🎉 Happy belated birthday to our wonderful trainee, Rouwaida! 🎂🔬 Thank you for the energy, curiosity, and dedication you bring to the lab every day. We’re so lucky to have you on the team and can’t wait to see all you accomplish this year! ✨🧪 #HappyBirthday #LabLife #BiomedicalScience

🎉 Happy Birthday to our awesome trainee, Hanna Boccheciamp! 🥳🎂 Your positivity, hard work, and great attitude make every day better. We’re lucky to have you on the team and hope your day is filled with cake, laughs, and celebration! 🎈✨ Help us wish Hanna the happiest birthday! 🎉🎁

Looking for a meaningful year-end, tax-deductible gift? 💝 Support the Scroggins Lab in honor of someone you love. Your gift stays local and helps us give moms and babies the care and answers they deserve. Give here: med.umn.edu/biomedical/g... Click Special Instructions and note Scroggins Lab.

💙 Thank you to everyone who attended Dr. Scroggins' talk. Your presence, thoughtful questions, and engagement made it a truly meaningful event. We’re grateful you showed up to learn, connect, and support this important conversation.

Reminder! Dr. Sabrina Scroggins’ talk “One Heart, Two Lives” is happening soon! Everyone is welcome — even if you didn’t register. Just show up… the people who care about you (and your future kids) would totally approve. 😉💜

Curious about the mysteries of pregnancy and preeclampsia? 💡 Join us for Dr. Sabrina Scroggins’ talk “One Heart, Two Lives: How High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Affects Mom and Baby.” Come learn how this research protects both moms and babies. 💜👶 #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

🌌 It may seem dark and chaotic at times, but nights like this remind us to look up — there’s still so much beauty in this world worth fighting for. 💚💜✨ #NorthernLights #HopeInTheDark #DuluthNights #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

🌟 It’s go time! The Scroggins Lab is kicking off our first meeting with new and returning trainees. Excitement is in the air as we team up to make a difference in women’s health! 🧬💪

ChatGPT said: 🎉🥳 Help us celebrate the one and only Cheryl Anderson! 🎉🥳 Join us in wishing her a Happy Birthday — because she’s not just amazing… she’s amazeballs! 💥🎂 Cheryl, we hope your day is full of laughter, confetti, and just the right amount of mischief. ✨🎈

🌟 Hello amazing followers of the Scroggins Lab! 🌟 Please support the Department of Biomedical Sciences by following their pages on Instagram, Facebook, and BlueSky 🙌 Stay up to date with: 🧬 Public talks & events 📢 News & highlights 📖 Groundbreaking publications Science is better when it’s shared! 💡✨

📚🐾 When Mom drags you to work on the weekend but forgets Saturday and Sunday are for FUN — not grant writing! 📝✨ All work and no play makes Blu a very sad bulldog 🐶💙 Please send snacks! #LabMascot #SendSnacks #ScrogginsLab #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

Dr. Scroggins’s talk at the Neuroscience conference went fantastically! 🧠🎤 There was a great turnout, and the room was buzzing with questions and discussions. Always exciting to see such lively engagement and curiosity! 🌟👏 #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

The talks at the Neuroscience conference are captivating! 🧠✨ Rouwaida is fully tuned in, taking notes to soak up every bit of brilliance from these amazing speakers. It's not just a conference; it's a brainy adventure! 🌟 Excited to bring these ideas back to the lab! 💡📝 #UMNProud #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

Neurosciences Summer Retreat at the Graduate Hotel—ready for a true “brainy good time” with our Twin Cities colleagues! 🧠✨ We're excited to share that Dr. Scroggins will be giving a talk during the retreat—so be sure to bring your brightest ideas and let’s spark some serious neural connections!

