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Biologist especially interested in cilia, signaling and development!
Good morning, Bay! I’m up early to head out to University of Florida and Daniel Kopinke. I hope to see you at the Dept of Pharmacology seminar Wednesday!
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Jeremy Berg
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Good news. Faculty expressing their concerns seems to be having effects. If you are in academia, make sure your administration knows your views on the compact.
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HoraniLab
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I am excited to share our preprint on the use of machine learning to identify abnormal cilia function. I am proud of Nicholas Hadas, a talented PhD candidate, for his hard work in compiling the code and preparing this manuscript.
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Machine Learning Analysis of Cilia-Driven Particle Transport Distinguishes Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Cilia from Normal Cilia
Rational. Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetic condition that results in dysmotile cilia and abnormal mucociliary clearance. Despite advances in understanding the pathogenesis of PCD, diagnos...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.02.686130v1
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James Briscoe
14 days ago
Looking forward to a day with the developmental biologists at WashU in St Louis. Honoured to be giving the 44th Annual Oliver H. Lowry Lecture 4pm Jeffrey T. Fort NRB Building, Auditorium
happenings.wustl.edu/event/44th-a...
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44th Annual Oliver H. Lowry Lecture: 'The Dynamics of Neural Tube Development'
https://happenings.wustl.edu/event/44th-annual-oliver-h-lowry-lecture
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An obituary for the venerable Dr. Marthe Gautier:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...
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Marthe Gautier, 96, Dies; Had Key Role in Down Syndrome Breakthrough
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/health/marthe-gautier-dead.html
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HuranovaLab
about 1 month ago
Today is the
#BBSGlobalDay
— an opportunity to raise awareness of this rare condition and offer support to everyone living with BBS and their loved ones 🌍 🌎 🌏
www.img.cas.cz/2025/10/8758...
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Karl’s putting on a good performance this morning.
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James Briscoe
about 1 month ago
Meet the 2025 cohort of
@dev-journal.bsky.social
Pathway to Independence fellows Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology
ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/19/dev205224/369355/Pathway-to-Independence-a-forecast-for-the-future
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Joseph W. Brown
about 2 months ago
Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement! (This is _actually_ on the "journal" website) \(〇_o)/
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Javier Apfeld
about 2 months ago
New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
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Biophysical Society
about 2 months ago
Yifan Cheng to Receive 2026 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award
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Caitie McCafferty
about 2 months ago
I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#cilia
#protistsonsky
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American Society for Cell Biology
about 2 months ago
🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (
www.bhallalab.com
), named a 2025
#ASCB
Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at
#CellBio2025
in Philadelphia this December.
#CellBiology
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Martin Kampmann
about 2 months ago
Apply by Oct 15 - please spread the word!
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John Wallingford
about 2 months ago
Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by
@harperonebooks.bsky.social
in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social
(1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
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Piali Sengupta
2 months ago
Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures.
@nachury.bsky.social
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In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia
Neuronal cilia have emerged as crucial signaling hubs, yet their molecular composition and integration with synaptic communication remain poorly understood. Using a newly developed Arl13b-TurboID mous...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675452v1
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Vaughn Cooper
2 months ago
Congrats to Lucy Shapiro, a pioneering microbiologist, for winning the 2025 Lasker-Koshland Award. So deserving!
laskerfoundation.org/winners/pion...
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https://laskerfoundation.org/winners/pioneering-approach-to-bacterial-cell-biology-national-leadership/
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Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars: "...conclude that the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars - Nature
A geological, petrographic and geochemical survey of distinctive mudstone and conglomerate outcrops of the Bright Angel formation on Mars reveals textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and or...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0
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Matthew Cobb
2 months ago
Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/science/david-baltimore-dead.html
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Congratulations to Thi Nguyen for an excellent, insightful, rollicking defense!
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Ahh! The classic Bay Area fall triad: fog, soccer and geese coexisting.
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I'm loving the @idlesband.bsky.social-fueled soundtrack for Caught Stealing. The album cover is a chest X-ray most notable for the six foreign objects in the lung fields. Also notable is the right-sided cardiac apex. Does this individual also have heterotaxia?
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Elphege Nora Lab at UCSF
3 months ago
New preprint with
@gfudenberg.bsky.social
We find the rate of cohesin loop extrusion in cells is set by NIPBL dosage and tunes many aspects of chromosome folding. This provides a molecular basis for NIPBL haploinsufficiency in humans. 🧵👇
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NIPBL dosage shapes genome folding by tuning the rate of cohesin loop extrusion
Cohesin loop extrusion is a major driver of chromosome folding, but how its dynamics are controlled to shape the genome remains elusive. Here we disentangle the contributions of the cohesin cofactors ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.667581v1
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
2 months ago
I know there is A LOT going on but just a heads up: TOMORROW, 9/3, is the last day to apply for a talk (or early poster) at
#CellBio2025
in December! There will be a
#Meiosis4Eva
: The Cell Biology of Reproduction minisymposium on 12/7 at 10am. Please apply if you are interested in giving a talk! 🧪
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Gordon Ramsay had a basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Protect yourself and your loved ones from too much sun, and avoid misactivating ciliary Hedgehog signal transduction!
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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Gordon Ramsay reveals skin cancer diagnosis: 'Please don’t forget your sunscreen this weekend'
The British celebrity restaurateur said he got the skin cancer removed, sharing a picture showing a line of stitches from his earlobe to his neck.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/gordon-ramsay-skin-cancer-diagnosis-rcna228177
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
3 months ago
Research team
@nadlerlab.bsky.social
, A. Honigmann
@biotec-tud.bsky.social
, B.Drobot
@hzdr.bsky.social
, M. Hof
@heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social
develops approach to visualize lipids in cells & uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell.
