Awesome #axolotl (Thank you, Cassie!!) along with many bugs and critters to be discovered at the #SMCMVCD #OpenHouse 🐞🐛🐜🦟🪲🪳🕷️

How can you resist a #BugMuseum!!?? Happening today until 4pm @countyofsanmateo.bsky.social #Mosquito&VectorControlDistrict #OpenHouse www.smcmvcd.org/open-house

Finally finished @philipcball.bsky.social's wonderful "How Life Works"! When I hit the part on the 2nd Law felt compelled to share my comic on Entropy from a few years back, bits of which I'm expanding on in the new work (& one reason I read this brilliant book!) spinweaveandcut.com/sketching-en...

First moments at Asilomar Conference Grounds at #Yeast2026

Came back to US for the first time after my PhD to attend the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #Yeast26 Genetics Meeting. Great to meet many colleagues from the North American yeast community, whose research I have followed through papers. Until next time~

How cool is that? I am utterly exhausted & mind-boggled with the phenomenal synthetic hybrid chromosomes (Chromosome I of S. cerevisiae & S. paradoxus) & unexpected colony morphologies described by #ChrisNeVille lab of #IanEhrenreich @usc.edu @dornsife.usc.edu #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

[1/3] Monday at #Yeast26 was extremely busy (no excuses), but I just wanted to thank @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social , #MichaelLaw @stockton.edu (and…help!! I’m missing names!!) for putting together the “Teaching with Purpose: Implementing the New #Genetics #LearningOutcomes” workshop,…

How can you not stop in your tracks when you see “Yeast Killer” on a slide?? Extremely cool to learn about #mycoviruses from #MengxiTan lab of @marcmeneghini.bsky.social @utoronto.ca. Incredible to see they’ve uncovered even more #viruses with the #1011YeastGenomes #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

My paper is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🐟🐭🧠 Thankful to the contributors and @annamolofskylab.bsky.social for the support! How does the developing brain clear millions of dying neurons? Read below, if interested. #zebrafish #neuroscience #microglia #devbio @zebrafishrock.bsky.social 1/5

Surprised that #evolution of #fluconazole #DrugResistance monitored in yeast lineages in different environments collapsed into six fitness response clusters. Stunning work by @kgslab.bsky.social #ArizonaStateUniversity #ASUBiodesignCenterforMechanismsofEvolution #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Welcome to Wednesday morning and the FINAL #Yeast26 session focusing on #Evolution and #PopulationGenetics with co-cruise directors @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social and #GregoryLang #LehighUniversity to close our YGM! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Congratulations to @schacherer.bsky.social @unistra.fr recipient of the #Yeast26 GSA Medal! Great to hear the journey to identifying structural variants in #1011YeastGenomes, tackling heritability, genetic diversity, and genotype-phenotype @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Congratulations to @lacefieldlab.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social #DartmouthGeiselSchoolOfMedicine presenting the #Yeast26 Ira Herskowitz Award Lecture highlighting the link between #meiosis and #autophagy @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Thanks #LindaHuang @umassboston.bsky.social for reminding/teaching us to end yeast #meiosis with four spores requires wrapping each nucleus with a prospore membrane, like pulling a ski mask down from the top of your head past your ears and under your chin. #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Graduate awardees of #Yeast26 YGM Student Poster Awards announced by #InesPinto @uarkansas.bsky.social: #LeahAnderson @maitreya.bsky.social lab @uwgenome.bsky.social, #NasimaAkhter @justinfay.bsky.social lab @urochester.bsky.social , & #OnyinyechiOnuoha #BruceKnutson lab @biochemdept-bmb.bsky.social

Undergraduate awardees for #Yeast26 Student Poster Awards announced by #Yee-MonThu @colbycollege.bsky.social: #AlexaMacKersie #SeanBeckwith lab @hopecollege.bsky.social , #ViaLawson @jlargueso.bsky.social lab #ColoradoStateUniversity, & #EmmaBocquillon #AllysonO'Donnell lab #UniversityOfPittsburgh