Science takes teamwork—and Blu, our Scroggins Lab mascot, is leading the charge! 🐶🔬 With this bulldog on our side, STEM success is paw-sible! #MedicalStudent #LabLife #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH #SummerVibes

"The Scroggins Lab out here being legendary 🧪💥 — bringing science and inspiration to the next generation at the Indigenous Scrubs Camp! Big shoutout to Trinity, Anna, and Rouwaida for repping the lab and showing the future is bright (and pipetting like pros)!" #ScrogginsLab #UMNMed

🎉 Please join us in giving a warm, fun-filled welcome to Anna and Rouwaida—the newest members of the lab! 🧪✨ We're beyond excited to have them on the team and can't wait for everyone to get to know these two amazing humans. 🙌 Let's show them how awesome this crew is! 💥💬 #WelcomeToTheLab #LabLife

🌈 Happy Pride Month! Time to turn up the love, crank up the color, and celebrate every shade of the rainbow. Be bold. Be proud. Be YOU. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖💛💙💚 #PrideMonth #LoveIsLove #CelebratePride #ProudToBeMe

🎤 "Caught Trinity workin’ in the hood, She said, ‘The girls in the hood are always hard!’ Start talkin’ that smack — we’ll pull your references. Quote me in your next paper. Cited, not silenced." 📚🔥 #LabLife #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

🎉🎂 Happy Birthday, Trinity! 🎂🎉 Wishing you a day full of love, laughter, and everything that makes you smile. You’re one of a kind, and today we celebrate YOU! Here’s to another amazing year of memories, dreams, and being your awesome self. If you see her today, make sure to wish her happy one! 🎁

🎉 Guess who's back?! Help us welcome the one and only Trinity Benton! We’re so excited to have this amazing McNair Scholar back in the lab for another summer of discovery and FUN! 🌟💡 Drop a 👋 or 🙌 in the comments to show Trinity some love! 🔬 #McNairScholar #ScrogginsLab #UMNProud #UMNMed #UMNbms

🎓✨ The Scroggins Lab sends a HUGE congrats to Denali, Ella, and Olivia on graduating! 🎉 Your curiosity, dedication, and laughter lit up the lab — you’ll be missed. 💙 We can’t wait to see the amazing things you’ll do — go conquer your destinies! 🚀💥 #ScrogginsLab #UMNProud #UMNMed #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

Committee meeting ✅ Talks attended ✅ Presentation ✅ #IMMUNOLOGY2025 #ScrogginsLab #ScienceInAction #LabLife #Neuroscience #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

🌺✈️ The Scroggins Lab is en route to AAI #IMMUNOLOGY2025 in beautiful Hawaii! Ready for cutting-edge immunology talks, networking with fellow scientists, and maybe a little fun in the sun too! 🌞🧬🌊 #ScrogginsLab #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH

🎉🥲 Bittersweet day in the Scroggins Lab! We celebrated our amazing students and techs graduating and heading to their next chapters. If you see them this week, wish them well—Dan, Denali, Olivia, and Ella, you’ll all be deeply missed. The lab won’t be the same without you!

🎉🎂 Do you know what day it is?! It’s OLIVIA’S BIRTHDAY!! 🥳💖 Let’s shower her with ALL the love, laughs, and cake today! 🎈🎁 Drop your birthday wishes below and help make her day extra special! 🎊🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLIVIA!! 🎂💃✨ #HappyBirthdayOlivia #BirthdayQueen #CelebrateGoodTimes

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🧬 Funny Friday: Immunology Edition 🔬 Why did the T cell bring a ladder to the lymph node? Because it heard the B cells were on a higher level of activation 😎 #UMNProud, #UMNMed #UMDbiomedicalsciences #UMNbms #UMNmedDLH #ScrogginsLab

RIGHT NOW in NYC! @aaupcu.bsky.social @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @actioninhighered.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments next week in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., a case that could strip away a critical piece of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates insurance companies cover preventive healthcare services at no out-of-pocket cost. glaad.org/releases/rep...

🎥🌿 From Classroom to Garden Fame! 🌿🎥 Dr. Rahmona Thompson, our fave Botany guru, stars in a plant-loving series with Sam Noble Museum! 🍃💚 Watch here 👉 youtu.be/0D0a8G6MfTo #PlantPower #BotanyQueen

To all my fellow science nerds—how are you maintaining your mental equilibrium? What’s keeping your students and colleagues from collapsing like poorly pipetted gels? Had any eureka moments lately—or even just avoided a meltdown (literal or emotional)?

