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Dylan Burnette

@mag2art.bsky.social

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Cell biologist studying how the cells in a heart grow and die, and other cellular curiosities. Associate Professor at Vanderbilt. https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/dylan-burnette-lab/

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 15d

Scam site or not, it is stealing my intellectual property. It is not OK to take people's art (no matter how that art is generated) and sell it.

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 16d

An iPSC cardiac myocyte (heart muscle cell) photographed through a microscope. That yellow thing is the DNA in the nucleus. The cyan things are the motor domains of myosin II, the molecular motor that drives muscle contraction. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 22d

Just some normal ole’ cell biology 🎨🔬
Featuring the nucleus, mitochondria, and actin.
#SciArt #CellBiology

Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 22d

Famous artists meet cell biology 🎨🔬
Cells reimagined through iconic styles.
The nucleus, mitochondria, and ER are shown.
#SciArt #CellBiology #AIArt #DALLE

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 22d

Famous artists meet cell biology 🎨🔬
Cells reimagined through iconic styles.
The nucleus, mitochondria, and ER are shown.
#SciArt #CellBiology #AIArt #DALLE

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 24d

Cubist Cell — where biology meets Picasso.
A nucleus, mitochondria, and ER reimagined through fractured planes and bold geometry.
#CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 27d

Breaking News: Emma Koory won the Best Graduate Student Talk Award at the Program in Developmental Biology retreat today! Carries on Burnette Lab tradition! #CellBiology @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Aug 28

DNA in the nuclei of cells within a bee's brain photographed through a spinning disk confocal microscope. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Aug 27

Someone made the decision to buy a mitochondria T-shirt this week! Yay! Its a good one! #CellBiology
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Mitochondria Women's Relaxed T-Shirt

T-shirt featuring mitochondria within a cell photographed through a microscope. Colors show relative Z position. This just might be the softest and most comfortable women's t-shirt you'll ever own. Co...

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Aug 26

A thin section through the body wall of a mouse embryo photographed through a DIC microscope. I color-coded different tissues based on cellular morphology. The three gold circles are developing ribs. The yellow part at the very bottom is a lung. @CellBiology

Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Aug 19

I have found my spirit animal. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Aug 17

Blebbisomes! They do more than in this paper! More coming soon! #CellBiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Aug 5

A cell with lots of membrane blebs videoed through a DIC microscope. #CellBiology

Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Aug 1

A neuronal growth cone photographed through a microscope. DIC, actin filaments, and microtubules are shown. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Jul 31

Cells lose the integrity of their plasma membrane at some point when they are dying. We call it "popping" in our lab. I am sure that the cell death researchers have a fancier term for it.

Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Jul 30

Two dying breast cancer cells videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Jul 20

I asked ChatGPT to draw a blebbisome. The first extracellular vesicle with a personality indeed :-)
#CellBiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Jul 12

Mag2Art.com: Activewear and canvas prints featuring photographs of mitochondria taken through a microscope. Why do these exist? I was bored. This link takes you to all of the products that turned out well:
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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Jun 30

Large extracellular vesicles called "migrasomes" forming from thin retraction fibers left behind by a crawling cell. Method DIC microscopy. 5 micron scale bar. 120 min. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · Jun 28

A zebrafish embryo photographed through a microscope. Actin filaments are shown. You may have to zoom in to see the details...... #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · May 27

A heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) photographed through a microscope by PhD candidate Emma Koory. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · May 19

The leading edge of a crawling cell videoed through a microscope. Watch the actin cytoskeleton in motion as it drives membrane protrusion and cell movement. It’s like watching the cell think with its feet. #CellBiology

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · May 16

Burnette Lab outing to Pins Mechanical Nashville. Sadly, Burnette Lab 2.0 is coming to an end but Burnette Lab 3.0 is booting up! #CellBiology

Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · May 13

Fauvism or Neo-Impressionism — bold colors, expressive brush-like patterns, and vivid contrast. Fauvist painters like Matisse emphasized wild color and emotional impact over realism.
#CellBiology #Microscopy #Zebrafish
#FauvismInScience

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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · May 13

Our microscope thought it was a Fauvist painter today. This 72 hpf zebrafish embryo shows actin filaments in brilliant color—revealing nature’s structure with the flair of Matisse.
#CellBiology #Microscopy #Zebrafish #FauvismInScience

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