How to monitor the #stress response of one protein in a single cell in response to salt stress as shared by #RachelKocik lab of @audreygasch.bsky.social #UWisc-Madison #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Delineating the role of #Bck2 in controlling cell size for triggering Start presented by #ShifuWu lab of #JanSkotheim @stanford.edu #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

The final #Yeast26 session this afternoon is “Life Cycle” with co-chairs #AmyIkui @brooklyncollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu and #AnujKumar @umich.edu @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

As a yeast geneticist, I wonder how yeast cells die. This clever Yeast Lifespan Machine holds the mother cell and buds are washed away to allow study of the aging mother cell. #KiyanShabestary #CalicoLifeSciences has focused on analyzing gene expression changes in scRNAseq from aging yeast. #Yeast26

Fascinating to see the detailed analysis of the #fibril structures generated by the #prion form of the translation termination factor #Sup35 in yeast shared by #WenjuanZhang @ucl.ac.uk #amyloid #[PSI^+] #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

I am easily fascinated by #WordClouds and these are all about #aging! And then you get to see an atlas of the age-sensitive proteome (where are they, how much, protein interactions) #KaiZhou @buckinstitute.org #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #HallmarksOfAging

Wow! In this morning’s #Yeast26 Disease Models and Aging session, @richasardana.bsky.social @cornelluniversity.bsky.social @cornellvet.bsky.social is using #Ers1, the yeast homolog of #cystinosin (#CTNS) to uncover potential drug targets for #Cystinosis @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

As we start this morning’s #Yeast26 session on “Disease Models & Aging” with co-chairs #DanielGottschling, #CalicoLifeSciences and #AllysonO'Donnell #UniversityOfPittsburgh, I'm having a back-to-the-future moment of a long-ago meeting enthralled when Dan Gottschling explained aging studies in yeast😮

Thanks #AparnaSreenivasan #CSUMB @calstate.bsky.social for gathering #Mentoring voices and challenges @needhibhalla.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social #DeVant’eDawson #SJSU #EnvironmentalStudies & #LeahAnderson @maitreya.bsky.social lab @uwgenome.bsky.social #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Excited to learn about two independent roles for the #pombe Elongator Protein 1 (#Elp1) in #tRNAmodification and #heterochromatin (linked to #RNAi) from #TommyVo @michiganstateu.bsky.social #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #fissionyeast #Spombe

Learned about using an oligo pull down assay to show that the zinc finger domain of transcription factor #Mig1 binds to #GQuadruplex DNA from #MeenuSharma from lab of #NayunKim #UTAustinCollegeOfPharmacy #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #G4

Thanks #BrianMetzger #PurdueUniversity for your deep dive into how gene expression noise contributes to the evolution of gene regulation! #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Starting our #Yeast26 Tuesday with the second Gene Regulation session facilitated by co-chairs #KarenArndt #UniversityOfPittsburgh and #DavidBrow @uwmadison.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

I just learned I have ONE thing in common with #Yeast26 YGM Lifetime Achievement Awardee, #PhilHieter @ubcmedicine.bsky.social: We never took a formal genetics class😀. Congratulations to an inspiring scientist who has impacted and improved the yeast community and beyond. @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

I’ve been chasing #helicases intentionally or accidentally for decades. Such a cool surprise to hear from #MatthewBochman #IndianaUniversity about using Helicase-AID to connect the yeast #RECQL4 homolog #Hrq1 to #RNAPolIII transcription. #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Love hearing about #OkazakiFragmentProcessing!! Thought-provoking results about changes in OFP when dNTP levels are elevated or skewed using rnr1 mutants from #JenniferSurtees @ubuffalo.bsky.social. Eager to hear more – no pressure! #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Time for me to get laser-focused as we start the #Yeast26 second #GenomeIntegrity session!! Co-chairs are #AnnKirchmaier @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social and #AmyMacQueen @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Having fun learning about #LatticePoisoning & #Ty1 retrotransposon restriction factors from #SeanBeckwith @hopecollege.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing undergrads (#AwesomeAbraham, #AlexaMacKersie, & #MackenzieStreeter) who are presenting Ty1 posters at #Yeast26 too! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Intriguing integrated model #CellMap approach to support predicting gene functions and protein-protein interactions in yeast and in humans presented by #DuncanForster @utoronto.ca @donnellycentre.bsky.social labs of @garybader.bsky.social and #CharlesBoone #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Happy Monday #Yeast26 people!! It’s Genomics and Systems Biology to start this morning with co-chairs @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social @concordia.ca and #SabineVanSchie @umasschan.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Congratulations to #KarenArndt #UniversityOfPittsburgh presenting the #Yeast26 Lee Hartwell lecture and sharing the journey from #RTF1 to the #PafComplex (#Paf1C) (leaving me scrambling to learn about #AnchorAway). @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

