Come to B499 to hear all about copines in Dictyostelium! #cellbio2023

The paper is out in G3 Genetics Society of America. Himal Roka 🧬 studied how #Celegans lacking an Argonaute protein appear healthy after dauer diapause, when they show defects during non-dauer development. He identified 4 kinases that are important for this phenomenon. doi.org/10.1093/g3jour…

Thanks CMICH ORGS for highlighting some of the work I've been doing! cmich.edu/news/details/s…

Excited to have been involved in this project! Check out this publication from the Damer Lab! Copine C plays a role in adhesion and streaming in Dictyostelium tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

CMU faculty and students had the tremendous pleasure of hearing from Dr. Carole Parent today from the University of Michigan! Dr. Parent’s work focuses on chemotactic signaling in neutrophils and Dictyosteliym. Thanks for spending the day with us, Carole Parent Lab!

some are fortunate enough to get a journal cover during their graduate tenure. and then there's Alison DePew, PhD who got TWO COVERS in her graduate career! turns out her beautiful NMJ will be on the cover of Development with her wonderful paper! so proud!!! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15….

Thanks for highlighting our work! @Cmich_Biology CSE at CMU

What other model organism would be this happy about a genetic mutation? #dicty #dictyostelium

Congratulations to our newest Damer Lab Ph.D. CANDIDATE, Cody Morrison! He passed his qualifying exam this morning!

Excited to share this story from my PhD work on RNA-binding protein phase transitions in C. elegans oocytes, now out in MBoC! We identified the CCT chaperonin and Actin as key regulators. Big thanks to my advisor JSchisa students, and all my collaborators who made this possible!

This year’s medicine laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun studied a relatively unassuming 1 mm long roundworm, C. elegans. Despite its small size, C. elegans possesses many specialised cell types such as nerve and muscle cells also found in larger, more complex animals,

Congratulations to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for this well-deserved award! Their creativity and insight studying fundamental biological questions in #Celegans led to a new understanding of the regulation of gene expression.

Happy to announce we are recruiting new faculty to join the Metabolism Department at Van Andel Institute (VAI). A great opportunity to join a dynamic community of scientists in West Michigan studying the metabolic underpinnings of health and disease. Apply here: vai.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/VAICaree…

During my time at Ohio State University, I had the opportunity to be involved in some really cool neuroscience research! I'm happy to share that the work I was involved in was published today. Congratulations to the Fu lab and especially to Nick Sweeney! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Super excited to share our new article co-led by really talented undergraduate student Nicholas Sweeney and BSGP PhD student Tae Yeon Kim! Thanks all the fantastic collaborators, trainees, reviewers, and the Editor for this very nice publication! link.springer.com/10.1007/s00401…

This was a fun student-led project. In #Celegans grown in adverse environments, daf-16 promotes entry into a stress-resistant diapause stage called dauer. We use a second mutation, daf-7, to induce daf-16 mutant larvae into dauer, but some larvae bypass dauer formation. 1/3

Hi everyone! I'm moving this account over to Bluesky. If you wish to connect, you can find me here: Cody Morrison.bsky.social