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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · 23d

This is awesome! Looking forward to reading it.

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congratulations Sarah and team! @knoxstar.bsky.social @ucsfdentistry.bsky.social

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nice! Congratulations Jeremy, Roman, Andrei, and everyone!

Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · Aug 20

New work from stellar scientists Jeremy Williams and Roman Camarda. Many contributors including the amazing Zena Werb and Atul Butte

Work explores how breast cancer cells interact directly with adipocytes via gap junctions, leading to lipid release.
@ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Tumor cell-adipocyte gap junctions activate lipolysis and contribute to breast tumorigenesis

Nature Communications - Breast cancer cells interact with neighbouring adipocytes, but the mechanisms are not fully understood. Here, the authors show that triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)...

www.nature.com

Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Aug 13

Nice going Lily and [email protected] @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfdentistry.bsky.social

Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · Aug 12

#DBfeature 🐣

CRISPR-Cas13d enables targeted gene expression knockdown in chick embryos, expanding the experimental potential and versatility of this model system.

by Minyoung Kim and Erica Hutchins @drericabiophd.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CRISPRCas #ChickEmbryo

Cross-section of HH9 chick embryo head showing reduced PAX7 signal on CRISPR-Cas13d knockdown side (~17% decrease, n=15), highlighted in GFP+ cells.

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Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF @ctbatucsf.bsky.social · Aug 5

Karin Shamardani, DDS/PhD candidate, is working with Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social to study how Efnb1 and the understudied actin-regulator gene Shrm4 interact to control palatal outgrowth and mesenchymal organization during craniofacial development.

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Semil Choksi @semilc.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm thrilled to announce that my lab is opening this August in the Department of Cell & Tissue Biology @ UCSF!

We will study airway stem cells and explore how they generate multiciliated cells (my favorite!) to keep pathogens and debris out of the lung. Check out choksilab.org for more!

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Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF @ctbatucsf.bsky.social · Jun 5

CTB welcomes new Assistant Professor Semil Choksi @semilc.bsky.social to the department! The Choksi Lab will study how airway stem cells generate multiciliated cells - and how this process goes wrong in respiratory disease. His lab is opening this August. Visit choksilab.org to learn more!

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Jun 6

We’re so lucky you will join us Semil! Can’t wait!

Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Apr 1

Just recruited two more grad students to be appreciated on Bluesky! @jasminegarciia.bsky.social @davidsungtooth.bsky.social @ophirklein.bsky.social

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Apr 1

Happy graduate student appreciation week to David Sung and Luke Lucido!…also trying to encourage them to join Bluesky

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congratulations to Camilla Teng, for winning the "Platform presentation SDB prize" for post-docs at the Northwest SDB meeting, which sounds like it was a fantastic meeting! Camilla will be on the faculty job market soon, so look out for her! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'm thrilled to share that CTB faculty Fred Chang has been elected as a AAAS fellow! Congratulations to Fred on this well-deserved honor. @fredchanglab.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social

www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/03/429681/ucsfs-fred-chang-honored-election-aaas

UCSF’s Fred Chang Is Honored with Election to AAAS

Cell biologist Fred Chang, MD, PhD, has been named a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a highly esteemed lifetime honor within the scientific community.

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Nature @nature.com · Feb 20

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.

https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj

Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time

The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.

go.nature.com

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Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social · Feb 8

To my friends and colleagues at UAB, IU, UF, FSU, UL, WashU, OSU, CWRU, etc, etc. Call both your senators and your representative. They listen. Emphasize the direct economic impact of NIH research, and the indirect impacts on pharmaceutical/biotech. Underscore its relevance to national security.

Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · Feb 8

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.

GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.

Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Feb 6

Great new lab opening!…

Rachel Zwick @rkzwick.bsky.social · Feb 6

The Zwick lab has landed in the Regenerative Medicine Institute @NYU! I’m incredibly excited to build a team to study how epithelial organs are patterned and remodeled throughout life, with a major focus on the remarkable changes that occur in the maternal body during pregnancy..1/5

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Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF @ctbatucsf.bsky.social · Sep 16

Vahid Niknezhad joined the Knox lab in 2022 as a postdoctoral scholar, focusing on the development of biomaterials and hydrogels for drug delivery systems and tissue repair technologies. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

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Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF @ctbatucsf.bsky.social · Sep 16

Helen, a postdoc in the Hutchins lab @drericabiophd.bsky.social, is interested in how RNA binding proteins and modifications contribute to the dynamic process of neural crest cell development, and is also passionate about laboratory waste reduction and scientific illustration.#ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

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Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF @ctbatucsf.bsky.social · Sep 16

Petria-George Thompson, a postdoc in the Goga lab @andreigoga.bsky.social, is studying mechanisms of CDK2 inhibition as therapeutics for breast cancer and other cancers. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

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Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF @ctbatucsf.bsky.social · Sep 16

Check her out at UCSF postdoc slam!
postdocs.ucsf.edu/news/introdu...

Introducing the 2024 Postdoc Slam Finalists!

Meet the 10 postdocs who will give 3-minute talks at our popular annual research communications competition on Sept. 18. The event will be a lively centerpiece to our National Postdoc Appreciation Wee...

postdocs.ucsf.edu

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Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF @ctbatucsf.bsky.social · Sep 16

Camilla Teng in the Bush lab @jeffbushman.bsky.social is working to understand cell behaviors and force generators driving development of the upper lip. This mysterious process has relevance to cleft lip, which is the most common congenital anomaly affecting the face. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

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