It’s the first #Yeast26 #GeneRegulation session, and I’m learning about #plant TPL corepressor interacting with SPT4, SPT5, and SPT6 from @leydonsaurus.bsky.social #UniversityOfWashington with help from a #SyntheticGeneticArray (I see you #GrantBrown @utoronto.ca) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Good morning #Yeast26, and thanks for coming to today’s first session on #GenomeIntegrity!! What a breathtaking space for pondering deep scientific thoughts😊. @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

I've attended meetings at #Asilomar since 2001, and I was today years old when I learned that "Asilomar" actually means "Refuge by the Sea"...Excited to share #pombe #FissionYeast research and represent @sfstatebio.bsky.social and @calstate.bsky.social at #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Hey Blueskies! Tony Davis, Gamal A. Smith, & Kelly J. Cooper of the MYP are in an excellent episode of ROOTED from @wgbh.org along with friends from @comicsncolor.bsky.social and PAX EAST about the world of Blerds in Boston! Check it out! youtu.be/FpSzBhWmXEE?...

I’m not crying; you’re crying…such a beautiful sight— @sfstatebio.bsky.social 2026 #graduates celebrate with their peers, their families and friends, biology staff and faculty-COMMUNITY!! #SFSU2026 @calstate.bsky.social #CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to our >7000 2026 SF State Gator #SFSU graduates!! Shout out to the @sfstatebio.bsky.social grads!! May blue skies always greet our graduates. @calstate.bsky.social

Inspired by the Phase I #clinical_trials on #Vir_Biotechnology masked T-cell engagers #TCE that target T-cells to #HER2 or #PSMA tumor cells shared by EVP/CSO #Jennifer_Towne at today’s #BioScience_Forum #cancer_therapuetics biosf.org

Join us Tues 5/12 @ 5:00pm "Conditionally Active T-cell engaging Antibodies for #Oncology" - Jennifer Towne, Ph.D., EVP/CSO - Vir Biotechnology. Registration & further info at biosf.org #BioScience_Forum The Alexandria at San Carlos - Space is limited #Virbiotechnology #biotechnology

Was this students box in which she adorned the exterior with eyes from the book and quotes on seeing and then had cut two eyes into the box which when you looked through revealed inner worlds, a dark one representing start of the book and bright sky for the ending. So cool, I was so touched!

Had a great time talking & making comics with students at West Chester U - and an extra special treat of a whole class who made projects on Unflattening on display as part of their multi class “Comic-con” comics analysis projects! Great stuff, geeked to see my dog in there - but my favorite one… 1/2

I have 3 talks coming up, including one in Canada! Audubon Everglades talk on Zoom: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... Talk at Point Pelee Festival of Birds in ON: www.festivalofbirds.ca/events/rosem... Biggest Week keynote, Maumee Bay, OH: www.biggestweekinamericanbirding.com/keynotes.html

“No one said there would be door prizes” ponders this happy recipient of this @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social book at today’s illuminating seminar by #KatieHafner hosted by #WomeninScience&Engineering (W+iSE), #CollegeofScience&Engineering #ComputerScienceDept #SFSU #LostWomenofScience

Happening today! #research #seminar on participatory science and wild birds by Dr Kelly Langhans from the Dept of Fish, and Wildlife Conservation! Join us at 2 pm!