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Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · Jul 30

Don’t miss this amazing webinar tomorrow!

Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · Jul 25

Don't miss out on this fantastic line-up of speakers at the Neural Disorders RIG meetup of the Zebrafish Disease Models Society! July 30, 10:00 EST. Registration details below:

Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · Jul 25

Don't miss out on this fantastic line-up of speakers at the Neural Disorders RIG meetup of the Zebrafish Disease Models Society! July 30, 10:00 EST. Registration details below:

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Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · Jul 8

Deepika Dogra, Karin Tuschl, and I are thrilled to host the Neural Disorders RIG meeting of the @ZDMSociety on July 30, 10:00-11:30 am ET. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers. Register here: zdmsociety.org/2025-zdms-ri....

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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you think this is a good publishing experience, just wait until March. We’re announcing a game changing modification to peer review. Makes life better for editors, reviewers & especially authors

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is now published in @biologyopen.bsky.social! It was my first experience with this journal & it was outstanding. Their goal is to publish "rigorously conducted high-quality research across the breadth of biological/biomedical science "1/n
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

Title, authors and abstract from the link

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What’s up with Downes? @gbdownes.bsky.social · Jan 28

I'm thrilled to announce that our paper describing Marigold, a free machine learning-based webapp for zebrafish behavioral analysis, is officially published! Marigold features a user friendly graphical user interface to enable training of a neural network for analyzing behavioral recordings.

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · Jan 26

GWAS provides a unique tool in human biology as it can establish causal links from variants to trait.

But interpretation is difficult as most effects flow through (unobserved) gene regulatory networks. Can we gain insight by linking to modern Perturb-seq data?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Causal modeling of gene effects from regulators to programs to traits: integration of genetic associations and Perturb-seq

Genetic association studies provide a unique tool for identifying causal links from genes to human traits and diseases. However, it is challenging to determine the biological mechanisms underlying mos...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ethan Hughes @ethanhugheslab.bsky.social · Jan 18

New paper out from the lab! Led by @gdfnunes.bsky.social and Lindsay Osso in collaboration with the lab of Dan Denman. Check it out! 🔬 🐭 🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incomplete remyelination via therapeutically enhanced oligodendrogenesis is sufficient to recover visual cortical function - Nature Communications

Remyelination can restore neural function. Here, the authors characterize the drivers and limits of endogenous remyelination and explore a therapy that rescued remyelination deficits and accelerated n...

www.nature.com

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Martin Kampmann @kampmann.bsky.social · Jan 14

Our latest paper, led by Emmy Li, is out on Neuron today:

CRISPRi-based screens in iAssembloids to elucidate neuron-glia interactions

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

CRISPRi-based screens in iAssembloids to elucidate neuron-glia interactions

Using a 3D co-culture system of iPSC-derived neurons and glia, termed iAssembloids, combined with CRISPRi-based screening, Li et al. investigate the effect of glial cells on neuronal activity and surv...

www.cell.com

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Emily Kolenbrander Ho @emkolen.bsky.social · Jan 7

Have you ever wanted to *see* receptor activity in embryos? If so, our new preprint is for you! In it, we showcase a new live-cell biosensor for visualizing receptor tyrosine kinase activity in living embryos – pYtags!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Jan 4

Ooohhh-that's our paper! Check it out! @noahgurley.bsky.social @emily-mcparland.bsky.social

The Interactive Fly @interactivefly.bsky.social · Jan 4

McParland, E. D., Butcher, T. A., Gurley, N. J., Johnson, R. I., Slep, K. C., Peifer, M. (2024). The Dilute domain in Canoe is not essential for linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton but supports morphogenesis robustness. J Cell Sci, 137(6) journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The Dilute domain in Canoe is not essential for linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton but supports morphogenesis robustness

Highlighted Article: Cell junctions link cells and anchor the cytoskeleton. Here, we define the role in this process of the conserved Dilute domain in the complex multidomain Canoe protein (a homolog ...

journals.biologists.com

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Andy Cox @drandrewcox.bsky.social · Jan 2

Excited to see this out! A fantastic collaboration with Kirsten Sadler, spearheaded by Nouf and Talhah! Big thanks to DMM for highlighting our work as an Editors Choice, as well as the First Person Interview. 😀🔬🐟

DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · Dec 31

🧪 Sadler, Cox & colleagues create a comparative resource to help make decisions on which method to use to analyse lipid droplets in #zebrafish larval livers. 🐟

Read the summary: https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/17/11/dmm052204/363211/Zebrafish-streamline-the-way-to-understanding

A tg(fabp10a;CAAX-EGFP) zebrafish larva at 7 days post fertilization, stained with Nile Red to mark lipid droplets (magenta), with GFP-marked hepatocytes in the liver. This sample was fixed and imaged with confocal microscopy.

