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Member of Laura Grabel's lab at Wesleyan University. We study very early events in the development of the mouse embryo. | Freelance writer, specializing in making science, health, and technology engaging and accessible to the general reader. |  |
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Member of Laura Grabel's lab at Wesleyan University. We study very early events in the development of the mouse embryo. | Freelance writer, specializing in making science, health, and technology engaging and accessible to the general reader. | |
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To find out more about research in the Grabel lab, check out Laura Grabel's web page. Down to the last microliter: the Grabel lab protocols Member of the Society for Developmental Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
My work has been published in the Hartford
Courant, (click
here for some Op-eds) Middletown Press, Wesleyan
Alumni Magazine, Connecticut Business Magazine,
and Pomona College Magazine (available online). Very Small Fish Steaks (Click here to read a fun article I wrote on using zebrafish for research.) Regular contributor to ScienceIQ.com, a science education service. (Click here for some samples.) Recently taught a class for Wesleyan undergraduates in Writing about Science. Member of the National Association of Science Writers Click here to read an unpublished personal essay having nothing to do with science |
To send me an email click here.
Maye, P., Becker, S., Siemen, H., Thorne, J., Byrd, N. and Grabel, L. (2004) "The Role of Hedgehog in Neuronal Differentiation," Developmental Biology 265: 276-290.
Byrd, N., Becker, S., Maye, P., Narasimhaiah, R., St. Jacques, B., Zhang, X., McMahon, J., McMahon, A., and Grabel, L. (2002) "Hedgehog is required for murine yolk sac angiogenesis." Development 129, 361-372.
Maye, P., Becker, S., Kasameyer, E., Byrd, N., and Grabel, L. (2000) "Indian hedgehog signaling in extraembryonic endoderm and ectoderm differentiation in ES embryoid bodies." Mech of Development. 94: 117-132.
Grabel, L., Becker, S., Lock. L., Maye, P., and Zanders, T. (1998) “Using EC and ES cell culture to study early development: recent observations on Indian hedgehog and Bmps”. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 42: 917-925.
Becker, S., Wang, Z.J., Massey, H., Arauz, A., Labosky, P., Hammerschmidt, M., St.-Jacques, B., Bumcrot, D., McMahon, A., and Grabel, L. (1997) “A Role for Indian hedgehog in Extraembryonic endoderm differentiation in F9 cells and the early mouse embryo” Developmental Biology 187, 298-310.
Wickramasinghe, D.; Becker, S.; Ernst, M.; Resnick, J.; Centanni, J.; Tessarollo, L., Grabel, L.; and Donovan, P. (1995) “Two CDC25 homologues are differentially expressed during mouse development.” Development 121 .
Becker, S., and Grabel, L. (1992) “Spatial localization of endoderm-specific mRNAs in differentiating F9 embryoid bodies” Mechanisms of Development 37
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"Down to the Last Microliter", the Grabel lab protocol book.
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