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Madison Adams

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Post-baccalaureate researcher at Louisiana State University studying fin and limb regeneration🐟 Igor Schneider lab @ischneider.bsky.social Personal website: madisonadamsbio.com

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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 24/07/2026
MDI Bio Lab is seeking a Senior Faculty member! Lead innovative research, mentor scientists, and help advance discoveries in aging and regeneration. Our collaborative environment creates opportunities for discovery and impact: ow.ly/qrOf50Zl6U5 #sciencejobs #STEMjobs #researchjobs
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
ReBilD was such an amazing experience! Thank you @mdibl.org for making it happen. This course is great for anyone interested in learning more about regeneration or exploring new model systems. If anyone has questions about my experience in the course, comment or DM me.
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Tatiana Sandoval Guzmán @tatianasg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
And an axolotl boop because why not
A close up of a wild type axolotl
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Owning a lot of books is great. Packing and moving with a lot of books is not great.
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
AND getting to visit Xochimilco, the axolotl’s native habitat?! Sign me up😍
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This was an amazing opportunity to meet such an influential scientist in my life. Dr. Shubin’s mastery of storytelling has inspired me to utilize my creativity to expand sci comm to all audiences and to commit to outreach in my PhD. Thank you! @ischneider.bsky.social @lsulagniappe.bsky.social
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LAGNiAppE @lsulagniappe.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
First paper from our program is out 🎉 Our pub in BSSB shares outcomes from our postbaccalaureate training model, demonstrating how research & mentorship can build confidence & career readiness in STEM. Huge thanks to our SREC partners for making this work possible. 🔗 ssbbulletin.org/article/id/6...
Multi-mentoring network applied by LAGNiAppE
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
One of my fellow LAGNiAppE cohort members, Emma Powers, painted me this AMAZING lungfish art. I’m gonna put it right next to my other lungfish friend that my co-mentor photographed for me 🥰
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I created these custom outreach stickers based on the regeneration powerhouses in the Schneider lab at LSU: bichir (left), lungfish (right). Read about our research program here: faculty.lsu.edu/igorschneide.... Follow my page to be notified of future creative science outreach projects. #scicomm
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Tripod fish live at depths of up to 6000 m below the surface. They are practically eyeless because of its super-dark habitat but their long fins can feel the vibrations made by approaching prey on the seafloor [📹 Schmidt Ocean] Original post
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Paige Jarreau @fromthelabbench.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
When scientists work with artists, everyone benefits. Through an artist-in-residence program at UPenn, reseachers improved their communication skills and confidence by working with an artist to paint their own scientific clay “crests” 🛡️! Learn more: www.fromthelabbench.com/from-the-lab... #sciart
Public audiences see scientists as smart but not great communicators. Can working with an artist help?
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Please take 2 minutes! Sign the petition to help stop 130 acre data center across the street from the Forsyth county town hall and 20 minutes from the apartment I will live in while attending grad school at Wake Forest. Read the opinions of the current community members. www.ruralhallinfo.com
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I spy @joshcurrie.bsky.social profiled by Wake Forest for cool new work on limb regeneration 🧪 news.wfu.edu/2026/04/16/f...
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Three labs. Three species. One breakthrough in regenerative medicine.

Josh Currie, Assistant Professor of Biology, helped identify a regeneration-associated salamander gene that may inform future approaches to tissue and limb regeneration in humans.

The discovery contributed to early regenerative success in mouse models and advances the broader field of regenerative medicine.

