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Kate McCluskey

@pieceofkate.bsky.social
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she/her | Postdoc at Yale SOM in Deniz lab | previously Neuro PhD at UCSF in Willsey lab 🐸

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kuba sędziński @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
💥 🚀 New preprint! 🎉🥳 How do hundreds of organelles organize themselves into near-perfect patterns inside a cell, without a blueprint? We dive deep into how basal bodies (BBs) self-organize in MCCs - and how actin actively tunes their dynamics into order 🍪 🧵👇 (1/17)
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Xenbase @xenbase.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
McCluskey et al. publish in Nature Communications how expression of autism genes is enriched in migratory embryonic gut progenitors causing GI dismotility. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
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Kate McCluskey @pieceofkate.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Excited to share my paper now published at @naturecomms.bsky.social ! We provide evidence that autism gene variants affect enteric neuron migration and cause gastrointestinal dysmotilty. Check it out ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Autism gene variants disrupt enteric neuron migration and cause gastrointestinal dysmotility - Nature Communications
Gastrointestinal distress is common among individuals with autism. Here, authors show that autism gene variants disrupt enteric neuron migration and cause gut dysmotility. They identify a common SSRI ...
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Join us for the fantastic annual @cshlnews.bsky.social #Xenopus cell & developmental Biology course. Deadline for application is Jan 31st. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
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Helen Willsey @goodfrognosis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Congratulations to newly PhD'ed @pieceofkate.bsky.social Dr. McCluskey!! She gave a fantastic thesis seminar to cap it off 👏🎓🐸✨
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Helen Willsey @goodfrognosis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Appreciate this generous write up on our recent preprint! www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/hai...
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Many autism-linked proteins influence hair-like cilia on human brain cells
The finding may help explain autism’s association with multiple co-occurring conditions that involve cilia defects.
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Kate McCluskey @pieceofkate.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🎉 Congrats to the wonderful and talented @elinakosty.bsky.social !! Check out her exciting new preprint where she shows that autism proteins (chromatin regulators and synaptic proteins ! ) converge to localize on cilia Plus she'll be at ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social to talk more about it!
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Kate McCluskey @pieceofkate.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Xenopus is an awesome model for ENS development !
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Kate McCluskey @pieceofkate.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Check out James’ cool new paper! Using cilia in frogs 🐸 to study KANSL1 and translating those findings to humans !
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