Gave a seminar at the Van Andel Institute and greatly enjoyed meeting with pioneers in the field of Wnt signaling @sgraingerphd.bsky.social and @bartwilliams.bsky.social. Also reunited with amazing colleagues in the fields of epigenetics and RAS biology. What a vibrant research community @vai.org!

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."

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🎉 The Midwest SDB Regional Meeting is happening soon! Join at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for exciting developmental biology from across the Midwest. 🧬 Registration deadline: September 2nd ✨. More information here: www.midwestsdbincincy.org #MIDWESTSDB25

We are thrilled to welcome 16 students into Van Andel Institute Graduate School's 19th student cohort!

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Maulik Patel to VAI as an associate professor in our Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming. He will explore how cells maintain mitochondrial homeostasis and what happens when this process breaks down. www.vai.org/article/van-...

🚀 Our new study is out in Nature Metabolism!
We used single-embryo metabolomics and transcriptomics to map the earliest metabolic transitions in Drosophila development, including the onset of zygotic metabolism.
Explore the dataset & findings:
🔗 rdcu.be/eAH12

#DevBio #metabolomics #Drosophila

@peterwlaird.bsky.social @shenhui1986.bsky.social

Congratulations to VAI's Dr. H. Josh Jang, who has been appointed to assistant professor in our Department of Cell Biology.
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We are seeing Christian McBride and Ursa Major in Grand Rapids on the 22nd - agree 100%!

Registration is live for the 1st ever Midwest Metabolism & TRiMAD dual meeting, hosted jointly by VAI + U of M in Ann Arbor, MI November 10-11, 2025! We have some exciting speakers but most will come from abstracts so submit your best #mitochondria & #metabolism research! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.

https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

The VAI @vainstitute.bsky.social Graduate School is recruiting Ph.D. students in molecular & cell biology! Get top-tier scientific training, mentorship, and prep for leadership in biomedical research. 🎓 Watch our recruiting video: youtu.be/cOTdF06MekE #PhDSky #BioMedSky

Please share: Van Andel Institute PhD program application is DUE December 1!

Van Andel Institute has 38 faculty members that work in: epigenetics, cancer biology, neurodegenerative diseases, structural biology, metabolism, nutritional programming and cell biology. www.vai.org/graduate-sch...

Headed to Boston for the Council of Graduate Schools New Dean’s Institute and Summer workshop - restaurant, live music and brewery recommendations welcome

Pleased to announce the Bristol Zebrafish Zoom Talks (BZZT)! Join us on 14 June (~12PM BST) for a free webinar by @miguelgf.bsky.social on 'Tissue communication in aging of zebrafish' 🐟 Link to join will be posted on our Slack Pro Channel, in advance. #RockOn #ZebrafishMeeting

Yes! Already exploring the breweries - but have yet to make it up to sleeping bear dunes or Traverse City - let me know if you guys come in town to visit family, etc. - happy to give you a tour of the Institute.

Thank you! Been at VAI since December so still settling in a bit (and house shopping) but love GR!

Another conference in Chicago….another night at Winter’s…

Michigan bound