🍾🧪The end of an era! Today we said so long to Dr. Troy Anderson. Troy was the very first person to join me in the Smeeton lab. He just defended his PhD and is off to start his postdoc next month. We will miss you Troy!! #proudPI @troy-anderson.bsky.social #zebrafish

Incredibly disheartening that @hhmi.bsky.social would preemptively cancel diversity funding mechanisms when private grants seem like the only source of stability right now. I would love if any of our early research careers were in precedented times. www.science.org/content/arti...

HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education

“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions

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Zebrafish have the innate capacity to regenerate entire joints, including new synovial and articular cartilage cells! Interested in learning more? Check out our pre-print using scRNA, live-imaging, and smFISH to explore the players and factors responsible - out now on bioRxiv!

Joanna Smeeton@smeetonlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢🧪For your holiday travel reading, check out our new pre-print! Using a new joint resection injury model, we describe an innate regeneration program in adult #zebrafish that reestablishes all major synovial joint cell types, including lubricated articular cartilage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...