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Dr. Arnold had the amazing opportunity to be featured on an episode of NPR’s Radiolab, titled "Growth"! In this episode, he talks about regeneration across different animals for a segment on a woman who regenerated her fingertip. While regenerating limbs might seem unusual to us, animals capable of regenerating their entire bodies are widely distributed across the Tree of Life. Check it out!
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The Arnold Lab feeling is the spirit of the season! Check out the talent on display with these handpainted planarian ornaments. Credit to our technician Rachel for the idea and for her tree crafted entirely from pipet tips and conical tubes.
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Here at Chez Arnold Lab, our planaria eat only finest the cuisine of the freshest organic grass fed beef liver. Watch as Head Chef Rachel directs Sous Chefs Madison and Srestha in the preparation of this culinary delight. This exquisite dish, served raw and drowned in Montjuic water, is sure to enthrall the senses of even the most discriminating of flatworm pharyngeal "palates". Bon Appetit!
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Shaha successfully defends her undergraduate Biology Capstone Proposal. Great job!
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Check out this year's Planaria pumpkin carvings! Are you scared? You should be...
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The Arnold Lab's new camera arrived!
Rachel, Sachi, and Zoe felt cute. Might delete later. |
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Susanna finishes her undergraduate Biology Capstone Thesis. Awesome job! We will miss you, Susanna!
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Zoë and Shaha kick off the summer in the Arnold Lab with their very first planarian regeneration experiments. They did their part, worms, the rest is up to you...
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Alexus, the very first member of the Arnold Lab, successfully defends her Undergraduate Biology Capstone Thesis. Way to go! We will miss you!
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Susanna, Madison, Emily, and Sachi understood the assignment.
Great job presenting your planarian research at the WVU 2024 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium! |
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Elizabeth is hard at work in the microscope room after successfully defending her thesis proposal. Great job!
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The Arnold Lab is getting into the holiday season with these hand-made planarian ornaments. Great job everyone!
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Alexus, Reagan, Susanna, Madison, and Elizabeth doing a fantastic job representing the Arnold Lab and sharing their planarian research projects at the WVU 2023 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium. Great job!
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Congratulations to Susanna for successfully defending her Biology Capstone Project Proposal!
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Its Spooky Season in the Arnold Lab and what better way to celebrate than with Planarian Pumpkin Carving!
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Alexus successfully defends her Biology Capstone Project Proposal. Excellent job!
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Wrapping up our summer with the first ever Arnold Lab "Appalachianarian Hunt." Elizabeth, Reagan, and Alexus collected a huge cache of local planarian species. It was great to share this experience of seeing planaria in their natural habitat.
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Susanna presents her SURE project at the Summer Undergrad Research Symposium. Great job!
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Wild PLANARIA appeared!
UNDERGRAD RESEARCHER used CUT! It's super effective! Susanna, Alexus, and Reagan hard at work amputating planaria for regeneration experiments. |
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Alexus imaging live planaria. With bilateral symmetry, flatworms make it easy to get their good side.
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Alexus and Ian presenting their work at the 2023 WVU Undergrad Spring Symposium. Great job!
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Our second lab meeting! Something looks familiar about that clock..... I know! That is a cross section of a planarian pharynx by the talented Mol Mir!
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Our first lab meeting! Can you spot the print of Planaria by M.C. Escher, 1959?
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Header Image Credit: Collaboration with Jason Morrison of the Stowers Institute of Medical Research