NRSA comments are back 😞 Is it fair to give a bad score to a trainee based on my lack of “seniority”? Sorry I can’t buy a time machine so that I can submit as a 65-yo 👵🏼😆 Would it be fair to score someone down for being “senior”? Clearly you can still run for president 🧐

Does anyone know what this is? I found it in the basement of my 100-year-old house. The little round thing pops out and looks like an alcohol burner with a cloth wick inside. Ideas on what I could use it for? Plant stand?

Please RT: The lab of Dr. Benny Elbaz at Northwestern University is looking for a post-doc to study CNS and PNS myelination. Interested? please send me an email (no DM please). #glia, #oligodendrocyte, #myelin, #postdocposition, #schwann

It is out! “Schwann cell-secreted PGE2 promotes sensory neuron excitability during development.” Published online today! Huge thanks to my amazing mentor Dr. Brad Zuchero ZucheroLab ! Cell .authors.elsevier.com/a/1jbBiL7PXqRXI

Undergrads and rotation students: please please please 😬 don’t drink: - DI (deionized) water - Ultrapure MilliporeSigma water - “Tap” water (in most labs this is industrial water)

Happy to share our work about how neurons re-utilize gene expression regulators to directly control cytoskeletal dynamics. We found that the nucleating component of the Exon Junction Complex, EIF4A3, acts non-canonically as a microtubule-binding protein to regulate axonal growth.

Aurora B kinase (green) distribution during initial cell divisions of a C elegans embryo relative to plasma membranes and nuclei (red), highlighting apical midbody remnants after cytokinesis. As seen by lattice light sheet microscopy. With Bembenek Lab doi.org/10.1242/dev.18…

What I tell my trainees, “If science is a race, you had to run farther and faster to get here. Logic dictates that you’ll continue to run faster, but the farther you go, the more hurdles appear in your lane than in other lanes. Is it fair to remove some of those hurdles?”

We’re hiring in my Division of @BerkeleyMCB! Come join a fantastic group of immunologists in a larger community of basic scientists in the department aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04513

Weekend recap ☺️

The Li Lab is launching on January 1, 2025 and is currently recruiting at all levels! Our research will utilize transparent zebrafish larvae, ideal for in vivo imaging, to study neuron-oligodendrocyte interactions. For more information, please visit: jiaxinglilab.org/contact/

When I was a new PI at the NIH, I tried to go to my lab on the weekend. With my NIH faculty parking permit and ID badge, I should have been waved in… but I had to go through a metal detector, get patted down, show state ID and US passport, and my Prius was searched for bombs 😞

Excited to visit Martine Cohen-Salmon’s lab in Paris! Giving a talk today then learning to isolate astrocyte endfeet next week. Friends in the area - please reach out if you want meet up 🤓

When your husband sends you this post with no comment… #NewProfiIePic 😆 taken earlier this month after a haircut! Now let’s see if he updates his profile pic that’s about 8 yrs old!

Flashback to 2016… the scariest pumpkin of all - the Trumpkin! Please vote, especially if you live in a swing state!

Another issue here is the gap time between bachelors and starting a PhD. At 27, trainees could and should be finishing a 5-year PhD and moving forward in their careers. PhD programs need to normalize accepting students straight out of undergrad.

🗓️ Mark your calendar! Join JCB special session at #CellBio2024 with an excellent panel of speakers: Stephanie Ellis, Jonathan Friedman, Meng-meng Fu, Binyam Mogessie ቢንያም ሞገሴ, Andrew Muroyama, moderated by Oegema/Desai Labs and timisstuck! See more info 👉 hubs.la/Q02WF1Mn0

Hard to quit this app because I need the cute animal videos! Any colleagues in Scotland seeing this and want to invite me to give a talk? ☺️