Thrilled (and a bit late!) to announce I'm a new Lalor Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow! 🎉 So grateful for their support of early-career reproductive science as I investigate early embryo development in the Hammoud Lab. Huge thanks to Dr. Hammoud! 🔬

Check out our latest paper! Proud to be part of such an impressive project and inspirational group of scientists! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Maternal CENP-C restores centromere symmetry in mammalian zygotes to ensure proper chromosome segregation

Across metazoan species, the centromere-specific histone variant CENP-A is essential for accurate chromosome segregation, yet its regulation during th…

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Rete Petite: 'Forgotten' ovarian structure has a role in maintaining ideal ovary conditions 📹 ‪@academicblonde.bsky.social et al @dukehealth.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with John Ankers

📃 Really grateful and honored to get to be a part of the Rete Ovarii’s history! If you have a moment, read the @sciencenews.bsky.social article on my papers!

An overlooked organ may help the ovary function

No longer considered functionless, the “rediscovered” rete ovarii may be crucial for understanding “unexplainable” infertility and ovarian disorders.

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🧵 🧪 1/ Female #ReproductiveBiology is, unfortunately, notoriously understudied. So maybe it’s no surprise that a supposedly useless ‘developmental leftover’ in the ovaries could turn out to be...not so useless after all. Meet the rete ovarii 👇 buff.ly/VudxQ2U

Long thought to have little relevance to ovarian physiology, the rete ovarii may have a role in follicular dynamics and reproductive health. buff.ly/JhwpURU

Long thought to have little relevance to ovarian physiology, the rete ovarii may have a role in follicular dynamics and reproductive health. buff.ly/LbG6Jnn

Excited to share that part of my PhD work is officially published in eLife! Couldn’t have done it without @jenmckey.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/96662

Rediscovering the rete ovarii, a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary

The rete ovarii is a complex secretory structure that may play an important role in ovarian homeostasis.

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Even though there are great #devbio and #biophysics starter packs, I felt #morphogenesis & #organogenesis was missing as a subfield :D Far from complete or full. Tell me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PB6s8PQ

Go @ceriweber.bsky.social !!

Kim Cooper@ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share work that @ceriweber.bsky.social started and drove in my lab. Tails!! We know a lot about limb bone growth, but vertebrae have completely different embryonic and evolutionary origins. What controls growth and proportion in the vertebral skeleton? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✨ I’ve finally gathered enough amazing researchers to create a BlueSky starter pack for those studying the female reproductive tract! Please follow, share widely, and (self-)nominate anyone who should be included. Let’s grow this community together! ✨ 🧪 go.bsky.app/FyubCiJ

Three months as a postdoc!! Thrilled to share that I’ve joined the Hammoud Lab at the University of Michigan as a postdoctoral fellow! Looking forward to being part of the exciting and novel research that is being done in this amazing lab!

Rete excited to share my 2nd first-author paper on the bulk of my PhD work titled, “Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @jenmckey.bsky.social

Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary

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Excited to share my 1st first-author paper! Took blood, sweat, tears, and a whole village to produce a comprehensive bulk, Sc and Sn transcriptome analysis of the fetal and adult rete ovarii! Watch this space for an upcoming second preprint!😉 @jenmckey.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Transcriptome analysis of the mouse fetal and adult rete ovarii and surrounding tissues

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