Crystal Rogers, PhD

@rogerslabucd.bsky.social

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Principal investigator of a cell and #DevBio research lab at UC Davis School of Vet. Med. Co-Editor In Chief of @diffjournal.bsky.social. Posts are my own. https://www.crystalrogersphd.com ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089

Cover of August 1 MBoC journal- image by Rogers Lab at UC Davis
Cover of the August 1 MBoC journal- image from the Rogers Lab at UC Davis
A pic of the society for developmental biology meeting, a screenshot of a talk showing placodes, and screenshot of a slot machine
A wooden clock that says society for developmental biology
8 scientists at the society for developmental biology meeting
A view of the Las Vegas strip from planet Hollywood
A lot of scientists listening to awards lectures at SDB
Sunday Topics: 1 - Starting up a lab -Navigating the New PI transition 2 - How to choose a graduate program or first postdoc 3 - Refreshing your joy and purpose - career vitality 4 - Dealing with caretaker responsibilities as an academic- how to balance it all? 5 - Learning how to celebrate the wins- big or small. 6 - Meet an NSF program officer 7 - Meet an NIH program officer 8 - How can we make developmental biology more exciting to students, funders, and the public? 9 - Jovenes Latinx in DevBio Sign up in Registration (Melrose 2-3)
Metabolic Control of Cell Fate and Tissue Patterning special issue: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/334203/metabolic-control-of-cell-fate-and-tissue-patterning
The Beer Park restaurant logo in front of the Paris Las Vegas Eiffel Tower
A group of scientists at dinner smiling
A pic of “it’s my birthday” pin
A view of the bellagio fountains
#142 (A42) - Elucidating the stage specific role of SOX9 during neural crest development
Poster advertising the special interest symposium at the annual Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Las Vegas.
The sun rising over Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas
A brown female bulldog in a USA hat and red white and blue dress
Two melanoid juvenile axolotls.
Rogers Lab at UC Davis Lab meeting summer 2026 with 15 students in attendance
A picture of cupcake boxes with coupons and a stuffed alpaca from Proteintech
Two squirrels near a burrow at UC Davis
TEMTIA 12, TAIPEI, 2026- TEMTIA12 – The 12th International Conference of the Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition November 13–16, 2026
A brown bulldog snuggled into gray couch pillows
Sunrise shining on a patchy cloudy sky with silhouettes of plants in the foreground
A bulldog sitting next to a mini version of herself
Two axolotls in the front of a tank and a smaller one in the back of a tank
An axolotl hunting for a salmon pellet
A group of amazing scientists at UC Davis taking a picture in the stairwell
A woman hugging a brown bulldog
Chonk the axolotl and her sibling
A ripped paper sign that’s says zoom meeting in progress with an axolotl sticker that says “I ate my siblings”
A Caesar garnished with lemon lime and a strong bean.
The canals in Ottawa
Three students at the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Award Ceremony.
A PhD candidate posing in front of her poster at the NIH OSNAP conference
Flyer for talk by Dr. Crystal Rogers. Talk will be at OHRI on Monday June 1 at 2:30 PM
A screen shot that reads: New Council Members for 2027 ASCB members also elected four new members to the ASCB Council beginning in 2027: Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago Anastasia (Stacy) Henry, University of California, San Francisco (Industry Seat) Crystal Rogers, University of California, Davis ASCB extends its sincere thanks to the members of the Nominating Committee for their dedication and service: Andrew Campbell, Iain Cheeseman, Daniela Cimini, Andrew Ewald, Zev Gartner, Aron Jaffe, Laurie Littlepage, Mary Munson, Kandice Tanner, Matt Loeb, and Kevin Wilson.
(Left panels) Modeling of nuclei organization at 11 and 16 days of corneal development in an avian embryo. (Right panels) IHC for N-cadherin (yellow) and ZO-1 in 3D reconstruction of corneal cells at days 11 and 16. Nuclei are magenta.
A lab group picture above and two undergraduate students in front of their posters below.
Neural crest cells explanted and migrating with filamentous actin (white), microtubule plus ends (orange) and beta actin (green)
An image of the sky with clouds above a pool where the sky is reflected
Two students in a dachshund costume.
A lizard on top of a lava rock
A woman rocking a brown shirt that has a picture of a chicken and G. Gallus on it.
Two ladybugs hunting aphids. An aphid with wings was running from them
A lady bug going ham on some aphids on a plant
A brown bulldog sniffing a purple Easter egg
A beefy ladybug roaming around on a rose bush.
A spotted ladybug on a rose leaf
A bulldog in the bathtub with a towel on her head
A boy standing on a balcony overlooking the Las Vegas strip
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A man with two shaving cream pies on his head.
A lateral view of a chicken embryo after in situ hybridization chain reaction for tubb6, tubb3, and sox9.
A transverse section of a developing chicken embryo with tubb6 (orange), tubb3 (magenta) and sox9 (green) expression with DAPI.