I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

So excited to share this preprint from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab and @eelcotromer.bsky.social on moth spermatogenesis! We investigate the meiotic errors that occur during the formation of apyrene sperm (that have no DNA) in silkworms! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

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We're hiring an entomology collections manager @nhm.org ! I have nothing to do with the search, but happy to answer questions about the museum & LA! 🧪🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🪰🪲🪳🕷️ workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & I give huge thanks to Frank McNally, Christoph Haag, Andy Kern, Bengt Hansson, @takashiakeralab.bsky.social & @scienceleah.bsky.social for being guests in our #Meiosis, Recombination, & Evolution of Sex class at UNC. A pic from our final session w/ students

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab! We characterize the on/off kinetics, light dosage-dependence, and more for a suite of optogenetic signaling activators in zebrafish embryos 💡 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m excited to share a new preprint from some of my work in the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social ! 😄 We dived into young KZFP gene clusters in different mouse strains and species to uncover mechanisms that facilitated their evolution and diversification in mice

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ @scienceleah.bsky.social about her lab's @plos.org Genetics paper on a unique chromosome segregation mechanism in holocentric moths. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Did you know… It’s free to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no submission charges, page charges or colour fees. We also plant a tree for every peer-reviewed article we publish🌳 For details, visit our website: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

New preprint drop! Check out work from @jimmy-ly.bsky.social et al for how protein isoforms generated by alternate translation initiation create dual localization, contribute to mitochondrial function, and are mutated in disease. "Blue-tutorial" thread below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 🐜 How did ants evolve their highly specialized queens and workers? With @adriatica.bsky.social, we reveal a key evolutionary innovation: adult control over larval feeding unlocked extreme caste dimorphism and complex societies. 🧵👇 🔗 Read in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

First mouse paper out from Elissa Lei’s lab! Congrats Dahong and all authors 🐭🐁🧬👀 “CTCF regulates global chromatin accessibility and transcription during rod photoreceptor development” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out our super cool paper on aneuploidy in cells lacking Bub3. Congratulations to fantastic student Pallavi Gadgil and alum Olivia Ballew. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg! Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

This is so cool!! Congrats @roneilllab.bsky.social and team! 🦀🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Do you love meiosis? Have a cool story to share? Join us for the XVth British Meiosis Meeting 26-27 of March in Liverpool! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You only have till Sunday to submit an abstract for a talk! ECRs are prioritised for speaking slots so the odds are in your favour 😁 #meiosis4eva

Almost 200 people signed up already - add your name soon before we have to stop registration for this once in a life time conference! docs.google.com/forms/d/1dm8...

I just heard the news that R Scott Hawley, meiosis enthusiast and founding Dean of the Grad School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, passed away today. Such a loss for the science and education community. I will miss our zooms and his deep, deep wisdom

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.

Scientists of Bluesky - qPCR machine recs?

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Our #SpotlightZebrafish this week is on Dr. Abhinav Sur, a #postdoc w/ Dr. Jeff Farrell @ NICHD. His research uses single-cell transcriptomes to identify & map distinct populations across 62 stages of zebrafish embryogenesis & early larval development. (1/3)

Our paper on a centromere-enriched retroelement is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congratulations to all the authors! Comments and reposts welcome and appreciated 🧬🔬

2024 Mid-Atlantic Meiosis Mini-Symposium!! 🐭🪱🪰🧬🦠Co-organized with @scienceleah.bsky.social and @florpratto.bsky.social at NIH. Amazing talks from trainees and new PIs🎉 #meiosis4eva

The first Rosin lab paper is out in PLOS Genetics! Featuring two amazing post-bacs - Clio Hockens and Tricia Wang - and wrapping up my postdoc work: Chromosome segregation during spermatogenesis occurs through a center-kinetic mechanism in holocentric moths rb.gy/ts9u64

📢 We are hiring - please share! PhD student and Postdoc positions available in Cell Division and Cytoskeleton group at Danish Cancer Institute! Read more and apply before December 22nd 👇 www.cancer.dk/om-os/job-og... www.cancer.dk/om-os/job-og...

Happy Halloween from our little zoo to you!

Hey y'all- My department (mcd.ucsc.edu) is hiring an Assistant Professor that complements our existing strengths in Molecular and RNA Biology, Neuroscience, Immunology and Infectious Disease, and Cell and Developmental Biology: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01640

Send my first trainee downtown today to @evolvwing.bsky.social lab to learn some Lepidoptera biology and insect embryo injections! She had a blast 🦋🔬

Send me your favorite mitosis, meiosis, and 3D genome reviews for new students in the lab!

New preprint on interphase genome organization in the holocentric silkworm, Bombyx mori 🐛Collaboration between Lei, Drinnenberg, and Mirny labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Rosin lab will be opening @ NICHD in Bethesda this Fall! We will study genome dynamics in the germline and soma using a variety of model systems and a combination of imaging and genomics approaches. Now recruiting highly motivated post-docs and post-bacs for fully-funded positions!