Equipment is arriving daily and we are almost a fully functional lab! On site we now have the capacity to perform basic molecular biology, fossil preparation, and CT data processing. Our animal housing is now installed and we just wait patiently for our breeding Xenopus and axolotls. The new lab is home to the CFI-funded in vivo Fluorescence Microscopy Lab. Infrastructure included in this facility include two state-of-the-art fluorescence microscopes and imaging software, micro-injection set-up, cryostat microtome, and an on-site animal facility for GFP-axolotl and Xenopus (…for now!). We will use the iFML to do developmental genetics and cell lineage tracing to address questions of skull formation and evolution in amphibians.
Vertebrate paleontology & evolutionary developmental biology
