New preprint out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.

Another life has been lost at the hands of Trump’s masked agents. Their violence is unacceptable and un-American. Our leaders must put an end to ICE’s reign of terror and its cruelty.

Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.

Stoked to have helped get this out the door! If you want to inject lots of mRNA into your embryos for higher SnR or to multiplex or to have it last longer… this is the way!

Any zebrafish people at ASCB interested in chatting about staygold or in vivo live imaging talk to Aline at her poster at P1238, and additional Swinburne lab posters as at P1238 (Maria) and P1229 on Tuesday

So excited to post my first official #zebrafish paper in my new gig at UC Berkeley with my amazing co-authors @swinburnelab.bsky.social @alinetschanz.bsky.social The TL;DR is that monomeric StayGolds are game changers for in vivo imaging in zebrafish 1/7 micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Had such an amazing time at #Worm25 catching up with old friends and making new ones! Love this community - and remember #justdogenetics!

Don’t miss your chance to join an awesome new lab!

Maybe I won the internet today 😄

#hiring! come join us at the Advanced BioImaging Center at UC Berkeley to help us build the #CellObservatory! 1/2 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04858

Hello SF! #StandUpForScience2025

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

Press release by the appropriations subcommittee on NIH budget slashing by @delauro.house.gov 🙏

Trainees who applied for an NIH diversity fellowship whose applications were withdrawn/not being reviewed, there's a NYTimes reporter who wants to talk, especially interested in applicants with disabilities. DM me & I'll put you in touch, will keep all contact confidential. Please amplify

Hi Bluesky friends! My 85 year old dad is a finalist in a graphic arts contest to design a wine bottle label for his local Maryland winery - if you think his art worthy it would be awesome if you voted for Bernard! Vote here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happy 2025!

Continuing the tour from Faction to HumbleSea

Alameda beer night!

Gig playing with the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Cal alumni jazz sextet (I know I’m not at alum!)

Yesterday we had a lab bake off (citrus themed) It was close but my “elevated key lime pie” took home the title! So many key limes gave up their juice for this cause…

Happy turkey day to all who celebrate! We started the day out with a Pie in the Sky inspired brunch!

Feel like I’m stuck in the darkest timeline with these league of super villain govt appointments

Hello science friends! Excited that Bluesky is taking off for #science though less excited for the root cause of it! Hope this place can be a haven for the next 4 years! #DevBio #EvoDevo #microscopy

🧵 of #CeleganSky / worm researchers to connect with. Pls tag yourself/others in replies. 1/n @senguptalab.bsky.social @snickclunk.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @rnareylab.bsky.social @millerlab.bsky.social @javierapfeld.bsky.social @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social