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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been a Backpack fan for years! I was so happy to finally see him in the running for Fat Bear Week. I’m glad he won the hearts of the voters!! Well deserved!

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And finally—a bit of personal news: 🔬 I’m on the faculty job market this year! I’m looking for tenure-track opportunities where I can build a lab at the intersection of developmental biology, mechanobiology, reproductive biology & aging.

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gearing up to start my 3rd year as an assistant prof. Time really flies! I recently had a lovely 2-week refresh in the Eastern Sierras that helped me prepare for another academic year. #MountainMonday

Photo of a ground squirrel overlooking Yosemite valley from cloud’s rest

A photo of Purple Lake in the Sierra Nevadas near Mammoth

A photo of a stream and mountains from the Sierra Nevadas near Muir pass

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thanks for the feature! @jiarui219.bsky.social and Allie Orozco did a great job showcasing our work!

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This was a great honor! Thanks so much to my trainees @rothenberglab.bsky.social for the nomination and the @uiowabiology.bsky.social for the award.

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Diedre Reitz @diedrereitz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Happy to share that I will be joining the Biology Department and Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa as an assistant professor in summer 2027! My lab will study how recombination is regulated to prevent non-allelic repair and genome rearrangements, and their relation to cancer.

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

@jiarui219.bsky.social and I really enjoyed reading this paper and having the opportunity to summarize the key findings! We couldn't possibly cover everything cool about the paper, so I encourage you to give it a deep dive yourself!

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University of Iowa Department of Biology @uiowabiology.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The UI Department of Biology is seeking a bi-weekly parttime employee to work in the Drosophila Culture Media Lab (Fly Kitchen). This position helps support the department’s research and teaching labs. For more information about the position, please visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/content/temp...

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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Many of us are doing it for the 'kids', working hard to create micro environments on our campuses and in our labs where younger scientists can learn, train and be successful. I am buoyed by my like minded colleagues - I celebrate them, nominate them for awards and thank them every chance I get.

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dshb-antibodies.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#Dros26 Day 3 Did you know DSHB houses over 1600 Drosophila antibodies? Browse the collection and more: dshb.biology.uiowa.edu 📸 Drosophila germarium labeled with DSHB anti-Vasa (green) and anti-hts (magenta) 🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/anti-vasa 🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/1B1

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Tara M Finegan @tarafinegan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Fly 🪰 people are the best people! 🔬🥼🧬 having a blast in Chicago #Dros26 (but missing Dan who is serving as super dad at home) @mbustill.bsky.social @rodrigofg.bsky.social @krothphd.bsky.social

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A lot of exciting things have been happing in the @rothenberglab.bsky.social so we have been keeping really busy. A few of us are at #Dros26 to share our science. Come by one of our posters to say hi!

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The @rothenberglab.bsky.social had a great time at #cellbio25! This meeting always feels like a friends and colleagues reunion for me. Unfortunately there’s never enough time to see everyone! My trainees also enjoyed presenting their posters, making new connections, and seeing new science!

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m so excited to be at #CellBio2025 with my trainees! Elizabeth (#259) and Olivia (#251) have posters in Sunday’s session. Please stop by to hear about the work we are starting up in the lab looking at Rap1 GTPase signaling in epithelial migration in human carcinoma cells and in Drosophila embryos.

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I’m so sad to have missed the Midwest Drosophila Conference due a nasty cold. But some of my students made the journey and had a great time! @jiarui219.bsky.social gave a talk to open up the conference, @briod613.bsky.social gave a very successful poster, and Aiza joined for her first conference!

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

This is really unfortunate and I hope it’s reconsidered. My second year PhD students were busy doing rotations at this time last year and didn’t know what lab they were going to join. They have been working so hard on their applications for this cycle only to find out it could be for nothing.

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I’ve been really enjoying the #MWSDB25 meeting so far! Great people and science. I can’t wait to give my talk this afternoon and hopefully come away with new ideas and collaborators. I’m so grateful to the organizers for the invitation!

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It seems like it would be easy to make an unquestionably cute fly plush! But maybe I just have picky taste.

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University of Iowa Department of Biology @uiowabiology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We have a fantastic seminar lineup this semester! Join us in Kollros Auditorium (BBE 101) almost every Friday at 3:30pm to learn from prominent researchers from across the country. All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!

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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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Rothenberg Lab @ UIowa @rothenberglab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our lab mascot, Samwise, is always encouraging us to keep reaching higher!

Photo of a crayfish climbing a filter in an aquarium

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Rothenberg Lab @ UIowa @rothenberglab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

@briod613.bsky.social from our lab is at #bobiac2025 learning from the best all about Python-based image analysis!

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University of Iowa Department of Biology @uiowabiology.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The Martin Lab in the Department of Biology is seeking a full-time Associate Research Scientist to conduct research in neurobiology, with a focus on electrical and chemical synapse formation. For more information and to apply, please visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc...

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Rothenberg Lab @ UIowa @rothenberglab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We are very proud to be featured throughout this newsletter among all of the excellent departmental achievements. Congrats to all of our lab members for doing great things!

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Rothenberg Lab @ UIowa @rothenberglab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Lab is for getting research done and having a little bit of fun!

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Come be my colleague!! It’s a great department, university, and town! Feel free to ask me about my experience.

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A great group of people! No bias whatsoever. 😄

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Rothenberg Lab @ UIowa @rothenberglab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Last week much of the lab went to the Holden Comprehensive Cancer center retreat. We had a great time sharing our science, learning about the efforts to fight cancer at all levels, and meeting fellow scientists.

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Rothenberg Lab @ UIowa @rothenberglab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We took the day off from the lab in recognition of #Juneteenth. A few of us took the opportunity to show our visiting student Annadelle some of the nature Iowa has to offer! We visited Lake MacBride State Park and the Iowa Raptor Project.

Three women standing on a rock overlooking a river

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Nature @nature.com · 17/06/2025

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

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Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Hi all! Please follow my lab account @rothenberglab.bsky.social to keep up with our science and our people.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Latest in #G3journal: @jocmcdonald.bsky.social and the team used an unbiased screening approach to identify new candidate regulators of Rap1, a small GTPase crucial for embryogenesis and cancer cell migration, in #Drosophila collective border cell migration. 🪰 Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

On my way to #Dros25 by train after a quick visit with the in-laws in LA. Looking forward to reconnecting with my fellow fly researchers! Model organism research is fundamental to our understanding of how biology works so we can develop new approaches to address human health issues.

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This is a really cool story that I was excited to contribute to! It brings in some new players to think about: mTor and autophagy

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm so honored to have received the R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology. Thank you @anatomyorg.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to meeting everyone and sharing my science at #Anatomy25

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Cell and developmental biologists: as you start looking at conferences in 2025, consider joining us at the 2025 Cell Contact & Adhesion GRC. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost www.grc.org/cell-contact...

Poster for the meeting including speaker list and location

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Last full day at #cellbio2024! If you didn’t catch my talk on Saturday, I’m also giving a poster today at B91. It’s been a real pleasure to represent UIowa Biology for the first time at an international conference!

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Today from the Rothenberg lab at #cellbio2024 is a poster by Liv, a postbac in the lab. Check it out!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#cellbio2024: sorry to miss you all this year (Final Exam & grading), but our lab will be well represented. Postdoc @maikbischoff.bsky.social will be giving a talk Monday 12/16 4:00 PM in the "Welcome to the Zellenstaat" session. He'll describe his exciting work on regulation of cell migration 1/3

Semaphorin/Plexin Antagonism regulates Collective Cell Migration and Gap Closure in vivo Cool images of his collective cell migration system

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Katheryn Rothenberg @krothphd.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#cellbio2024 is upon us! I’m excited to give a talk in the epithelial polarity and trafficking session today. If you can’t make it but want to hear about this work, I’m also giving a poster on Tuesday.

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Ondine Cleaver @ondinecleaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Essential reading for all that serve as reviewers. Please help your authors as if they were in your lab. Make your reviews constructive. Overly onerous reviews amount to blocking each others’ work. It slows progress and demoralizes junior investigators. Let’s elevate, not crush, #DevBio

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We are declaring today #ReSCU-NetThursday!!! @ray-hawkins.bsky.social @negberry.bsky.social @krothphd.bsky.social 🧪 #Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What is cooler than neural networks? Recurrent neural networks!!! Take a look at our pre-print describing #ReSCU-Nets, a recurrent nn architecture to segment and track biological structures from microscopy movies. Work led by the great @ray-hawkins.bsky.social ... 🧪🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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