this is very cool: the journal Development plants a tree every time someone reviews a paper for them. Here's one of my recent ones: forest.biologists.com/landsc…

it's the end of summer, and after this post, we'll finally be caught up with Eames Lab events! Congrats to Rafa and our local, Italian, and Japanese colleagues on a great paper revealing the function of ARSI, a new cartilage gene (from May2026) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

this week's catchup: Congrats to the lab, whose NSERC funding continues with a grant on "Skeletal tissue and cell evolution in chondrichthyans". Watch out, shark bone haters! (from Apr2026)

this week's catchup: Congrats to our visiting scholar Qian Ma, Elham, and other labbies on getting the journal cover for our study looking at proteoglycans and Bmp signalling during bone development and regeneration (Nov2025) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

this week's catch-up: congrats to Gaga and our French colleagues on publishing the first direct comparison of skeletal features across representatives of the 3 main cartilaginous fish clades...spoiler: bone-like tissues not found in chimaera (from Oct2025) elifesciences.org/articles/9…

this week's update: thanks to Arash at our local synchrotron for helping us get awesome images to reveal problems with muscle attachments (arrowheads) underlying scoliosis in collaboration with Brian Ciruna in T-dot (published Sep2025) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

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/…

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/1…

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/…

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/ar…

(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/1422-0067/24/8/7410