Could *Notch* have had a better time at my first Gordon Research Conferences! Thanks to past & future GRS chairs Ishita Jain Thilinie Bandara Ajay Thatte & Marlene for fostering such a fun & supportive community. Grateful to be heading home (amidst the travel chaos) with new ideas & new friends. ❤️

Had a wonderful time presenting my first conference talk at the Notch GRS/GRC Gordon Research Conferences! Excited to now be part of such a scientifically vibrant and close-knit community. Looking forward to organizing the next meeting with Marlene Assfalg, Emma Andersson and Wendy Gordon lab UMN!

For NIH fellowship application due dates on or after January 25, 2025, grades will no longer be required or allowed! Learn more about upcoming fellowship application and review changes at the September 19 webinar. Register: grants.nih.gov/learning-cente…

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Postdoc Positions at UCSF on Vascular Regeneration, 2P live imaging, VasPhysiology, Mouse models, Surgery, Single Cell+Spatial Analysis, iDISCO+light sheet, etc. #DevelopmentalBiology #DevNeuro #VascularBiology #VascularPhysiology #bioinformatics #CellBiology. Email me CV & refs.

Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

CNN.com has a front-page article on the study. It quotes another scientist, “It’s blatantly obvious when someone points it out, but no one had thought of it for 100 and something years”. cnn.com/2024/09/05/sci…

There's an excellent commentary in Science as well science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… This work has clearly positive implications for live fluorescence and bioluminescence imaging of whole mice. Can't wait to see how it will change biological imaging in the future!

Are you interested in "skipping the postdoc" and starting your independent lab in biomedical research as a fellow? Check out the UC San Francisco Sandler Fellows Program! Nominations are due 1/10/2025 - more info below. fellows.ucsf.edu

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Ecstatic to see our lab’s first woman surgeon trainee, Gale Tang, MD, now Associate Prof at UW. Amazing surgeon, gifted scientist! Couldn’t be prouder of you, Gale! Can’t believe we still have that much common interests, endless to share, and desire to continue learning!

NAVBO MurphyLab So proud of you, Pat! MurphyLab. Still remember from day 1 you joined our lab, you wanted to learn how to fishing!🎣 No wonder you got more than enough fish 🐠 🐟 🐡 Congrats !!!🎈🍾🎊

Rong Wang, PhD NAVBO That’s right 😀 - give one a fish, and they have fish for a day, teach one to fish and they have fish for a lifetime. Thanks, for all of the teaching! A mentee-mentor relationship is also a lifetime, thanks to you and the NAVBO community for all of the help along.

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

Sometimes single-minded dedication to a problem is the path to great science. I’ve never met someone more focused on a problem than David Baker. Among the postdocs at UCSF in the early ‘90s, none of us would have been surprised to learn there was a Nobel Prize in David’s future.

“If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Inspired by his words, we push the boundaries of exploration, moving forward for the benefit of humanity.

A new technology developed at MIT enables scientists to label proteins across millions of individual cells in fully intact 3D tissues with unprecedented speed, uniformity, and versatility. picower.mit.edu/news/mit-metho… #neuroscience MIT ChemE Dept MIT Science MIT IMES MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Despite strong headwinds our work continues. Ashok cheemala shows that even a single point mutation in TDP-43 leads to large defects in cell-cell junction and barrier, and that brain endothelial deletion disrupts the BBB and leads to FTD-like behavior science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…