Carlos Guardia
@charlyguardia.bsky.social
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NewPI@NIEHS | Stadtman TTI | NIH DSP #2021 | Cell Biology - Autophagy - Intracellular Traffic - Placenta | My opinions are my own | 🇦🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸
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A new week, a new selection of papers in #PlacentalCellBio
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Take a look at this pick from the Jawerbaum's lab in Argentina: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40976335/

Enjoy!
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deniswirtz.bsky.social
Check this out: This is what the human fallopian tube looks like as one travels through its different sections.

We have developed a new 3D single-cell tissue mapping workflow to automatically/accurately detect ovarian cancer precancerous lesions (STICs).

More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
charlyguardia.bsky.social
New week, new summary of pubs in the #PlacentalCellBio
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My personal fav: this study about placental plasticity to hypoxia pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40961454/

Enjoy!
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science.org
NIH says it will not renew a handful of research grants that an advocacy group identified as involving human fetal tissue—a decision that is setting off alarm bells for some in the scientific community. https://scim.ag/3VOoJJY
Scientists decry NIH pledge to end some human fetal tissue research
Move could signal return to ban on such studies imposed by first Trump administration
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loke-ctr.bsky.social
🚀 We’re all set!
This Sunday marks the return of the Placental Biology Course – our first in-person for six years. 25 participants joining for lectures and practical sessions delivered by experts in the field of placental biology!
charlyguardia.bsky.social
Here are my pre-selected papers in @biomednews.bsky.social 's #PlacentalCellBio of the week 🧐

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Having participated in this call as a member of the Fetal Membrane Society Consortium, my selfish pick for the week is: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40840313.

Cheers!
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charlyguardia.bsky.social
We hope next to dig deeper into the mechanistic aspects that can fully explain this phenotype, expand on early (development) and late (cancer, metabolic disease) trajectories, and interrogate key environmental stressors that could potentiate or inhibit the disruption in tissue-specific autophagy.
charlyguardia.bsky.social
Now, we have confirmed this phenotype in mice, demonstrated fragmentation of mitochondria, ↑LC3B-II
& SQSTM1↑ puncta (incl. short isoforms) and Nrf2–NQO1 detox pathway upregulation. This led to hepatomegaly with disrupted cellular architecture but no signs of early cancer as seen in other ATG KOs.
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jcb.org
Identification of organelle-specific #autophagy regulators from tandem #CRISPR screens. New study from Truc Losier, Karyn King, Maxime Rousseaux, and Ryan Russell (@russellbiolab.bsky.social) @uottawa.ca: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Biochemistry #CellSignaling
charlyguardia.bsky.social
Here are the curated lists of pubs in the #PlacentalCellBio
@biomednews.bsky.social report from the last two weeks!

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Lots of goodies but my personal choice: mTSCs from 32-cell morulae! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enjoy!
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
Dear Fly Community,

In May 2025, the NIH terminated all grant funding to Harvard University, including the NHGRI grant that supported FlyBase. This grant also funded FlyBase teams at Indiana University (IU) and the University of Cambridge (UK), and as a result, their subawards were also canceled.

The Cambridge team has secured support for one to two years through generous donations from the European fly community, emergency funding from the Wellcome Trust, and support from the University of Cambridge. At IU, funding has been secured for one year thanks to reserve funds from Thom Kaufman and a supplement from ORIP/NIH to the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC).

Unfortunately, the situation at Harvard is far more critical. Harvard University had supported FlyBase staff since May but recently denied a request for extended bridge funding. As a result, all eight employees (four full-time and four part-time) were abruptly laid off, with termination dates ranging from August to mid-October depending on their positions. In addition, our curator at the University of New Mexico will leave her position at the end of August. This decision came as a shock, and we are urgently pursuing all possible funding options.

To put the need into perspective: although FlyBase is free to use, it is not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create FlyBase to support fly research (the last NHGRI grant supported us with more than 2 million USD per annum).

To help sustain FlyBase operations, we have been reaching out to you to ask for your support. We have set up a donation site in Cambridge, UK, to which European labs have and can continue to contribute, and a new donation site at IU to which labs in the US and the rest of the world can contribute. We urge researchers to work with their grant administrators to contribute to FlyBase via these sites if at all possible, as more of the money will go to FlyBase. However, we appreciate that some fu… https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

Our immediate goals are:

1. To maintain core curation activities and keep the FlyBase website online

2. To complete integration with the Alliance of Genome Resources (The Alliance).

Integration with the Alliance is essential for FlyBase’s long-term sustainability. For nearly a decade, NHGRI/NIH has supported the unification of Model Organism Databases (MODs) into the Alliance, which we aim to achieve by 2028. Therefore, securing bridge funding to sustain FlyBase over the next three years is crucial for successful integration and the long-term access to FlyBase data.

At present, our remaining funds will allow us to keep the FlyBase website online for approximately one more year. Beyond that, its future is uncertain unless new funding is secured. We will, of course, continue pursuing additional grant opportunities as they arise.

Given the uncertainty of future NIH or alternative funding sources, we are relying on the Fly community for support. Your contributions will directly help us retain the staff needed to complete this transition and to secure ongoing fly data curation into the Alliance beyond 2028.

We at FlyBase are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community during this challenging time. Your encouragement has strengthened our resolve and underscores how vital this resource remains to Drosophila research worldwide.

Sincerely,
The FlyBase Team
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deniswirtz.bsky.social
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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preeclampsia.org
The choice to have another pregnancy or not can be a difficult decision for #preeclampsia #eclampsia #HELLLPsyndrome survivors & their partners & is highly individualized. Speak with your patients during a preconception visit about what another pregnancy could look like for them