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.

Thanks for highlighting our recent research findings, @dallasnews.com! www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/08...

Katherine Wert et al. find that Elevated PRDM13 Disrupts Photoreceptor Function and Survival in the Mammalian Retina, iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx....

And it’s published! Congrats to @emilyrnett.bsky.social on her first author paper. She’s developed a mouse model to investigate how PRDM13 impacts retinal development, maintenance and health. Check it out: iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Welcoming Ana to the team, celebrating Ashley’s and Emily’s manuscripts (stay tuned for Emily’s showing up online), and the lab receiving two R01s 🎉 @emilyrnett.bsky.social

Shag carpet or frog photoreceptor outer segments! 🐸🧪 Taken during the visual neuroscience course @mblscience.bsky.social

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

Love cell biology? Come be our neighbor! The Dept of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern is advertising two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Generous startup & a great academic community. See ads below: jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/job/22292356... jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/job/22292357...

My lab's newest research paper on the Drosophila eye is published in Development today. Thanks to the editorial staff for writing a research highlight and interviewing us about our work. journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...

Excited to announce our paper describing how allelic variants in ribosome biogenesis factors cause neurodevelopmental disorders. Congratulations to Chunyang Ni, Yudong Wei and Barbara Vona, our collaborators Jun Wu, Reza Maroofian, and Leqian Yu, and all the other authors from across the globe.