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Heidi Hehnly-Chang

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Mom, Scientist, Equestrian and Artist. www.hehnlylab.com

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr In this profile, we meet @drbjcarr.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta. Brittany uses acrylic, watercolour, gouache & ink to create pictures of the natural world & uses microscopy for ‘science’ art. thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...
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SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr - the Node
In this SciArt profile, we meet Brittany Carr, an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
TIL about @morpheus-lab.bsky.social: "a modeling and simulation environment for the study of multi-scale and multicellular systems." 🤩
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Fromme Lab @fromme-lab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
And here is the working URL! events.faseb.org/event/Small-...
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Home - Regulation and Function of Small GTPases.
Discover the latest in small GTPases research from cell signaling to disease at this global forum for biology, medicine, and therapeutic innovation.
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Did you know? Adult zebrafish genital papillae/cloacas pulse rapidly. Video credit: Dr. Shannon Romano. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Issue 5 is complete Explore our Toc: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image shows mouse oocytes during meiotic telophase I highlighting tubulin (green), DNA (cyan) & the meiotic midbody (magenta). See article by G. Cairo, M. A. Haseeb et al journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
JCS Cover: Images showing mouse oocytes at the division plane during meiotic telophase I. Tubulin and DNA are depicted in green and cyan, respectively. The meiotic midbody is labelled with an antibody that recognises MKLP1 (magenta, central image only). The enlarged central image highlights the intact structure of the meiotic midbody, which fails to form correctly in MOS-deficient oocytes. The bottom-right image depicts a MOS-deficient oocyte during telophase I, in which chromatin can prematurely detach from spindle microtubules and begin to decondense, unlike in the wild-type oocyte shown in the top-left image. See article by G. Cairo, M. A. Haseeb et al. (jcs264411).
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Lab photo 2026 @syracuseu.bsky.social
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Looking for job applicants with #zebrafish experience? Let us share your job openings across our social media (LinkedIn & Bluesky) and Slack accounts! Send us a DM with the details or tag @zebrafishrock.bsky.social in your posts 😎 #RockOn
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
You can hear from Hehnly Lab PhD Graduate, Favour Ononiwu, in a first person @biologyopen.bsky.social interview about her recent study. Check it out here: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
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First person – Favour Ononiwu
ABSTRACT. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Favour Ononiw...
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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The FY2026 science budget story isn’t over. Cuts avoided, but disruptions continue for NIH and NSF. Read more: www.ascb.org/science-policy/a-trage…
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Fincredible to see Kuppfer's Vesicle (L-R organizer in zfish) in such stunning detail 😍 🧪
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hehnly lab recently graduated PhD student, Favour Ononiwu's paper using #vEM on the #zebrafish Left Right Organizer is live! Check out all the cool #centrosomes and #cilia: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
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Insights into the zebrafish left–right organizer's centrosomes and cilia via volume electron microscopy
Summary: An electron microscopy-based reconstruction of all cilia and centrosomes within an intact left–right organizer reveals unexpected structural diversity at organ scale.
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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@tcpotts.bsky.social paper is live. Happy to share #FishNAP, a new, non-invasive way to measure #BBB permeability in 96-well format with #zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Make #ZebrafishZunday part of your weekly routine! 🧪 Science 🤝 Art 🤝 #Zebrafish
Girl in red dress meme. Science feed holding hand of #FluorescenceFriday checking out #ZebrafishZunday
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! We show how DFCs remodel ZO-1/actin and how mitotic events help organize epithelial architecture in KV morphogenesis. Led by Yan Wu, Yiling Lan, and outstanding undergraduate researchers Athena Allred and Carys Timpson. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Cordula Reuther, Paula Santos-Otte, Stefan Diez and colleagues find that microtubule lattice defects facilitate spastin-mediated severing. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 18/03/2026
Applications are open for our Next Generation Leaders program! Our NGL program recognizes emerging scientific leaders and invites them into a supportive network. 🔗 Apply by March 31: alleninstitute.org/about/people/nex…
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We're still accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics - which is being coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social and Giulia Zanetti, working alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social Deadline: 1 April journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im...
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Check out! Our postdoc Yan Wu and graduate student Yiling Lan's paper is featured! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Specific mitotic events drive left-right organizer development
Highlighted Article: Early, FGF-dependent Kupffer's vesicle progenitor cell divisions are essential for rosette formation, Kupffer's vesicle morphogenesis and proper left-right axis development in zeb...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
For those interested 🔬
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Emma Burns, Anastasia Amoiroglou, Gregory Rogers, Nasser Rusan and colleagues develop an expansion microscopy protocol for Drosophila cultured cells and tissues, which they use to dissect centriole biology. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Figure showing the comparison between spinning disk (SD) confocal, SIM and ExM when imaging Drosophila cemtrioles.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My quote of the day Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Useful tool for the cilia in your life!
