Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress. rdcu.be/fbd4a

Our first 2026 paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! 👏 to @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now Asst Prof, GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. Here we show how transcriptional and trafficking pathways coordinate thermoreceptor levels to precisely modulate response plasticity www.cell.com/current-biol...

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

In #GENETICS, @inechipurenko.bsky.social and colleagues studied the effects of mutations in the GNAI1, a G protein–coupled receptor gene, identifying their effects on ciliogenesis in human cells and #Celegans. buff.ly/MF1bSVn

More new science from the lab! Led by @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now at GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. We describe how experience tunes the ratios of functional receptors in a single sensory neuron via coordinating transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms to drive response plasticity.

Worm people: Were you a mentor, mentee, or in a peer-mentoring group in the C. elegans Mentor Match program last year? We need your feedback! Please fill out this quick survey to help us evaluate the program and improve it for the coming year. forms.gle/KKDtZwFdEzjP...

Amazing new work from the lab of @aliceyting.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @stanfordbiosci.bsky.social, engineered GPCRs for ligand-activated cell responses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪 Lab's latest!! Work by PD (and now PI) Alison Philbrook. C. elegans sensory neurons have gorgeous #cilia. We’ve always thought that a) no cilia = no sensory responses, & b) no IFT = no cilia. Punchline is we thought wrong. Read paper for more! #neuroscience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Hey bluesky friends! We are hiring a tenure-track faculty with a focus on human-plant interactions 🌱 Get this: we want graduating PhDs and early postdocs to apply! 🤯 We really want candidates that'll advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. I am in the search committee. Contact me if interested!

All #Celegans peeps! Drawing your attention to this really amazing tour-de-force from Changchun Chen's lab (with a small contribution from us). An incredible resource of strains with combos of 1654 GPCRs KO'd. Deals with the issue of gene duplication and redundancy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another spectacular paper about cilia and their structural and positional diversity in the brain. Wonder why oligodendrocytes and microglia don't have 'em but astrocytes do. From Carolyn Ott at Janelia 🧪 🧠🟦 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Aging folks, my university is hiring! We really want candidates that'll advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. Please share widely and feel free to ask me any questions!

Abstract submission for #TAGC24 is open now through Nov 9! Topics include Neurogenetics, Genomes & Genomics, Ecological Genetics, plus model organism meetings, amazing keynotes, industry sessions, career/networking events & much more. genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/ab...

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Two groundbreaking women neuroscientists. Eve has been an incredible mentor and friend and support system over my time at Brandeis. Congrats to Eve and Lily! www.rockefeller.edu/news/34584-l...