Congratulations to both of you!! 🥳

Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living at almost every institution and department in the US, according to crowdsourced data go.nature.com/3GcrZ9e

Yesterday the very talented Laura Grunenkovaite graduated Brandeis with the highest honors & as her mentor for the past 3 years I am very proud but sad to see her leave! She is off to work at my alma mater UMass Chan Medical School before applying to med school! Huge future ahead of her! 🥳🥳

🎉New preprint from our dauer aficionado Travis Kyani-Rogers! Q: does an animal’s developmental experience shape its adult behaviors? A:👍🏽! We find that worms that took different developmental paths exhibit different responses to attractive odors as adults. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This paper is now out! Great job by all authors and especially Nathan Harris and Sam Bates. Preprint #tweetorial is below. Many thanks to Current Biology for a fast and fair review process. authors.elsevier.com/a/1gpf23QW8S2P…

Excited to see this paper finally out PNASNews! 🥳 We show that a chemosensory cue (CO2) of the same valence state (attraction) evokes distinct neural activities and motor outputs across two different life stages in C. elegans. 1/n pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

C. elegans. They wiggle forward. They wiggle backward. And occasionally they fly through an electric field. cell.com/current-biolog… Sugi Lab Takuma Sugi #worms #celegans

A wonderful talk by my labmate Nathan Harris !! More thermo fun to come at Sam’s poster (more Piali Sengupta) tonight at 625B! #worm23

Maternity is a main cause of women leaving an academic career. We propose 10 measures to better support mother scientists (and caregivers in general) and promote a more diverse, productive and inclusive system: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… 🧵👇

Cilia tweeps - Check out this excellent preprint from Inna Nechipurenko (1st paper from her lab 👏🏽)! A new role for a conserved GEF in sensory ciliogenesis. Yay- Inna and lab! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37662329/

Anjali Pandey Anjali 🍂, a fifth-year PhD MCB student, recently joined Geeking Out With…to discuss her passion for researching & communicating science through story-telling & why C. elegans worms make great test subjects! Read the interview - ow.ly/qCV550Qaqrw

So excited to share our first paper from the lab! Brandon Bastien found that alpha and gamma neurexins are BOTH needed for a foraging behavior in C. elegans!! Check out the open access paper for more info!! rdcu.be/dswhD

[cilia] squad check us out at P1139 Nikhila Krishnan P1138 Kirsten Judge and P1875!

Excited to share our latest preprint on bioRxiv! 🧠✨ We found that neurohormones released during the escape response modulate the release of intestinal insulin-like peptides, coordinating systemic cytoprotection mechanisms in C. elegans biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled our new paper is out in Nature Communications revealing the secondary somatosensory cortex is important for sensation and pain! Thanks to everyone involved and can't wait to hear what you think! Check it out! nature.com/articles/s4146…

If you're thinking about going on the faculty job market, take a look at this advice doc I just shared with helpimascientist.com: I collected my thoughts about the whole dang thing, from finding positions to negotiating a contract, & I hope y'all find it helpful!

🎉New lab preprint! 🔥🔥work by super postdoc Alison Philbrook. C. elegans sensory neurons have gorgeous #cilia at their dendrite ends. We’ve always thought that a) no cilia = no sensory responses, & b) no IFT = no cilia. Punchline is we thought wrong. Read on for more. 1/6

Another terrific #ceneuro24 topics meeting in the books! Highlights included: Session keynote from Mike Poster from Samuel Liu Catching up with old friends Alison Philbrook Navonil Banerjee

Submit abstracts by Aug 6 for this Special Interest Subgroup at ASCB organized by Carolyn Ott and myself. We will explore the incredible tricks that cilia do in their native environments. Hope to see you there!

Now that we're entering faculty job season, I want to reshare my ✨job search advice doc✨. It compiles all the super helpful advice I received from mentors & includes my own experiences on the market. Best of luck out there, everyone - you got this! 💪 helpimascientist.com/wp-content/upl…