Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This micrograph of SHH-expressing cells in the developing 🐭 spinal cord are giving aurora borealis vibes 🌄. Notice the thin extensions reaching out from the cells at the top of the image - signaling protrusions! 🔬 by 👩‍🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! I've shared this before but am reposting b/c I think the developing #lung is just so darn pretty! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with 🟢 marking cells that express my favorite gene, Shh.🟣 marks cell membranes. 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc👩‍🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪

Following on from her beautiful featured image post on FocalPlane, Christina Daly @christinaadaly.bsky.social shares her top tips for imaging cytonemes. @labogden.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/19/c...

It's #FluorescenceFriday , while the original image of cancer cells interacting by cytonemes is already great. I had a little fun with some filters!

ICYMI – Our first featured image of 2026 was acquired by @christinaadaly.bsky.social. Check out our post to learn more about the image and Christina’s research ⤵️ focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/06/f... #FluorescenceFriday ❤️🔬

We’re kicking off our ‘Featured image’ series in 2026 with this beautiful image of a murine neural tube acquired by Christina Daly @christinaadaly.bsky.social from the Ogden lab @labogden.bsky.social. Read about Christina's research in our blog post 🔬⤵️: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/06/f...

It's Season's Greetings #FluorescenceFriday! Please enjoy these primary cilia colored to look like holiday lights! I hope you enjoy the season and get to spend some time with friends and family! 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Sam Hack 🧪 👩‍🔬

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a 3D render of a confocal image of an NIH3T3 cell expressing a membrane marker 🟢 showing long filopodia called cytonemes. Cytonemes reach toward neighboring cells to exchange information. Actin is ⚪ and nuclei are 🟠. 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social.

Different depth-shading approaches reveal many delicate membrane extensions emanating from this neural tube floor plate (and a few short ones from the notochord!) Shh-Cre mTmGFP mouse E9.5 embryo sections with membrane-GFP depth-shaded in spectrum or Rainbow RGB. #fluorescentfriday #nikonA1R 🔬

Congratulations to Greg Phelps!!!

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT. #SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

I've been an actin biologist for over a decade, but the microtubules in these DIV8 cortical neurons have me mesmerized 😍 🔵Tubulin 🟢Actin 🟣membrane +DAPI #fluorescentfriday @labogden.bsky.social

Wishing our FANTASTIC postdoctoral fellows, Harsh Kumar, Christina Daly, Sam Hack, and Rojalin Pradhan, a great Postdoctoral Appreciation Week! Thanks for all you do for the lab and for @stjuderesearch.bsky.social! 🧪

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! These are 🔬 images of a neonatal mouse lung section stained for the ciliary marker Arl13b 🟡 and nuclei 🔵. Zoom right. Microscopy by postdoc Sam Hack and Lab Manager @miriamdillard.bsky.social #DevBio #SciArt 🧪 👩‍🔬

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is a 🔬 image of epithelial cells of the embryonic 🐭 lung expressing a membrane-GFP reporter for my favorite signaling protein, Sonic Hedgehog (SHH). Non-SHH expressing cells are shown with magenta membrane stain. 🔬 by @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio

More beautiful 🔬 imaging of the developing 🐭 neural tube 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here is a section from an E9.5 mouse embryo showing SHH-expressing cells (membrane GFP in rainbow depth shading) near the notochord (bottom of frame). Notice the cool extensions (maybe cytonemes) coming from the GFP marked cells! 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪

Excited to share this year's St. Jude Scientific Report featuring some of the 🔬 work from the lab. Follow the link to see the longer format video featuring lab postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social prepping tissue for imaging studies 🧪 👩‍🔬

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a sagittal view of the Shh-expressing notochord and floor plate of an E9.5 mouse embryo. Both structures are 🟢. Non-Shh expressing cells are shown with membrane 🟣. Nuclei are shown in 🔵. 🧪 🔬 Microscopy by postdoc Christina Daly 👩‍🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is another gorgeous lung image from a Shh lineage tracing survey by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with magenta showing non Shh-expressing cell types and membrane GFP marking Shh-expressing cells. 🤩 🧪 🔬 👩‍🔬

There is beauty in #DevBio. Look at this developing lung. Just look at it. Gorgeous. This early #FluorescenceFriday submission is from postdoc Christina Daly. 🧪 🔬 👩‍🔬 Membrane GFP signal is depth shaded in rainbow. 🌈

Need a distraction from the bad news cycle? check out this late submission for #MicroscopyMonday from postdoc Christina Daly! Image from an E18.5 mouse brain. The green cells express a membrane anchored Shh lineage tracer. Check out the long cellular extensions! Gorgeous! 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔬

Here is an #EarthDay themed confocal micrograph of an NIH3T3 cell near a dying neighbor cell. I was trying for a tree-lined lake under a full moon vibe 🌳 🧪 🕊️ Microscopy by postdoctoral fellow @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 Do something kind for the planet today. She's the only one we've got 🪺 🌎

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a 3D render of a confocal micrograph of an NIH3T3 cell with long cytonemes! These specialized filopodia transport signals including SHH, WNT, NOTCH, growth factors, and more for intercellular communication! Image from @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔬

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science from the women of the Ogden Lab! 🧪 👩🏼‍🔬 ✊🏼

📃January in preprints First preprint list of 2025 is out! Check out the #preprints in #DevBio, #StemCell biology (and related fields) that came out in January. Congrats to everyone involved 🎉 And as usual, let us know if we've missed anything 👀 thenode.biologists.com/january-in-p...

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

TGI #FluorescenceFriday! Am I aging myself by stating that the first thing I thought of when I saw this 🔬 image by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly was a disco silhouette? Dancing cells for Friday! 🕺💃 🧪👩‍🔬

I was really enjoying this workshop. Very disappointing. Many thanks to the organizers for an informative and engaging 1.5 days.

@labogden.bsky.social postdocs take San Diego #ASCB2024

When your microscopy becomes signage - St. Jude graduate student @christinaadaly.bsky.social posing with the scope she used to acquire the image 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 #WomenInSTEM

Happy Birthday to grad student @christinaadaly.bsky.social ! The birthday tiara brings good data!

Grad student Christina Daly just had this visitor at the window next to her desk. We’re taking it as a good luck sign!