Marietta Easterling and Robyn Reeve presented their research at the 51st Northwest Developmental Biology , held at Friday Harbor Marine Laboratory from March 14-17 2018. Marietta’s talk on leptin and limb development in Xenopus laevis was chosen for a oral presentation, and Robyn presented her poster of her research linking leptin signaling to melanocytes in X. laevis larvae. Erica Crespi gave a talk on the success of incorporating inquiry-based labs in her Animal Development course at WSU.
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