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karl the fog @karlthefog.bsky.social · 10d

📣 PSA for those going to this Foggy #Folsom: You still need sunscreen when I'm around - otherwise you're gonna end up with a very weird sunburn for a very long time

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 17d

I regularly think I was just born in the wrong era. So to keep that going, happy Earth Wind Fire day! May you have something to dance away this 21st of September day to!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 28d

A good day in lab, followed by a nice rainbow as I stepped off the train home. ❤️

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Sep 5

I would think soccer, fog, and some home made granola bars from one of the parents in your part of the bay

Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Sep 5

I didn’t know the geese were a part of the triad 😂

Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Aug 27

This just made me laugh to the point of tears 😂

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks @cilialab.bsky.social for organizing as usual!

Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · Aug 19

We have a fabulous finish with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social (@reiterlab.bsky.social, UCSF) on #GPCRs, #signaling, and #hypogonadism in #BBS models across the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axes and its many ciliated cell types! #Ciliopathies? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #UKCilia2025 /6

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Jul 19

‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!

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

Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development

Primary cilia orchestrate several signaling pathways, and their disruption results in pleiotropic disorders called ciliopathies. Bardet Beidl syndrome (BBS), one such ciliopathy, provides insights int...

www.biorxiv.org

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is your occasional 🧪 reminder that you test a hypothesis. You don't prove a hypothesis. 🤓

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 1

Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n

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

The human ciliopathy protein RSG1 links the CPLANE complex to transition zone architecture - Nature Communications

The CPLANE complex is essential for ciliogenesis, and mutations to all but one subunit have been associated with ciliopathies. Here they identify three familial mutations in the final subunit, RSG1, t...

www.nature.com

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Jun 14

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

A cartoon titled ‘The Life of a Scientist’.

(The life is depicted as a set of steps, three up then three down with a character on each)

Baby: Such a mysterious world!
Child: I must search for answers
Young adult: Each answer leads me to more questions
Middle age: ... At least I've got lots of questions
Old age: Ok, I guess questions are my thing now
From grave: Such a mysterious world!

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karl the fog @karlthefog.bsky.social · May 30

Just your typical temperate range for a city that's only 7x7 miles

Map of SF that shows different temps ranging from 53 to 86 — within 6 miles of each other

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · May 10

I once asked a scientist whom I respect enormously her advice for a successful career and life in science.

Her advice: Leave every place better than you found it.

It surprises me that many people would try hard to do the compete opposite …
and we would elect them to run the country.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Apr 24

I always like to reference this comparison chart that @rrbehringer.bsky.social made awhile back. Hope it helps put things in perspective! -KT

Various shapes and sizes of animal zygotes

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Apr 17

Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
@lblanchoin.bsky.social
@manuelthery.bsky.social
@gelinmatthieu.bsky.social

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Apr 10

Us too, and my partner and I are both over 6 foot with a Great Dane…although she does decide she’s done with cuddles and goes to her bed sometimes.

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Ryan Gray @slewzeus.bsky.social · Apr 9

Finally out! Brittney Voigt et al show the shared role of Inppl1a expansion of notochord vacuolated cells and also for hypertrophy of chondorcytes and bone lengthening. @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Cell expansion for notochord mechanics and endochondral bone lengthening in zebrafish depends on the 5′-inositol phosphatase Inppl1a

Voigt et al. show that the 5′-inositol phosphatase gene inppl1a drives notochord expansion independent of vacuole fusion. Defects in notochord expansion are exacerbated by locomotion, causing more sev...

www.cell.com

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Apr 1

An honor to have gotten to play a part in this one from the talented Thi Nguyen in the Reiter lab, @reitergroup.bsky.social, hope people enjoy it!

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

Smoothened inhibition of PKA at cilia transduces Hedgehog signals

Hedgehog (HH) signaling in vertebrates is dependent on the primary cilium, an organelle that scaffolds signal transduction. HH signals induce Smoothened (SMO) enrichment in the cilium and indirectly t...

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Apr 1

Excited to be headed to Austin to watch an old friend defend her thesis, catch up with old friends, and chat science with old mentors! See yall soon! @neftaliv.bsky.social @jbwallingford.bsky.social @slewzeus.bsky.social

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Tim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social · Mar 28

Alex Long, the last postdoc from my lab at Stanford, is starting her own lab, continuing her beautiful work on evolutionary cell biology using chytrid fungi as a model. Check it out! alonglab.org

Long Research Group

Long Research Group - Univ. Kentucky

alonglab.org

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Mar 11

Ok as the one who just made it through the other end last week, you can make it through!

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · Mar 1

On the Caltrain into lab this morning. Overhearing some teenagers talk about cuts to science and how it scares them gives me a little hope for the future. ❤️

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Feb 28

Five weeks into what has been a constant onslaught on science, working on a paper seems like such a privilege, which many of our recently fired colleagues no longer have.

And a rebellious act.

But mostly it's self-care.

(Give yourself permission to turn off the news for the weekend.)

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · Feb 28

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