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vanessa.chong@ndcls.ox.ac.uk

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Vanessa Chong-Morrison

D.Phil.

Senior Postdoctoral Scientist in Developmental Genomics

A paradigm for brain left/right asymmetry

© V Chong-Morrison 2024
The parapineal organ of a zebrafish embryo signals to neurons in the habenula region (dotted circles) circa 32 hours post fertilisation to acquire left/right asymmetric nuclei by 4 days old.

Decoding neural crest development

© V Chong-Morrison 2018
Neural crest cells (yellow) migrating in the cranial region of a zebrafish embryo at 18 hours post fertilisation. Note that the more posterior trunk neural crest cells have not started migrating yet.