• At the June 1999 meeting in Charlottesville, VA, Michael Barresi in Stephen Devoto's research group won the poster competition with his poster entitled "The Zebrafish slow muscle omitted Gene Product is Required for Hedgehog Signal Transduction and for the Development of Slow Muscle Identity". This work was published (Barresi, Stickney, and Devoto (2000). Development 127:2189-99 ) and was featured on the cover of this issue.
   

Slow muscle fibers labeled with a slow myosin specific monoclonal antibody. Both panels show embryos mutant in the slow-muscle-omitted gene. In the bottom panel, slow muscle development has been rescued in mutants by injection of rat smoothened.
 

• At the June 2000 meeting in Boulder, CO, Pavithra Vivekanand in Michael Weir's group tied for the top graduate student poster, and third overall, with her poster entitled "Localized protein degradation regulates Paired protein expression in Drosophila development". This work was published (Raj et al, Current Biology 10:1265-72) and was featured in a "News and Views" in the December 2000 issue of Nature Cell Biology.
   

Localized protein degradation -- a new gene regulation mechanism in Drosophila segmentation. Partner of paired (blue) regulates degradation of Paired protein (brown).

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