins MC, Carty AJ.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
12/27/2017
Heterodimers reign in the embryo. Tajer B, Mullins MC.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
12/21/2017
G protein-coupled receptor gpr34l mutation affects thrombocyte function in zebrafish. Kim S, Alsrhani A, Zafreen L, Khandekar G, Marlow FL, Abrams EW, Mullins MC, Jagadeeswaran P.
Hannah Greenfeld gets NRSA fellowship!
12/1/2017
Congratulations to graduate student Hannah Greenfeld who has received funding for her F31 fellowship.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
10/19/2017
Guidelines for morpholino use in zebrafish. Stainier DYR, Raz E, Lawson ND, Ekker SC, Burdine RD, Eisen JS, Ingham PW, Schulte-Merker S, Yelon D, Weinstein BM, Mullins MC, Wilson SW, Ramakrishnan L, Amacher SL, Neuhauss SCF, Meng A, Mochizuki N, Panula P, Moens CB.
Mullins Lab Wins at IX Latin American Society for Developmental Biology Meeting!
10/12/2017
Post Doc Ricardo Fuentes wins Best Oral Presentation award at the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology Meeting.
Mullins lab speaks at IX Latin American Society for Developmental Biology Meeting
10/12/2017
Post Doc Ricardo Fuentes gives a talk at IX Latin American Society for Developmental Biology Meeting
Mullins lab wins at CAMB symposium
10/6/2017
Graduate student Hannah Greenfeld wins best DSRB poster prize at the CAMB program symposium.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
9/7/2017
Microtubule-actin crosslinking factor 1 (Macf1) domain function in Balbiani body dissociation and nuclear positioning. Escobar-Aguirre M, Zhang H, Jamieson-Lucy A, Mullins MC.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
8/9/2017
Systems biology derived source-sink mechanism of BMP gradient formation. Zinski J, Bu Y, Wang X, Dou W, Umulis D, Mullins MC.
Mullins Lab teaches Woods Hole for 20th year
8/4/2017
This year the Woods Hole Zebrafish course turns 20 years Old. Mary has been there every year, she will be teaching the technique of microinjection with graduate student Benjamin Tajer as a teaching assistant.
Congratulations Professor Elkouby
7/27/2017
Mullins lab Post Doc Yaniv Elkouby has left the lab to start his own lab at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem [link https://www.yaniv-elkouby-lab.com/]
Mullins lab Wins at National SDB meeting
7/17/2017
Graduate student Francesca Tuazon wins poster prize at the National SDB meeting!
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
6/28/2017
Coordination of cellular differentiation, polarity, mitosis and meiosis - New findings from early vertebrate oogenesis. Elkouby YM, Mullins MC.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
6/1/2017
TGF-β Family Signaling in Early Vertebrate Development. Zinski J, Tajer B, Mullins MC.
Congratulations to Dr. Matias Escobar
3/30/2017
Mullins lab graduate student Matias Escobar successfully defends his Thesis!
Mullins lab Speaks at MARZ
3/24/2017
Graduate Student Benjamin Tajer presents his work at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish meeting.
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Zinski
3/9/2017
Mullins lab graduate student Joseph Zinski successfully defends his Thesis!
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
12/15/2016
Localization in Oogenesis of Maternal Regulators of Embryonic Development. Escobar-Aguirre M, Elkouby YM, Mullins MC.
New Paper from the Mullins lab!
12/14/2016
Methods for the analysis of early oogenesis in Zebrafish. Elkouby YM, Mullins MC.
Congratulations to Matias Escobar, Yaniv Elkouby, and Mary Mullins for their book chapter in Vertebrate development: Maternal to Zygotic Control
10/10/2016
Matias Escobar, Yaniv Elkouby, and Mary Mullins authored a chapter entitled "Localization in Oogenesis of Maternal Regulators of Embryonic Development" in the book Vertebrate development: Maternal to Zygotic Control published by Springer.
Ben Tajer wins best poster
10/10/2016
Congratulations to graduate Student Ben Tajer who won best poster at the 19th Annual Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group Symposium!
Allison Jamieson-Lucy will talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Germ Cell Meeting
10/02/2016
Allison Jamieson-Lucy will present her work at the Cold Spring Harbor Germ Cell Meeting in October.
