My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing 🔵 lifeact & 🔴 RFP-nls Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨ 🔗 www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... #NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

www.ascb.org/society-news... It's official now 😁 Big thanks again to @ascbiology.bsky.social & MBoC

@tricytomeet.bsky.social continued with a lively poster session. I particularly liked the presentation by Naveen Chana, about work in Sid Shaw's IU lab on the plant augmin complex & microtubule regulation. She's now a PhD student in Joe Kieber's lab at UNC trianglecytoskeleton.com/2025-meeting...

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

This is an awesome opportunity to write letters to middle school students across the US to chat about real science careers and your path. Please join me in my first year signing up! It's 4 letters spread across the school year. Registration closes next week, and there's 3,200 students signed up!

1/3 Excited to see my #microscopy collage featured in the first issue of 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞—a beautiful, hand-crafted non-profit magazine. Thanks so much for including my work! Check out PaperAirplane.pub, for a small donation to support refugees and immigrants! #SciArt #SciComm #DevBio #CellBio

Also thrilled that Gabrielle Neyman ( #UNC News), with help from #AAAS, wrote an awesome press release about our new paper that’s accessible to non-scientists! Huge thanks to Gabrielle and AAAS for helping share our work with the world! 🙏 #SciComm #Science www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Our new paper uncovering the role of Plexin/Semaphorin signaling in collective cell migration using testis nascent myotubes in flies is out! This work is from my time with @peiferlabunc.bsky.social led by @maikbischoff.bsky.social. As always, I am so thankful and proud to be a part of this story!

1/14 “Epithelial” & “Mesenchymal” aren’t binary categories—they form a spectrum, or better yet, a multidimensional space. This becomes especially clear in collective cell migration, which often depends on a finely tuned degree of “mesenchymal-ness”. #cellbio #devbio #cellmigration

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images. Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site. mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do... Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️

This project will hold a special place for me as my introduction and gateway into falling in love with cell and molecular biology. This was in part due to Maik Bischoff's and Mark Peifer's contagious passion, and in part due to this amazing model system. With that said... look at these weird testes!

Everything's packed and ready for an exciting #GordonConference on Directed #CellMigration in Lucca, Italy! Thrilled (and a little nervous) to give my first-ever talk at a GRC! 🔬🛫 🇮🇹 #Science #Cellbio

Almost 2/3 of Americans with #Alzheimer are women. Sexism plays a big role in access to resources for cognitive health. Women born in the state with the highest structural sexism showed memory decline like that of those who were 9 years older. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@emily-mcparland.bsky.social, @noahgurley.bsky.social, Kevin Slep, @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and colleagues dissect the differential roles of the dual Ras-association domains of Drosophila Canoe in linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

We learn in school about the distinctive shapes of each of our body’s organs, but how did that arise? Organs self-assemble, as individual cells change shape and move in coordinated ways, sometimes with multiple cell /tissue types shaping one another 1/n 🧪

105 cool microscopists in this starter pack, but I know there are more out there! I want to find more 45 to complete the list, can you help me? 🤓🔬 go.bsky.app/Aaf8sKT