The escalating trade war between the U.S. and China has resulted in huge average tax rates on each other’s imports. Here’s a breakdown of how the tariffs on certain goods from China add up: nyti.ms/4cxIih9

🎉 Fitger's 5K – DONE! 🎉 What an amazing race! 🏃‍♂️The energy was electric, and it was such a great time connecting with coworkers, peers, and the awesome community around us. 💪 Grateful for the experience, the team spirit, and the memories made. Can’t wait for the next one! 🙌 #fitgers5k #scrogginslab

💥 Angela Dorigatti and Sabrina putting in the work! Making that easy single-cell spatial magic happen and repping hard for the Scroggins Lab on the Big campus! 💪🔬🔥 #WomenInSTEM #SingleCell #SpatialBiology #Teamwork #ScrogginsLab#SupportMomsAndBabies #WomenInSTEM #snRNAseq

The NIH helps keep research costs low and makes the U.S. a leader in medicine. It backed 354 of 356 new drugs (2010–2019)—including cancer, overdose, and heart treatments. Your tax dollars save lives! ❤️ 📖 More info #NIHsaveslives

Some good news. Let’s accelerate this! www.reuters.com/business/ene...

🎉🎂 Help us celebrate Courtney’s special day! 🎂🎉 Join us in wishing Courtney a very Happy Birthday! 🥳🎈 Drop your birthday wishes in the comments and make her day extra special! 💖✨ #HappyBirthdayCourtney 🎁🎊

“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business. These are going to be huge losses to the research community.” #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

10,000 Health and Human Services employees are being laid off. These are the people who track diseases, conduct research, make sure our food and medicine is safe, and administer health insurance for nearly half the country. Tell me how this will "make America healthy again."

Blu and Baby are feeling a little down—they’re working hard to be the best lab mascots and grow our community! 💙🐾 Help cheer them up by liking and sharing our page. Together, we can ensure moms and babies get the healthy start they deserve! 💕👶 #TwinCitiesCampus #ProudMoment #ScrogginsLab

Denali crushed her first brain cross-section cut & stain! 🧠🔥 So proud of how fast she's mastering this technique. Show her some love—hit that like & share! 💙 #ScienceInAction #FutureNeuroscientist #UMNProud, #UMNMed, #UMDbiomedicalsciences, #UMNbms, #UMNmedDLH

🧠🧬 Every minute, a mom or baby is lost because of complications from hypertensive diseases in pregnancy. NIH-supported research helps protect the health of mothers and babies, work that touches every family and every community. Please call your representatives. Support science and healthcare.

🚨 URGENT: NIH Funding Cuts Hurt Your State Losing NIH funding means fewer jobs, stalled research, and delayed treatments nationwide. Labs will close, and progress on cancer, Alzheimer’s, and rare diseases will slow. Act now! Contact your representatives. See your state’s impact. scienceimpacts.org

With budget cuts making science meetings harder to attend, the Autumn Immunology Conference (Nov 21–24, 2025) is an affordable, trainee-friendly option! Great for networking, learning, and sharing research—don’t miss out! Check out their BlueSky page: @autumnimmuno.bsky.social #AutumnImmunology

Another busy, busy day in the Scroggins lab! 🧠🔬 Olivia is crushing it—embedding brains in OCT for sectioning and putting our gentleMACS Octo Dissociator through its paces. Science in action! 👩‍🔬💪 #LabLife #Neuroscience #WomenInSTEM #Scrogginslab

🧠🔬 We're mapping the brain like never before with snRNAseq + spatial transcriptomics — revealing what cells express and where they do it. It’s single-cell meets spatial context. Think Google Maps for gene expression. Game-changing insights into brain health, disease, and development are on the way!

🌟 Putting in the Work at Scroggins Lab! 🌟 Late nights, weekends, and dedication—we’re working hard to ensure moms and babies get the healthy start they deserve. 💕👶 Help us make a difference! 🙌 Like, share, and spread the word—because let’s be honest, it’s what your mom would want! ❤️

"Congratulations to the incredible Dr. Morgan Johnson! 🎉 We had the pleasure of having you in our lab and couldn’t be prouder that you matched in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at Brown! Your hard work and dedication inspire us. Wishing you success in this next exciting chapter! 👏🎊"