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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 · 21/03/2025
Yes! That would be awesome! Doesn’t look like there’s any overlap with known Hirschsprung’s disease genes, but if you know of any other lists to check out please let me know
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Kate McCluskey @pieceofkate.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Huge thanks to everyone who helped out with this project and especially my wonderful mentor @goodfrognosis.bsky.social !! Also a big thanks to the editor and reviewers for helpful feedback improving this manuscript !
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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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Kate McCluskey @pieceofkate.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Congrats!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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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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