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Amy Sater
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Embryonic development, emergence of neural/glial lineages, astrocyte superpowers. working toward a new experimental model of Traumatic Brain Injury. Tikkun Olam requires Palestinian self-determination.
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After 3 rounds of practice, shot in low light: I bent the brain of the middle isolate, as I was trying to get as much spinal cord as possible but the other two have intact brains and less spinal cord. I need better light and some new hair knives for clean-up, but I'm getting there ....
Three isolates of brain and spinal cord from young Xenopus laevis tadpoles. Isolates are bluish-white; the one at left is stuck to a cloth fiber.
June 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"“Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped a sword-hilt.” Me, trying to dissect intact brain/spinal cords from prefeeding tadpoles for the first time in over a year ......
King Theoden from the Lord of the Rings looks intently at his upright sword.
June 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Sorry - I fear that I am one of these (with apologies to Robin Norwood)
The cover of "Women Who Love Too Much" by Robin Norwood, modified to say "Women Who Love Their Hypotheses Too Much"; subheading says "When you keep Wishing and Hoping your data will look different this time".
May 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today at 1 pm, Univ of Houston:
hands off higher education!
April 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Faculty search in developmental or behavioral neuroscience!  The Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry at the Univ. of Houston seeks a neuroscientist working in a non-mammalian system (#Drosophila, #Xenopus, #Zebrafish): (FAC003139)
tinyurl.com/5n7e7jpd
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image of University of Houston campus
November 18, 2023 at 8:58 PM