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Emma Burns, Anastasia Amoiroglou, Gregory Rogers, Nasser Rusan and colleagues develop an expansion microscopy protocol for Drosophila cultured cells and tissues, which they use to dissect centriole biology. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

My quote of the day Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln

Useful tool for the cilia in your life!

Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!! Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism! doi.org/10.1101/2025... #MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio

Research assistant post, for those interested!

Contains new works from @ditalialab.bsky.social, @sthyme.bsky.social, @lovelessradio.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, Hammerschmidt Lab, Ron Kwon Lab, Martik Lab, @tillymommersteeg.bsky.social, Lecaudey Lab, @timesaunders.bsky.social, @dangrimes.bsky.social, @akankshi.bsky.social among others!

We’re hiring! 🧬 Join the Hehnly Lab @syracuseu.bsky.social to study how cells build tissues — focusing on centrosomes, cytoskeleton & trafficking. Postdoc position open: www.sujobopps.com/postings/111...

Thanks to @currentbiology.bsky.social I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers Biology is amazing.

Understanding how the left-right organiser – a structure that only exists transiently in the early embryo – begins 📷 Yan Wu & Yiling Lan et al @lovelessradio.bsky.social lab @syracuseu.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with Lux Fatimathas

We are hiring! We are currently interviewing for an entry level staff position in the lab, but it is not too late to submit a postdoc application! Send a note of interest to me and apply here: bit.ly/3VmmM7m

Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

@ascbiology.bsky.social Abstract submissions are open! Submit an abstract to the ‘Emerging concepts in centriole and centrosome assembly and function’ minisym. PRIZES for trainee talks & posters plus a mixer thanks to generous sponsors @jcellsci.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social & Nikon

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

In honour of Postdoc Appreciation Week, here are three ways we support postdocs: 1. Since 2023, we’ve supported 24 postdocs as they transition to becoming a group leader through our Pathway to Independence programme. Meet our latest fellows: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... #NPAW2025

KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 #Zebrafish LRO #cilia are structurally diverse & essential for LRO morphogenesis. #Optogenetics + #vEM reveal new roles for cilia in organ architecture. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

National Institute of General Medical Sciences R35 MIRA awards issued within the last 14 days. I am still waiting to see if mine is funded. Regardless of my outcome, I am in awe of the dedicated program and awards management staff who are so clearly doing their damndest to fund strong science. 🧬🔬🧪🥼🇺🇸

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Favour Ononiwu on a successful PhD defense! 🎓✨ 👏 Wishing her all the best as she takes the next steps in her career #ZebrafishResearch

Compared with the curated pictures that are the mainstay of social media, Adrienne Salinger’s images of teens in their bedrooms, taken in the ’80s and ’90s, offer a sense of the perilousness of adolescence.

Yay! New paper out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... . How do dynamical forces generated by tissue movement affect organ morphology changes during embryonic development? Using Kupffer’s vesicle in zebrafish embryo we showed that dynamical forces produce shape changes in a developing organ.

Want to publish a NIH-funded paper in Nature? Well - unless your institution has an agreement with Springer, you'll have to be mega-rich to be compliant with NIH's new no-embargo policy. Springer is insisting on gold OA - that's $12,690 and that's extortion.

Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.

This is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

Looking for fluorescent reporters for your favorite tissue/organ? Check out the zTrap Gene Trap & Enhancer Database (ztrap.nig.ac.jp/ztrap/) from the Kawakami Lab at NIG! Travel grants are available for shelf-screen (Email Sensei Koichi for more info) 😎 Contact details: ztrap.nig.ac.jp/members.html

Meet Athena, a REU undergraduate from the University of Arizona, who had her first experience observing live zebrafish embryos 🐟 in our @syracuseu.bsky.social lab. Welcome to Dev Bio, Athena! 🧬🔬 #REU2025 #ZebrafishDevelopment #SyracuseBiology #UndergradResearch #DevelopmentalBiology

Hehnly lab postdoc Yan Wu looking beautiful with her poster at the @syracuseu.bsky.social office of research postdoc poster session. She presented on her recent study featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Mitotic events help distinguish left from right Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Yan Wu, Yiling Lan, Heidi Hehnly (@lovelessradio.bsky.social‬ @syracuseu.bsky.social ) and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... 🎥Mitotic events are required for KV formation

To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first authors Yan Wu and Yiling Lan, and the corresponding author Heidi Hehnly @lovelessradio.bsky.social‬, an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the BioInspired Institute at @syracuseu.bsky.social

It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

A fun interview we did with Development about our recent paper. Check it out! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... Can check out paper here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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...

New work from @lovelessradio.bsky.social et al. 🐟

BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.

I feel VERY seen...

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

For those wanted to hear (or read) this strategy plainly articulated, listen to NIH Effective Director Chris Rufo's interview on The Daily www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...

GRCz12tu is available on Genbank. This will be one of two genomes that will be considered "reference" genomes, there will also be a GRCz12ab assembly coming. It has entered the NCBI annotation pipeline and will also go into the Ensembl annotation pipeline. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

If you're working on innovative cell biology research, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) is the place to share it. I’m proud to serve on the editorial team Submit your work today: www.molbiolcell.org #CellBiology #MBoC #ScientificPublishing @ascbiology.bsky.social

NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, @fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.

Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result. www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Bookmark this site and #RT! This site shows where the cuts are impacting the US by location. theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

Tomohiro Yorimitsu and Ken Sato investigate the role of IDRs in sensing negative membrane curvature in ER tubules. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish