James Zwierzynski
@jamesbzsci.bsky.social
farm kid turned PhD candidate in Kristy Red-Horse's lab | NSF GRFP fellow | 🏳️🌈 | working on:🤰🏻🔬🫀🧬🐭 🧫
Looking to join a collaborative team studying coronary artery development? Love taking pretty microscope images? The Red-Horse lab(@hhmi-science.bsky.social/Stanford) is hiring for a senior scientist to research coronary & collateral artery development apply below!: tinyurl.com/5d85xjze
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Why do guinea pigs naturally develop collateral arteries while other species don't? Check out this wonderful preprint from our lab using in vivo Peturb-seq to discover differences in tip cell programming contribute to artery formation in guinea pig development!
bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 3mo agoA Perturb-seq screen guided by species divergence uncovers pathways for collateral artery formation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.29.721711v1
If this work is interesting to you, we're hiring for a Senior Scientist with post-doctoral experience and a background in RNA molecular biology or whole-organ imaging and analysis to join our small, collaborative team! Come take more pretty pictures with us! Interested applicants should apply below:
Basic Life Research Scientist in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
Basic Life Research ScientistThis position has been deemed critical by the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Office and is exempt from the...
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James Zwierzynski@jamesbzsci.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm now on Bluesky!🤗 Excited to share our preprint, reviving Kristy Red-Horse's interest in the placenta from her PhD ~20 years ago! We find using 3D imaging that the mouse placenta is far more invasive than previously thought. Furthermore, we find a surprise from our favorite chemokine CXCL12...🧵:
I'm now on Bluesky!🤗 Excited to share our preprint, reviving Kristy Red-Horse's interest in the placenta from her PhD ~20 years ago! We find using 3D imaging that the mouse placenta is far more invasive than previously thought. Furthermore, we find a surprise from our favorite chemokine CXCL12...🧵:
bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 4mo ago3D imaging of the pregnant uterus reveals an extensively invasive mouse placenta requiring CXCL12-CXCR4 signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.06.716785v1