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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 3h

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! To continue with the October theme, please enjoy this microscopic "pumpkin". This is the nucleus of an NIH3T3 cell shown in 🟠 and the primary cilium in 🟢 - 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Christina Wang 🎃 🧪

confocal micrograph of a cell nucleus in orange and cilium in green

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Shout out to @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Ryan Mesler for a great rotation talk! 🧪

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The cytoneme crew at the Nanotubular Symposium at University of Houston - With Sougata Roy and the father of the cytoneme field, Tom Kornberg 🧪

Sougata Roy, Tom Kornberg, and Stacey Ogden standing in front of plants.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congratulations to @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social for formal acceptance of her paper! Stay tuned - more details to come soon! 🎉 🥳 🧪

Christina Daly wearing a lab coat standing in a lab.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seen posted around campus 👻 🤣

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Birthday to our amazing lab manager Miriam @miriamdillard.bsky.social! We’d be lost without her! Have a great day! 🧪

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy first #FluorescenceFriday of October! I'm going with Halloween inspired images this month, so am recycling this Slimer cell from last year. Microscopy by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social graduate student Christina Wang! 🧪 🔬 👩‍🔬

A confocal micrograph of a cell in the shape of a green ghost.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine my excitement upon learning that Starbucks offers a “Hedgehog pop” 🤗 🦔

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy birthday to postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social ! Here’s to a year of great data 👩🏻‍🔬 🤓! 🥳

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TGI #FluorescenceFriday! This is a section from a P3 🐭🫁 expressing the confetti lineage tracer. The original image was converted to #SciArt using the emboss filter in PS. 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio 👩‍🔬

artistic rendering of a microscopic image of a mouse lung section. cells are shown in different colors against a gray background.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Question: How long can a #cytoneme get? Answer: Looooooong. 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social graduate student Christina Wang. 🟣 marks the membrane of a cultured fibroblast. 🧪

A confocal micrograph of a cell with a very long cellular protrusion called a cytoneme.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Welcoming rotating @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Ryan Mesler to the lab! Fun fact: he was a literature major in college - and ended up as a biomedical sciences PhD student! 🧪 🤓 🥼

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Please appreciate my baby in her new rock ‘n’ roll t-shirt 🤘

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a throwback to the 2010s of 🔬 by former postdoc Suresh Marada. #SciArt video montage was made from pseudocoloring confocal images of a Drosophila egg chamber and converting them to a movie using Clideo online 🧪

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here's some #SciArt of a confocal micrograph stylized using the Ps emboss filter. See the thin projections extending between the 2 cells? They're #cytonemes! 🔬 How do they find each other? Follow postdoc @itsscientistsam.bsky.social to learn more 🧪 👩‍🔬

A micrograph of two cells sending thin membrane extensions toward each other. The image was stylized using an emboss filter in Ps.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a spheroid of IMCD3 cells expressing a🟣membrane marker and 🔵nuclei marker. Notice the long membrane extensions reaching out into space - we think they facilitate intercellular communication 📲 Microscopy 🔬by postdoc @itsscientistsam.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio #SciArt

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Continuing to play around with my #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt 🔬 between meetings - here is the multicolor collage of the #DevBio 🫁 alveoli image I posted this AM 🧪 I see a lot of creepy faces in this configuration 😱

collage of a microscopy image in multiple colors

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is how I imagine Vincent van Gogh would paint cells of the developing lung 👨‍🎨🫁 Image rendered from a micrograph of developing alveoli of a neonatal 🐭 Fluorescent proteins mark cell membranes and nuclei 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social

A van Gogh like image of a micrograph of cells of the lung.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Gray catbirds make me think of midcentury modern furniture. Must be their 🪶 color combination 🤷‍♀️

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Enjoyed meeting some of the new @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad students at the meet and greet faculty poster session! Here I am trying to convince some of the new students that Hedgehog signaling is the coolest pathway to study 😎 🧪 👩🏼‍🔬

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Following up on last week's theme of giving our 🔬 the Warhol treatment, here is a collage of an image of 🫁 cells labeled using the Confetti lineage tracer. From @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio 👩‍🔬 #SciArt

Colorful collage of an image of cells from a microscope.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Congratulations to former Ogden Lab Researcher @homchristopher.bsky.social for getting into the MD program at the Medical College of Wisconsin! 🧪 🥼

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Weekend update: This “good” girl went to a meet and greet at the humane society to be introduced to a potential little brother/friend. She acted like a total buffoon, so is still without a sibling. We’re trying to meet him again later this week 🤞🏼 🐕

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a Warhol (or Whirlhol 😉) inspired montage of a micrograph of cardiac tissue from a P3 🐭. The image shows SHH-producing cells in a whirl pattern across the 🫀 (lower left to upper right). 🔬 by @christinaadaly.bsky.social #DevBio 🧪 👩‍🔬

