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Angie Serrano
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#Zebrafish + #iPSCs as #DiseaseModel #RareDiseases • 🧠 +🫀research • 🇦🇷 • She/Her | Assistant Professor @CReM, BU.
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Angie Serrano @mangieserrano.bsky.social · Nov 21
As our mentees finalize their #RKirschstein (F30) predoctoral submissions for this December deadline, in these times, more than ever, let’s remember/learn/teach that this program is named Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA for MD/​PhD and other Dual Degree Fellowship. #NotAGrantCode
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Angie Serrano @mangieserrano.bsky.social · 19h
So, when you’re changing media in your iPSCs today, take a moment to be amazed by what frogs taught humans. 🐸

You can read the article here journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
The Developmental Capacity of Nuclei taken from Intestinal Epithelium Cells of Feeding Tadpoles
ABSTRACT. Nuclei from differentiated intestinal epithelium cells of feeding tadpoles and from control blastulae of Xenopus have been transplanted into enucleated recipient eggs. The differentiated sta...
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Angie Serrano @mangieserrano.bsky.social · 19h
He was a kind and inspiring scientist, a thoughtful mentor, and a humble human being whose legacy, and the open sharing of his own struggles, embody the resilience in science that continues to inspire many, including myself.
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Angie Serrano @mangieserrano.bsky.social · 19h
As a young developmental biologist studying Xenopus oogenesis, John Gurdon was my scientific hero for many reasons.
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Angie Serrano @mangieserrano.bsky.social · 19h
Yesterday, October 7, Sir John Gurdon passed away.
Dr. Gurdon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012, together with Shinya Yamanaka.
Through a series of experiments using Xenopus eggs, Gurdon showed that the nucleus of a mature cell can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state.
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 9d
EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓
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Ann C. Morris @anncmorris.bsky.social · 10d
Assistant or Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Kentucky: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/601...
#academic jobs #edusky
Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology
The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...
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Cornelius Gati @gati.bsky.social · 10d
Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania! Our lab will be relocating to the Department of Pharmacology in Jan ’26. We’re hiring at all levels—reach out if you’re interested! @isbupenn.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social
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Shweta Nandakumar @bucklingmt.bsky.social · 25d
Despite their high rigidity, microtubules (MTs) dynamically bend and buckle in cells. MT-self repair is inherent to their metastable nature, but it remains unclear whether just inherent repair mechanisms are sufficient to maintain MT integrity🧵 (1/9)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Andrea Musacchio @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social · 24d
The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations @vcmentowski.bsky.social for solving a remarkably challenging molecular puzzle
The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona
The kinetochore fibrous corona docks on CENP-E and a second elusive receptor identified as the checkpoint protein BUB1.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Aug 27
The new NIH grant review format and the iron law of unintended consequences drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/t...
The new NIH grant review format and the iron law of unintended consequences
The NIH introduced a revised approach to the peer review of grant applications in the most recent summer review rounds. The Simplified Peer Review Framework has a number of new features, some of wh…
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · Aug 15
#zebrafish genome update, our T2T assembly of the inbred strain of AB (M-AB) generated by my buddy Nori Sakai has now been released at NCBI and will be a second reference genome for zebrafish (GRCz12ab):
JBQAYU000000000.1 Danio rerio :: NCBI
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 10
My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships.

This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria.

Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · Jul 31
Key advice for scientists writing grants…
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jul 31
When asked for advice she said, “Don’t be discouraged by rejection. You can come back.”

The key, she added, was a killer second draft: “If you can write the best second draft that can be written, that’s more impressive than anything you can write the first time.”

Gift link:
Rose Leiman Goldemberg, 97, Dies; Her ‘Burning Bed’ Was a TV Benchmark
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · Jul 16
What's the best software for making and styling a protein sequence alignment? Please tell me there's something better than MS Word?
Screenshot of protein sequences in MS Word
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Razvan Borza @rborza.bsky.social · Nov 23
🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet…

📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition.

Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Jun 20
Still accepting late-breaking abstracts for #ZDM18, for those finterested!

More details at the conference website: www.zdmsociety.org/zdm18-abstra...
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Vicky Tan @vickytan.bsky.social · Jun 20
Calling all #zebrafish researchers, ZDMS is hosting #ZDM18 in Boston this year (Oct 13-15) 🐟. One of my favourite conferences with interesting talks and is always fun!

Abstract submissions and early bird registrations close on July 11. Hope to see you there!

www.zdmsociety.org/zdm18-home
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 8
My quote of the day

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Lyndon B. Johnson
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Darrell Kotton @kottond.bsky.social · May 15
An amazing clinical triumph for regenerative medicine! A great example of how federal funding results in patient cures. Let’s keep these stories going, America! “World's First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy” #helpisontheway!

www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...
World's First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy
In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children’s Hospital of Phila...
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · May 5
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Apr 30
So incredibly stoked that my hero Ray Keller was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his pioneering work on the cell biology and biophysics of embryo morphogenesis. Well earned, Ray!!

www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original res...
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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Apr 30
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing

Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.

@sarareardon.bsky.social reports

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · Apr 30
Here's the background story on how I vibe coded a web extension for "Painless Preprint Posting":
thenode.biologists.com/painless-pre...
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · Apr 15
It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · Apr 15
to visualize and then click the "submit" button to add them to your web browser.
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