Read more at the link in our bio!
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...
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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026
We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 06/05/2026
The MDI Biological Laboratory is hiring a Junior Faculty member! A great opportunity to launch your independent research program in a collaborative, mission-driven environment. Learn more at the link below. 🧪 #sciencejobs #academicjobs #hiring #recruiting
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Junior Faculty
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Wristy @wristroom.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever
a photo of a beluga whale releasing air from its blowhole underwater. the bubbles form a shape similar to a miniature mushroom cloud. The beluga whale, like all beluga whales, seems to know just how cute it is
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lsuresearch.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Who doesn’t love an #axolotl?! 🧬 But this funny salamander has competition in the regeneration game… youtube.com/shorts/DfeTg...
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Meet the Fish That Could Regrow Fins A Million Years Before The Axolotl Got Here
YouTube video by LSU
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Here’s me giving a talk at the @lsuresearch.bsky.social Biograds conference despite being only a post-bacc! I’m learning to just volunteer for as much sci comm as possible and if they actually let me do it, I’m better for it. More info about the conference: biograds.wixsite.com/biograds
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
What a difference a year makes! I’ve grown so much thanks to my post-bacc opportunity and I can’t wait to see what’s to come in my graduate studies.
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@lsuresearch.bsky.social Discover Day 2026: Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my research with the community!
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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Now in press @pnas.org! Thread below with some of this story's highlights and contributions. Excited to dig into all the cool questions this project generated about how the wound epidermis works during limb regeneration. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Enhancer-directed gene delivery for digit regeneration based on conserved epidermal factors | PNAS
Limb loss remains a significant clinical challenge, but regenerative medicine approaches such as gene therapy offer a promising strategy to trigger...
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Amazing photography by my co-mentor Dr. Emily Kane, a professor at University of Louisiana Lafayette.✨Reach out to her if you’re interested in getting professional photos of your model organisms for publications or just for fun. -Just Add Water photography justaddwater.picfair.com
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Last week I had the opportunity to visit the Louisiana Sea Grant Oyster Research Lab in Grande Isle, LA with my LAGNiAppE cohort. Hanging out on the beach was a nice touch. www.laseagrant.org/outreach/aqu...
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Igor Schneider @ischneider.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Preprint out! Salamanders harbor a hypersensitive mTOR, thought to enable their remarkable limb regeneration. But do you need a special mTOR to regrow appendages? In Polypterus, we find that a canonical mTOR pathway supports full appendage regeneration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is Methuselah, an Australian lungfish whom I first met at the Steinhart Aquarium in 1976. She is probably in her 90s, and has been at the Steinhart since 1938. I love her. 🐟👵
A photo of an elongated, matte-brown, prehistoric-looking Australian lungfish named Methuselah, resting on the sandy bottom of her tank at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco. She has yellow patches near her small eyes. Several other much smaller Australian rainbow fish are also in the tank. She is probably in her 90s and has been at the aquarium since 1938.
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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🚨 Preprint Friday! 🚨 Thrilled to highlight this collab with David Brown at Duke @cutitoutdave.bsky.social and Ken Poss at UW Madison/Morgridge @kenposs.bsky.social. By comparing 3(!!) regenerating models we identify a conserved role for Sp-family TFs in appendage regeneration (and more).....🧵
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Enhancer-directed gene delivery for digit regeneration based on conserved epidermal factors
Limb loss remains a significant clinical challenge, but regenerative medicine approaches such as gene therapy offer a promising strategy to trigger endogenous regeneration programs. Optimal vector con...
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply to Zebrafish Development and Genetics by March 2. This two-week course is designed advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and independent investigators. Financial aid is available. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/zebrafish
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lsuresearch.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Breaking: Regeneration of fins and limbs relies on a shared cellular playbook! Covered in @sciencenews.bsky.social by the amazing Elizabeth Pennisi Fav quote: "The red blood cell thing blew my mind." @lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @ischneider.bsky.social
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Igor Schneider @ischneider.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
www.sciencenews.org/article/rege... @josanesousa.bsky.social @gabrielalima19.bsky.social @perezlouise.bsky.social @patyschneider22.bsky.social
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Regeneration of fins and limbs relies on a shared cellular playbook
The findings strengthen the case that regeneration is an old trait, offering insights into how complex tissues rebuild themselves.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#Fish #vision #deepsea "The current dogma is that vertebrates develop cone-dominated retinas first, adding rods later. Here we show that larval deep-sea fishes have “hybrid” photoreceptors, expressing cone-specific genes in rod-like cells." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision
Hybrid photoreceptors in larval deep-sea fish reveal evolution of an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision.
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 16/02/2026
Have you ever seen a Wild Type axolotl? Ambystoma mexicanum is the natural, dark-colored version of the salamander, usually in shades of brown, green or black with spots. The dark color camouflages them in the muddy, shallow lakes of Mexico, to hide from predators. 🧪 📸 Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 13/02/2026
