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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 24

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 22

✨If Monet studied mouse ovaries 🎨 Stromal cells 💜 Follicular cells 🔵 and Fatty Cells 🟡. Together, they reveal the cellular architecture and functional zones of the ovary 🔬 Image provided by @shmimberly.bsky.social 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #ReproductiveBiology

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Aug 24

Nope! This beautiful image was produced by @shmimberly.bsky.social! 🤩

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CU Anschutz Developmental Biology @cudevbio.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Ranard, postdoctoral fellow in the @bruceappel.bsky.social lab, on receiving a NINDS K99/R00 award for her proposal entitled, “Impact of nutritional status on mechanisms guiding brain development”! @cupediatrics.bsky.social #zebrafish #devbio

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Nitzan Gonen @nitzan-gonen.bsky.social · Jul 27

1/n Very excited to share our recent paper published on
@ScienceAdvances
where we dissect the gene regulatory landscape guiding mouse sex determination!
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A huge well done to @IsabelleStevant.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy, Meshi and Elisheva who spearhead this project!

The gene regulatory landscape driving mouse gonadal supporting cell differentiation

Multiomics analysis revealed the regulatory elements and transcription factors responsible for gonadal sex determination.

science.org

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Jul 27

Beautiful work!! Congrats Nitzan and team!! 🤩

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Bérénice A. Benayoun, PhD @bbparis1984.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to see this new review piece that we wrote together with Jennifer Garrison and Alison Kochersberger on the modern tools and approaches to study #ovarian #aging out this week at @genesdev.bsky.social!
genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl... #GeroSky #WomensHealth 🧪🧬
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Studying ovarian aging and its health impacts: modern tools and approaches

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jul 11

Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Jun 14

Only 3 days left to submit your #ReproBioArt images!!

Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Jun 8

The 2025 edition of ⁦‪SSRepro‬⁩ #ReproBioArt image contest is live and the gallery is filling up with such beautiful images! Submit yours today!!
#ReproRocks ⁦

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ReproBioArt 2025

#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Jun 8

The 2025 edition of ⁦‪SSRepro‬⁩ #ReproBioArt image contest is live and the gallery is filling up with such beautiful images! Submit yours today!!
#ReproRocks ⁦

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ReproBioArt 2025

#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Jun 6

Hey #ReproSky don’t forget tot submit your beautiful images to the SSR #ReproBioArt contest!! Winners get free registration to the 2026 meeting and a beautiful showcase of their images!! Let’s show off how pretty #ReproBio can be!!
#ReproRocks @ssrwinrs.bsky.social

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ReproBioArt 2025

#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · May 4

Oh yes this will be perfect inspiration!! 🤩🧪🔬

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · May 4

What a nice set of papers- just as I’m beginning to think of our intro to developmental models course this fall @jenmckey.bsky.social !

International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · May 4

Our special issue contains some very interesting articles on organiser biology, ranging from cnidarians to amphibian to mammals. Check them out.

Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · May 4

Check out this collection of articles on organiser biology as part of our Spemann and Mangold centennial special issue.Part II: Self-Organization in Biology
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Mar 31

Honored to received this distinction, and incredibly grateful to be leading a group that makes mentoring the most fun and rewarding part of my job! 🤩

And congrats to Lily for such outstanding community work!
#reprosky #ReproRocks #TeamOvary

McKey Lab - CU Medical School @mckey-lab.bsky.social · Mar 31

Congratulations to our very own @jenmckey.bsky.social for winning the Outstanding Mentorship Award and Lily Folts for winning the Outstanding Community Service Award at the Annual WiSTEM Symposium! @cuanschutz.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social 🤩⭐🔬 We're s'proud of all their hard work!

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Nitzan Gonen @nitzan-gonen.bsky.social · Mar 25

Ready for it???
To all the **sex determination lovers**
📢 Save the date to the 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination (VSD) held in the beautiful Hawaii!!
Great community, amazing science, excellent speakers and superb location 🏝
📢 March 23-26, 2026 📢

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Dilara Anbarci @academicblonde.bsky.social · Mar 19

Excited to share that part of my PhD work is officially published in eLife! Couldn’t have done it without @jenmckey.bsky.social

elifesciences.org/articles/96662

Rediscovering the rete ovarii, a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary

The rete ovarii is a complex secretory structure that may play an important role in ovarian homeostasis.

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Feb 15

First first author research paper for Lily and first paper out of my lab!! Excited to see this out and so proud of the hard work my lab members put into it :)
Hoping OoCount will save others countless hours of manual follicle counting! @ssrwinrs.bsky.social #TeamOvary #ReproRocks

CU Anschutz Developmental Biology @cudevbio.bsky.social · Feb 14

Meet the author! Lily Folts, a graduate student in the @jenmckey.bsky.social lab, just published her manuscript detailing a deep-learning-based method to count and classify ovarian follicles called OoCount. When Lily isn't in the lab, she likes to hike, read, and listen to live music.

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Feb 12

Congratulations!! This is gonna be such a fun award session 🤩

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · Feb 11

It was so wonderful to work with Blanche’s colleagues and Capel Lab past and present to put together her nomination. Congrats Blanche!!! So well deserved!!

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Feb 11

Congrats to the 2025 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Blanche Capel
DB-SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Billie Swalla
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Erica Crespi
Hay New Investigator Award: Mubarak Syed
SDB Trainee Science Communication Award: Joaquin Navajas Acedo
bit.ly/4bcrFap

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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · Feb 12

Such an incredible group of awardees!! 🤩 I’m so excited for my mentor Blanche Capel to be recognized this year with the Conklin Medal! Her contributions to the field and her dedication her trainees’ are so inspiring. I cannot wait to celebrate at the meeting! #devbio @socdevbio.bsky.social

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Feb 11

Congrats to the 2025 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Blanche Capel
DB-SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Billie Swalla
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Erica Crespi
Hay New Investigator Award: Mubarak Syed
SDB Trainee Science Communication Award: Joaquin Navajas Acedo
bit.ly/4bcrFap

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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · Feb 11

Big congrats to this year's awardees!

Basic science matters more than ever - the awardees represent key aspects of what makes #devbio a central biomedical research endeavor of widespread impact. Applause!

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Feb 11

Congrats to the 2025 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Blanche Capel
DB-SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Billie Swalla
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Erica Crespi
Hay New Investigator Award: Mubarak Syed
SDB Trainee Science Communication Award: Joaquin Navajas Acedo
bit.ly/4bcrFap

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our values and resolve are only strengthened by recent events.

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McKey Lab - CU Medical School @mckey-lab.bsky.social · Feb 10

Congratulations to our very own graduate student, Lily Folts, for her recent publication; "OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification". 🔬🥼🤗 academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification

Summary Sentence: This protocol introduces OoCount, a high-throughput, open-source method for automatic oocyte segmentation and classification from fluores

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · Feb 9

E-Life special issue on reproductive health
#ReproSky #MedSky 🧪
elifesciences.org/collections/...

Special Issue: Reproductive Health

Our latest Special Issue showcases research in reproductive biology and medicine.

elifesciences.org

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Women in Reproductive Sciences @ssrwinrs.bsky.social · Jan 16

Listen to 2024 Roger V Short Medal Awardee, Dr. Francesca Duncan, discuss ovarian aging and give trainees a bit of her wisdom on the latest SSR podcast! 👏👏👏
#womeninSTEM #reprorocks
Listen to the full episode here 👇https://www.buzzsprout.com/1786803/episodes/16143433

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