🚂 The T2T train keeps rolling: "The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes" with Gerton and Garrison labs is out! What's a Robertsonian chromosome? Let Jen tell you herself in this great video, or read our paper: [1/3] 📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here are the curated lists of pubs in the #PlacentalCellBio @biomednews.bsky.social report from the last two weeks! biomed.news/bims-placeb/... biomed.news/bims-placeb/... My personal choice: this resource from the Zernicka-Goetz's lab! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40882624/ Enjoy!

Excited to share the first review from our lab! Together with Sara Pietroforte, we explore the idea that, beyond hormonal and biochemical cues, folliculogenesis may also be shaped by mechanical inputs from the ovary. 1/3

Excited to share the first paper from the lab! 🥳 The ATG9 and lipid droplets saga continues! Open source!

We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social! register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Such a beautiful ovary from @shmimberly.bsky.social 😍😍

Dr. Francesca Duncan will speak on this virtual webinar on "Women’s health: insights in research and inclusion" Learn more and register for the event on August 28! www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/wom...

Pleased to share my new review: Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚 Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

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🧵1/ 🚨 New tool for reproductive biology! We generated a Nr2f2-iCreERT2 mouse—an inducible Cre model that specifically targets interstitial cells in both male and female gonads. Read more in our new @biolreprod paper: 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/biol...

📣 Paper alert!! Excited to share the 2nd research paper from my time in the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu, out today in the @embojournal.org! We asked: "how do human oocytes regulate proteostatic organelles under physiological conditions?" 1/

New Publication! Congrats to Dr. Aubrey Converse on her manuscript which uses innovative approaches to define the transcriptomic signature of ovarian multinucleated giant cells and provide novel insight into the role of this cell population in ovarian aging! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Dr. Francesca Duncan and Dr. Kara Goldman were featured in this USA Today on ovarian aging and reproductive longevity! www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

Super congrats to Chris and Pelin on this awesome work! First paper from the @joerodriguez11.bsky.social lab🎉! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

New Duncan Lab publication! Congratulations to Emma Gargus and Rhea Sharma and their co-authors on elucidating how caloric restriction impacts markers of ovarian function and aging in the rhesus macaque! www.aging-us.com/article/2062...

Join SPARK's first panel, Human Biospecimen Repositories Fueling Translational Reproductive Science and Medicine Research. CRS faculty participants include panelist Dr. Mary Ellen Pavone and moderator Dr. Francesca Duncan www.upsquad.com/event/regist...

Congrats on the new paper to Krystal who "doesn't do social media" but does do a ton of ATAC and Cut&Run to show how GATA3 pioneers enhancers with BRG1 and sometimes AP-1! #NIEHS #NAR doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Together with @virginiasavy.bsky.social, we curated a preList of preprints presented at the Keystone Symposia: Metabolic and Nutritional Control of Development and Cell Fate! Explore the latest in the field, fresh from the conference! 📑🆕: prelights.biologists.com/prelists/ksm... #DevBio #Metabolism

🚨Excited to share my first postdoc paper, now published in Nature Communications! We uncover a key regulator of testis development and its link to differences of sex development (DSD). 🧵 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/7

Ready for it??? To all the **sex determination lovers** 📢 Save the date to the 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination (VSD) held in the beautiful Hawaii!! Great community, amazing science, excellent speakers and superb location 🏝 📢 March 23-26, 2026 📢

Friends in RTP area exploring biomedical career options don’t miss out on this great (and free) opportunity 🤩🤩 Learn more at bit.ly/4bzNK2s

📢 #Reproseminars are back! We are thrilled to kick off the semester on Monday 03/10 with an exciting talk by Dr. @jeanjuchung.bsky.social (@ Yale University) 🧪 💬Title: "Sperm Ca2+ channel research for reproductive medicine" 🕒 3 PM 🇦🇷 | 2 PM 🇺🇸 EST Join us!

New Akera's lab paper! Congrats @takashiakeralab.bsky.social and Eddie!

How lucky am I to have such an awesome neighbor 🥹🥹🥰🥰🤭

Some good news during these difficult times. Please check out our new preprint. We built a new tool to probe the origins of high oocyte aneuploidy rates at advanced female reproductive ages. This NIH funded work was led by a fantastic postdoc in the lab, Jiyeon Leem. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unpause! I'm super happy to now be able to share the published version of our paper at Science Advances showing that: 1) active histone mods occur independently of transcription 2) transcription coordinates histone deacetylation at active promoters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Talk titles 🔬 Tessa Lord: "Phosphoproteomic analyses identifying novel regulators of spermatogonial stem cell function" 🔬 Kathryn Grive: "The diverse roles of proteostasis regulator ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 in female reproductive health" #reprorocks #SSR

Former CRS Director, Dr. Teresa Woodruff receives National Medal of Science honor on January 3, 2025. This is a major honor for Dr. Woodruff and the CRS community is so proud of all her amazing accomplishments! www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

📢 Our lab has just opened a new postdoctoral position! Are you passionate about the mechanical and molecular control of folliculogenesis? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Contact me at [email protected] or apply directly here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... 1/3

Happy Holidays! We celebrated the end of year with @martinestermann.bsky.social’s idea to do an “Advent calendar of papers from this year” throughout December. It was so much fun learning about such diverse research topics. Can’t wait for another one next year 🤩