Oh how I've missed this game?

What a wonderful day talking science at Vanderbilt Cell and Developmental Biology topped off with a rooftop night cap with these great people @monica-santisteban.bsky.social @krishnamudumbi.bsky.social and Neil who has yet to get on bluesky but was a great host!

Very happy to be in Nashville today for #zebrafishzunday before my talk @vanderbilt.edu tomorrow, so here's a sneak preview of differential clearance of monomeric (turquoise) vs. oligomeric (red) amyloid beta from the zebrafish brain

Look who's the @navbo.bsky.social lab of the month! So honored. And also if you want to read my story and some unsolicited advice on the academic career path, you can also find it here in NAVBO's Lessons Learned: www.navbo.org/lessons-lear...

So honored to be invited to give a talk at #gliadelphia today. Gotta ❤️ the #glia community. So many great talks and posters. Not pictured are my new kickass silver boots

We are looking for a new technician to join our lab and gain some hands on #zebrafish and molecular biology experience. Interested parties should apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... Happy to answer any and all questions about the lab! #STEMJobs

#caturday to cleanse your timeliness

Really happy with how this write up about our work and me getting the @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar award came out. sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/r...

Happy hour with my oldest is food for the soul (so was the lobster roll)

Very proud of our #NeuroSURP student Megan Canace presenting her work in the lab this summer and representing the awesomeness of #zebrafish

Here's my child #olivefingers to brighten your feed in these depressing times

Another great #obrownlab dinner in the 📚. I'm so happy to see how we've grown in just 2 years with @tcpotts.bsky.social @lewisgall.bsky.social and others not on bluesky

Excited to announce that our collaboration with @briandaniels.bsky.social has been published today! So happy for everyone involved, but especially me and Marissa 😆. Check it out if you're interested in #neuroinflammation and the #BBB www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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My undergrad Inword got some really cool data this week, and I can't think of a better way to celebrate #fluorescencefriday than to share it. She injected oligomeric amyloid-B (red) and it caused these pulses of tracer leakage throughout the brain (turquoise) 1.5 days later. #BBB #zebrafish

Devastating and unnecessary

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.

Back in NJ, but had a great #cvb2025 with friends new and old. Can't wait to see them again next year at the Gordon

Talk is officially done. Podium was not friendly to the vertically-challenged. Now to sit back, relax, and enjoy the rest of #cvb2025

On my way to Ann Arbor for #cvb2025. Can't wait to see my #bbb people and learn about what they're up to. Who else is going?

So excited to share that I am one of the new @hhmi.org freeman hrabowsi scholars with so many other amazing new PIs. Check out the full list here www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

First R01 is officially submitted. Time to celebrate with @ztanv.bsky.social at our favorite place

I went to my first graders career day and here's his drawing of what I do: Science! Highly recommend talking to kids - so refreshing.

Turning failure into fun with our first #obrownlab #pizzapityparty achieved by 10 rejections! Onto the next round!

"Very first scientific talk in a barn" - @tcpotts.bsky.social did a great job talking about his screen for #BBB modulating small molecules using the best system #zebrafish

End of the year celebration for the #obrownlab. It's been one for the books: 2 big grants, 2 grad students joining the lab, 1 undergrad defending her thesis and moving on (and getting a fancy award to 👢).

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So proud!

Today was a great day for the #obrownlab. Cheers everyone!

Zebrafish are the best!!

Can't wait to co-organize the next #cshlbbb with @caromenard666.bsky.social @ayalbenzvi.bsky.social and the unforgettable @blacoste.bsky.social. (I promise he's as excited as I am). Put it on your calendars now, April 6-10, 2027!

So happy to be bringing trainees to such a great #cshlbbb. These are my people

So incredibly proud of Nishi for defending her undergraduate honors thesis yesterday. She was the first person to join the #obrownlab and she's done amazing work in just 1.5 years in the lab taking us in a new direction

Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource website (ZebrafishCCR) will be online soon!

Life has been hard for all of us, but #GRCGlia25 with @jcoutinhobudd.bsky.social and Sarah and Cody has made it just that much better. These are my people!

Who made this. 🤣

This hits at every level. Read it to the end - and boy, am I with you on hoping the boys have a come-uppance! #womeninstem are powerful!

On my way to the #gliaGRC in Ventura. Can't wait to catch up and commiserate with science friends from around the world! Now for some plane 😴

Signs from #standupforscience in New Jersey (photos by K. Goodrich). Plus a bonus image of me being a loud little lady. 😝

The Trenton #standupforscience2025 was so much fun- if a bit windy. So nice to see so many scientists a d non-scientists there today @barrlab.bsky.social @rburdine1.bsky.social

Feeling ready now for @standupforscience.bsky.social with my #fish inspired sign. Thanks @shcarroll.bsky.social for the suggestion!

What are your best lines for posters for tomorrow's @standupforscience.bsky.social march? Any rubio jokes?

With everything that's going on, I needed this cool data 1 day before #flourescencefriday. It's my first time with #GCaMP imaging (green), and you can clearly see Aβ42 induced hyperexcitability at the same time that we also see BBB leakage (not shown)! #zebrafishrock

Super proud of everything that Lewis accomplished and presented in just 1 year in the #obrownlab

Really grateful for and proud of the @rutgersupress.bsky.social scientific community. #tinyhandsoffRmoney www.insidernj.com/rutgers-univ...

The world is a dumpster 🔥 right now but hopefully some of these 📸 from my walk in this morning will soothe the soul.

Newest addition to the fish in my office. I think "Ru" looks good above my desk

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award! Five exceptional scientists received initial grants, and three previous awardees were given Stage 2 support to continue their critical work. Read more: www.damonrunyon.org/news/entries...

So happy to finally announce that the obrownlab.com has received the @damonrunyon.org Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award to study the role of the #BBB in glioblastoma treatment! (www.damonrunyon.org/news/) This was some much needed good news in these dark times of lab funding