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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just reiterating, but thanks to the organizers, those who shared their amazing research, and the amazing people who I was able to talk to during the meeting. Really an overall fantastic scientific community 😁

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Faisal Mahdi's review made the cover🎉 what a great end to a long first week of the semester! Interested in how cytonemes may be regulating how cancers and TME communicate? Check out the review! www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/27...

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Morning rant: I'm getting really sick of seeing ECR grants and awards that require applicants to be within "X" years of PhD completion, usually six years. It's way too common in Canada at every level. Half of us are either just starting our labs or are only now getting onto the job market.😡

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And that’s a wrap for the 2026 summer research team! 🧪🔬We had a fantastic summer with four very talented @umanitoba.bsky.social undergraduate researchers joining us, each working on a different project.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New review out!🎉🧪🔬 Cancer cells don't just broadcast signals, but deliver them directly. TNTs and TMs get most of the hype, but our review explores how cytonemes are reshaping our understanding of tumor communication and the TME. www.mdpi.com/4048006

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🔬, angiogenesis in the brain🧠🐟! You can see long filopodia coming off the tip cells 🟢 in the adult zebrafish. Image acquired by Honors student Mira Hollenberg.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New "summer students", PI Ellie remains unconvinced they possess the sufficient qualifications, but is willing to train them.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Was testing out some antibody concentrations, and Notch1 does a surprisingly good job at marking purkinje cells. Depth shaded to give some contrast.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For #FluorescenceFriday we have, "TNTs, cytonemes, and migrasomes, oh my!"

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Kind of wild to think about… Less than 2 years ago: just me, sitting in an empty lab 😅 Now: every bench is full, people everywhere, ideas flying, organized chaos in the best way. And shoutout to grad students @sakshiverma.bsky.social and Sheikh Faisal winning poster awards along the way!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Feels good to be back at the bench sectioning tissue. AND I didn't even break anything!

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Interested in contact-mediated intercellular communication? ✅ out this review postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social and I co-authored with Shiyu Liu and Chiara Zurzolo! 🧪 #cytonemes #tunnelingnanotubes #migrasomes

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Goals!!! 🇨🇦 🍁 ⚽️🎉

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Big day in the lab yesterday! First time presentations for Faisal giving a poster and Sakshi giving a talk at CCMB Research day! They crushed it!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Spent the weekend visiting family and reconnecting with the locals! 🐻

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Its always fun watching the logging sports competition back home for the May long weekend.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Ellie is overwhelmed by this evenings neighborhood nature show. Extra mad at us because we won't let her out to go after all the critters.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Breast cancer brain metastases don’t just invade the brain, they rewire it! Our new review covers how metastatic breast cancer cells hijack neurotransmitters, synapses, astrocytes, and calcium signaling, to thrive in the brain. Possibly through #Cytonemes and #TNTs ! www.mdpi.com/3849806

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The 69th CSMB meeting in Banff has been fantastic so far! Great science, and great researchers. The most concerning thing is keeping a safe distance from the local wildlife!

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🔦🔬Imaging spotlight: Minimally invasive live tissue clearing with SeeDB-Live In this paper highlight, Shigenori Inagaki & Takeshi Imai @imailab.bsky.social share their tips & tricks on implementing SeeDB-Live. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/01/i...

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Imaging spotlight: Minimally invasive live tissue clearing with SeeDB-Live - FocalPlane

Imaging spotlight: Minimally invasive live tissue clearing with SeeDB-Live - News

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I hope today's results are not an April Fools joke! 😅

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Cells use proteins like morphogens to talk to each other in order to build and maintain 3D tissue structures. But how do these morphogens reach distant cells when they are all packed together? We think long #cytonemes play a big role in shaping how cells talk to one another for growth.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Following on from her beautiful featured image post on FocalPlane, Christina Daly @christinaadaly.bsky.social shares her top tips for imaging cytonemes. @labogden.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/19/c...

