Well deserved! Here is to a terrific colleague!

Christian Mosimann@chrmosimann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

* Addendum to full professor promotion. Tremendously grateful to @cuanschutz.bsky.social @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social, all my fantastic lab members past and present, collaborators, friends, family, and #zebrafish. 🐟🧬🧪 Onwards, always. #PILife

Great to have some of the lab crew together for a @habitatforhumanity.bsky.social work day! Habitat is a terrific organization, building much needed affordable housing, and you get to use power tools! Get involved!

Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Immensely proud of our CU Pediatrics Dev Bio colleagues! @cupediatrics.bsky.social

McKey Lab - CU Medical School@mckey-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to our very own @jenmckey.bsky.social for winning the Outstanding Mentorship Award and Lily Folts for winning the Outstanding Community Service Award at the Annual WiSTEM Symposium! @cuanschutz.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social 🤩⭐🔬 We're s'proud of all their hard work!

We've had a great collaboration with Dr. Elena Alberdi's group at the Achurcarro Basque Center for Neuroscience for which we got to host two terrific grad students, Adhara and Uxue, for 4 months each. Our first joint publication is now out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Luuli has been a terrific colleague and friend. It was a true pleasure and privilege to serve on her thesis committee!

CU Anschutz Developmental Biology@cudevbio.bsky.social · last yr.

One of our stars defended today! Dr. @luulitran.bsky.social from the @thefrancolab.bsky.social lab gave a stellar seminar describing her deep, insightful, and highly productive investigations of the neuron-glia switch. #devbio @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social

This has the most information I have been able to learn about the situation at NIH. Unfortunately, the chaos, worry, and hold-up on grant reviewing and awards seems even worse than I had thought.

Katherine J. Wu@katherinejwu.com · last yr.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Big congrats to this year's awardees! Basic science matters more than ever - the awardees represent key aspects of what makes #devbio a central biomedical research endeavor of widespread impact. Applause!

Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to the 2025 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Blanche Capel DB-SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Billie Swalla Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Erica Crespi Hay New Investigator Award: Mubarak Syed SDB Trainee Science Communication Award: Joaquin Navajas Acedo bit.ly/4bcrFap

Great to see collaborations such as this "develop" between the Section of Developmental Biology @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social and our friends @colorado.edu. Looking forward to many more!

Santos Franco@thefrancolab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congrats to Justin @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social and his his team and Peter Dempsey and our colleagues in @cudevbio.bsky.social for this great paper in Nature Cell Biology on epigenetic regulation of intestinal stem cell fate specification! #weCUdevbio

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Dempsey, Professor in the Section of Developmental Biology, for recieving the 2025 Pediatric Gastroenterology & Developmental Biology Section Research Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterological Association! #devbio 🧪

Our first manuscript on maternal nutrition and development, which was driven entirely by postdoc Katie Ranard, is now out. @cudevbio.bsky.social #devbio doi.org/10.1016/j.jl...

Love the super creative work from my Dev Bio colleagues JP and Santos. I would never be able to master IU electroporation, but, wow, the things people who have skills can do with it! #devbio 🧪

CU Anschutz Developmental Biology@cudevbio.bsky.social · 2y ago

JP Martin, grad student in @thefrancolab.bsky.social lab, is about to tell us how he proposes to discover mechanisms that drove human brain evolution for his thesis research! Stay tuned for the answer- in about 3 years when he defends!

Postdoc Austin Adkins noticed that mutant zebrafish he had inherited behaved oddly in their tanks. So he turned them into a new research project. Great demonstration of serendipity and creativity at today's Dev Bio Section meeting. #devbio #zebrafish 🧪

Thanks! It’s been awhile since we had a cover!

Crystal Rogers, PhD@rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 2y ago

New issue of Differentiation out now! Congratulations to Samantha Bromley-Coolidge and co-authors, Diego Iruegas and @bruceappel.bsky.social for getting the cover of the journal! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/diff...

