Bone Development lab Franz-Odendaal

08/15/2025

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10/28/2018

A publication of a different sort! My daughter just published a novel. Find out more at www.loveemily.ca - support her writing by ordering a copy.

love. emily Four teenagers loving life, until stress, drama and anxiety comes crashing in like a tsunami. This love story will fall into many traps and obstacles. But love is the strongest thing in the world, and will destroy anything in its path, even families. Follow these four through the adventu...

09/08/2018

Summer research wrapped up after a large group of awesome undergrads did some great work. Several papers out this summer too by Shruti, and Dan and Paige...

06/29/2018

Just left the European Evo-devo meeting in Galway, Ireland - always fun to talk evo-devo for a few days, all day

06/09/2018

Great developmental biology symposium yesterday - thanks to American Association of Anatomists for sponsorships- www.anatomy.org - Congrats to Karley from our lab for one of the best presentations!

12/11/2017

Congrats to Carolyn for graduating with her PhD. We said good bye to Dan last week after 3 yrs in the lab.

06/03/2017

Dan graduates with honours and is heading to UBC for MSc with NSERC scholarship in Jan

06/03/2017

Dan graduates with his honours and is heading to UBC for his MSc with NSERC scholarship in Jan

05/26/2017

I spent the entire day in the lab -- so much fun and a pretty rare sight it seems

05/13/2017

Summer researchers in 2017: Jennifer, Dan, me, Nick, Karley, Walter

05/13/2017

05/07/2017

Karyn's paper is out in our favourite journal! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.24489/full

Background: The conjunctival papillae are epithelial thickenings of the conjunctiva that are required for the induction of underlying bones (the scleral ossicles). These transient papillae develop and...