Senior editor for the Embryo Project, Erica O'Neil, presented a talk "Spectacular Collections" at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix as part of Unbelievable Biology weekend, April 5th and 6th. O'Neil spoke several times on both days about the history of cabinets of curiosities, elaborate collections of natural history specimens popular among Europeans in the 1600s, and the precursors to modern museums.
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Normal Tables
Normal Tables are visual standards for the development of a species. Explore the history of normal tables in this exhibit, and compare original microscope slides and normal table images.
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Viktor Hamburger
Viktor Hamburger was an embryologist who became best known for his work in neural development, but made significant contributions to studies of induction and developmental genetics.
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Student Training at the Embryo Project
Student training is one of the core missions of the Embryo Project. As of 2012, five theses have been written on related topics, including stem cells, fertilization, genetic screening, and representations of development in textbooks. Here Cera Lawrence explains her research at a poster session.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
Morgan may have won a Nobel Prize for his work on Drosophila genetics, but he was an embryologist by training and avocation. He made significant contributions to the study of regeneration and experimental embryology more generally.
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1897 MBL Embryology Class
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 to offer opportunities for instruction and research in biological topics. As the lab grew, it added sets of lectures that made up courses in zoology, then botany, then physiology, and in 1893 what became the first Embryology Course.
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Marine Biological Laboratory
The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts is a mecca for developmental biologists who teach, take courses, visit the library, or spend the summer in a lab. The Embryo Project is documenting the MBL’s role in the history of embryology, ranging from the early work on cell lineage by EB Wilson, EG Conklin, and Thomas Hunt Morgan to recent interest in regenerative medicine.
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F. R. Lillie's Diagram of Freemartins
Original Painting of Freemartin Twins by K.Toda (1916) -- See Figure 4 (p 426) Lillie Jour Exp Zool. 23 (1917) / Given to B. H. Willier in March 1937 "To keep for posterity". Given to James D. Ebert in 1971. / "Wash Drawing" Given by Ebert to the Marine Biological Laboratory for the Laboratory's Rare Books Room in the Lillie / Building, December 1991.
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Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a leader in American embryology in the first half of the twentieth century. As a professor at Yale University, Harrison pioneered techniques of tissue culture.
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