Christine Curcio and Cynthia Owsley receive the Proctor medal at ARVO 2025

TERMIS 2025 abstracts due Monday April 28th. Speaker slots are open in "Engineering strategies to aid in diagnosis and treatment of ophthalmic disease." Use the following link to submit, we hope to see you in Detroit: invt.io/1exb5cqgtr3

Who needs a swim bladder when your new home has all of this coral to perch on!

Hot off the press. We observed elevated levels of G-CSF in AMD human donor RPE-Choroid tissue and identified c-reactive protein as an AMD associated stressor responsible for increased G-CSF levels. @choroidlab.bsky.social @adnankhan.bsky.social @stemcellseh.bsky.social.

When Claire is up, everyone is up. Happy #Caterday.

Just got home from visiting with my good friend and collaborator Jens Kiilgaard in Copenhagen DK, and what should be waiting for me at my local record store…Linkin Park’s #EmilyArmstrong is incredible! Can’t imagine a better lead following the loss of Chester. Plus, pressed on translucent blue wax!

Growing up in Newfoundland, there were many interesting dialects. For instance, my mom’s entire family would drop and add the letter H resulting in sentences like “did you play hice ockey today?”. I recently told her about X, to which she replied, “whats hex?”. I said, it’s what Elon did to twitter!

Two masks on my plane to Copenhagen, DK……unfortunately, they are both on me, n95 under the beard mask (which I wear because the n95 cuts into my beard and makes me look like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean).

Watching Crystal Palace vs. Tottenham and your 160lb Newfie decides he is a lap dog.

As close to first class as the tail section gets!

New paper! Multi-year controlled #SciComm experiment finds that tweeting about published papers does NOT lead to an increase in citations of those papers. Led by @trevorabranch.bsky.social , featuring me @melissacmarquez.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @danirabaiotti.bsky.social & others 🧪

What concerns me about far-right politics is its meanness and lack of empathy. This is the same behavior seen in the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide, Russian genocides, Rwanda, Darfur, American West of Native Peoples, etc... It's the same selfishness/nationalism/intolerance.

Great talk by Kapil Bharti at #RD2023 on metformin treatment for AMD and AMD like diseases.

If we learned nothing else from the pandemic it should have been that going to work while virally ill is bad. You might be able to ‘battle through’ but those you infect might not be so lucky. Sick days are not lazy nor a luxury, they are necessary for public health.

Let's campaign to make .gifs and other movies available here before we all move somewhere else... If you want to have .GIFs in Bsky please repost ! @mads100tist.bsky.social @christlet.bsky.social @henriqueslab.bsky.social

"Addiction to journal brand and Impact Factor has led us to conflate quality, impact, and trust in research. We now have the opportunity to adopt a new approach with better trust signals, in which judgments of an article’s merits are not made at a single point in time" @richardsever.bsky.social

Vaccines and masking and health measures should not be subject to political whim and based on scientific data and population need! This is outrageous and so, so wrong. People will die for this political viewpoint

Worrying data out in children reflecting several recent studies in adults that show enhanced millions of developing Diabetes type I following Covid. Lots more cases in adult population and looks like the same for kids 😔 FYI most kids not eligible for protective vax now in uk.

Anyone on here an expert on looking at lysosomes/autophagosomes using TEM? I have no idea what I'm looking at here and desperately need some help. Probably doesn't help that I'm pretty new to this and looking at mutants. Retina/RPE, tip of photoreceptor outer segment bottom right 🧪 #neuroscience

#Fluorescentfriday…..the OG source….or close enough!

3D human retinal organoid model for the study of early diabetic retinopathy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.04.556258v1

Spatial distribution and functional integration of displaced ipRGCs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.05.556383v1

Great Sunday find - pressed on translucent green wax nonetheless!

A new study led by Laura Bohrer and Nick Stone is out today in the journal Stem Cells! In this manuscript we describe development of a micro-fluidic mechanoporation platform (CellFE) and cGMP compliant protocols to enable CRISPR correction of disease causing mutations in patient iPSCs.

I just discovered that it is #internationaldogday. Say hello to my little friend. At 16 months and 130 pounds Odin is still a growing puppy, who believes he is a lap dog.

My first Bluesky post had to be on Carterday! Say hello to Claire and Jazzy. They found a sun spot.