Congratulations to Yvette Langdon, Ricardo Fuentes et al.!
10/01/2016
Congratulations to Langdon YG, Fuentes R, Zhang H, Abrams EW, Marlow FL, Mullins MC for publishing their work entitled "Split top: a maternal cathepsin B that regulates dorsoventral patterning and morphogenesis" in Development this March.
Congratulations to Yaniv Elkouby for winning best posdoctoral talk!
08/08/2016
Congratulations to Yaniv Elkouby for winning the Award for Best Postdoctoral Presentation at the Society for Developmental Biology 75th annual meeting and International Society of Differentiation 19th International Conference!
Francesca Tuazon, Matias Escobar, Ricardo Fuentes, and Yaniv Elkouby Will Present at The Allied Genetics Conference
07/01/2016
Francesca Tuazon will present her work entitled "Tails of DV Patterning: Spatiotemporal regulation of metalloprotease activity patterns the DV Axis" on July 15th, Emerging Technologies during the Imaging Session! Yaniv Elkouby, Matias Escobar, and Ricardo Fuentes will also present.
Matias Escobar will present at the Gordon Research Seminar in Cell Polarity Signaling
06/10/2016
Matias Escobar will present his work on "Dissecting Microtubule-Actin Crosslinking Factor (Macf1) Function in Establishing Oocyte Polarity and Nuclear Positioning" at the Gordon Research Seminar in Cell Polarity Signaling in June at the Mt. Snow Resort in West Dover, Vermont.
CRRWH Bayard Storey Award for Excellence in Research
05/06/2016
Congratulation to Yaniv Elkouby for receiving the the Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health Bayard Storey Award for Excellence in Research!
Perelman School of Medicine Art in Medicine Award
05/06/2016
Congratulation to Yaniv Elkouby for receiving the the 2016 Perelman School of Medicine Art in Medicine Award!
Featured in Biology of Reproduction...
02/01/2016
Yaniv et al.'s most recent paper is now featured as a highlight of Biology of Reproduction!
Congratulations to Yaniv et al.!
01/12/2016
Yaniv, Allison, and Mary together published "Oocyte Polarization Is Coupled to the Chromosomal Bouquet, a Conserved Polarized Nuclear Configuration in Meiosis." in PloS Biology. This paper identifies chromosomal bouquet as the earliest asymmetry in the Oocyte that leads to the later definition of the body axis.
Mullins Lab at the FASEB TGFBeta Superfamily Conference
07/06/2015
Mary Mullins will give a talk at the FASEB meeting: TGF‐β Superfamily: Signaling in Development and Disease at Snowmass Village, CO, July 12-17. Ben Tajer will present a poster on his work on the BMP receptor complex.
New Fish!
07/06/2015
We'd like to send a warm welcome to Hannah Greenfeld, the newest graduate student to join the Mullins Lab. Hannah will be working on BMP signaling and BMP target gene expression.
Mullins Lab at the SDB 74th Annual Meeting
07/05/2015
Yaniv Elkouby will present a poster on his work on the origin of Oocyte anterior-posterior polarity at the 74th Annual SDB Meeting taking place from July 9-13 in Snowbird, Utah.
NRSA Predoc Awards
07/03/2015
Congratulations to Mullins Lab graduate students Francesca Tuazon and Allison Jamieson-Lucy on being awarded NRSA predoc awards from NIGMS!
Mullins Lab at 9th European Zebrafish Meeting
06/20/2015
Mary Mullins will speak and chair a session at the 9th European Zebrafish Meeting in Oslo, Norway that took place June 28-July 2.
Mullins Lab at the Gordon Developmental Biology Conference
06/05/2015
Joseph Zinski will present his work entitled “The roll of the BMP antagonists zebrafish DV patterning” on Wednesday June 24 at the Gordon Developmental Biology Conference at Mount Holyoke College, MA.
Mullins Lab at the Mid-Atlantic SDB Meeting
03/24/2015
Mary Mullins will give the keynote address at the upcoming Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting this Friday. James Dutko will also speak about the differential function of BMP type I receptors in signaling complexes. Joseph Zinski, Ben Tajer, Matias Escobar, and Yvette Langdon will present posters on their work.
