🎓 New CSMB Trainee Awards are coming! The CSMB will recognize outstanding MSc and PhD thesis research, plus exceptional first-author trainee publications in Genome or Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Awardees will receive 🏆 Certificate 💵 $500 travel support 📣 CSMB promotion Details coming soon!

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Here we go! The start of a 2 day symposium of talks from our undergraduate CELL499 students presenting the findings from their research projects. @ualberta.bsky.social

Our lab wrote a "preview" of a new paper by Wang et al. on the role of peroxisomes in gut develoment (and COVID response). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I was playing with Gemini "Gems" to see how it would work to help teach Cell Biology concepts. Nothing is more terrifying than a 10 sec AI-generaged Taylor Swift sound alike song about the Myc protein domains and binding partners.

#womeninSTEM ‘A no thank you to the person who assumed I was the coffee lady’ - Rachel Los delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...

We are hiring!

Following CanFly 2025 in Montreal, Genome Journal is inviting submissions for the #CanFly2025 collection. Showcase your research using Drosophila to advance genetics, neuroscience, development, and evolutionary biology. Learn more ▶️ https://ow.ly/qVV650XBEwE

Such a pleasure to write this review on #LipidDroplet heterogeneity, dynamics and #organelle interactions with Mike @hennelab.bsky.social ! Thank you to the editorial team @natrevmcb.nature.com and to Yoni Malis for assistance with draft illustrations

Our lab, located at the University of Alberta (Canada), is hiring a postdoctoral scholar and/or PhD student to work on the contribution of genetic mutations to neurological disorder mechanisms and response to treatments. Please share widely! can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing theconversation.com/the-5-stages... Thanks to @simmondlab.bsky.social for sharing this one!

The staff and associate editors at Genome are great. It is wonderful to work with a group that 'tries a little harder'.

Calling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome Journal is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience. Submit by June 30, 2026 ▶️ https://ow.ly/LFph50XBE3b#CanFly2025 #DrosophilaResearch

Advance genetics and genomics research from a Canadian and global perspective. Genome welcomes submissions on evolutionary, functional, population, cytogenetic, and spatial genomics. Publish with us 🍁▶️ https://ow.ly/arKX50XFQvf #YourResearchHome

Saving the bellicose #bumblebee! 🐝 Brazil’s endemic Bombus bellicosus faces habitat loss & #ClimateChange. Sequencing its #genome shows it’s genetically diverse enough to survive, thanks in part to #CitizenScientists who helped locate populations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1139/gen-...

Northern lights are bright in Edmonton tonight.

I baked 💩 cupcakes for our lab meeting today.

Calling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience. Submit by June 30, 2026▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI #DrosophilaResearch

This #CanFly collection highlights research presented at the 2025 Canadian Drosophila Research Conference. Submit your work and be part of this showcase of innovation in Drosophila science. Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI #DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025

#ASD diagnosis could get a precision upgrade! 🧬 Long-read sequencing reveals complex structural variants missed by short-read methods, helping to clarify #genetic contributions to #autism #PrecisionMedicine buff.ly/nm5kd7q

Seen walking in London tonight. Inspired to change the name of my lab?

Can’t wait to join the Riboclub 2025 Annual Meeting! See you there to talk RNA and share ideas! @rnacanada.bsky.social #BiologyConference #RNABiology

Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle. New review from Mike Henne (@hennelab.bsky.social), Emma Reynolds, and William: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets

I just realized you can use Chat GPT to rewrite emails into any style you wish.

JCB has rounded up a good collection of papers outlining best practices regarding reproducability in Cell Biology experiments, especially microscopy. Worth a read, and passing along to your trainees.

This but make it a dog turd bag

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Donated! Without Flybase our reserach would be impossible.

#Cytogenomics: Exploring #Chromosome Structure and Function is still open for submissions in @genomejournal.bsky.social! Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m #CallForPapers #Genomics

Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway

Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up: #Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome! www.bcell.org

🐝 #CanFly2023 Throwback! Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠 ow.ly/XUvC50WqbAx 🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025? Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝 #ModelOrganisms

Advice to new PIs. Running an academic laboratory, - is like running a small business, - wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university) - that is owned by the government. The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.

Bluesky is dying?! Really? Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X. www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...

Simmonds lab and Dept. of #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social alumni Matt Anderson-Baron reaches a new milestone with their #YEG biotech - Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors share.google/RJvHTcdh4ugS...

One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology @ualberta.bsky.social is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute @wchriuofa.bsky.social See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025 ar.wchri.org

Publish your next breakthrough in Genome with no fees. Corresponding authors with @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social can submit unlimited OA manuscripts and benefit from unlimited read access. Discover how 🍁▶️ buff.ly/oUyzd2x 🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome

🍎🪰 Only ONE WEEK until #CanFly2025! The fruit fly frenzy is almost upon us — can’t wait to connect with the amazing Drosophila research community. Wings up, let’s fly! ✈️🧬 #Drosophila #FruitFlyScience buff.ly/5IE09fh

FlyBase needs your help! Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

The final session of today's #CellBiology symposium honouring Rick Rachubinski, highlighting his trainees over the years. Here is Andrea Bodnar presenting their work on sea urchins and aging. @ualberta.bsky.social

Missed a few talks (had to go to another meeting). Got back in time to see Tom Hobman from @ualberta.bsky.social presenting their work on how #peroxisomes are involved in RNA virus infection

In the last talk of morning session - Jennifer Smith outlines the major areas of innovation over Rick Rachubinski's career and the work of their current company PreCyte developing blood based diagnostics. #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social

Chris Tam, talks about their 20 year journey from trainee in Rick Rachubinski's lab to therapeutic development. @ualberta.bsky.social

Dr. Chris Winrow, former trainee with Rick Rachubinski lists Rick's " keys to the research game", as well as his current efforts in research commercialization working at Merck. @ualberta.bsky.social

Here we see Peter Kim, as he reminisces about Rick Rachubinski's time at McMaster,the evolution of models of peroxisome biogenesis, as well presenting their current work on #peroxisomes

Francesca DiCara, who worked with Rick Rachubinski while a post-doc in #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social is presenting their work on immno-metabolism regulation by #peroxisomes in flies and mammals.

Fred Mast - graduate of the @ualberta.bsky.social #CellBiology undergraduate program and former PhD student with Rick Rachubinski tells up about kinases that regulate human #peroxisomes

Suresh Subramani, longtime collaborator of the Rachubinski lab gets us going with the first talk today. @ualberta.bsky.social #CellBiology #peroxisomes

It's bittersweet as we start a day-long symposium at @ualberta.bsky.social #CellBiology to honor the career and retirement of Rick Rachubinski. #peroxisomes