Leung Lab Blog

Retinal development

1. Tian C, Zou S, Hu B. Extraocular Source of Oligodendrocytes Contribute to Retinal Myelination and Optokinetic Responses in Zebrafish. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Apr 1;57(4):2129-38. doi: 10.1167/iovs.15-17675. PubMed PMID: 27100159.
2. Riesenberg AN, Brown NL. Cell autonomous and nonautonomous requirements for Delltalike1 during early mouse retinal neurogenesis. Dev Dyn. 2016 Jun;245(6):631-40. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24402. Epub 2016 Apr 4. PubMed PMID: 26947267; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4873400.

Scientific Career

1. Mervis J. BEHIND THE NUMBERS. ‘Employment crisis’ for new Ph.D.s is an illusion. Science. 2016 May 20;352(6288):880. doi: 10.1126/science.352.6288.880. PubMed PMID: 27199396.
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Evolution

1. Karnkowska A, Vacek V, Zubáčová Z, Treitli SC, Petrželková R, Eme L, Novák L, Žárský V, Barlow LD, Herman EK, Soukal P, Hroudová M, Doležal P, Stairs CW, Roger AJ, Eliáš M, Dacks JB, Vlček Č, Hampl V. A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle. Curr Biol. 2016 May 23;26(10):1274-84. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.053. Epub 2016 May 12. PubMed PMID: 27185558.
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Visual behaviour

1. Orger MB. The Cellular Organization of Zebrafish Visuomotor Circuits. Curr Biol. 2016 May 9;26(9):R377-85. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.054. Review. PubMed PMID: 27166700.
2. Currie SP, Doherty GH, Sillar KT. Deep-brain photoreception links luminance detection to motor output in Xenopus frog tadpoles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 May 24;113(21):6053-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515516113. Epub 2016 May 10. PubMed PMID: 27166423.

Scientific publishing

1. Berg JM, Bhalla N, Bourne PE, Chalfie M, Drubin DG, Fraser JS, Greider CW, Hendricks M, Jones C, Kiley R, King S, Kirschner MW, Krumholz HM, Lehmann R, Leptin M, Pulverer B, Rosenzweig B, Spiro JE, Stebbins M, Strasser C, Swaminathan S, Turner P, Vale RD, VijayRaghavan K, Wolberger C. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. Preprints for the life sciences. Science. 2016 May 20;352(6288):899-901. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf9133. PubMed PMID: 27199406.
2. Sarewitz D. The pressure to publish pushes down quality. Nature. 2016 May 11;533(7602):147. doi: 10.1038/533147a. PubMed PMID: 27172010.

Genome editing

1. Abudayyeh OO, Gootenberg JS, Konermann S, Joung J, Slaymaker IM, Cox DB, Shmakov S, Makarova KS, Semenova E, Minakhin L, Severinov K, Regev A, Lander ES, Koonin EV, Zhang F. C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector. Science. 2016 Jun 2. pii: aaf5573. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27256883.
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