October 23, 2023
Retirement celebration features fond recollections
CSB held an emotional get-together on Oct 18th in the Faculty Club to celebrate the retirements of Professors Dorotea Godt and Rudi Winklbauer, and of our Chief Adminstrative Officer Tamar Mamourian. Chair Nick Provart noted that Prof Godt and Prof Winklbauer are valued experts in flies and frogs…
September 22, 2021
Sugar-coated cells’ surprise role in gastrulation
The way embryonic cells stick to each other is given a new twist by studies of the sugar coating around developing tissues. The Winklbauer lab has shown that the glycocalyx sugar coat mediates cell-cell attachment across significantly large distances between cells. These surprising results are…
May 20, 2021
Tiptoeing around in the frog embryo
Dr Martina Nagel recently found the answer to a puzzle that she has been pursuing for 30 years in the laboratory of Prof Rudolf Winklbauer. She determined how the sheets of tissue that become the adult frog can migrate past each other while staying mostly separate as the embryo grows and develops…