Amro Hamdoun
@Hamdounlab
Red-handed biologist.
101 genes. No Dalmatians needed. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
A nice paper that used X. laevis from the NXR!
Check out the Brownlee Lab's first publication and journal cover in @emboreports 🎉Cover image showcases neural progenitor cells in a developing Xenopus brain taken at @cshlxeno course🐸! embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Please read and share this opinion piece written by Carole LaBonne (our fellow Xenopus researcher) published in STAT in support for animal models in biomedical research. statnews.com/2025/05/19/ani… #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
The responses I'm most invested in are the genuinely curious ones that happen in the open, constructively asking the hard questions and wondering how to get involved. Here are some of my quick thoughts in response 👇
The journal system isn’t just inefficient — it’s distorting science itself. At Astera, we’ve opted out. No more journals. No shaping work around “publishable units.” Just good science, published faster and more openly. Here’s why we believe publishing needs a complete rethink:…
Time to admit that despite extensive investment and effort we’ve largely failed as a field to understand how regulatory information is encoded in DNA and there isn’t clear progress on the horizon.
Most disease-associated GWAS signals fall in the non-coding genome🧬 Although assumed to influence expression, pinpointing the causal gene isn't easy. Two ways include: 1⃣eQTL mapping in relevant tissues/cells 2⃣in vitro CRISPRi screens This preprint compares the two👇
I am dumbstruck by labs that will spend millions on molecular biology reagents, sequencing services, and fancy microscopes, while refusing to spend a red cent on husbandry.
UC San Diego Assistant Professor Matthew Lovett-Barron of the Department of Neurobiology has been selected to receive a 2025 @McKnightFdn Scholar Award, one of the most prestigious awards for junior neuroscience faculty members. go.ucsd.edu/3ZRbFpM
Thrilled to be part of this amazing study powered by @NBellono and @CoreyAHAllard ! Grateful for the chance to contribute
@CoreyAHAllard et al asks how “solar-powered” slugs maintain stolen chloroplasts from their diet for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @CellPressNews, @MCB_Harvard, @harvardmed cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
After a point, the same with reading papers or attending talks/conferences in your field.
What do you think? ✍️
After over a year of incubating, I’m excited to share a new project inspired by a ~decade of in vivo drug discovery experience 🧬 Artemis is a Focused Research Organization (FRO) to establish alternative, naturally physiologically human-like animal species for complex disease…
Nice work @DarinToEvo! May prove to be a game changer for transformation marine larvae! Excited to see how it works in other species.
Very excited to share this paper our lab just published! Super grateful to @ShikumaLab. If you're interested/have questions about using this technology in your system please DM! Lets make gene knock downs more accessible to diverse marine larvae :) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
There’s still time to submit abstracts to this conference. Looking forward to seeing people at the conference. NXR will be there to answer any questions you have and discuss opportunities to use NXR resources.
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GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD
今日はウニの2細胞期を二つの割球に切り分ける作業。細ーいガラス針を使って顕微鏡の下で手作業 下が切る前の2細胞期で上の二つが切ったあと 切った後の細胞の直径は50μmくらいですね
A question you actually give a shit about, that nobody else is working on because everyone else thinks is impossible to solve, where you have a crazy idea about how to crack it.
A grad student asks you: what makes a good research question? What do you say?
Interested in skeletal development? Biomineralization? Invertebrate body plans? Imaging? Then this three year postdoc @sotonbiosci is for you! There are still ~2 weeks left to apply. Details are here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… and please reach out to me if you're interested!
【受講生募集!! 7/11まで】 浅虫海洋生物学教育研究センターでは夏の公開臨海実習の参加者を募集中です！ 日程は2025年8月8日〜15日です。申し込み締め切りは2025年7月11日です。 詳細は以下の浅虫センターHPをご覧ください biology.tohoku.ac.jp/lab-www/asamus…
The vast majority over discoveries are low hanging fruit when they are made. The key to scientific progress is progressively making more fruit low-hanging. One of the deep problems we have in science is that we reward the people who pick the fruit rather than the ones who lower…
A basic question whose answer seems to me to dictate what the near-term future of scientific discovery looks like: is there a lot of attention-bottlenecked low-hanging fruit, or have humans done a reasonably good job finding the easy stuff?