@nature.com
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Fat microscopy: Imaging lipids in cells
Dresden research team develops novel imaging approach to visualize individual lipids in cells and uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell.
https://www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreach/news-media/article/fat-microscopy-imaging-lipids-in-cells
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Institut Curie
3 months ago
⏳ Last days to apply to the International Course in Developmental Biology "From
#stemcells
to
#morphogenesis
" organized by Institut Curie and
@sorbonne-universite.fr
📅 Application deadline: September 5 🔗 Program & registration:
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
#devbio
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From the Strahov monastery library in Prague, Galileo looking cheery. I guess he didn’t know what was coming…
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Developmental Biology
3 months ago
Remebering Paul Kulesa (1962–2025) We honor Dr. Paul Kulesa, whose pioneering work on neural crest cell development has profoundly impacted neuroscience and pediatric cancer research. His loss has deeply impacted the Developmental Biology community and everyone he graced with his presence in life.
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EuroCilia2027
3 months ago
Have you saved the date for
#Cilia2027
? It is going to be in March 2027 at this lake near
#Milan
. 👇
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DEEMteam_Orsay
3 months ago
In our ongoing saga of description of new protists, we are happy to introduce Multisulcus malaysiensis, a deep-branching heterolobosean that forms highly unusual multiflagellated cells with multiple ventral grooves. Great work by
@kristina-prokina.bsky.social
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James Briscoe
3 months ago
A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms
Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/14/dev204617/368764/From-genes-to-patterns-five-key-dynamical-systems
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Mill_lab
4 months ago
Peak
#SummerFun
- our amazing line-up for our 52nd
@bscb-official.bsky.social
@gensocuk.bsky.social
@ukcilianetwork.bsky.social
e-symposium 19/08/2025 15:00-17:45 is now live! Join us for all things
#cilia
&
#centrosomes
- free & open to all. Register for here-
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220921258...
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BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/122092125835?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Carter Lab
3 months ago
Excited to share our latest work with
@simonbullock11.bsky.social
! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..
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John Holbein
3 months ago
This working paper looks really cool. "The Education-Innovation Gap" 🧵🧵🧵
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The Pfeffer lab has been publishing a string of interesting papers mapping links between Parkinson's disease and cilia. The latest:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PPM1M, an LRRK2-counteracting, phosphoRab12-preferring phosphatase with a potential link to Parkinson’s disease
Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) phosphorylates a subset of Rab GTPases that regulate receptor trafficking, and LRRK2-activating mutations are lin…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124725008022?via%3Dihub
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Jeremy Berg
4 months ago
New STAT story about multi-year funding.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...
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NIH is shrinking the number of research projects it funds due to a new Trump policy
NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/nih-cancer-institute-shrink-number-of-funded-research-grants/
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Don Moynihan
4 months ago
New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
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Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget
NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-trump-administration-is
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Kristian G. Andersen
4 months ago
Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States. Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...
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‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research | CNN
Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision to leave the agency and what he says is the Trump administration’s crackdown...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/Tv/video/amanpour-nih-cuts-medical-research-former-director-francis-collins
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Jenna Norton
4 months ago
Resolution from Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Jake Auchincloss (MA-04) recognizing the importance of U.S. leadership in biomedical research and the federal government’s responsibility to protect and expand that leadership.
#SaveNIH
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DeGette, Raskin, Auchincloss Introduce Resolution Recognizing U.S. Leadership in Biomedical Research
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Reps.
https://degette.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/degette-raskin-auchincloss-introduce-resolution-recognizing-us
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Martin Kampmann
4 months ago
Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community!
aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702
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Ákos T Kovács
4 months ago
A red algal polysaccharide influences the multicellular development of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A red algal polysaccharide influences the multicellular development of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta
Perotti et al. find that polysaccharides from algae promote multicellular development in the choanoflagellate S. rosetta. Because algal polysaccharides are abundant in the aquatic environments where S...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00819-X?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email
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Bayfront Park brings the drama today…
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Neil Shubin
4 months ago
Some personal news…
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John Wallingford
4 months ago
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-meetings-conferences-and-workshops/fda-nih-workshop-reducing-animal-testing-07072025
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦
4 months ago
Frank Stahl died today at 95. He and his colleague Matt Meselson found a way to demonstrate how DNA replicated. Their lab experiment has been called the "most beautiful experiment". Here's a video of them describing how they did it. Video h/t NYT.
#science
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tn...
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The Most Beautiful Experiment: Meselson and Stahl
YouTube video by Science Communication Lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tnuAqEp9g
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John Wallingford
4 months ago
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...
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The human ciliopathy protein RSG1 links the CPLANE complex to transition zone architecture - Nature Communications
The CPLANE complex is essential for ciliogenesis, and mutations to all but one subunit have been associated with ciliopathies. Here they identify three familial mutations in the final subunit, RSG1, t...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61005-8?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250701&utm_content=10.1038/s41467-025-61005-8
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So much great science here! Congratulations all! And a special hooray to Hanna Martens and Isha Jain!
www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
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The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars/2025-scholars
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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab
5 months ago
🚨 New preprint! Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with
@cellarchlab.com
@chgenoud.bsky.social
@stearnslab.bsky.social
🙌.
#TeamTomo
#UExM
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Hiten Madhani
5 months ago
Hey there, Our latest paper is out in Cell. We made a knockout collection in a human fungal pathogen, performed over 140 screens, and developed 6 follow up stories. Phenotypic landscape of an invasive fungal pathogen reveals its unique biology Share link:
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