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Dagan Segal

@dagansegal.bsky.social
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quantitative imaging in pediatric cancer. postdoc @Danuser Lab, UTSW Find me at dagansegal.bsky.social

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
For those interested 🧪
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Exciting new SciArt initiative by ZDMS 🐟 🖼️ Please share with anyone who may be interested, we would love to see broad engagement!
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Can you help us find guests for the Night Science Podcast? We received generous sponsorship from Research Theory and they're challenging us to host 5 scientists each working in flight, genomics, nuclear power, computing & space. Ideas? @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
hi @zebrafishrock.bsky.social community! Who of my friends am I going to see at ZDM18 in Boston next week?!? Excited!
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Miranda Hunter @mrndhntr.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
My recent postdoctoral work is out today in @nature.com! We found that physical confinement makes melanoma cells more invasive and drug tolerant. Thanks to all who made this work possible @whitefishlab.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social #NIH #NCI www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma - Nature
Mechanical confinement of cancer cells at the tumour–microenvironment interface induces phenotype switching through chromatin remodelling by HMGB2, leading to a more invasive and drug-resistant state ...
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Frank Schnorrer @frankschnorrer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Females are larger than males. How? Here is one solution- they have MORE nuclei in their flight muscles and grow LARGER heart and fat body cells with MORE ribosomal mRNAs. Fun collaboration of @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social with @soumitrakp.bsky.social & Brian Oliver www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
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Soragni:Lab @alice.soragnilab.com · 26/08/2025
Big day for our team: our pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) organoid paper is now up on bioRxiv! This was a tour de force across 6 institutions, 37 authors, building patient-derived organoids from 35 PPGL patients /🧵 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Patient-derived organoids reveal hypoxia-driven plasticity and therapeutic vulnerabilities in pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas
Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) are rare chromaffin cell-derived neuroendocrine tumors of sympathetic (catecholamine-producing) or parasympathetic (nonsecretory) origin, frequently driven...
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This @nightsciencepod.bsky.social episode with Martin Schwartz was so awesome! The idea to toss all the "ego" aspects of science (including worries/insecurities about career prospects) and follow the curiosity/passion path to do your best work is something I strive for every day.
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What an exciting announcement! Best of luck to @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher on this new endeavor. The cultural shift is much needed. I am on board!
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Now online! www.youtube.com/channel/UCs9...
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BPPB Seminar
Founded during the pandemic and maintained by a rotating team of volunteers from the biological physics / biophysics community, the BPPB (Biological Physics / Physical Biology) Seminars provide a mean...
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🎉 Congrats to postdoc Horacio Martín Pallarés on being named a 2025 @pewtrusts.org Latin American Fellow! His work in the @bazzinilab.bsky.social (a 2010 PEW Fellow) investigates how #Zika & #dengue viruses hijack host cells. Read about the fellowship and full circle moment: bit.ly/4mHWJTS
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I keep getting more and more followers here but i think they are mostly bots, right?
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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪. shorturl.at/xNRKn
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This already happened and I wasnt on top of posting 😅 Thankful for the great opportunity to share my work at @bppbseminar.bsky.social .This is such an engaging and fun community and seminar series, highly recommend! Stay tuned for a recording (they are also on top of their youtube channel!).
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Time to find creative new ways to fund science!
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Very cool work using zebrafish model to bring new insight into pediatric cancer initiation! Congrats @jackkucinski.bsky.social @kendalllab.bsky.social and team!
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Very cool thread on something I knew very little about!
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Such cool work! Check out this recent paper by my colleague @jamieson-ai.bsky.social et al. with immediate real-world impact!
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Young Embryologist Network @yen-network.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
REMINDER: Last chance to submit a scientific picture or art of a embryos, stem cells or organoids to the YEN Image Competition. Deadline is 1st May! #YEN2025
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Benny was my PhD mentor. Infectious enthusiasm and burning curiosity is exactly right. He was such a great mentor to me and many others and he will be sorely missed. יהיה זכרו ברוך. May his memory be a blessing.
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hey @drlizhaynes.bsky.social Thanks for representing! (Not tattooed myself but respect the art of self expression :)) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Science on our sleeves: the research that inspires our tattoos
Inked scientists choose scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate their research passion.
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 09/04/2025
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Groundbreaking study in Cell from @leventallab.bsky.social: phospholipid asymmetry is a defining feature of the plasma membrane and cholesterol fills the holes — major implications for how this membrane works. A #lipidtime must-read! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry
This work challenges a major assumption in cell biology by showing that lipid bilayers can have drastically different phospholipid abundances between their two leaflets. This lipid abundance asymmetry...
