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First preprint is up on #bioRxiv! We asked how two very different tissue layers sync their growth, found a role for the Hippo pathway in cell shape changes, and made #Drosophila wing discs with Really Big Cells 👇 Iswar Hariharan, ईश्वर हरिहर, ஹரிஹரன் ஈஸ்வரன் #DevBio doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Roses are red, violets are blue, when the disk proper grows, hippo stretches peripodial epithelium too. 🌹 A new post from Girish Kale covering a #preprint led by another #preLighter: Sophia Friesen who works in the Iswar Hariharan, ईश्वर हरिहर, ஹரிஹரன் ஈஸ்வரன். Check it out! 👉 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/coo…

Worley lab UVa Biology is looking to hire a lab tech 🔬🪰🧪 to study regeneration in Drosophila! Please check out the webpage (worleylab.org) and see the job postings if interested! (tech 1 and tech 2 levels) jobs.virginia.edu/jobs/R0044723?… jobs.virginia.edu/jobs/R0044726?…

Ahem—here we are speaking up again. You may know last week UNC was asked to inventory DEIA trainings. What you may not know is how it landed. @DrMrsKellyHogan and I share our thoughts on this & implore all of us to act. There’s too much at stake not to. chronicle.com/article/how-ca…

We are hiring! Looking for someone interested in participating in research on growth and regeneration. We use a combination of genetic experiments in Drosophila and single-cell transcriptomics. Those about to graduate are especially encouraged to apply. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03897

Congratulations Sophia Friesen Ph.D. Lab degree conferral ceremony done! Sophia Friesen UC Berkeley MCB

This Thurs 5/18 I’m giving my Thesis Research Presentation! (We don’t do defenses at Berkeley, but this is similar.) Mine is 11:50am-12:30pm PDT, and there is a zoom option for anyone who wants to tune in remotely 🪰💻🧬 see flyer for details!

New Lesson! Simulating Cortical Rotation, Axis Induction, and Experimental Embryology in Amphibian Embryos Using Clay Models - Danielle Spitzer (she/her) - As a Graduate Student Instructor, Danielle sought to incorporate active learning into the course's discussion sections. (1/2)

To help understand the experiments, students use Play Doh as a 3D model to represent the 2D textbook diagrams of embryos. Many students commented on feeling nostalgic from smelling Play Doh and were more engaged and comfortable. doi.org/10.24918/cs.20… #CSAuthorNotes (2/2)

Today!

Big day for the lab! Two students “hooded” for their Ph.D. Degrees - Sophia Friesen and Danielle Spitzer. Sophia Friesen Danielle Spitzer (she/her) UC Berkeley MCB

When life gives you mushrooms…make a tiny foraged feast with your friends! Morels found growing in my yard (!) and edible nasturtium flowers picked on a walk through my neighborhood 🍄😌🌸

Worried and sad and mad. Hoping my UNC friends and colleagues are safe. 💔

First week as Prof Spitzer is in the books!!

NOW: Students at #UNChapelHill are taking shelter in the same exact classrooms, at the same exact time as they were TWO WEEKS AGO. The same politicians that mocked us yesterday, demanding change, are letting us live in fear AGAIN today. Their apathy is our hell.

.Natalie Dall's paper is up on bioRxiv! Using high-throughput in vivo studies and biophysical in vitro assays (CD and HDX/MS), we show how circular permutation affects the expression of HaloTag in different cell environments, and how CP impacts protein stability and folding pathways