Excited to be contribute with Jo Hagen on this project from Leah Nielsen and Harald Beck at Towson University looking at color vision in sugar gliders!! nature.com/articles/s4159… rdcu.be/eb9J8

About that claim he made about “$8 million in funding for research to turn mice transgender” which had the entire Republican side of the room bursting with laughter: it turns out the studies were on TRANSGENIC mice. Not transgender mice. Trump is just a transphobe who can’t read.

What is the National Eye Institute?

My heart goes out to all my colleagues Columbia University that, through no fault of their own, are suddenly facing a funding cliff where research will stop and people will be fired.

News of the first NIH grant cuts at Columbia medical center have come in. Center grants (including of the diabetes center where I am), training grants for PhD students. PhD students are certainly not the reason for federal budget woes, they are among the most altruistically

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects on.wsj.com/3QYT0mW

New lab preprint! How do cells cheat death to maintain a long-lived gut epithelium? Answer- meet Loofah, a newly named cell adhesion protein! Excellent work by Dr. Jess and team! Thanks to the NIH for support. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm so happy and grateful that Emma Steinson, a grad student in my lab, was just awarded an NIH F31 NRSA fellowship. Emma is awesome and it is well-deserved! I truly appreciate the support provided by the NIH!

Newly elected #NASmember Oliver Hobert of Columbia University and HHMI is interested in the developmental programs that generate the astounding diversity of cell types in a nervous system, using the nematode C. elegans as a model system. Read more: ow.ly/XkWJ50VAev0

The ON/OFF dichotomy is fundamental to visual processing. In a new study led by Flori Soto, we identify a conserved molecular mechanism establishing the OFF pathway. rdcu.be/eikoa

Honored to receive the Parker B. Francis Jo Rae Wright Award for Scientific Excellence. Deeply grateful to the Francis Family Foundation for this recognition and for supporting early career investigators. Inspired by Dr. Wright’s legacy as a scientist, mentor, and leader.

Tomorrow, Weds 4/23/2025 (3-4:30pm ET):  Claude Desplan (@NYU NYU Center for Neural Science) will deliver the 2025 Joram Piatigorsky Basic Science Lecture & Award at NIH in Masur Auditorium. Foundation for the National Institutes of Health NEI   Details: bit.ly/4icO0pZ

Wanna grow organoids to understand human retinal development as a research assistant? Wanna help run the lab as a lab manager? The Johnston lab is hiring a research assistant/lab manager. If you are interested, please apply: jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimore-…

Check out our new paper on the front cover Genetics Society of America academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

Course alumnus Claude Desplan gave a special lecture on neuronal diversity in the fly visual system and olfactory receptor expression in ants; he emphasized the advantages of different model organisms! Jens Rister Reis Lab Robert Carrillo Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory #cshlflycourse #scicomm #drosophila

Transitions in development – an interview with Jeffrey Farrell Jeffrey Farrell talks about becoming a group leader, his insights on enhancing advocacy for developmental biology and his belief in unifying single-cell biology with classical approaches. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

My lab's newest research paper on the Drosophila eye is published in Development today. Thanks to the editorial staff for writing a research highlight and interviewing us about our work. journals.biologists.com/dev/article-ab…

The world renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology is seeking to hire a new director academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30293

Awesome paper and beautiful cover!!

Super cool!