I have a postdoc that started mid-November, and she just won best poster presentation on her project for the Brain Institute Gene Therapy Symposium (with a mug award). Way to go, Siqi!

Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number. I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”. Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.

Diamonds? Something precious? Intriguing…bring it on, 2026!

Having a great and supportive past postdoc mentor helps a lot, I learned so much to launch my independent career mahajanlab.stanford.edu/news/mahajan...

A bifunctional optical reporter for tracking estrogen response dynamics in neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.14.694224v1

Happy Holidays from the Wert Lab!

Want to hear about amazing research in ophthalmology? Register for the first inaugural Southwestern Vision Science Summit coming March 28, 2026! events.utsouthwestern.edu/event/southw...

Hmmm…Frosty seems in need of a good ophthalmologist

You gave such an amazing talk and I keep hearing lab members and faculty talk about ideas it sparked for them! So glad you were able to visit

Excellent lecture by @bwjones.bsky.social for the UTSW Vision Science Seminar series

Dallas driving with @wertlaboratory.bsky.social. “Stay in the left six lanes”, yo.

Nola wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving Holiday weekend!

An animal study in Nature Neuroscience shows that high estrogen levels can enhance learning capabilities. #Neuroskyence 🧪

Getting in the Christmas spirit early in Dallas 🎄☃️

This is a big, big deal. Huge. Also: this is why we need to be aggressively funding science.

At #SfN2025? Come check out the Photoreceptors & Retinal Circuits nanosymposium at 1! I’ve heard all the cool kids will be there and the chair is an absolute rockstar.

No recent breakthrough seizures, a good bloodwork panel and a good neurological exam means this sweet boy gets to start going off of one anticonvulsant entirely, and if that goes well, seeing if we can also reduce his other anticonvulsant 🥰❤️ such great news today!

Thrilled to be moderating our second large event for the Women’s Health Research Initiative at UTSW! Excited for the day and the seminar series that will follow each month

New in @nature.com, @labnowakowski.bsky.social uses barcoded lineage tracing to reveal how different cell types in the human brain form, identifying a transition during development when some progenitors shift from making excitatory to inhibitory neurons. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #studyBRAIN 🧠🟦

I don’t know how my cats will feel about my hotel decor while visiting @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social at MCW 😂

This World Series is crazy 🤯

Great talk by @emilyrnett.bsky.social to kick off the GDD program annual retreat! @ondinecleaver.bsky.social

These two 🥰 cutest unrelated siblings

The Mariners were doing so well…I used to love when the division series went to the final games but they’re soooo close to their first ever World Series!! Eek!

Colliding ribosomes are potent signals of cellular stress. But do cells use ‘programmed’ ribosome collisions to regulate gene expression? I’m excited to present a new story from my lab led by Frederick Rehfeld(@fred-rehfeld.bsky.social) which revealed that the answer is YES! Read on to find out how👇

Missing Tiffany, but fun new lab pic! @emilyrnett.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Dallas skyline views while out with UTSW faculty, love the collegiality and community at UTSW!

A nice blog post from Vinu Mahajan about our time at the #RD2025 meeting. It was fun catching up with him during the conference! mahajanlab.stanford.edu/news/scienti...

Love exploring Prague, but I can’t stop planning work, checking emails, and feeling stressed and overwhelmed about what I’m falling behind on. I fail at vacations, but I’m definitely meant to be a PI 😂

Webvision Has A New Home! www.webvision.pitt.edu/2025/09/22/w...

So many architectural designs here in Prague

Fun day of running around Praha 1 with @alecia144g.bsky.social!

Good morning, Praha

UTSW at #RD2025. Yes, we are the coolest 😂🤓

It’s National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025 and I’m excited to say we have a new postdoc in the Wert lab, Dr. Nafisa Nuzhat! Not on BlueSky yet, but maybe soon

Already have an idea for a full grant after all the conversations at #RD2025

It’s @alecia144g.bsky.social talking about her work in retinal degeneration at #RD2025

Beautiful Prague views during #RD2025

Fun Prague adventure day!

Kicking off the #RD2025 day with a great keynote lecture by Vinit Mahajan, even including a mention of Bill Harbour’s work on uveal melanoma!

It was an excellent workshop!

Our latest manuscript is out, and this one tackles the problem of cellular aging in the retina, using comparative multiomic analysis of zebrafish, mouse, and humans. What led us to work on aging after studying development and regeneration? Explainer follows./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ready for an excellent day about AMD from the @brightfocus.bsky.social

Made it to Madrid! Almost to Prague for #RD2025

Non-science post. But I adopted this sweet guy 5 years ago on this day ❤️

Check out Ashley and I discussing our recent research findings for the Eye on Vision WYPL Memphis radio show! It airs TODAY (Sept. 7th) at 11:17 AM CST and 10:47 AM Sept. 10, on FM 89.3 WYPL in Memphis. WYPL streams at memphislibrary.org/wypl The program's website is eyeonvision.blogspot.com

Incredible vision in these creatures. And they see color differently than you or I. They see in UV and in green. And some also see in red by shifting the focal point of the wavelength. They also see motion with different eyes. Cool stuff.