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SeYeon Chung

@seyeonchung.bsky.social
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Cell and developmental biologist | Associate professor at LSU | Interested in epithelial morphogenesis, tube formation, cytoskeleton, apical ECM | she/her faculty.lsu.edu/seyeonchunglab

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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Abstract submission is open for #Dros27! Topics include cell biology, development, stem cells, physiology, neuroscience, evolution, human disease models, and more. I can’t wait to see your science at this year’s fly meeting!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The #Dros27 speaker lineup is complete! 🎉🪰 Excited to welcome @shimlab.bsky.social, @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social, and Paul Schmidt as our final plenary speakers, bringing exciting work on stem cells, tissue regeneration, injury response, evolution & adaptation. See you in Philadelphia in February!
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 28/08/2026
I know somebody out there wants a stained glass drosophila www.etsy.com/listing/1712... #sciart 🧪🪰
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Stained Glass Drosophila – Fruit Fly Genetics Art - Etsy
This Suncatchers item by LifeInGlassArt has 36 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Germany. Listed on Aug 25, 2026
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Cawa Tran, PhD @cawatran.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Dept. of Biology at the University of San Diego seeks two tenure-track assistant professors for Fall 2027, with experience in cell biology and/or organismal biology (both broadly defined) & strong interest in undergraduate-research mentoring. Please repost! jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Details - Assistant Professor, Biology
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pro tip: Most of these @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social Abs are documented in dozens of publications and are also substantially cheaper.
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excited to see another fantastic lineup of invited speakers for #Dros27! 🪰 Looking forward to hearing from @yulonglilab.bsky.social , @kmccall.bsky.social & José (Pepe) Pastor-Pareja, and to another great gathering of the Drosophila community in Philadelphia! 🧬
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I've been attending the fly meeting for almost 20 years, since grad school. Great science, connections, collaborations, and lifelong friendships keep bringing me back. It feels like my scientific home. Read the blog to hear why others keep coming back too! Looking forward to #Dros27 in Philadelphia!
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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scientific and medical progress will be stunted if we don’t find a way to sustainably fund these important resources!
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am very serious about citing resources (ZFIN, Flybase, Wormbase, yeast, mouse, rat, human, etc) and asking authors to cite them precisely for this reason: the more we talk about them and cite them in our papers, the better chance we have at justifying why we should increase the budget 🧪
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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
recent times have made it clear how vital knowledgebases like FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social are to the scientific community. and that they are not simply static websites, but living, dynamic, active entities run by dedicated humans. they require continuous support and can't be taken for granted. 🪰
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects
Letter to the Editor
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For the last year, aECM Club seminars have brought together researchers working on apical ECM in diverse species and tissues - yeast cell wall, C. elegans cuticle, Drosophila lens, mammalian inner ear and pancreatic lumen, and many others. Sign up for 2026-27: forms.gle/DDJUxGLkcSRb...
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aECM Club 2026-27
Dear aECM researchers, Thank you for your interest in aECM Club! Feel free to forward this brief survey to any colleagues and trainees who may be interested.
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Another outstanding round of plenary speakers for #Dros27! Looking forward to hearing William Ja, Jin Jiang, and Stephen Klusza. Hope to see everyone in Philadelphia, Feb. 17–21, 2027! 🪰
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Tara M Finegan @tarafinegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our International Developmental Mechanics Zoom Seminar Series returns this fall! Interested in sharing your research with an international community? Sign up to speak at an upcoming session: sites.google.com/view/devmech... #DevBio #Mechanobiology #Morphogenesis
Graphic to promote upcoming Developmental Mechanics Zoom Seminar Series
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Proud of Mokshit Konda and Huy Tran, two of my talented undergraduates, for presenting their summer research today at the LSU Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF)! 👏 Congratulations to both of them on a fantastic presentation and all their hard work this summer!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fantastic plenary speaker lineup for #Dros27. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Philadelphia!
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Excited to welcome @perrimonlab.bsky.social as the keynote speaker for #DROS27! His pioneering work has transformed Drosophila genetics and continues to inspire discoveries across developmental biology and beyond. Looking forward to an outstanding meeting!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So grateful for the new Kathy Matthews Endowment for the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. A wonderful tribute by Kathy's husband, Lawrence Washington, that will help preserve Kathy's legacy and support the fly community for years to come. biology.indiana.edu/news-events/...
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Major gift to establish endowment for IU Drosophila Stock Center
IU Biology news: The IU Stock Center maintains thousands of documented, living genetic strains of Drosophila melanogaster, a small fruit fly that has served as one of science’s most powerful tools for...
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Congratulations to our exceptional undergraduate, Ben Almond, on graduating summa cum laude and being recognized as a Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher! I’ve truly enjoyed mentoring Ben on his honors thesis, and I’m excited to see him begin the next chapter at Einstein Medicine.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🪰 We asked what you’re looking forward to at #Dros27 — connection stood out! As organizer @seyeonchung.bsky.social shared, the fly community is welcoming & supportive. One of the best parts of this meeting is reconnecting with friends & meeting new faces. So, who are you excited to connect with? ⬇️
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I’ve been attending fly meetings since grad school—nearly 20 times—and it’s one of my favorite conferences. Sharing our work, hearing exciting research, and connecting with a welcoming, supportive community makes it special. As a #Dros27 organizer, I’m excited to help make it another great meeting!
