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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
[Robert G. Ingersoll]
"Pharyngula" is a term coined by William Ballard to describe a particular stage in the development of the vertebrate embryo. At the pharyngula stage, the vertebrate embryo
It's an interesting and important period of embryonic development, and happens to be the period my students and I spend a lot of time studying.
If you're wondering how to pronounce it, try "fa-RING-you-la" or "fa-RINJ-you-la."
My preferred experimental animal is the zebrafish, Danio rerio. The great thing about zebrafish for research in development is that they are prolific, producing many eggs every day, and that the embryos develop rapidly, reaching the pharyngula stage 24 hours after they are fertilized.
This is where I work, at the University of Minnesota, Morris, one of the four campuses of the University of Minnesota system. I'm a member of the biology discipline, within the Division of Science and Mathematics.
I'm an associate professor of biology at UMM. I can be contacted at [email protected], or by IM at [email protected] or [email protected], and by phone at (320) 589-6343.
1985 | Ph.D. in Biology, Institute of Neuroscience,University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
1979 | B.S. in Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
1975-1976 | attended DePauw University, Greencastle, IN |
1973-1975 | attended Kent-Meridian High School, Kent, WA |
2003- | Associate Professor, Division of Science and Math, University of Minnesota, Morris |
2000-2003 | Assistant Professor, Division of Science and Math, University of Minnesota, Morris |
1993-2000 | Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Temple University |
1991-1993 | Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Utah |
1988-1991 | Post-doctoral research associate with Dr. Michael J. Bastiani in the Department of Biology, University of Utah |
1985-1988 | VAX system manager and programmer for the Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon |
1979-1985 | Graduate research with Dr. Charles B. Kimmel at the Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon |
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