This shows a micrograph of cardiac cells in four different color combinations. Cells expressing Shh are marked by a fluorescent lineage tracer.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dr. Hack is now FUNDED! Congratulations to @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Sam Hack on receiving her F32! Enjoy those party donuts! 🎉 🧪 👩‍🔬

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This movie shows the ZPA of a 🐭 limb bud. Cells expressing SHH are labeled 🌈. Notice the dynamic signaling protrusions extending from SHH-expressing ZPA cells - so cool! Membranes of cells not expressing SHH are 🔵 🧪 🔬 👩‍🔬 #DevBio #SciArt Credit: @christinaadaly.bsky.social

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Happy Birthday to postdoc @rojalinpr.bsky.social! Here’s to hoping the lab BD tiara and cape work their data magic! 🪄

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My submission for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #cutie - a wee ovenbird perched on our fence. Taken in Memphis, TN last spring. 🪶

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have missed the last few #FluorescentFriday postings - so I'm posting on a Tuesday! These are Shh-expressing cells in a developing 🐭 limb bud. We think their long membrane protrusions facilitate intercellular communication. Image by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 👩‍🔬 #DevBio #WomeninSTEM

Confocal microscopy image of a developing mouse limb bud showing Shh-expressing cells in spectrum shading. Many cells show long membrane protrusions that we think are involved in intercellular communication.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My submission for #TalonTuesday - a red-tailed hawk perched on a sign 🪶 Photographed at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, TN

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Christina Daly @christinaadaly.bsky.social - PhD hooding ceremony today @stjuderesearch.bsky.social Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences! 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My submission for the #birdoftheday theme #LookingAtYou - this yellow-breasted chat has had it with my nonsense. 😆 🪶

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

TGIF Female red winged blackbird 🪶

Female red-winged blackbird on a branch.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Green heron put on a good show too 💚 🪶

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Memorial Day birding highlights 🪶 1. White-faced ibis (or glossy - but I’m leaning toward white-faced) 💟 2. Yellow-breasted chat 💛 3. Blue grosbeak 💙🧡 4. Indigo bunting 💜🖤 Photos taken at Ensley Bottoms in Memphis, TN.

White-faced (or glossy?) ibis in a lake.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

American Goldfinch - pic taken late last summer in Memphis 🪶

American goldfinch on a dying sunflower. 🌻

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

When the revised draft is *finally* ready to go back to the collaborators 🧪 🍾

A glass of prosecco sitting on a black table

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I like to FaceTime with the dog when I’m on a work trip 😉

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The @jcellsci.bsky.social #JCSImaging meeting was fantastic! Great talks and a wonderful imaging community! Shout out to postdocs @christinaadaly.bsky.social and Sam Hack for presenting their work!

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Dinner time 🪶 Ruby-throated hummingbirds in Memphis

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a cross section of a developing 🐭neural tube showing apical primary cilia on cells lining the lumen. Arl13b is green, gamma tubulin is red, DAPI is blue #DevBio #DevNeuro 🧪 🔬

Microscopy image of a cross section of a developing mouse neural tube showing nuclei in blue, gamma tubulin in red and Arl13b in green.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Seattle hotel room coffee makers aren’t messing around. Respect. 🫡

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Our friendly neighborhood barred owl 🪶

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

…and it should come from Vermont 😊

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a confocal 🔬 series of a developing 🐭 spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and cellular membrane stains colored in 🌈 Microscopy by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪

microscopy images of a developing mouse spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and membrane stains in rainbow coloring

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Here is a submission for #tricolor #birdoftheday - black bellied whistling ducks in Memphis, TN. Their coloring makes me think of a cappuccino 😍 🪶

Two black bellied whistling ducks near tall grass.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here is a micrograph of a section of a neonatal 🐭🫁 showing showing cilia in 🟡 and nuclei in 🔵. Cilia are marked by the protein Arl13b. 🔬 by postdoctoral fellow Sam Hack 👩‍🔬 🧪

micrograph of a section of neonatal mouse lung tissue showing cilia in yellow and nuclei in blue.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here is a mouse fibroblast with multiple thin membrane extensions reaching out toward its neighbors. The long (>10 um) extensions are a type of signaling filopodia called #cytonemes that transport signals like SHH, WNT, Notch, and GFs! 🔬 by Senior Scientist Hong Lin. 🧪 👩‍🔬

Confocal micrograph of a mouse embryonic fibroblast with membrane labeled in blue, nuclei in yellow and cellular cytoplasm in red.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Celebrating 1) a review article being provisionally accepted 2) @christinaadaly.bsky.social getting her first author research paper submitted, and 3) The International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🎉 Woo hoo! 🧪

Ogden lab at happy hour - Harsh Kumar, Rojalin Pradhan, Sam Hack, Christina Daly, Stacey Ogden, Daniel Stewart, Christina Wang, Hong Lin

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Please appreciate Belle’s first portrait. I think she might be the next Mona Lisa. 😍

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