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Don Arnold @don-b-arnold.bsky.social · Dec 8

Our new paper on recombinant tools for reversibly ablating excitatory and inhibitory synapses is out in eLife. Congrats to first author, Aida Bareghamyan!
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Plasmids, and hopefully AAVs, will be available soon on Addgene.

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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · Dec 20

#Devbio folks, mark your calendars:
SWSDB2025 at UNM in Albuquerque, NM, May 2-4!

Organizers Drs. Mubarak Hussain Syed, Lomeli Shull, Tou Yia Vue, Alexa Burger, & Marycruz Flores-Flores as US-Mexico liaison - more tk on their fabulous website:
www.swsdb2025.org

@socdevbio.bsky.social #SWSDB2025

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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thrilled to see this paper out!! 🧪

Spatial transcriptomics of brain aging and 'spatial aging clocks' identify cells that have pro-aging or pro-rejuvenating effects on their neighbors!

Huge CONGRATS to Eric Sun and all authors! Fantastic collaboration with @jameszou.bsky.social!

rdcu.be/d33uQ 🧵

Spatial transcriptomic clocks reveal cell proximity effects in brain ageing

Nature - A spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics map of the mouse brain at different ages reveals signatures of ageing, rejuvenation and disease, including ageing effects associated with T...

rdcu.be

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · Dec 16

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Dec 11

Heading to #CellBio2024? Do you love #lipids? Join us for an exciting subgroup on Lipids in Organelle Form and Function, Saturday at 1:45 PM! Lipid-themed happy hour to follow but you must attend the session to find out the location!

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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · Dec 14

Updated Aging Starter Packs to find people and labs who work on aging!!

Aging Starter Pack 1 (already reached the maximum number!): go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

Aging Starter Pack 2 (can still add!): go.bsky.app/RfFYndJ

Let me know if you'd like to be added! 😀

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Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · Dec 10

Joey is such a fantastic person and a thoughtful and brilliant scientist! I would apply for a position in his lab if I was eligible!

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · Dec 9

I'll be presenting at #CellBio2024 on Monday, Dec. 16! I'll give a flash talk in the Cell Dynamics, Developmental and Structural Biology, and Signal Transduction microsymposium at 10 am and then will be at my poster 1:30–3 pm (Board No. B350) 1/3

American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Nov 27

#CellBio2024, the joint meeting of ASCB and EMBO, will take place December 14-18, 2024, in San Diego, California. Join us to connect with scientists, present your research, and explore the latest advancements in cell biology science and technology.

www.ascb.org/cellbio2024/

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Nov 11

Ok, I made a starter pack for membrane trafficking and organelles (broadly defined). Feel free to self-nominate! go.bsky.app/RbtJjt7

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Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social · Dec 8

Looking for Cell Biologists to follow??
Check out these starter packs:
bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Angelo Iulianella @aineurolab.bsky.social · Nov 16

@devdynamics.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky Developmental Dynamics, added to the Developmental Biology starter pack II.

You can also patch in to more #DevBio folks by checking out the first Developmental Biology start pack here:

go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn

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Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · Dec 8

I laughed till I cried. I needed that!

Amy Sater @amysater.bsky.social · Dec 8

Waaaayy too real -

Ricardo Azevedo @ricardoazevedo.bsky.social · Dec 8

Yesterday I completed mine. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Dec 7

Let your timeline shine with these outstanding #WomenInScience! 🧪 #zebrafish go.bsky.app/4BegEjv

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Natalia Sampaio @drnatsampaio.bsky.social · Dec 6

Resharing this for those new to bluesky. If you are interested in #innateimmunity or #inflammation, here’s a starter pack or researchers to follow! Leave a comment if you wanna be added too. #immunosky #academicchatter
go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB

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