Eames Lab

this week's catchup: Lots of the present and past Eames lab folks (and our many kids) enjoyed a BBQ at Pike Lake (Aug2025)

this week's catchup: Congrats to Patsy, Katie, and others on their Development paper, showing new insights into how transcription programs fight while making skeletal cells (from Jun2025) journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

weekly update: congrats to Hamed et al. for a cool study on 3D cartilage printing as a therapy for damaged knees (of pigs)...the sweet finding was that the synchrotron revealed cartilage health (from Nov2024) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

this week's catch-up: Congrats to Neethi, who successfully defended her MSc project examining how different Bmp growth factors produce different effects on chondrocytes (from Sep2024...sorry, no pics from her defense or celebration, since we zoomed it after she returned to India)

this week's catchup: And her paper came just in time for her defense; congrats Elham on your PhD (Jan2024)

this week's catchup: Congrats to Elham, Connor, and other labbies on our Development paper showing the molecular mechanism underlying skeletal defects in proteoglycan mutants (Jan2024) journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

this week's update: Had the current and some former labbies (and their families) at my place to potluck celebrate the holidays (Dec2024)

this week's catch-up: Congrats to Gaga (Joseph) Atake on his PhD, defended in Oct2023...went on to postdoc at UCSF (I forgot to say in previous posts, but Rafa, next to him, went on to teach at Saskatchewan Polytechnic; and Hamed, not pictured, went for a postdoc at U Victoria)

this week's catch-up: congrats to the lab on our first synchrotron imaging project, published in PLoS ONE in Oct2023 (never mind that over a dozen other synchrotron projects got published before this one, haha!) journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

(lots of things to cover since Jul2023...) In this week's update, congrats to Rafa on her successful PhD defense in Jul2023!

more overdue posts coming, but can you believe that high-level admin folks actually baked pies for those (like me) receiving promotion to Full Professor this year?

congrats to Hamed for his second paper on the influence of mechanical force on cartilage formation (and also a successful PhD defense)...he even got the cover!

congrats to Ayda, who won Best Poster at the recent Canadian Society of Zoologists meeting for her project on skeletal cell evolution

congrats to Hamed, whose paper shows how cartilage cells respond to forces, like your knee cartilage during walking: mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/8…

proposed cover:

Congrats to Jason and his coauthors Patsy, Yiwen, and Katie on his paper illustrating peculiarities of frog skeletal development anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Happy holidays from our lab to yours! 🎅🏻🎄☃️

Conservation of a core transcriptional program during chondrocyte differentiation in the limb and head suggest that the same core GRN was co-opted in different regions of the skeleton during evolution.Check out the latest publication in the Eames lab here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Since mechanical stimulation can push the Col2/Col1 ratio, cartilage tissue engineering experiments should assess whether fibrocartilage or hyaline cartilage is formed. Check this interesting review paper by Hamed Alizadeh: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #Eameslab 👨🏻‍🔬🧫🔬

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