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Marian Walhout

@marianwalhout.bsky.social

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Biologist, systems biology, C. elegans, metabolism, gene regulation, networks, horses, cats, (still) happy in academia, UMass Chan Medical School https://www.umassmed.edu/walhoutlab/ Opinions my own

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Sandy Roberts @kaleidoscopesci.bsky.social · Apr 21

Feeling inspired by the @scifri.bsky.social story about cat genetics and behavior? Well, you can do science too! Investigate how your favorite pet communicates with you in this fun, family-friendly STEM activity. #EduSky www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · Apr 19

If we fit, we sit.. 😂

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Marian Walhout @marianwalhout.bsky.social · Apr 16

Senior and junior faculty in the current NIH-quake

Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · Apr 15

Circle of trust.. 🐘

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Marian Walhout @marianwalhout.bsky.social · Apr 16

I will be like these cows when my foot surgery is done and healed!

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · Apr 15

In Sweden, crowds line up just to watch cows go outside for the first time since winter.. 😊

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · Apr 5

Comforting each other.. 😊

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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hoopoe, East Cork - part of a recent influx of these exotic beauties to southern Ireland. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Ryan Michalesko @ryanmichalesko.bsky.social · Mar 31

I am buzzing with excitement just back from another trip to see this spectacle! There is something profound about the great Sandhill Crane migration at the Platte River. Each morning is like tuning in live to nature’s crescendo—soft purrs in low light transform into a booming, prehistoric orchestra.

Eight Sandhill Cranes take flight at first light after roosting overnight on the Platte River in Nebraska. A nearly full moon backs the birds, as the sky just begins to take on a pink hue.

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Nature Vibes @naturehq.bsky.social · Mar 31

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Feb 27

If you bring a telescope and get away from city lights Friday evening, there’s a chance you’ll see seven planets parading through the sky.

A rare seven-planet ‘parade’ will light up the sky. Here’s how to see it.

The planetary alignment will be visible Friday night, but not all of them can be seen by the naked eye.

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Marian Walhout @marianwalhout.bsky.social · Feb 26

Thanks Juan - it's so nice seeing all the work we've done over the years come to this. Fei and Hang are amazing scientists. See you in a week or two!

Marian Walhout @marianwalhout.bsky.social · Feb 26

Here's the second one! PD applications welcome
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systems-level design principles of metabolic rewiring in an animal - Nature

Systems-level Worm Perturb-Seq of metabolic genes reveals design principles of transcriptional metabolic rewiring, many of which can be explained by a compensation–repression model.

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Marian Walhout @marianwalhout.bsky.social · Feb 26

Two papers out in Nature today! Super exciting work by an amazingly talented team - Hefei Zhang and Xuhang Li. Proud and thrilled to see these out.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A systems-level, semi-quantitative landscape of metabolic flux in C. elegans - Nature

A strategy is introduced that infers whole-animal metabolic flux wiring from transcriptional phenotypes in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and several features in its adult metabolism are discover...

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UMass Chan Medical School @umasschan.bsky.social · Feb 26

Two papers published today in Nature describe a significant advance in understanding the complex functions of the metabolic network. Read about new research from the lab of Marian Walhout, PhD: direc.to/mNpf

#metabolic #metabolism @marianwalhout.bsky.social
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