Looking thru old lab EM and found this monstrosity…. They’re almost like train tracks, anyone have an idea what’s going on here? Never seen this before! This is in a mutant background also. Martin Picard

Imagine working for years to get to the point of applying to graduate school, spending hundreds to apply, get accepted, quit your job and prepare to move, only for the rug to be pulled out and have your offer rescinded due to discretionary spending. The repercussions will echo…

UMass Chan Medical School—a public school in the University of Massachusetts system—has rescinded all offers of admission to biomedical graduate students for the 2025–2026 school year

Forgot to share these earlier for #FluorescenceFriday

Spoke to a second grade class about being a scientist and one student had some great notes 😂 and that last word is “collaboration”

Most neurons are excitatory, but some do the opposite and dampen the activity of other neurons. In this visualization by our Electron Microscopy team, an axon (red) sneaks its way in between a satellite microglia (blue) and an inhibitory neuron (gray).

Twitter has become the most toxic conspiratorial platform ever lol there’s nothing to believe anymore and it’s honestly exhausting to scroll this app now

They may not have blood or a brain, but starfish nervous systems are still a beautiful sight to behold! ⭐️ bit.ly/4kQWLZm Credit: Dr. Laurent Formery, Dr. Nathaniel Clarke

In mitochondria, respiratory supercomplexes (blue) pump protons across crista membranes to create an electrochemical gradient, fueling adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase (pink) to regenerate ATP—the energy currency of life. Now, cryo–electron tomography captures these

Did you know that our body 'eats' itself to stay healthy? Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the mechanisms for ‘self-eating’ or autophagy, which refers to the way our cells destroy and recycle their own contents.

Let’s play “Spot the Virgin”

#FluorescenceFriday some new and old pics

Haven’t been as active on this platform but here’s some #FluorescenceFriday to end the week!

WOW

Why is writing the acknowledgments of my PhD thesis the hardest part? I have too many people to thank….

It’s crazy jobs will either not post salaries, or have insane ranges like 60-150k so you literally have no idea lmao…..

Seeing mitochondrial challenges man thats good stuff this guy just spews fucking nonsense

David Crosby really lived forever

Making it official! Accepted an offer to work in Dr. Phil Campbells lab at Penn as a postdoctoral fellow studying the molecular and genetic causes of neuropsychiatric disease in zebrafish. Proud to be back in Philly doing more exciting research! Go Birds and Go Quakers!

Naked mole rats have been described as walnut-filled condoms that live 30 yrs. Today’s issue Science Magazine reports that their longevity may be due to mutations in a viral DNA detector called cGAS that lower inflammation & boost DNA repair 🧬 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…