Jen McKey
@jenmckey.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ CU Anschutz // Reproductive and Developmental Biologist // Studies all things ovary // NewPI // Could stare at images of embryos and ovaries all day long
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Study for the Society of Reproduction@ssrepro.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe apologize for the recent downtime on the Reprobioart website. Our technical difficulties have been resolved, and the site is now fully back up and running! Thank you for your patience and understanding. 🙌 Submit an image today at: https://ssr.org/reprobioart-contest/ #SSR2026
Every cell tells a story, and every image reveals a secret. 🧬 Share your visual journey through reproductive biology with #ReproBioArt2026. Learn more and submit your image today: https://ssr.org/reprobioart-contest/ #SSR2026 #ScienceArt #Reproduction #BioArt
🚨Preprint🚨 An unexpected source of sex hormones in mammalian gonads: Supporting-like cells (SLCs) 🐇 SLCs have latent steroidogenic potential and may be an ancestral lineage conserved beyond mammals Led by @ivan-barbera-aura.bsky.social & V Chung Bluetorial 1/15👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🏎️💨 The clock is ticking to join us for #SSR2026. We are officially in the "Last Call" for Late-Breaking Abstracts! Submit your research by May 7 to secure your spot for a poster presentation in Indy. 🏎️🏁 Details in the link below! 👇 #ReproSci #ScienceCommunication
Happy New Year from the McKey Lab! The work hasn’t stopped and we are excited for all the new discoveries this year. 🔬🧬🧫 In the meantime - check out this beautiful immunofluorescent image taken by our very own (and very talented) Courtney Diamond! ⭐
Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · 12mo ago✨If Monet studied mouse ovaries 🎨 Stromal cells 💜 Follicular cells 🔵 and Fatty Cells 🟡. Together, they reveal the cellular architecture and functional zones of the ovary 🔬 Image provided by @shmimberly.bsky.social 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #ReproductiveBiology
Congratulations to Dr. Katie Ranard, postdoctoral fellow in the @bruceappel.bsky.social lab, on receiving a NINDS K99/R00 award for her proposal entitled, “Impact of nutritional status on mechanisms guiding brain development”! @cupediatrics.bsky.social #zebrafish #devbio
1/n Very excited to share our recent paper published on @ScienceAdvances where we dissect the gene regulatory landscape guiding mouse sex determination! science.org/doi/10.1126/... A huge well done to @IsabelleStevant.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy, Meshi and Elisheva who spearhead this project!
The gene regulatory landscape driving mouse gonadal supporting cell differentiation
Multiomics analysis revealed the regulatory elements and transcription factors responsible for gonadal sex determination.
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Excited to see this new review piece that we wrote together with Jennifer Garrison and Alison Kochersberger on the modern tools and approaches to study #ovarian #aging out this week at @genesdev.bsky.social! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl... #GeroSky #WomensHealth 🧪🧬 A 🧵1/3
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The 2025 edition of SSRepro #ReproBioArt image contest is live and the gallery is filling up with such beautiful images! Submit yours today!! #ReproRocks woobox.com/2poyka/galle...
ReproBioArt 2025
#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro
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Hey #ReproSky don’t forget tot submit your beautiful images to the SSR #ReproBioArt contest!! Winners get free registration to the 2026 meeting and a beautiful showcase of their images!! Let’s show off how pretty #ReproBio can be!! #ReproRocks @ssrwinrs.bsky.social woobox.com/2poyka/galle...
ReproBioArt 2025
#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro
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What a nice set of papers- just as I’m beginning to think of our intro to developmental models course this fall @jenmckey.bsky.social !
International Society of Developmental Biology@isdb.bsky.social · last yr.Our special issue contains some very interesting articles on organiser biology, ranging from cnidarians to amphibian to mammals. Check them out.
Honored to received this distinction, and incredibly grateful to be leading a group that makes mentoring the most fun and rewarding part of my job! 🤩 And congrats to Lily for such outstanding community work! #reprosky #ReproRocks #TeamOvary
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!
Ready for it??? To all the **sex determination lovers** 📢 Save the date to the 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination (VSD) held in the beautiful Hawaii!! Great community, amazing science, excellent speakers and superb location 🏝 📢 March 23-26, 2026 📢
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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First first author research paper for Lily and first paper out of my lab!! Excited to see this out and so proud of the hard work my lab members put into it :) Hoping OoCount will save others countless hours of manual follicle counting! @ssrwinrs.bsky.social #TeamOvary #ReproRocks
CU Anschutz Developmental Biology@cudevbio.bsky.social · last yr.Meet the author! Lily Folts, a graduate student in the @jenmckey.bsky.social lab, just published her manuscript detailing a deep-learning-based method to count and classify ovarian follicles called OoCount. When Lily isn't in the lab, she likes to hike, read, and listen to live music.
It was so wonderful to work with Blanche’s colleagues and Capel Lab past and present to put together her nomination. Congrats Blanche!!! So well deserved!!
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
Such an incredible group of awardees!! 🤩 I’m so excited for my mentor Blanche Capel to be recognized this year with the Conklin Medal! Her contributions to the field and her dedication her trainees’ are so inspiring. I cannot wait to celebrate at the meeting! #devbio @socdevbio.bsky.social
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
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
Our values and resolve are only strengthened by recent events.
Congratulations to our very own graduate student, Lily Folts, for her recent publication; "OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification". 🔬🥼🤗 academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...
OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification
Summary Sentence: This protocol introduces OoCount, a high-throughput, open-source method for automatic oocyte segmentation and classification from fluores
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Listen to 2024 Roger V Short Medal Awardee, Dr. Francesca Duncan, discuss ovarian aging and give trainees a bit of her wisdom on the latest SSR podcast! 👏👏👏 #womeninSTEM #reprorocks Listen to the full episode here 👇https://www.buzzsprout.com/1786803/episodes/16143433
Congrats to a fabulous collaborator who is not on social media!
CU Anschutz Developmental Biology@cudevbio.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations 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...
To learn more, please check out my youtube tutorials at www.youtube.com/@oanegros which shows, among others, how to make this video! The data here is a dinoflagellate from Mocaer et al. 2023, hosted publicly at EMPIAR-11399 (also shown in the first post here).
