Aakanksha Singhvi
@singhvilabglia.bsky.social
Associate Prof @Fred Hutch (+ @UW_NBio) Glia fascinate me. Worms are rad. singhvilab.org
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism | PNAS
Experimental organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are fundamental to biological discovery. The success of C. elegans research has ...
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The open source spirit of the worm community makes it so special - and so powerful for discovery! Great account of the impact of the community tools and databases had and have on understanding fundamental biology! 🪱 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Important to keep these resources funded!
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Yes, lab life is truly so much fun! So nicely said by Donna Strickland: www.facebook.com/reel/8264683...
210K views · 5.7K reactions | Throwback to 2018 when physics laureate Donna Strickland started her banquet speech by talking about Cyndi Lauper's song 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun'. Strickland told ...
Throwback to 2018 when physics laureate Donna Strickland started her banquet speech by talking about Cyndi Lauper's song 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun'. Strickland told us how enjoyable she found...
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If said women work for your competitors, I guess maybe
Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social exactly what we were talking about re your #Celegans background setting you up for creative work in other systems! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology
As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.
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Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 10mo agoSharing for visibility :)
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
How are #circadian rhythms established during development? This study shows that maternal metabolic signals oscillate in the fetal #SCN before the endogenous #clock becomes functional, offering a plausible mechanism for maternal entrainment of the developing clock @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VD45fZ
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures. @nachury.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia
Neuronal cilia have emerged as crucial signaling hubs, yet their molecular composition and integration with synaptic communication remain poorly understood. Using a newly developed Arl13b-TurboID mous...
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Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social: “Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.” This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Faust et al., Cell 2025
A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.” Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.
The first one is some crazy work by @monmitabhar.bsky.social, Tanumoy, @hari-flies.bsky.social and Kamal Kishore. They eavesdropped on worm conversations and found the exciting phenomenon of movement of memory from one worm to another 2/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extracellular vesicles aid in the transfer of long-term associative memory between Caenorhabditis elegans
Memory formation is necessary for the survival of animals across phyla. Here, we elucidate the mechanism underlying the formation of long-term associative memory (LTAM) formed by treating Caenorhabdit...
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📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
Fred Hutch researchers created a gene-expression map of glial cells in tiny worms, adding the missing component that completes an atlas of the entire nervous system of a multicellular adult animal at the molecular level. @singhvilabglia.bsky.social @manusetty.bsky.social bit.ly/47353c3
Mapping molecules of an unsung brain cell
Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing component that completes for the first time an atlas of the entire nervous sy...
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Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program! #devbiolwriteclub @socdevbio.bsky.social
Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · last yr.Applications are now open for the 2026 SDB Science Communication Internship. Graduate student and postdoc members of the Society for Developmental Biology are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 15. Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...
Interested in science administration? Want to meet and work with senior members of the SDB? Want to help chart the future of the SDB? Then apply for the Strategic Planning Internship! @socdevbio.bsky.social www.sdbonline.org/strategic_pl...
Society for Developmental Biology | Strategic Planning Internship
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fantastic work from @melcooperphd.bsky.social - what are these beautiful networks doing in our brains?
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic gap junctional networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665573v1
Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely! vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...
Assistant Professor of Biology, Tenure Track
Department Biology Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions conc...
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🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!
Assistant Professor - Biology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Hey 🧪 I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.
i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
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Firat ever Singhvi lab "reunion" at a meeting (how did we get this old a lab already? 🤔🫢😲) -with Liza Severs, Sasha Kravchuk, & alum @glia-maria.bsky.social #worm25
Absolutely agree! #Worm25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social was amazing on many levels.. Thank you @cswormlab.bsky.social and @baristursun.bsky.social ..and cheers to the fabulous worm community!!👏🏼❤️
Max Heiman@heiman.bsky.social · last yr.Huge thanks to Cathy Savage-Dunn @cswormlab.bsky.social and Baris Tursun @baristursun.bsky.social for an amazing #worm25 !! I want to call out the OUTSTANDING meeting they created! Talks and posters were A+++. Most of all they brought us together in one of the most challenging times we've had.
Worm comedy show #worm25 this year was amazing, it made my 4th worm meeting very special, thank you!!
Congratulations to all the 2025 awardees!! 👏🏼
Klingenstein Philanthropies@klingensteinorg.bsky.social · last yr.Meet the 2025 Klingenstein Neuroscience Fellows! Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund is pleased to welcome 13 highly promising, early career scientists conducting cutting-edge research. Each will receive $450K over 3 years and join us at our scientific conference.
