Dendritic atoh1a+ cells serve as Merkel cell precursors during skin development and regeneration Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by Evan Craig, Jeremy Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social and colleagues at @uwbiology.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🔎 New from the @jraslab.bsky.social at UW! They used #Langerhans cells within the adult #zebrafish epidermis as a model to investigate roles of microtubules in immune cell tissue surveillance, phagocytosis, and directed migration. 🦓🐟 See it in @jcellsci.bsky.social#Langerhans#zebrafish https://bit.ly/49fmQhf

Congratulations to @errricpeterman.bsky.social for the second-ever journal cover from the lab!

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

cover image yeeeeeeeeehawwwww #flourescentfriday check out our work in the most recent issue of @jcellsci.bsky.social !

Latest paper from the lab! 👀 Check out this macrophage (labeled with a microtubule reporter in blue) avoid an epithelial obstacle (labeled with a nuclear reporter in pink) as it migrates to a wound (off screen to the left) ⬅️ Video credit: @errricpeterman.bsky.social

Thank you @jcellsci.bsky.social for this research highlight "Microtubules help macrophages navigate the epidermal maze" as a companion to our manuscript from @errricpeterman.bsky.social ! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Congrats to @errricpeterman.bsky.social on leading our latest paper now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social ! Eric found multiple roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophage homeostasis and function -- including in helping macrophages navigate around epithelial obstacles during wound repair👇

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish: www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

In a new @uwbiology.bsky.social publication, the @jraslab.bsky.social describes the discovery of a transitional cell type, dendritic #MerkelCells, that connects keratinocyte progenitors to mature touch-sensitive Merkel cells. 📰Press release: https://bit.ly/4mj1xPE 🥼Abstract: https://bit.ly/43Zd3cn

🗞️ Fresh off the press! #MC3Memos newsletter vol 2 is here—packed w/ stories, latest advancements, & opportunities within the Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MC3) Institute. 📰 mc3institute.uw.edu/news/mc3-memos-vol-2 @fredhutch.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social #merkelcellcarcinoma #cancerresearch

Way to represent @uwbiology.bsky.social !

Applications are now open for the 2026 SDB Science Communication Internship. Graduate student and postdoc members of the Society for Developmental Biology are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 15. Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...

👀 Latest paper from the lab now published @dev-journal.bsky.social

🎉 Our study identifying the direct precursors of Merkel cells is now published in @dev-journal.bsky.social Thank you to our reviewers @reviewcommons.org and collaborators for helping us improve the manuscript. Check out these cell behaviors we visualized in #zebrafish skin. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

My latest article is up on Developmental Biology~ Learn about data that waited 15 years to be published! 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/deve...

In 1975 "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Space Oddity" were on the UK top 100, and Ward, Thomson, White, and Brenner published the first reconstruction of the C. elegans sensory anatomy. A short 50 years later, we reconstructed the same neurons and glia in the embryo: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Talked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S. “Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.” Read the article here. No subscription required: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Check out #SDBSciCommIntern Samantha Fernandes' samfernandes.bsky.social story on 2023 SDB Emerging Research Organisms Grant Recipient Emma Rangel-Huerta & her work establishing rice coral as a #devbio research organism. www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

New preprint from the lab, led by grad student Brandon Pratt, on the encoding properties and sensorimotor function of proprioceptive limit detectors (ie, hair plates) in the fly leg. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Any research paper reporting results of NIH-funded research, published on/after July 1, 2025, must be immediately free to read on PubMedCentral. No more 12 month embargo grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

monday monday monday! check out our new preprint studying microtubule requirements in skin macrophages. lots of neat zebrafish imaging and tissue damage assays www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

timeline cleanse, enjoy some zebrafish scales/skin/immune cells and figure 1A of our upcoming preprint #fluorescencefriday

Still time to apply for @uoregon.bsky.social Summer Program for Undergraduate Research — a paid 10-week research opportunity this summer for undergrads in the life sciences. Details in the flyer below. Please share.

Congrats to @errricpeterman.bsky.social and Pearl on their study following calcium dynamics in tissue-resident macrophages of the skin!