The Mullins Lab supports the International Zebrafish Society
01/28/2015
The Mullins Lab encourages you to join the International Zebrafish Society. The IZFS is dedicated to maximizing the good that zebrafish research can do for society, as detailed in their mission statement (linked to above). Mary Mullins has been instrumental in starting this organization, and now serves as acting Vice President.
Mullins Lab 2nd Place Photo for ASCB 2014
12/19/2014
The Mullins Lab won second place at the 2014 ASCB meeting for their submission to the #weareresearch photo competition.
Francesca Tuazon to Present at the UPenn BMB Retreat
11/19/2014
Francesca Tuazon will present her poster titled "Shaping the BMP morphogen gradient through regulation of metallography ease activity" at the upcoming UPenn Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Retreat on November 20th.
Mullins Lab at the 2014 ASCB Meeting
11/19/2014
Ricardo Fuentes, Matias Escobar, James Dutko, and Joseph Zinski will present at the upcoming 2014 American Society for Cell Biology Meeting. Each will present a poster on his work, and Joseph Zinski will give a 5 minute lightning talk.
Mullins Lab at CSH Germ Cell Meeting
10/03/2014
Yaniv Elkouby will be speaking and Allison Jamieson-Lucy will be presenting a poster at the upcoming Cold Spring Harbor Germ Cell Meeting being held from October 7th to the 12th.
Mullins Lab at CSH Genetics, Genomics and Phenomics of Fish Asia
10/03/2014
Mary Mullins will be presenting her work entitiled "Adult Trait Phenomics" at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Genetics, Genomics and Phenomics of Fish Conference. The conference will be held from October 20th to the 24th in Suzhou, China.
Farewell and Best Fishes to Elliott Abrams
09/01/2014
Congratulations to former lab member Eliott Abrams for securing an Assistant Professorship of Biology at SUNY Purchase. While in our lab, Eliott helped perform a maternal-effect mutagenesis screen in zebrafish and identified two important mutant classes that disrupt the cleavage stage of development. He published his work on one of these, the brambleberry protein, in Cell in 2012. Eliott was a fixture in the lab for 5 years and will be sorely missed.
Francesca Tuazon to speak at Bryn Mawr College
07/26/2014
Francesca was invited to speak to incoming STEM Posse Scholars at Bryn Mawr College to describe both her path to choosing graduate research, present her work, and advise the incoming freshman.
Mullins Lab at Woods Hole
07/26/2014
Mary Mullins and Francesca Tuazon will teach techniques and methodology of zebrafish embryo RNA and morpholino injections at the upcoming Zebrafish Development and Genetics course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.
James Dutko to speak and co-chair a session at the 10th International BMP Conference
07/23/2014
James Dutko will present his work titled “Differential Function of Type I Receptors in BMP Heterodimer-assembeled Complexes” on Sept 17th and co-chair the BMPs And Common Mechanisms In Development And Disease session on Sept 19th at the 10th International BMP Conference.
Mullins Lab at the 73rd Annual SDB Meeting
07/16/2014
Mary Mullins will serve as a discussant for the Saturday morning discussion on "Funding and Developmental Biology: The View from the Study Sections/Panels". Joseph Zinski will present his work on the BMP signalling gradient in the Tissue Formation and Engineering Session on Friday Morning (9:45, Program Number 7). Yvette Langdon will present her work on the Split Top mutant Saturday night (Program Abstract #494 and Board #B110).
Mullins Lab at the International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics
06/23/2014
The Mullins lab will attend with poster and oral presentations. Joseph Zinski will present his work orally on Wednesday June 25th at the Early Embryo Patterning section. James Dutko (PBN 272), Francesca Tuazon, Allison Jamieson-Lucy, Yvette Langdon (PBN B110), and Ricardo Fuentes (170) will all present posters.
Francesca Tuazon Presents at the Mid-Atlantic Regional SDB Meeting
05/31/2014
Congratulations to Francesca Tuazon for presenting her work titled “Shaping the BMP morphogen Gradient through Regulation of Metaloprotease Activity” at the Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting on May 31st.
