I'm excited to share the first work from my postdoc in the von Zastrow lab! We address a fundamental question about neuromodulatory signaling: Can neurons tell the difference between multiple neuromodulatory inputs when they converge on only a few receptor pathways? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Vertebrate #Hedgehog signaling is transduced by transmembrane protein Smoothened (SMO) on the primary #cilium, but what is its mechanism? @reitergroup.bsky.social &co show that SMO & ciliary GPCRs regulate ciliary PKA activity to activate the Hedgehog pathway @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4v7vdnp

Cilia and Centrosome 2026 Meeting Update: We have extended the abstract deadline until June 23! Submit yours today to join a fantastic scientific program!

Congratulations Thi Nguyen, @konjikusicmia.bsky.social, Lorenzo del Castillo and Roshank Irannejad on this new paper! I'm proud of you all. Thank you, Dagmar Wachten, for editing. Everyone else, please send thoughts, comments, critiques and questions: plos.io/4v7vdnp

It's Leading Edge Fellow day!!! This day fills me with joy and inspiration. This cohort holds a special place in my heart because it is named for Zara Weinberg, a beloved Leading Edge Fellow who was a visionary scientist and fierce advocate for building a better scientific ecosystem

Congratulations, @konjikusicmia.bsky.social. It makes my heart well up to have this cohort named in memory of Zara, an extraordinary scientist.

So incredibly honored and excited to be a part of leading edge! Joining the ranks of all these incredible scientists has me truly humbled. To be part of Zara’s cohort when she was so instrumental to me in my first few years at UCSF makes me feel all the things.

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Gli3 is required for glandular epithelial proliferation and endometrial homeostasis during the estrous cycle https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.21.726971v1

💥 🚀 New preprint! 🎉🥳 How do hundreds of organelles organize themselves into near-perfect patterns inside a cell, without a blueprint? We dive deep into how basal bodies (BBs) self-organize in MCCs - and how actin actively tunes their dynamics into order 🍪 🧵👇 (1/17)

Check out this synopsis from Harry @yliu160.bsky.social on his new paper on the regulation of centriole architecture. And congratulations to Harry on starting his own lab @stonybrooku.bsky.social! You should work with Harry on all things centrosomal and ciliary!

The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is gonna be awesome! DEADLINE to register is June 1st! Sign up now! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Please come join me in Washington, DC August 2-6th for the FASEB SRC on Cilia and Centrosomes meeting! Over 40 talks will be selected from abstracts. We are also excited to launch our first North American Ciliopathy Summit, held at the same venue on August 2. events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...

1/ Thrilled to share our latest: an exciting collaboration across the @jshendure.bsky.social, @leastarita.bsky.social, @nobuhamazaki.bsky.social and @dschweppe.bsky.social labs! 🧵 below- #SystemsBiology #SCBEM #MultiOmics #Gastruloids www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ Excited to host invited speaker Leslie Babonis at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Her research uncovers how evolutionary innovations shape developmental biology, with a focus on cell type diversity and the origins of complex traits. 🧬🌊🔬✨ #devbio

Does anyone else have whatever they just imaged stamped on their eyelids for a few hours after they’re done on the microscope? Keep blinking and seeing neurons with cilia…

Here is a picture of a baby otter for no good reason.

Excited to have my first senior author publication out in the world! An awesome collab between myself in @reitergroup.bsky.social's lab and the Berbari lab at IU. We found primary cilia are necessary for postnatal pituitary development. 1/n. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meeting Alert! Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! 👇 @socdevbio.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @bscb-official.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

I might be struggling to end this year with sanity, but at least the view from the @reitergroup.bsky.social lab window is nice!

If you’re headed to #sfn25 come by our session on cilia in the brain! Our goal: convince you all cilia in the brain are as cool as we think they are!

Looking forward to presenting my poster today at #SfN2025 Early Career Poster Session! Come chat about cilia and autism at poster #A34 in SDCC Room 25A! Or catch @konjikusicmia.bsky.social and I’s session on cilia in the brain tomorrow! 👇👇

While everyone in my lab is a bit heartbroken. It’s been a good moment to come together to celebrate how fucking awesome Zara was. I know she meant so much to so many people at ucsf, in pharmacology, cell biology, and synthetic biology, the leading edge community, and really across science.

Zara’s impact on my life will stay with me forever. She was insanely insightful, wonderfully kind, and sassier than myself. I will miss our weekly coffee walks and making her laugh until she coughed. My heart has broken in a new way this week, but I will carry her forward in my heart and career.

Come join us at our #sfn2025 Nanosymposium for Cilia in the Brain! What can’t these little organelles do! Excited to co-chair with @elinakosty.bsky.social 🧠🔬

📣 PSA for those going to this Foggy #Folsom: You still need sunscreen when I'm around - otherwise you're gonna end up with a very weird sunburn for a very long time

I regularly think I was just born in the wrong era. So to keep that going, happy Earth Wind Fire day! May you have something to dance away this 21st of September day to! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

A good day in lab, followed by a nice rainbow as I stepped off the train home. ❤️

Thanks @cilialab.bsky.social for organizing as usual!

‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️ Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is your occasional 🧪 reminder that you test a hypothesis. You don't prove a hypothesis. 🤓

Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Just your typical temperate range for a city that's only 7x7 miles

I once asked a scientist whom I respect enormously her advice for a successful career and life in science. Her advice: Leave every place better than you found it. It surprises me that many people would try hard to do the compete opposite … and we would elect them to run the country.

I always like to reference this comparison chart that @rrbehringer.bsky.social made awhile back. Hope it helps put things in perspective! -KT

Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/... @lblanchoin.bsky.social @manuelthery.bsky.social @gelinmatthieu.bsky.social

Finally out! Brittney Voigt et al show the shared role of Inppl1a expansion of notochord vacuolated cells and also for hypertrophy of chondorcytes and bone lengthening. @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

An honor to have gotten to play a part in this one from the talented Thi Nguyen in the Reiter lab, @reitergroup.bsky.social, hope people enjoy it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to be headed to Austin to watch an old friend defend her thesis, catch up with old friends, and chat science with old mentors! See yall soon! @neftaliv.bsky.social @jbwallingford.bsky.social @slewzeus.bsky.social

Alex Long, the last postdoc from my lab at Stanford, is starting her own lab, continuing her beautiful work on evolutionary cell biology using chytrid fungi as a model. Check it out! alonglab.org

On the Caltrain into lab this morning. Overhearing some teenagers talk about cuts to science and how it scares them gives me a little hope for the future. ❤️

Five weeks into what has been a constant onslaught on science, working on a paper seems like such a privilege, which many of our recently fired colleagues no longer have. And a rebellious act. But mostly it's self-care. (Give yourself permission to turn off the news for the weekend.)

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

Preprint Alert! Juyeon Hong in the lab has dissected the molecular organization of distal tips of vertebrate motile cilia. She even found a new compartment in the extreme distal tip marked by Ccdc78 and Ccdc33. Give it a read! @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you want to support the American spirit of discovery? Read this inspiring call from Harold Varmus:

"This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most.” PS.- Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex