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Jen McKey

@jenmckey.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ CU Anschutz // Reproductive and Developmental Biologist // Studies all things ovary // NewPI // Could stare at images of embryos and ovaries all day long

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Study for the Society of Reproduction @ssrepro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Previous winners have set the bar high—can you top them? 🌟 Submit your masterpiece to the #ReproBioArt2026 contest and secure your spot in the spotlight. Learn more and submit your image today: ssr.org/reprobioart-contest #SSR2026 #ScienceArt #Reproduction #BioArt
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Study for the Society of Reproduction @ssrepro.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Want to see your work on the big screen? 🏆 Winners of #ReproBioArt2026 will be honored at the SSR Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony in Indy! Submit your entry today. Learn more and submit your image in comments #SSR2026 #ScienceArt #Reproduction
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Submit your images before it’s too late!! #ReproBioArt @ssrepro.bsky.social
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Study for the Society of Reproduction @ssrepro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Every cell tells a story, and every image reveals a secret. 🧬 Share your visual journey through reproductive biology with #ReproBioArt2026. Learn more and submit your image today: ssr.org/reprobioart-contest #SSR2026 #ScienceArt #Reproduction #BioArt
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Darío Lupiáñez @dariloops.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚨Preprint🚨 An unexpected source of sex hormones in mammalian gonads: Supporting-like cells (SLCs) 🐇 SLCs have latent steroidogenic potential and may be an ancestral lineage conserved beyond mammals Led by @ivan-barbera-aura.bsky.social & V Chung Bluetorial 1/15👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Study for the Society of Reproduction @ssrepro.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🏎️💨 The clock is ticking to join us for #SSR2026. We are officially in the "Last Call" for Late-Breaking Abstracts! Submit your research by May 7 to secure your spot for a poster presentation in Indy. 🏎️🏁 Details in the link below! 👇 #ReproSci #ScienceCommunication
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McKey Lab - CU Medical School @mckey-lab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year from the McKey Lab! The work hasn’t stopped and we are excited for all the new discoveries this year. 🔬🧬🧫 In the meantime - check out this beautiful immunofluorescent image taken by our very own (and very talented) Courtney Diamond! ⭐
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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CU Anschutz Developmental Biology @cudevbio.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Katie Ranard, postdoctoral fellow in the @bruceappel.bsky.social lab, on receiving a NINDS K99/R00 award for her proposal entitled, “Impact of nutritional status on mechanisms guiding brain development”! @cupediatrics.bsky.social #zebrafish #devbio
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Nitzan Gonen @nitzan-gonen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
1/n Very excited to share our recent paper published on @ScienceAdvances where we dissect the gene regulatory landscape guiding mouse sex determination! science.org/doi/10.1126/... A huge well done to @IsabelleStevant.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy, Meshi and Elisheva who spearhead this project!
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The gene regulatory landscape driving mouse gonadal supporting cell differentiation
Multiomics analysis revealed the regulatory elements and transcription factors responsible for gonadal sex determination.
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Bérénice A. Benayoun, PhD @bbparis1984.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to see this new review piece that we wrote together with Jennifer Garrison and Alison Kochersberger on the modern tools and approaches to study #ovarian #aging out this week at @genesdev.bsky.social! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl... #GeroSky #WomensHealth 🧪🧬 A 🧵1/3
Studying ovarian aging and its health impacts: modern tools and approaches
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Only 3 days left to submit your #ReproBioArt images!!
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The 2025 edition of ⁦‪SSRepro‬⁩ #ReproBioArt image contest is live and the gallery is filling up with such beautiful images! Submit yours today!! #ReproRocks ⁦ woobox.com/2poyka/galle...
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ReproBioArt 2025
#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hey #ReproSky don’t forget tot submit your beautiful images to the SSR #ReproBioArt contest!! Winners get free registration to the 2026 meeting and a beautiful showcase of their images!! Let’s show off how pretty #ReproBio can be!! #ReproRocks @ssrwinrs.bsky.social woobox.com/2poyka/galle...
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ReproBioArt 2025
#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro
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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
What a nice set of papers- just as I’m beginning to think of our intro to developmental models course this fall @jenmckey.bsky.social !
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Honored to received this distinction, and incredibly grateful to be leading a group that makes mentoring the most fun and rewarding part of my job! 🤩 And congrats to Lily for such outstanding community work! #reprosky #ReproRocks #TeamOvary
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Nitzan Gonen @nitzan-gonen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ready for it??? To all the **sex determination lovers** 📢 Save the date to the 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination (VSD) held in the beautiful Hawaii!! Great community, amazing science, excellent speakers and superb location 🏝 📢 March 23-26, 2026 📢
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Dilara Anbarci @academicblonde.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Excited to share that part of my PhD work is officially published in eLife! Couldn’t have done it without @jenmckey.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/96662
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Rediscovering the rete ovarii, a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary
The rete ovarii is a complex secretory structure that may play an important role in ovarian homeostasis.
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
First first author research paper for Lily and first paper out of my lab!! Excited to see this out and so proud of the hard work my lab members put into it :) Hoping OoCount will save others countless hours of manual follicle counting! @ssrwinrs.bsky.social #TeamOvary #ReproRocks
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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It was so wonderful to work with Blanche’s colleagues and Capel Lab past and present to put together her nomination. Congrats Blanche!!! So well deserved!!
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Such an incredible group of awardees!! 🤩 I’m so excited for my mentor Blanche Capel to be recognized this year with the Conklin Medal! Her contributions to the field and her dedication her trainees’ are so inspiring. I cannot wait to celebrate at the meeting! #devbio @socdevbio.bsky.social
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Big congrats to this year's awardees! Basic science matters more than ever - the awardees represent key aspects of what makes #devbio a central biomedical research endeavor of widespread impact. Applause!
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Our values and resolve are only strengthened by recent events.
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McKey Lab - CU Medical School @mckey-lab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Congratulations to our very own graduate student, Lily Folts, for her recent publication; "OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification". 🔬🥼🤗 academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...
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OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification
Summary Sentence: This protocol introduces OoCount, a high-throughput, open-source method for automatic oocyte segmentation and classification from fluores
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
E-Life special issue on reproductive health #ReproSky #MedSky 🧪 elifesciences.org/collections/...
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Special Issue: Reproductive Health
Our latest Special Issue showcases research in reproductive biology and medicine.
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Women in Reproductive Sciences (WinRS) @ssrwinrs.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Listen to 2024 Roger V Short Medal Awardee, Dr. Francesca Duncan, discuss ovarian aging and give trainees a bit of her wisdom on the latest SSR podcast! 👏👏👏 #womeninSTEM #reprorocks Listen to the full episode here 👇https://www.buzzsprout.com/1786803/episodes/16143433
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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Congrats to a fabulous collaborator who is not on social media!
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Bruce Appel @bruceappel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Our first manuscript on maternal nutrition and development, which was driven entirely by postdoc Katie Ranard, is now out. @cudevbio.bsky.social #devbio doi.org/10.1016/j.jl...
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Aafke Gros @aafkegros.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
To learn more, please check out my youtube tutorials at www.youtube.com/@oanegros which shows, among others, how to make this video! The data here is a dinoflagellate from Mocaer et al. 2023, hosted publicly at EMPIAR-11399 (also shown in the first post here).
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Aafke Gros @aafkegros.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FIB-SEM dataset visualized with Microscopy Nodes, data from Mocaer et al 2023
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Dequina Nicholas @quinascience.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
So Excited to share the newest @biorxivpreprint preprint from the #Nicholaslab Congrats Naveena my 1st #gradstudent on this work. T cells are necessary for development of PCOS reproductive symptoms in a letrozole-induced mouse model of PCOS | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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T cells are necessary for development of PCOS reproductive symptoms in a letrozole-induced mouse model of PCOS
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex condition with clear genetic susceptibilities that impact the heterogeneous clinical presentation of symptoms and severity through unknown mechanisms. Chr...
