Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Using frogs to dissect psychiatric disorders (she/her)
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http://willseylab.com 01-12-2010 03:48:14
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We are super excited to host the next round of UCSF EPSP talks! Postdocs, come give a talk in the 2023-2024 UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program Neuroscience Formal Seminar Series. Great opportunity to show off your work and meet the UCSF neuroscience community. Please share with great candidates and RT!
Still matching all donations to $5k for C and all #SYNGAP1 patients - donations benefitting The Orphan Disease Center @ UPenn and SynGAP Research Fund (SRF)! 🫶🏼 charity.pledgeit.org/f/f8rtT9BFea
Happy #FrogFriday! Why not read about a powerful 🦸frog 🐸 model in human disease 🔬? Helen Willsey and colleagues give a practical guide for using Xenopus tropicalis to uncover conserved mechanisms relevant for human disease. journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/17…
✨📣Congratulations to ElinaK on her D-SPAN F99/K00 award, joining an incredible group of similarly brilliant, dedicated, and generous scholars. We are so proud of you!!! 🐸🥳 and can’t wait to keep cheering you on as the accolades pile up 📣 ✨ UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences @FrogWranglers
What an amazing ARRE Foundation research symposium at Kennedy Krieger! Thank you to the organizers for the invitation to give a talk on the ASXL3 research we do at the Willsey Lab Helen Willsey 🐸 such a joy to meet this incredible community of researchers and families! 🧠
What if you could deliver molecular tools directly into oocytes without microinjection? In our new paper, online today Development (doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…), we introduce VitelloTag, a new cargo delivery tool to enable injection-free genome editing. 👇Read on for a short 🧵
If it looks like we're posting a lot of job ads right now Arcadia Science, it's because we are! New job ad dropping right now looking for interns for science operations. If you're a process-oriented scientist with some computational skills and want to gain operational
Please read and critique our new paper on the genetic determinants of human kidney function Nature Genetics: rdcu.be/dTwye We combined GWAS with CNN and CRISPRi to go from loci to target genes. This roadmap may be useful to others uncovering genes underlying human traits.