Had such a great time this week at ISCRM at UW! Such a wonderful experience, chatting awesome science, meeting people, expanding the DEI knowledge base, and learning all the things leadership and learning in depth about the faculty hiring process!

📢Please RT! New Preprint Alert bioRxiv Biophysics This is our latest work in collaboration with Prof. Takashi Mikawa’s lab at UCSF. We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣😀 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Can people please stop saying, “I don’t have to tell this audience [important background info]” or “you all know [leader in the field]”… esp to audiences with folks from different fields/career stages! These assumptions promote exclusion and make me feel dumb.

This is the fault of study sections. The first part of the NIH mission statement is clear: to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems. There is a second part about health, but high quality seeking should be enough!

It’s Thursday, your weekly plan for experiments went sideways, data was confusing, or maybe it was awesome. Either way here’s a reminder I heard last week, so I’m sharing. If you have a PhD, you’re part of the 1% of the population that does. You’re doing perfectly fine ✌🏽

As a former athlete and now scientist, this is dope!

Job Alert~! The Wallingford Lab is hiring a Lab Manager. Great opportunity for graduating seniors. Interested parties can DM me here. Official posting will go up soon. Please RT. Society for Developmental Biology

The Wallingford Lab is hiring a lab manager. This is a great opportunity for an established manager looking for something new or for a fresh graduate looking for experience. Please RT. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaff/…

I have always wanted to see the aurora borealis, who knew I’d get a sneak preview in my Bay Area backyard!!! What a treat!

Good evening St Paul- who is excited for #FASEBCilia2024?? Such a great line-up of cilia and centriole science!! We are live tomorrow #SRCBCF

We've begun rolling out anatomical annotations to the Allen Brain Cell Atlas! The first data set to support these annotations is the MERFISH Spatial Transcriptomics Dataset of a Single Adult Mouse Brain - registered to CCFv3. 🔗 knowledge.brain-map.org/abcatlas#AQEBW…

Thanks for a fantastic meeting. #FASEBCilia2024. A great program that brought out the best and brightest in the cilia world

Pls RT: our paper got published eLife - the journal 😀🥳!! My student shubham sinha and I contributed to this collab project with R. Asai, T. Mikawa UC San Francisco @prakashlab - we studied relationships b/w ‘polonaise movements’ & PS morphogenesis during chick development: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Check out Semil Choksi and Lauren Byrnes beautiful work on the wild deployment of the cell cycle in MCCs from the Reiter Lab out today in Nature!! My au revoir to multiciliated cells for now at least...Thanks for letting me be a part of the adventure!

Join us at #SCDB2024 to explore unifying principles in dev bio! Abstracts due JUNE 28. 18 will be picked for talks🎙️. 🙏 to sponsors Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network @CompanyofBiol, we have many travel awards avail! Check out our amazing speakers & apply today! tinyurl.com/scdb24

Excited to say that it’s preprint time🎉! Here we provide evidence that autism gene variants affect enteric neuron migration and cause gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

A little morning birthday swim for 31! 30 was filled some of the toughest tests personal and professional. But it was also filled with some of the most magical and joy filled moments. Here’s to continuing to try to grow in discomfort ❤️ and feeling all the joy I possibly can!

Monday, awesome pilot experiment result. Tuesday, uses the eye wash station. Just a day in the life….

This Olympics has felt like the absolute dominance of feminine power on full display (especially team USA) and it just has me all hopeful and inspired. 💪🏽✊🏽 translating this energy to the lab bench ASAP.

Check out this nice writeup of our recent paper and the field at large. Peter Walentek identifies some of the most interesting outstanding questions!