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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!! Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism! doi.org/10.1101/2025... #MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Research assistant post, for those interested!
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Contains new works from @ditalialab.bsky.social, @sthyme.bsky.social, @lovelessradio.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, Hammerschmidt Lab, Ron Kwon Lab, Martik Lab, @tillymommersteeg.bsky.social, Lecaudey Lab, @timesaunders.bsky.social, @dangrimes.bsky.social, @akankshi.bsky.social among others!
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We’re hiring! 🧬 Join the Hehnly Lab @syracuseu.bsky.social to study how cells build tissues — focusing on centrosomes, cytoskeleton & trafficking. Postdoc position open: www.sujobopps.com/postings/111...
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Postdoctoral Researcher – Cell and Developmental Biology
The Hehnly Lab seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join a dynamic group investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing centrosome function, cytoskeletal organization, an...
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thanks to @currentbiology.bsky.social I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers Biology is amazing.
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Understanding how the left-right organiser – a structure that only exists transiently in the early embryo – begins 📷 Yan Wu & Yiling Lan et al @lovelessradio.bsky.social lab @syracuseu.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with Lux Fatimathas
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Lerit Lab @lablerit.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We are hiring! We are currently interviewing for an entry level staff position in the lab, but it is not too late to submit a postdoc application! Send a note of interest to me and apply here: bit.ly/3VmmM7m
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Lerit Lab @lablerit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
@ascbiology.bsky.social Abstract submissions are open! Submit an abstract to the ‘Emerging concepts in centriole and centrosome assembly and function’ minisym. PRIZES for trainee talks & posters plus a mixer thanks to generous sponsors @jcellsci.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social & Nikon
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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In honour of Postdoc Appreciation Week, here are three ways we support postdocs: 1. Since 2023, we’ve supported 24 postdocs as they transition to becoming a group leader through our Pathway to Independence programme. Meet our latest fellows: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... #NPAW2025
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Lotte B. Pedersen @lottepedersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia
Rezi et al. show that kinesin-3 KIF13B regulates ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and small extracellular vesicle (EV) release of ciliary proteins while suppressing their relea...
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🚨 New preprint! 🚨 #Zebrafish LRO #cilia are structurally diverse & essential for LRO morphogenesis. #Optogenetics + #vEM reveal new roles for cilia in organ architecture. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
National Institute of General Medical Sciences R35 MIRA awards issued within the last 14 days. I am still waiting to see if mine is funded. Regardless of my outcome, I am in awe of the dedicated program and awards management staff who are so clearly doing their damndest to fund strong science. 🧬🔬🧪🥼🇺🇸
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Favour Ononiwu on a successful PhD defense! 🎓✨ 👏 Wishing her all the best as she takes the next steps in her career #ZebrafishResearch
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/07/2025
Compared with the curated pictures that are the mainstay of social media, Adrienne Salinger’s images of teens in their bedrooms, taken in the ’80s and ’90s, offer a sense of the perilousness of adolescence.
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Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
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Manning Research Group @manningresearch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yay! New paper out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... . How do dynamical forces generated by tissue movement affect organ morphology changes during embryonic development? Using Kupffer’s vesicle in zebrafish embryo we showed that dynamical forces produce shape changes in a developing organ.
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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Want to publish a NIH-funded paper in Nature? Well - unless your institution has an agreement with Springer, you'll have to be mega-rich to be compliant with NIH's new no-embargo policy. Springer is insisting on gold OA - that's $12,690 and that's extortion.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 08/07/2025
This is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
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NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Looking for fluorescent reporters for your favorite tissue/organ? Check out the zTrap Gene Trap & Enhancer Database (ztrap.nig.ac.jp/ztrap/) from the Kawakami Lab at NIG! Travel grants are available for shelf-screen (Email Sensei Koichi for more info) 😎 Contact details: ztrap.nig.ac.jp/members.html
On zTrap website, you will be able to search lines by anatomy such as the swim bladder (for example). One line that looks promising is gSA2AzGFF328A (below)that has an insertion in the gene axla4a.
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Meet Athena, a REU undergraduate from the University of Arizona, who had her first experience observing live zebrafish embryos 🐟 in our @syracuseu.bsky.social lab. Welcome to Dev Bio, Athena! 🧬🔬 #REU2025 #ZebrafishDevelopment #SyracuseBiology #UndergradResearch #DevelopmentalBiology
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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Hehnly lab postdoc Yan Wu looking beautiful with her poster at the @syracuseu.bsky.social office of research postdoc poster session. She presented on her recent study featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social.
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Mitotic events help distinguish left from right Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Yan Wu, Yiling Lan, Heidi Hehnly (@lovelessradio.bsky.social‬ @syracuseu.bsky.social ) and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... 🎥Mitotic events are required for KV formation
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