A #fluorescencefriday — just in time for Valentine's Day! ❤️ The Godwin Lab at MDI Bio Lab perfects a new method of illuminating the #axolotl heart with a red #fluorescentprotein to simplify the identification of animals with gene deletions during embryonic development. 🧪 🧬 #microscopy
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 10/02/2026
Scientists at MDI Bio Lab developed a transgenic #zebrafish that mimics human muscle aging in just weeks — a leap forward for #sarcopenia research. Read how this model could speed discovery of therapies to keep muscles strong as we age. 🧪 🐟🎸 👩‍🔬 🧬 mdibl.org/mdi-bio-lab-...
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 06/02/2026
We welcomed new #GSBSE hopefuls to MDI Bio Lab for tours, conversations, and a BTS look at our science in action. The Graduate School of #BiomedicalScience & #Engineering connects PhD students with researchers across Maine’s leading institutions through a powerful, collaborative network. 🧬 🧪 #PhDSky
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 03/02/2026
📘 New paper in Maine Policy Review from the University of Maine, "Public Health Concerns at the Intersection of Drinking Water Contamination and Low Healthcare Access in Maine" with Alexis Garretson (she/her), Richard Hilliard, Jane Disney & team. 🦤 #conservation 🧪 🍎 👩‍🔬 🌎
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Gabriela Lima @gabrielalima19.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It’s National Day of the Mexican Axolotl! @ischneider.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @perezlouise.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social #axolotl
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 26/01/2026
New in @dev-journal.bsky.social, “Reciprocal inhibition of Wnt signaling pathways pattern the interconnection of epithelial tubules in the regenerating zebrafish kidney” with Caramai Kamei, Iain Drummond & team. 🧪 🐟🎸 #ScientificResearchPublishing doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Igor Schneider @ischneider.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hey Regen folks 👋 Excited to share that our single-nucleus RNA-seq dataset for Polypterus fin regeneration is now live at the Broad Institute portal! Dive in here: tinyurl.com/5bck22jx Big thanks to the team for making this happen—looking forward to seeing what you all discover!
UMAP of single nucleus RNAseq dataset of Polypterus fin regeneration
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Tatiana Sandoval Guzmán @tatianasg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A bit late but a paper from our lab has been published! Human fingertip regeneration is a fact, it happens in children and adults (not only in children as it has been long believed). We describe here the regenerative phases and analyse the proteome of wound exudates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gabriela Lima @gabrielalima19.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It’s out! 🐟 We compared three regeneration superstars—axolotl, zebrafish, and Polypterus—to ask how animals regrow limbs and fins. We find shared core processes, and other programs fine-tuned by evolution in surprising, lineage-specific ways. tinyurl.com/mpftkn7y
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Gabriela Lima @gabrielalima19.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Our regeneration superstar showing off its beautiful fins #polypterussenegalus
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Just here to share pretty colors: HCR- fish image, regenerating fin section, African lungfish. Lungfish have 8 myoglobin gene copies and you are seeing the two most highly expressed copies in green and red. Interesting how these gene duplicates are expressed in either the muscle or the skin.
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MDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 11/01/2026
MDI Bio Lab had a great week with Southern Maine Community College at a week-long #MaineINBRE course, Stem Cells and Regeneration in Planarians. Students studied stem cells and regeneration in planarian flatworms!
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It's that time of year after graduate school applications are submitted to start preparing for zoom and in-person interviews. I hope this blog post is helpful to those in the same boat. madisonadamsbio.com/2025/12/21/p...
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Post-application Graduate School Interviews Are a Two-Way Conversation: How to Prepare and What to Ask
After completing your undergraduate degree and securing a graduate school interview invitation, prepare to showcase your research interests and goals. Tailor your responses to common questions and …
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Axolotl regeneration stickers made by my friend Isabella Carollo for the Igor Schneider lab outreach! If you would like to check out more of Isabella’s art, her artstation account is linked here: belladonna9632.artstation.com
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Karen Echeverri @karenecheverri.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Great opportunity for undergrads to experience the magic of MBL and have an immersive research experience.
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Applications are open for the Emerging Leaders on Regenerative Biology and Development (ReBilD) course @mdibl.org Here’s an opportunity for researchers at any level to get hands-on lab experience with a variety of regeneration models and network with leading faculty. mdibl.org/course/rebil...
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ReBilD: Emerging Leaders in Regenerative Biology and Development 2026
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I just visited the Baton Rouge community college Sponge hunters led by Dr. Mary Miller for a tour! They are doing great work monitoring the health and species richness of freshwater sponges as an indicator of environmental health in Louisiana. Learn more: marymiller2.github.io/new_spongehu...
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Madison Adams @madison-adams.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Insights on what to take from PI interviews to write your statement of purpose for graduate school applications. Since I’m currently applying for multiple PhD programs, I have some advice on my blog. madisonadamsbio.com/2025/12/01/y...
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Your PI Interview Is a Goldmine! Here’s How to Use It to Write a Standout Statement of Purpose
An exceptional statement of purpose should address three key questions: why the university fits your goals, why now is the right time for graduate study, and why you deserve the position. To enhanc…
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