@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

The Lacefield Lab won second place in the great pumpkin derby! @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social

Lacefield Lab grad student @pallavisgadgil.bsky.social gave an excellent talk at Geisel’s Biomedical Research Day! Congratulations Pallavi! @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social

Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.

Congrats @moseleylab.bsky.social! @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

Check out our new manuscript on biorxiv on the role of MOS in mammalian oocyte meiosis: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... With @schindlerlab.bsky.social @giselacairobaza.bsky.social @muhammad-haseeb.bsky.social

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Flybase is free to use but not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create the knowledgebas and tools for fly research. Please donate generously.

Just finished teaching another year of CSHL Yeast Genetics and Genomics with a fantastic group of students as usual! @cshlcourses.bsky.social

Meet the 14 scientists named 2025 ASCB Fellows! Honored for excellence in research, mentorship, and service, they’ll be recognized at Cell Bio 2025 this December in Philadelphia. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

I have the privilege of working with these fantastic people every day! @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social @ Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine!

The "Big Beautiful Bill" isn’t the federal budget—it’s a reconciliation bill focused on tax cuts. The real FY26 funding decisions for NIH, NSF, and more are happening now in Congress. www.ascb.org/science-poli...

Great to see such strong support for our courageous NIH colleagues, who are standing up for science!

Super excited to post our new publication on the role of MOS/MAPK signaling in maintaining the egg transcriptome. Great collaboration with Britt Goods lab! rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...

Scientists in GA, ASCB has scheduled a virtual Hill Day on June 25. We need scientists willing to talk to their representatives about the consequences of the proposed budget slashes. Please sign up. Or, send to colleagues. Just need to be or become ASCB members. www.ascb.org/ascb-meeting...

Wow - Sharon Dent is amazing - this is so great! Congratulations Sharon ❤️

Many congratulations to @pallavisgadgil.bsky.social for being awarded the Lucille Smith award for excellence in Biochemistry. This award is in honor of the memory of Dr. Lucille Smith. The first woman at Dartmouth to attain the rank of full professor!

Excited to post our new preprint on how MOS/MAPK signaling impacts the egg transcriptome! Great collaboration with Britt Goods and lab!

🥳Just published @nature.com. Over 25 years after the discovery of SPO11 as the enzyme responsible for initiating meiotic recombination, we finally succeeded in reconstituting its DNA cleavage activity.🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited that my superstar friend Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social is a AAAS fellow! See how her creative research is making an impact on our understanding of meiosis and infertility. geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/so...

Congratulations to @lacefieldlab.bsky.social and all the other @aaas.org Fellows! 🥳 geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/so...

Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵

Some good news during these difficult times. Please check out our new preprint. We built a new tool to probe the origins of high oocyte aneuploidy rates at advanced female reproductive ages. This NIH funded work was led by a fantastic postdoc in the lab, Jiyeon Leem. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

It’s hard to post happy news right now, but I wanted to celebrate the publishing of Pallavi’s paper (link in next message). We braved a very cold day to have lunch together!

We are deeply sadden by the sudden loss of Scott. He was an astounding mentor and brought so much to the community on top of his excellent science. His legacy will live on #Meiosis4ever

Feeling very lost today with the news of the passing of my undergrad advisor Scott Hawley. He had a huge impact on the field and on me personally. He was the first person to see me as a scientist and gave me the confidence to apply to grad school. I am so grateful to be a part of his legacy.

Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.

We have updated our preprint, in response to reviews organized by @elife.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 #Meiosis4Eva

📢 Excited to share our new paper in @jcellbiol.bsky.social ! 🎉We present a proteome-wide yeast degron collection for dynamic protein studies: doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202409050 Huge thanks to this amazing team and collaborators! 💡✨ #ProteinDegradation #Yeast #CellBiology

Registration now open for the 2025 EMBO workshop on Meiosis! June 22-26, 2025, Engelberg, Switzerland. Deadline for abstract submissions and registration is Feb 15th, 2025. Lots of speaker slots will be selected from abstracts, so apply now! meetings.embo.org/event/25-mei...

Join us this morning at #cellbio2024 for an exciting line up of meiosis talks!

Our work on how cell junction-cytoskeletal linkage is regulated is out. Great work by @emily-mcparland.bsky.social, @noahgurley.bsky.social & others. Thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for straightforward review & for open access via a Read & Publish agreement 🧪 journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Our first Bluesky post! If you are at ASCB #cellbio2024, check out our lab's work. Nathan, Caleb and Vanna will give talks and posters, and Zack, Jinghui and Maddie will present posters. Excited to be here.

📢 #CellBio2024 attendees: Join us TODAY for a JCB special session at 11:45 AM, Room 31B! Members of our Early Career Advisory Board share how their research confronts open questions across fields of cell biology. 👉 https://buff.ly/3VYGeIf

We are looking for a Lab Technician to join our team and become a member of a dynamic biomedical research lab at Dartmouth College, conducting experiments to address topics concerning meiotic and mitotic cell cycle regulation. Job posting here: lnkd.in/eWWVANtQ

Heading to sunny San Diego for #CellBio2024 this week? ☀️🌅 Join us for the "#Meiosis4Eva: Frontiers in Meiosis and Germ Cell Biology" Subgroup! 🗓️ Wed Dec 18th 9:00 - 10:30am, Room 33B. 👉 bit.ly/49okQkZ #Meiosis4Eva #meiosis4ever

Crazy stuff in PNAS dental plaque bacterium 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘪 can divide into an unprecedented 14 daughter cells at once—then each daughter cell starts growing immediately in a rare process called multiple fission, achieving 0.5 mm per day of expansion www.snexplores.org/article/bact...

Lab fun time!

#meiosis4ever I am missing many people, but here are: - a #starterpack of some Meiosis people I could find #onhere go.bsky.app/Tdxbm9b - an easier to update #list of the same people that you can add to your welcome page bsky.app/profile/did:... Please answer below to be add to both!

Hello world! I am a #NewPI starting my lab at Lehigh University after completing my postdoc training with @adernburg.bsky.social at UC Berkeley. My lab explores how quality control is achieved during meiosis, by combining cell biology, genetics, and more. Excited to (re)connect here! #Meiosis4Eva

Official website for EMBO meiosis 2025 is live now! Looking forward to seeing you in Switzerland next June! #meiosis4eva meetings.embo.org/event/25-mei...

@keystonesymposia.bsky.social is on Bluesky!!!

#Meiosis4eva starter pack. I am sure I missed many so please self nominate by commenting or just DMing me go.bsky.app/P3BJYze

With all the new people joining Bluesky, I’d like to reintroduce myself and my lab. I’m looking forward to more engagement!

Join us for the #Developmental Biology Gordon Research Conference & Seminar (Emergence of Shapes & Patterns in Development) in Pomona, California. March 30 - April 4, 2025. Submit an abstract by Nov 25 for consideration to speak! @analiahr.bsky.social