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Cytoneme Imaging Tips and Tricks - FocalPlane

Cytoneme Imaging Tips and Tricks - How to

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It's #FluorescenceFriday , while the original image of cancer cells interacting by cytonemes is already great. I had a little fun with some filters!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Amazing imaging by a former lab mate!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A great end of term presentation by co-op student Christina Bernados, followed by lab lunch to celebrate! We're looking forward to having you back this summer, to keep investgating cytonemes and Notch signaling!

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FPbase @fpbase.org · 04/11/2025

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/

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FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer

An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

NSERC submitted! Time for a celebratory beer and a nap!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

As spooky season is upon us 🎃, we have cells that look like spider webs for #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🔬

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This is a great lab, doing incredibly exciting research! 🧪🔬

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

[stands up soapbox] I know AI has its benefits, but the current general implementations of LLMs is breaking referencing and reviews in research, and I hate it! 😫 Not to mention the internet as a whole. Kurzgesagt, again gives a great example of the problem. youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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CHRIManitoba @chrimanitoba.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We are pleased to share that CHRIM is seeking our next CEO/Scientific Director! If you want to join a unique environment where collaboration sparks innovation, see the full job posting here: tinyurl.com/3dkcsdmh Please feel free to share this job posting with your networks!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Great work by Sheikh Faisal Asadullah Mahdi, showing us his work on cytonemes in brain cancers at the Prairie Cancer Consortium today!

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George Campbell @geobellward.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

After seeing @miguelcmestre.bsky.social @lancasterlab.bsky.social @jamesdmanton.bsky.social 's paper this week on deep and accessible ExM imaging with cerebral organoids, I think it's a good time to repost this Starter Pack of Expansion Microscopy people! go.bsky.app/Qxks9WD

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Great talk from @hc327.bsky.social at the 7th annual CCP Phenogenomics Conference! Dr Chen shows how rare disease foundations can really facilitate fantastic scientific progress directly helping patient families!

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

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FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The lab keeps growing, as we wrap up the end of a great summer of research for summer student Shelby and welcome our new Masters student Sakshi!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I still can't get over how cool cells can be reaching out and interacting with one another! This depth shaded membrane marker gives us an idea of how dynamic these extensions can be! #FluorescenceFriday 🔬🧪

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This doe looks so unimpressed with having me snap a pic while dealing with 3 hungry fawns.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Im procrastinating locking myself in my office for grant writing this afternoon. Im having way more fun on the 🔬 for #FluorescenceFriday

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Happy Friday! It's always stressful the first time trying to mount coverslips, but huzzah! No broken coverslips for summer student Shelby Houston, thanks to great guidance by technician Shakila Sultana!

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Hey 🧪🔬🧑‍🔬Does anyone have an opinion on a preferred vibratome for tissue sectioning? I'm looking at options. I've used several Leica models in the past, all great, but other companies seem to be great for the price.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Gotta love coming home to Nelson to be able to go play in the snow in June.

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Eric Hall @erichall.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Fantastic talk from Gurpreet Moroak from @estherverheyen.bsky.social group! Giant larvae at the Canadian Developmental Biology conference!

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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Here we have Eric Hall, University of Manitoba talking about "Uncovering cytoneme regulated signaling events in spinal cord development". Fun fact, Dr. Hall did their undergrad here at UBCO in Kelowna, the 2025 Canadian Developmental Biology Conference venue! #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

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Biochemistry & Medical Genetics @umbmg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨 BMG publication alert! 🚨 Congratulations to Danielle Pascual, ‪@marcogliese.bsky.social‬ and the rest of the BMG team on their latest publication - Excess Wnt in neurological disease Read more here: portlandpress.com/biochemj/art...

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Helen Chen @hc327.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Excited to share my latest paper from @stjuderesearch.bsky.social , where we leverage patient derived cortical organoids to study UBA5 associated neurodevelopmental disorders.

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