Looking for place to do PhD studies? Molecular Biology Graduate Program is a great place for that. Check it out. Deadline is December 1st.

This just out from grad student Samantha Bromley-Coolidge with help from Regis University undergrad Diego Iruegas. By the way, Regis has an awesome neuroscience program. If one of their students applies to your grad program, give them a close look! authors.elsevier.com/a/1k7nr14Yy4...

Sure, study section can be a be a grind but there is a huge perk - the chance to connect with special former students who have relocated to DC. Here with the incomparable Alex Hughes and Nick George. #myelin 🧠🧪

Love to see the results of great collaborations between my wonderful colleagues (and hoping I might get picked for the team next time….)!

Matthew Taliaferro@jmtali.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share our latest work! In it, we develop a new method for studying RNA localization via proximity labeling: OINC-seq! In contrast to other proximity-based methods, labels deposited on RNAs are read directly by sequencing without the need for biotinylation. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Hey, I think I see some myelin on that lineup! 🧠

Tim@timisstuck.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is your way-too-early notice that JCB is sponsoring its first-ever scientific session at CellBio2024!! Hosted by yours truly and one of our beloved leaders, Arshad Desai. Check it out + our presence at the meeting: t.co/79Ceo3PAFd

Not sure how this Bluesky thing is gonna work out for me. I could easily ignore that other platform - now I have a new diversion from grant reviewing….🧪

For any of you aiming to advance your biomedical scientific training or pursue your research career among fabulous colleagues in a wonderful part of the world, check us out! 🧪

University of Colorado Anschutz@cuanschutz.bsky.social · 2y ago

The largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region is excited to officially be on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest #healthscience news and breakthroughs straight from #CUAnschutz experts. Learn more about who we are, here: cuanschutz.edu

I encourage y’all to check out this work from @emilybateslab.bsky.social. I still remember the first time I heard Emily talk about her fly work that led to this - at a regional SDB meeting in Salt Lake City about 12 years when she was still at BYU. It’s been great to watch the story unfold.

@emilybateslab.bsky.social · 2y ago

We discovered that mouse embryonic palate mesenchymal cells are electrically active and send out BMP when they depolarize. We are excited to announce this work is published in Nature Communications. #womeninstem #devbio rdcu.be/dZX7V

Here is an enthusiastic plug for the journal Differentiation, edited by Drs. Crystal Rogers (@rogerslabucd.bsky.social), Rosa Uribe, and Loydie Jerome-Majewska. We just had a very pleasant and unusually (for these days) quick reviewing and proofs experience.

Just encouraged a publicity person to get our department on Bluesky, and we will be working to get our Section and grad programs on, too. Shout out to @cuhmggp.bsky.social and @kellydsullivan.bsky.social for leading the way. Please consider doing the same at your institutions if you haven’t already.

A big unknown of developmental biology is how environmental exposures and maternal health affect development. Postdoc Katie Ranard is attempting to help fill that gap. Here is our first report on developing a zebrafish model of a maternal nutritional deficiency. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Creation of a novel zebrafish model with low DHA status to study the role of maternal nutrition during neurodevelopment

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a dietary omega-3 fatty acid, is a major building block of brain cell membranes. Offspring rely on maternal DHA transfer to meet their neurodevelopmental needs, but DHA sou...

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Please check out our new preprint, which describes a new mechanism by which oligodenrocytes recognize specific classes of axons for myelination. Stellar work by graduate student Natalie Carey with important contributions from Dr. Caleb Doll (and I made 2 plasmids!). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oligodendrocytes use post-synaptic proteins to coordinate myelin formation on axons of distinct neurotransmitter classes

Axon myelination is a powerful method to tune neuronal circuit output through deposition of different patterns, lengths, and thicknesses of sheaths on many axon types. Yet the molecular mechanisms of ...

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ok, Bluesky, I just quit that other platform. If you are a developmental biologist, glia person, zebrafish person, etc., let me know you are out there.