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Negar Balaghi

@negberry.bsky.social

cell migration, cytoskeleton, quantitative microscopy enthusiast | PhD student @RFG_Lab 👩🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍💻 | ΝΨ alum 👩🏻‍🎓 | 🪴🧶🪡♈️🇨🇦

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

With help from @negberry.bsky.social (now a postdoc at @princeton.edu), and generous funding from #NSERC, @innovation.ca, @trogersresearch.bsky.social, and @bme-uoft.bsky.social @engineering.utoronto.ca @utoronto.ca.

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Fantauzzo Lab @fantauzzolab.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Final student photos from the Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social! IF of E14.5 skin (left) and face (right) stained with Col4 (yellow/green), phalloidin (magenta/orange), Ecad (green/pink). Images taken by students @negberry.bsky.social and @drmaolsz.bsky.social.

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Hey @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social, we know from experience that you have outstanding field engineers ... who are also a bit overworked, so if you ever need to hire, we have a few people in the lab who think they are ready ... :D. @willowp.bsky.social @qeenyra.bsky.social @anamcarmo.bsky.social

Members of the RFG lab wearing a "MicroPoint maintenance crew" T-shirt. Over the years, they have had to learn how to troubleshoot this wonderful piece of equipment.

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Congrats to Dr. @negberry.bsky.social , who successfully defended her PhD in @bme-uoft.bsky.social @utoronto.ca last week!! Negar and I had our annual career one-on-one today, and she showed up with this totally AMAZING present. If you don’t yet, you should follow her: she is onto great things!!

Two cross-stitched fruit flies, male and female, with three-dimensional wings (one of them is Curly!!).

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Paper published!!! Tremendous work by Gordana Scepanovic, with key contributions by @negberry.bsky.social and @krothphd.bsky.social. We ask why is mTor signalling necessary for rapid wound repair. 🧪 #drosophila #devbio Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...

Cartoon depicting how mTor signalling limits autophagy to facilitate cell swelling and rapid wound healing in embryos.

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Ray Hawkins @handle.invalid · 05/12/2024

New horoscope dropped! What's your fruit fly-sona? 🪰 #Drosophila I'm Xasta and tubby with scarlet eyes, so cute! Images in 🧵

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Negar Balaghi @negberry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ray has certainly ReSCued me from hours of annotations 😌 check out ReSCU-Nets paper on biorxiv now 🤩

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We also investigate how cardiac progenitors move collectively to form the heart tube. #Drosophila 🧪

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

. @negberry.bsky.social, Lady of the (cytoskeletal) Waves, wrote a beautiful short review on dynamic actomyosin networks in development. Take a look! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

My colleague Negar Balaghi @negberry.bsky.social has joined bluesky! If you haven't seen it, her recent paper is soooo cool!!! 🧪 #devbio

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Myosin waves and a mechanical asymmetry guide the oscillatory migration of Drosophila cardiac progen...

Heart development begins with the formation of a tube as cardiac progenitors migrate from opposite sides of the embryo. Abnormal cardiac progenitor mo…

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