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Helen R Horkan

@hrhorkan.bsky.social
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Postdoc with @Gibson_Lab at Stowers Institute for Medical Research 🇺🇸. PhD minted in the Uri Frank lab 🇮🇪. // Roller Derby Ref. Rock Climber. Snowboarder(faller) She/Her 🏳️‍🌈

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Meet Helen Horkan, a postdoctoral researcher in the Gibson Lab! She aims to establish the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, as a better #research organism for studying stem cell #biology. Read more: bit.ly/3FvtweC
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Postdoc Profile: Q&A with Helen Horkan, Postdoctoral Researcher in…
“The sky is the limit at the Stowers Institute. If you have an idea, there is always somebody willing to help you make it happen.”
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Helen R Horkan @hrhorkan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It’s finally outtttt!!! Great to see this huge collab out, wouldn’t have been possible without any of the authors but especially my co-first @drsalamander.bsky.social and our mentors www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Hydractinia cell atlas reveals cellular and molecular principles of cnidarian coloniality - Nature Communications
Here they generate a cell type atlas of the colonial cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, which reveals that distinct colony parts are mostly made from unique combinations of shared cell types, an...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Helen R Horkan @hrhorkan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It was great to be involved in this, after years of joking with @camillectz.bsky.social about her ‘sexual story’ I thought it only right to share it with a meme of its own
Spider-Man meme showing the interplay between germ cells and somatic gonad tissue in maintaining gamete production
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Helen R Horkan @hrhorkan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Check out our new preprint looking at regeneration from reaggregated cell suspensions in Hydractinia. Once again i-cells are flexing their capacities
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