Phil Abitua 🧬

Annual killifish make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

I still can’t get over the fact that I lived through every microscopist’s worst nightmare: a building fire, sprinklers going off, and massive water damage. By some miracle, our microscope room was spared. Other labs weren’t so lucky…

Abitua’s Law: If disaster strikes in the lab, it will always be on a weekend.

Every cell lineage in a mouse is its own Rube Goldberg machine.

So you're telling me it's not my protocol, but cryptic developmental competence?