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Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We´re hiring a #PhD student - if you´re interested in combining genetics, cell biology and state-of-the-art imaging to study #epithelial tissue dynamics in #Drosophila, apply to the CiM-IMPRS PhD program by May 1st (see below) Please RT @uni-muenster.de @sfb1348.bsky.social
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The final version of our new paper, "Fog signaling is dispensable for Drosophila tracheal invagination", @devbiol.bsky.social is now available online: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mx902mzTo...
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Paper alert! 📢 Our paper, “Fog signaling is dispensable for Drosophila trachea invagination,” has been accepted in @devbiol.bsky.social! Huge credit to first author @vvishakha.bsky.social (now a postdoc at the NIH). An uncorrected proof is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Huge congratulations to the talented student Ben Almond on his successful honors thesis defense! Excited to see him head to Albert Einstein Medical School—bright future ahead! @lsu-honors.bsky.social
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Loved catching up with old friends and meeting new ones at #DROS26!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Fly Bayou group at #DROS26! It was great to see many of them in person after monthly virtual meetings.
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Excited to share our work at #DROS26! I’ll be giving a talk today at 11 AM in the Patterning, Morphogenesis, and Organogenesis session. Also come check out posters from our lab: Elizabeth (F 2-4 pm), Debbie (S 1:30-3:30 pm)
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The best way to start a conference in Chicago: deep-dish pizza. 🍕 #DROS26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Lab lunch to celebrate a successful semester and year - good food, great people! Looking forward to an exciting new year ahead!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The version of record of our paper is out! 🎉 We show that sulfation is essential for organizing the apical ECM (aECM) during tubulogenesis in Drosophila, and identify ZP domain proteins as key components of the non-chitinous aECM of the salivary gland. 🧬 elifesciences.org/articles/108...
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Sulfation affects apical extracellular matrix organization during development of the Drosophila embryonic salivary gland tube
Sulfation is required for organizing the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation.
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Got the nicest email from a former student who took my Dev Bio class a few years ago and went on to med school. Moments like this remind me why teaching is so meaningful.
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Our new paper, “Organization of the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation”, has been published in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Organization of the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation
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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We held the 2nd Fly Bayou Symposium in New Orleans last week—so great to reconnect in person and hear exciting research! What began in 2020 as a small local network has grown to 36 labs across 14 states. Grateful to see this community thrive and support each other! 🪰
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Excited about this new virtual seminar series on the apical ECM!
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Meera Sundaram @meera-sundaram.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Up on biorxiv! The tour de force protein tagging atlas for the #Celegans cuticle #aECM - from Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social and Andrew Chisholm labs. So many beautiful images of cuticle collagen substructures !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Multiscale patterning of a model apical extracellular matrix revealed by systematic endogenous protein tagging
Barrier epithelia are shielded from the external environment by their apical extracellular matrices (aECMs). The molecular complexity of aECMs has challenged understanding of their organization in viv...
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Matthew @matthewjeffre.bsky.social! Jeffrey is one of the most talented, dedicated, and kindest people I've ever known. He will start his postdoctoral research in regeneration at the Rompolas lab at UPenn, and i have no doubt he will thrive. Geaux Jeffrey!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
End of semester lab lunch. It feels like each semester goes by more quickly every year!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Huge congrats to talented undergraduate Cailyn Lee in the lab on her well-deserved award from the LSU BioSci department. She will start her masters in medical sciences at Tufts this fall and is applying for MD/PhD. So proud and excited for her!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Excellent presentations from our amazing undergraduate researchers, including my student Cailyn Lee, on their exciting research at #LSUDiscoverDay.
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Some good news for my lab in this difficult time for science. I'm so grateful that our NIH grant has been funded. Council meeting was canceled in Jan, but resumed privately(?) and decision was made recently.
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Fly Bayou groups at #Dros25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social ! Great to see many people in person. From a small, local joint lab meeting, we've grown to >30 labs in 11 states. Amazing fly community!
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Exciting science and networking at #Dros25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social in beautiful San Diego! Please check out the presentations from our lab on the cell cycle control and apical ECM during tubular organ formation.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Huge congrats to my student Jeffrey on defending his Ph.D! It's been a true joy to mentor him & see him grow as a scientist. So proud of his accomplishment & excited to see what's next for him! @lsuscience.bsky.social
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llimargaslab @llimargaslab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🌟 New Article Alert! 🖋️ Our latest work is live in bioRxiv 📰✨. Here, we dive into chitin deposition focusing on the peritrophic matrix and the specificity of chitin synthases. 🔗 Read it here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... #Blog #NewArticle #Chitin #Drosophila #IBMB #Drosospain #SEBD
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Different cellular and molecular mechanisms of chitin deposition contribute to the specificity of the two chitin synthases in D. melanogaster.
Chitin is a major component of arthropod extracellular matrices, including the exoskeleton and the midgut peritrophic matrix. It plays a key role in the development, growth and viability of insects. B...
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