Ints6 confines the dorsal organizer in vertebrate embryogenesis
11/01/2013
The Ints6 story was published in PLOS Genetics this past October. Congrats to the authors Lee, Elliott, and Flo!
Mullins Lab at Woods Hole
08/01/2013
Mary Mullins and James Dutko will both be instructing at this year's Zebrafish Development and Genetics Special topics Course at Woods Hole.
James Dutko: Pushing Back the Frontiers
07/26/2013
Congratulations to James Dutko for being featured in the Penn Medicine News Blog! The article, entitled “Cycling for Cancer and Zebrafish” describes James’ fervor for both scientific endeavors and cycling for the cause. We thank James for his tireless efforts to push back the frontiers of science, both in the lab and on charitable biking marathons.
Mullins Lab at the TGF-B Conference
07/23/2013
Dr. Mullins will be speaking on BMP receptors and signaling at the upcoming conference "The TGF-B Superfamily: Signaling in Development & Disease" taking place in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Francesca Tuazon and Joseph Zinski will be presenting posters.
Welcome Ben Tajer!
07/10/2013
The Mullins Lab welcomes incoming graduate student Ben Tajer to the lab. His thesis work will address how the BMP type I and II receptors function in forming the BMP gradient that patterns the dorsal-ventral axis of the developing zerbafish gastrula.
Bon Voyage and Best Fishes!
06/12/2013
Today we bid a sad farewell to our talented post-doc Lee Kapp. He has tajen a position as an assistant professor in the department of Genetics, Cell, and Molecular Biology at A.T. Still University in Arizona. Lee has been with our lab for seven years now working on maternal effect mutants affecting the germ line and dorsal organizer. We wish him the best of luck!
Elliott Abrams Wins 2013 Holtzer Prize
06/12/2013
Congratulations to Mullins Lab post-doc Elliott Abrams for being selected as the winner of the 2013 Holtzer Prize for his work on "Dynamic Assembly of Brambleberry Mediates Nuclear Envelope Fusion during Early Development," published in Cell.
Welcome Allison Jamieson-Lucy!
06/12/2013
The Mullins Lab happily welcomes graduate student Allison Jamieson-Lucy to the lab! Allison will be working on oocyte development and maternal RNAs localization.
Best Sudent Oral Presentation
04/23/2013
Congratulations to Joseph Zinski for being receiving an award for having the best student oral presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Society for Developmental Biology Meeting!
DV Patterning Dynamics at the Mid-Atlantic SDB Meeting
04/11/2013
Joseph Zinski will be presenting his work entitled, "Dynamics and Shaping of the BMP Signaling Gradient in DV axial Patterning of the Zebrafish Gastrula" at the Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting on Friday April 19th at 9:00 PM.
The Maternal Regulation of DV patterning by split-top will be presented at MARZ
04/08/2013
Yvette Langdon will present her work entitled, "split top: A Maternal Regulator of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning and Morphogenesis," at the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish Meeting on May 17th.
Coordinating DV and AP Patterning
03/28/2013
The connection between Dorsal-Ventral and Anterior-Posterior patterning in Zfish is unraveled in the latest article by Megumi Hashiguchi published this March in Development! Her data reveals that the temporal progression of DV patterning is directly coordinated with AP patterning, and that this patterning is coordinated by interplay between the BMP and FGF/MAPK pathways.
Bon Voyage and Best Fishes!
02/13/2013
Today we bid a sad farewell to our talented post-doc Megumi Hashiguchi. She will be joining the Adam Antebi Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing. Megumi has been with our lab for four years now, and has become a beloved member of our lab family. We wish her the best of luck!
The brambleberry mutant story makes is debut in Cell!
07/03/2012
Congratulations to Elliott Abrams along with Hong Zhang, Lee Kapp, Florence Marlow, and Sumei Lu for publishing their work on the brambleberry mutant! Their paper is entitled ‘Dynamic assembly of brambleberry mediates nuclear envelope fusion during early development.’
Congratulations to Yvette G. Langdon
04/17/2012
Congratulations to Yvette G. Langdon on her recently published article for Annual Review of Genetics entitled Maternal and Zygotic Control of Zebrafish Dorsoventral Axial Patterning.