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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 01/04/2025
Talks...on the train! What? @odedrechavi.bsky.social, @natanellae.bsky.social, @meital.bsky.social, @svobodalab.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social, @itaiyanai.bsky.social, @zernickagoetz.bsky.social Register now for: "an atmosphere of enthusiasm, lucid criticism, nonconformism, and friendship".
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Outer ear = gills! First step towards creating human mermaids🧜‍♀️🌊
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Look who's on bluesky! I recommend you follow @assafzaritsky.bsky.social
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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📢 #AI & #CellularPhysiology researchers 👉 tune in via Zoom March 30-April 1 for a free livestream of our conference on the emerging intersection of AI and biological research. Topics will range from AI-driven genomic insights to dataset challenges & more. 🔗Register to watch: janelia.news/register
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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Wow! 😍
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Its been a privilege to work with these extraordinary scientists in my lab over the years - all making an incredible impact throughout the world 🙌 We must never give up on #equality #diversity & #inclusion 💪 #WomeninScience #GirlsInSTEM 🧪🔬🔭🚀
Composite image of women scientists from the Joyce lab over the past 20 years
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This sounds like such a cool meeting!!
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Why are people putting "NIH" in quotes? Sorry I cant keep up with online trends, please advise :D
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Preprint Alert📣 Our work ✳️uncovers a distinct cancer cell state with survival advantages in the pediatric cancer *Ewing Sarcoma* ✳️implicates membrane invaginations called *caveolae* that drive survival through subcellular organization of signaling molecules on the cell surface. Check it out! 👇
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#ZebrafishCareers 🇺🇸 (Postdoc)
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Philippe Roudot @philipperoudot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Very excited by this paper by @peeyoushh.bsky.social in my lab. We demonstrated the increased robustness of LLM/transformers in tracking at scale but also their pitfalls: when the combinatorics gets simpler (and not just modeling!), stats work best. Tons of potential for hybrid approaches :).
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This project sounds so cool and this PI is awesome, highly recommend!!
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Andy Wolfe @andrewlwolfe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A new post in Science Careers for our open-rank faculty search at the Hunter College Dept of Biological Sciences: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/668588/o...
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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Dept. Biological Sciences at Hunter College City University NY - New York City job with Department of Biological Sciences at Hunter College | 668588
Open-rank tenure/tenure-track faculty search for biochemist focused on cancer biology or cancer-relevant signaling pathways in model organisms.
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Starting a starter pack for UT Southwestern Researchers to find each other on here more easily! Help me fill it up, please tag your UTSW colleagues! Comment below to be added go.bsky.app/22q6zRN
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Critical tissue density is required to regulate mechanosensory signaling- very cool story 👀
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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Warming up for the upcoming #GRCCellMigration For me the best video to explain adhesion-dependent #CellMigration by Felix Donghwi Son More in the website felixvis.artstation.com #sciart #scicomm #ScienceSky #SciSky #cytoskeleton #FocalAdhesion
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Near-infrared fluorogenic RNA for in vivo imaging and sensing - Nature Communications
Most of the available fluorogenic RNA approaches emit visible fluorescence, and there is a need for tools working at longer wavelengths. Here, the authors identify and modulate red fluorescent protein...
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Miguel Reina-Campos @reinacampos.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We are hiring! Several projects available in mucosal immunology and stem cell transplantation using functional genomics and spatial transcriptomics. Could you please help us spread the word? @ljiresearch.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Position in Immunology
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!
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Yaniv Elkouby @yanivelkouby.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
💥Finally out! Answering a two-centuries old question about a membraneless organelle that forms in #oocytes from insects to humans: the Balbiani body (Bb). Now in @currentbiology.bsky.social : cell.com/current-biol... >
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The Balbiani body is formed by microtubule-controlled molecular condensation of Buc in early oogenesis
Kar et al. demonstrate that Balbiani body (Bb) formation is achieved via developmental condensation in zebrafish oogenesis, driven by Buc phase separation and evolving from a dynamic liquid-like state into a solid-like stable compartment. Multistep regulation by microtubules controls condensation, ensuring proper Bb formation and oocyte polarity.
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The Reel Jon 🦌🎬🇵🇸🇸🇩🇸🇸🇺🇦 @thereeljon.cryptoanarchy.network · 07/01/2025
I read Riley's previous book The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, and can't recommend that enough. Can't wait to read this one.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Very cool that they are making reagents freely available!
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Dagan Segal @dagansegal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
cool!!
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Joanna Smeeton @smeetonlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
📢🧪For your holiday travel reading, check out our new pre-print! Using a new joint resection injury model, we describe an innate regeneration program in adult #zebrafish that reestablishes all major synovial joint cell types, including lubricated articular cartilage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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