The first International Cell Size and Growth Meeting was held at Lake Tahoe, CA last week

A massive thanks to all who attended and made it such a great meeting! From left to right: Amanda Amodeo (Princeton), Peter Pryciak (UMass), Gabriel Neurohr (MIT), Devon Chandler-Brown (Stanford), Fabian Rudolf (ETH), Mimi Xie (Stanford), Me, Matthew Swaffer (Stanford), Daniel Berenson (Stanford), Jon Turner (Stanford), Ben Topacio (Stanford), Ali Shariati (Stanford), Sirle and Mardo Koivomagi (Stanford), Aurora Alvarez-Buylla (Stanford), Kurt Schmoller (Munich), Rob de Bruin (UCL), Evgeny Zatulovskiy (Stanford), Bruce Futcher (SUNY).

Let the field be warned, we are going to get to the bottom on this question!

Our paper on restiction point control is out in Mol Cell !

An epic struggle is finished. We publish our first paper on animal cell cycle control. Clayton dug deep and got it done. Read all about it here.

Our new paper on budding yeast size control is out in current biology!

Here we show how the adder phenomenon in budding yeast emerges, almost as an accident perhaps, from distinct regulation in G1 and S/G2/M phases of the cell cycle. This reconciles the adder hullabaloo with what we have previously been examining in terms of how growth triggers division at the G1/S transition.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(17)31024-2

Stanford Center for Cell Biology is live!

Along with founding members, Jessica Feldman, Tim Stearns, Martha Cyert, Scott Dixon and Ron Kopito, we established the Stanford Center for Cell Biology to organize research in the area. We have a website and it is here:

http://cellbiology.stanford.edu/

This is exciting, and I hope it will build on the current social nucleus we have to catalyze an even more dynamic and exciting environment for cell biology at Stanford.

our review on the maternal-to-zygotic transition is out! read all about how the genome activates

link here for the paper

We reviewed the literature of how the genome is activated following fertilization in vertebrates. Dave Jukam, with an assist from Ali Shariati and myself, did some heroic work pulling together the literature from frog, fish, mouse and human. Usually the model organisms frog and fish are considered separately from mammals. But, we were able to pull it together in what I think is a useful way. This was by far the most difficult review I have been a part of writing and it took over a year to put it together in a compact readable form. I'm proud of it and hope some ideas, like the use of various nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratios to control events in early development, inspire future work revealing conserved principles of early development.