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Beauty of the female reproductive tract in mice! One of the first images by our PRA Courtney -I’d say she’s off to a great start 🤩 #ReproRocks #ReproBio #ReproBioArt @ssrwinrs.bsky.social
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McKey Lab - CU Medical School @mckey-lab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Happy fluorescence Friday! Look at the amazing reproductive tract image Courtney, McKey Lab PRA, took! 🤩
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Almost 90 people now listed in this starter pack for Reproductive Sciences #ReproSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/R19Temj
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Kner Lab @knerlab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
We are still accepting applications for Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy 2025!! @aqlm.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
cool image of fluorescent cube :)
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊 Learn more about them: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/ Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3). You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.
Headshots of 102 women and non-binary scientists who are now assistant professors. At the bottom is the Leading Edge logo and www.leadingedgesymposium.org
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Jen McKey @jenmckey.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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McKey Lab - CU Medical School @mckey-lab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Meet Cristina, the current McKey Lab rotation student! Cristina's rotation project is focused on understanding ovary morphogenesis during early development. Outside of the lab she like thrifting, trying new coffee spots, and being outside! 🌳☕️🛍️🔬
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Pépin Lab @pepinlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’m jealous of the meiosis folks who already self-organized on this platform. I wished there was an #ovarian biology stater pack. So I started to compile one! go.bsky.app/FUTWZ9U
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
NIH needs a new institute for women’s health research, expert panel says: National Academies report also calls for $16 billion in new money | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH needs a new institute for women’s health research, expert panel says
National Academies report also calls for $16 billion in new money
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Robert Aboukhalil @robert.bio · 04/12/2024
“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯 www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...
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New report highlights the scientific impact of open source software
Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Building a starter pack with Reproductive Sciences in mind to find those with these interests. go.bsky.app/R19Temj
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Lori O'Brien @llobrienlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Jumping to this platform I discovered there is a #3DThursday preceding #FluorescenceFriday! Here’s the arterial tree of a kidney labeled by Evans blue.
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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Excited to share work that @ceriweber.bsky.social started and drove in my lab. Tails!! We know a lot about limb bone growth, but vertebrae have completely different embryonic and evolutionary origins. What controls growth and proportion in the vertebral skeleton? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms that shape the development and evolution of tail vertebral proportion in mice and jerboas
Despite the functional importance of the vertebral skeleton, little is known about how individual vertebrae elongate or achieve disproportionate lengths as in the giraffe neck. Rodent tails are an abu...
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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Even though there are great #devbio and #biophysics starter packs, I felt #morphogenesis & #organogenesis was missing as a subfield :D Far from complete or full. Tell me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PB6s8PQ
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Necessary/sufficient (art by @jenmckey.bsky.social)
Tartiflette fresh from the oven.
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emilybateslab.bsky.social @emilybateslab.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We discovered that mouse embryonic palate mesenchymal cells are electrically active and send out BMP when they depolarize. We are excited to announce this work is published in Nature Communications. #womeninstem #devbio rdcu.be/dZX7V
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Depolarization induces calcium-dependent BMP4 release from mouse embryonic palate mesenchymal cells
Nature Communications - BMP signaling is important for multiple process, including craniofacial development, but relatively little is known about how BMP ligands are secreted. Here they show that...
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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My colleagues here at CU Anschutz @mckey-lab.bsky.social are on Bluesky! An ah-mazing group of scientists - please follow their lab and their PI @jenmckey.bsky.social for updates on reproductive #DevBio & ovary morphogenesis! #HiSciSky #WomeninSTEM
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Bruce Appel @bruceappel.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
ok, Bluesky, I just quit that other platform. If you are a developmental biologist, glia person, zebrafish person, etc., let me know you are out there.
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