Update of my NIGMS funding estimates/data. Thanks to @needhibhalla.bsky.social for pointing to some FY2025 numbers showing funding rates. Funded grant # are from Reporter. FY2026 is in progress. A few points 1/

Check out the F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award, to support promising graduate students as they complete their doctoral research training and transition into mentored postdoctoral career development opportunities (please share) 1/n files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Congratulations to @lacefieldlab.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social #DartmouthGeiselSchoolOfMedicine presenting the #Yeast26 Ira Herskowitz Award Lecture highlighting the link between #meiosis and #autophagy @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

I'm excited to co-organize this year's #Meiosis4Eva with @needhibhalla.bsky.social, @lacefieldlab.bsky.social, and @sadiewignall.bsky.social. We welcome submissions spanning chromosome dynamics, meiosis, evolutionary cell biology, and related areas of cell biology. See flyer for details!

Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/mryvhdwj #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency

Thank you! Thank you @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social @lacefieldlab.bsky.social for this great opportunity!

I’m excited to share that our pic of meiotic midbodies in wildtype and mos mutant oocytes made the cover @jcellsci.bsky.social! Congrats to @muhammad-haseeb.bsky.social and @giselacairobaza.bsky.social!

ASV congratulates Dr. Felicia Goodrum, the 2026 Wolfgang and Patricia Joklik Distinguished Service Awardee. Thank you very much for your many years of service to ASV, Dr. Goodrum!

www.worlddownsyndromeday.org Today we celebrate World Down Syndrome Day to appreciate the contributions and perspectives of people with Down Syndrome today and every day, while raising awareness for true inclusion.

Check out the first person interview!

So exciting to see this article in JCS! Thanks to the hard work from my lab members Gisela Cairo, MA Haseeb, Zach Boyce Joy, and great collaboration with Karen Schindler!

I am so honored to give the Ira Herskowitz Award lecture at #Yeast26! Please join us, it’s going to be a fantastic meeting! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Thanks for the highlight! Check out all of these awesome papers! More to come on ours….

Excited to join ASCB leadership as the chair of the Public Policy Committee. Science advocacy is so important right now and I am excited about the team we have to take on these efforts! www.ascb.org/about-ascb/l...

@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/...