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Rajrishi Kumar

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Jothivanan Elumalai @jothivanan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m happy to share my PhD thesis work, now published in Nature Communications! Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Press release: www.riken.jp/press/2026/2... #academicpublishing #naturecommunications #openaccess #phdresearch
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Single-cell mapping of chromosome breaks identifies multiple fragile site classes with distinct DNA replication timing landscapes - Nature Communications
Common Fragile Sites are genomic regions prone to breakage. However, other fragile sites remain underexplored. Here, the authors used single-cell genomics to map replication stress-induced breaks, ide...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)
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FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy
Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Advice for new PhD students: choose a mentor who is committed to your training, not just your project. The most important product of your PhD - even more important than the science - is YOU, a newly trained scientist.
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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ When are things too hot to handle? Our new paper on insect thermal tolerance across elevation in @pnas.org nas.org suggest perhaps not too far in the future. @gdfcf.bsky.social sky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵
photo of dorsal view of 15 species of staphylinid from ACGphoto of an array of tubs containing ACG staphylinids with light in the backgroundphoto of strangler fig standing in cloud in ACGphoto of co-authors Smith and Loureiro in ACG
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Li-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yes, do attend #Angioscience26 and hear me talk about how #actin and cellular hydraulics control endothelial #mechanobiology during #angiogenesis and #EHT! #zebrafish
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Mateusz Majda @matmajda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We got a cover!!! Beautiful artwork by @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social 🎨🌺🍀 @mechanobiologylab.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Please check out our new preprint! Together with @sarathomasy.bsky.social and led by DVM/PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu, we used 3D imaging + quantitative analysis to show how the corneal endothelium maintains a stable layer and refines hexagonal packing during development.
(Left panels) Modeling of nuclei organization at 11 and 16 days of corneal development in an avian embryo. (Right panels) IHC for N-cadherin (yellow) and ZO-1 in 3D reconstruction of corneal cells at days 11 and 16. Nuclei are magenta.
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Featured resource: MorphoNet 2.0 In this 'Featured Resource' post, @morphonet.bsky.social discusses MorphoNet 2.0, which addresses how to efficiently assess, correct and validate 3D and 4D segmentations at scale.
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Featured resource: MorphoNet 2.0 - the Node
In this ‘Featured resource’ post, we learn about the data and functionalities available at MorphoNet 2.0.
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Rajrishi Kumar @rajrishi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The end of central dogma? doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Protein-templated synthesis of dinucleotide repeat DNA by an antiphage reverse transcriptase
Defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) are widespread bacterial anti-phage systems that use unconventional mechanisms of polynucleotide synthesis. We show that DRT3, which comprises two dist...
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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Want to simulate large nonconfluent tissues? Try the finite Voronoi model! 1) @wwang721.bsky.social and I show past implementations need a correction to avoid issues, and 2) we provide a new fast code that we'd like people to try! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.15481 code: github.com/wwang721/pyafv
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Li-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Latest preprint from @phnglab.bsky.social @riken-bdr.bsky.social ! We show cellular hydraulics as a determinant of hemogenic endothelial cell (HEC) survival during endothelial-to-hematopoietic (EHT) transition. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... #mechanobiology #zebrafish #endothelialcells
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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
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Species-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regeneration
Why mammals cannot regenerate limbs like amphibians do presents a long-standing puzzle in biology. To uncover the underlying differences, we compared amputation responses of embryonic mouse (Mus musculus) and Xenopus laevis tadpole limbs. Lowering ...
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jimgalbraith27.bsky.social @jimgalbraith27.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
How do proteins find their way to the cell's leading edge? @jimgalbraith27.bsky.social & @cathygalbraith.bsky.social break down how bleach line, FLOP, single-particle tracking, FCS & iPALM reveal intracellular fluid flow and an actin-myosin compartment barrier. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Rajrishi Kumar @rajrishi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sounds interesting!!!
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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 02/04/2026
Really cool #zebrafish paper 🧪 from Bart Weijts & Catherine Robin (Hubrecht): starts with the basic question of are those superbright kdrl/fli1a positive cells (that we've all seen in the vascular Tg lines) something special? Yes! They're lumenal macrophages www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Blood vessel-resident macrophages safeguard blood and vessel integrity in zebrafish - Nature Immunology
Robin and colleagues describe a population of blood vessel-resident macrophages that function within the vasculature to maintain vascular and blood homeostasis in zebrafish and identify a conserved po...
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RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) @riken-bdr.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
📃Read about a study led by Yan Chen & @phnglab.bsky.social revealing how circumferential actomyosin drives contraction of endothelial cells to regulate blood vessel diameter, and how vascular malformations can arise when these cellular mechanics go awry. 👇 www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/rese...
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When vessel constriction fails: Cellular mechanics linking developmental remodeling to vascular malformations
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David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔 Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space New preprint by @janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Yu-Chiun Wang @yuchiunwang.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Can contractile forces that internalize cells and rearrange tissues cause harm? They can, if not mitigated. We show that built-in high stretchability of the extraembryonic cells protects gastrulating Drosophila embryo from being ripped apart. (1/9) doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Li-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Happy to share a write-up of our recent publication @natcomms.nature.com demonstrating how circumferential actomyosin-driven endothelial cell contractions constrict vessel diameter, providing insights into mechanisms of normal vessel remodelling and CCM. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/rese...
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When vessel constriction fails: Cellular mechanics linking developmental remodeling to vascular malformations
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Li-Kun Phng @phnglab.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Simply delighted to end the year with the acceptance of Yan’s paper www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It was a heroic effort on her part, and many thanks to all our collaborators for their help! @vizcie.bsky.social @juliaeckert.bsky.social
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