We are now actually doing injections in our fish room. It’s been a long time coming after waiting on renovations, fish to age up, and accumulating equipment from eBay and other places to give us more than one injection station. Islyn and I did the first injections in our facility on March 10th, 2026. Luckily […]
Emily Thornton joined the lab officially in January as a new PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Genetics and Genomics program. We are glad to have her on the team. She will be aiding in our zebrafish resource project while working to produce new mutants in fatty-acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) genes in zebrafish. Here Emily is […]
This week we welcomed Islyn Gilmore to the lab. Islyn brings a lot of experience in livestock reproductive biology which will be a great benefit to the lab overall. She is joining us to work on our zebrafish resource projects, including developing landing pads, conditional alleles, and cre drivers in conjunction with the McGrail, Essner, […]
Earlier this summer we welcomed Abigail Lee, who joined us early before starting her PhD this fall. She has been busy helping to get our new zebrafish facility running and setting up the small zoo needed to successfully raise happy and healthy zebrafish larvae. Here she is with our assortment of micro algae and rotifer […]
The renovations for our future zebrafish facility in Kleberg have been completed. So the room is prepped for us to install needed equipment. The main fish racks will be coming the week of June 9th and we are busy figuring out everything else we may need. Below is the image of the main room for […]