Back from a trip to McNeil Falls, like Brooks Falls, but MUCH closer to many more bears. #bears #alaska #brooksfalls #mcneilfalls

Antelope Island after #MRS2026 finished up to see the bison and burrowing owls! #birds #bison @metastasisresearch.bsky.social

A few days of hiking before the Metastasis Research Society meeting @metastasisresearch.bsky.social

Kicking off day 2 of the 21st Biennial Congress of the MRS. Looking forward to hearing all the cutting edge metastasis research happening all around the world #MRS2026 #metastasis

Paper #4 in review (been a busy stretch!), examining neuronal control of metastasis. This one is similar to work from @madeleineoudin.bsky.social, so had to change the project direction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neuronal innervation of breast cancer promotes metastatic dissemination

Metastasis is a leading cause of mortality in breast cancer patients, yet the signaling promoting metastatic dissemination is not completely understood. Prior literature implicates neuronal innervatio...

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Paper 3 of 4 currently in review - here we used BioID to identify new targets of PTPRH: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unraveling the role of receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPRH in cell signaling regulation and biological processes of non-small cell lung cancer

The balance of protein phosphorylation is often disrupted in cancer, with hyperactivity of kinases and inactivation of phosphatases driving cell proliferation and survival pathways. PTPRH, a protein t...

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Paper 2 of 4 current in review... this one an examination of the genetic control of early pregnancy related mammary gland biology: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mammary Alveolar Proliferation and Differentiation During Early Pregnancy is Regulated by E2F5

The E2F transcription factors are well-established cell cycle regulators, but their roles in coordinating proliferation and differentiation remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the function...

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Quick reset with a canoe trip down the Au Sable this weekend.

Preprint now up for our model of liver metastasis... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #metastasis #cancer #model

Tumor-derived FXII engages the intrinsic coagulation cascade to support breast cancer liver metastasis.

Metastasis is the leading cause of death in breast cancer, yet the mechanisms controlling organotropism are not well defined. Coagulation has emerged as a biologically relevant contributor to metastat...

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Got up with the sun today to ride the Nembro to Selvino climb that has been on several pro races. 19 epic switchbacks in a 10km 2400foot climb… with a cafe at the top.

Pre-GRC Mammary ride near Bergamo. Biggest climb I’ve done, but tomorrow is a new day… if I could only sleep!

My bike ride through the swamp to MSU is always interesting. Today the pair of Hairy Woodpeckers was very busy feeding their fledglings. #birds #michigan #lansing

My team is moving the amazing St. Jude Children’s Reseerch Hospital in August and we have 2 postdoctoral positions available to study the intersection between genetics, women’s health, and breast cancer risk. Check it out! talent.stjude.org/careers/JobD...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Oncology

Our previous work has uncovered key mechanisms linking systemic changes to tumor initiation, single cell signatures of models of breast normal and cancer development and identified epigenetic and...

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Bird migration hitting us now, 5 different warblers in the swamp I bike past today. Paused there and watched the downy woodpeckers go in and out of a tree, must be a neat since there were bringing lots of bugs.

We’ve lost a dear friend, colleague, and brilliant scholar, Dr Juliet Daniel (to my left in this photo). She was a McMaster University Distinguished Professor, a proud Barbadian-Canadian, a fierce EDI advocate & a leader of the Canada Caribbean Initiative (CCI). May her soul rest in eternal peace.

Love meetings in San Diego since I can surf for an hour at dawn and still make it to the meeting in time. #AACR

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I must have missed checking the box that asked AACR not to give my e-mail to a million companies when I registered for the annual meeting. "Unsubscribe all" needs to be an e-mail function!

Finishing writing up reviews for study section and oddly excited… but we’re meeting IN PERSON!

International Space Station transiting the moon just a few minutes ago. Not good seeing tonight and angular size was only 35" since the moon was pretty low, but always fun to capture it. Will be sad when it deorbits. #astrophotography #ISS #internationalspacestation

Back from Birken 53km Ski Race in Norway. Epic race with 10K people finishing in Lillehammer Olympic Stadium. Recovering from bronchitis, #Delta lost my skis, got rentals that dragged the kick zone and was 3 hours slower than the last race (7:27:35 total time) - but still had a fantastic experience.

I'm a faculty mentor to a new assistant prof that gets an automatic tenure clock extension due to a maternity leave. HOWEVER, this delays tenure and the associated raise by a year. After tenure is granted, are there any universities that backdate the raise to the normal tenure clock?

Asona Lui @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social and I @sdsuresearch.bsky.social are PIs on one of those three funded applications! Our research is going clinical 😍😅🥳🧪 [I'll do a 🧵on how taxpayer $$ directly contributed to this shortly] #ShareGoodNewsToo

PhD programs worldwide face an urgent question: How should trainees use ChatGPT, Claude & similar tools? Now online: two resources on thoughtfully integrating generative AI into research training. 📄 Conceptual framework: zenodo.org/records/18649847 📋 Practical guide: zenodo.org/records/18452319 🧵

RAIN?!? I've got the Birkie this weekend (53 km classic XC ski race). VASA race last weekend was 50km and I'm ready to ski, NOT ready for snow to melt! #birkie

Nordic ski race today was a little chilly, sweat froze into sweatscicles!

42 miles of XC skiing meant I needed many coffees to work on the R01 until the wee hours of the morning. BUT somewhere around mile 30 I got a good idea for Aim 3 and had to revise!

Quick trip to Lake Michigan where the sunset was playing with the ice and mist/cloud coming off the water. Further out the ice wasn’t quite visible, but it is out there.

Sciencv biosketch help... if your personal statement and contributions to science lacks spaces, bold... then you have to use old fashioned HTML code in the text. IE this: <BR> for a line break, do it twice if you want a line between <b>Text in bold</b> <i>Text in italics</i> <u>Underline text</u>

Needed a reset, so walked in the woods with a big lens. #michigan #birds