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Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.

@tmedwigkinney.bsky.social
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New PI at University of Wisconsin–La Crosse • Passionate about cell & developmental biology, C. elegans, science communication, & outreach • medwigkinneylab.com

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Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D. @tmedwigkinney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congrats, Ian!
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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Worm friends, we need your help! For the next C. elegans Mentor Match cycle, we’re gathering testimonials from past mentors and mentees. One of our biggest challenges is recruiting new mentees, and hearing directly from past participants could really help. Please record a short video, and share!
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
Congratulations to the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 
Airi Yoshimoto, Yijun Yang, Alexandra Wells, Simran Virdi, Archana Venkataraman, Emery Usher, Marianna Tannus Ruckert, Wenzhi Song, Kathryn Shelley, Selin Schamiloglu, Julia Peloggia de Castro, Ines Patop, Ruhi Patel, Suranjana Pal, Bernie Simone Owusu Yaw, LaShae Nicholson, Sivapratha Nagappan Chettiar, Dallas Mould, Jessica Moore, Deka Mohamed, Sierra Marable, Annie Ly, Xi (Lucy) Lu, Deirdre Logsdon, Anna Lipkin, Ellen Lesser, Mia Konjikusic, Veronika Kondev, Cayla Jewett, Lucia Ichino, Erin Huiting, Maggie Horst, Isabella Gaeta, Martha Echevarria-Andino, Natasha Claxton, Sarah Cherkaoui, Nikita Bhalerao, Merci Best, Meenakshi Asokan, Alicer Andrew
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
GetHIRED! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - Application due Thursday, March 5
Ideal for Postdoctoral Researchers
Academic Job Market Insight
-Take stock of what you want
-Know your options
-Prepare outstanding job packet materials
-Organize your research & chalk talks
-Perfect your interview & avoid the pitfalls
Course Features
-Six asynchronous online modules 
-Virtual meetings with an experienced facilitator
-Peer feedback, support, & expert advice
Course Dates: April 14 – June 23, 2026
Course Fee: SDB Members: $499; Non-Members: $599
Deadline: March 5, 2025
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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I've always loved the openness and collegiality of our C. elegans community 🪱, but this perspective really helps emphasize just *how important* those traits are for scientific progress. A true tribute to how curiosity-driven science leads to innovation! 🙌
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wormatlas.bsky.social @wormatlas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A new paper, co-authored by WormAtlas directors Dave Hall and Nate Schroeder, describes how C. elegans community research resources, including WormAtlas, provide the infrastructure that supports nematode research around the world. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Association for Women in Science @awisnational.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
To help support early career scientists and their research, AWIS is offering microgrants (up to $5,000) to researchers who have lost federal funding. Applications are due by December 15. Learn more. awis.org/awis-bridge-grant-program #WomenInSTEM
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Friday, September 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Sarah Colijn (Washington University in St. Louis)
Novel roles for centriolar protein WDR90 in endothelial cells and cardiac tissue
Shyama Nandakumar (University of Pittsburgh)
Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response
http://bit.ly/4649fWS
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe. In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 17/08/2025
🎓 Planning to apply to STEM graduate programs? Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET. Gain key insights on: ✅ Grad school application timeline ✅ How to choose the right program 🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/gsmi-2025-...
Flyer for the Graduate Student Mentorship Initiative webinar series on "Applying to Graduate Programs in STEM". This webinar will go over demystifying the application process on Thursday, August 28th, 2025 at 5.30pm ET. 

The two speakers pictures, titles, and affiliations are listed. There is a list of sponsors and text that says register for zoom link.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Congratulations to the @socdevbio.bsky.social 2025 West Coast Regional Meeting postdoc poster winners (left to right): 1st place- Celja Uebel (Villeneuve lab), 2nd place- Kira Heikes (Munjal lab), honorable mention- Hailey Edward's (Yelon lab)!
Congratulations to the @socdevbio.bsky.social 2025 West Coast Regional Meeting postdoc poster winners (left to right): 1st place- Celja Uebel (Villeneuve lab), 2nd place- Kira Heikes (Munjal lab), honorable mention- Hailey Edward's (Yelon lab)!
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Ethan (Chee Kiang) Ewe @ethanewe.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥 we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.
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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Go worms! #worm25
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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱 Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."
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callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌
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José Vargas-Muñiz @mycorican.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Want to support us? Tell the NIH to (at least) reinstate ESI status to new PIs whose grants were withdrawn. Let your representative know that meritious research that would move us forward is being defunded. Tell your peers about this! Raise awareness. Please help us! 12/12
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Check out SDB President Carole LaBonne's op-ed on how basic science is the engine that drives transformative discoveries. 'Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research' bit.ly/4lhm2Mv
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Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research
“If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes Carole LaBonne of Northwestern.
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Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I am excited to share that the project that taught me how to do science is now published at Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org.
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 05/03/2025
Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social, Taylor Medwig-Kinney @tmedwigkinney.bsky.social, & colleagues from the Goldstein lab found that a population of Arp2/3 recruited to where cells touch each other makes an unexpected contribution to apical constriction rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In honour of #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience this week, we are revisiting timely #DMMEditorials from fantastic #WomeninScience who are part of our editorial team. First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Look up the impact of NIH funding in your state: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A depressing question with a lot of great answers. We need #devbio to understand birth defects, cancer, stem cell biology (and the resultant therapeutics) and so much more. And, frankly, because it's just amazing how a single cell can make a complex organism.
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callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
please join us and be a mentor for one of the greatest model organism communities! sign up now and maybe you can meet your mentee at #Worm25 🥰
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are extending the #ChooseDevelopment application deadline to Wednesday, February 5, 11:59 PM ET. Undergrads from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, first-generation college students, veterans & students with a disability are eligible. bit.ly/3FwHqYp #devbio
Society for Developmental Biology Logo - Choose Development
Paid Summer Undergraduate Research Training
Mission
To broaden the scientific workforce by preparing undergraduate students to enter doctoral programs in developmental biology with enriched mentored research experiences for two summers.
Overview
Two 10-week summer research internships in the lab of an SDB member
Receive $5500 stipend each summer
Receive guidance and support from a team of mentors
Network with the developmental biology community
Present summer research at the next SDB annual meeting
Eligibility
Undergraduate student from underrepresented group(s), first generation college student, veteran, or undergraduate student with a disability
U.S. citizen or permanent resident
Interest to pursue a doctoral degree
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Application Deadline Extended: February 5, 2025, 11:59 PM ET
www.sdbonline.org/choose_development
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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We've been working on new initiatives at the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program. We are about to start experimenting with matching grad students with a post-doc mentor. If you are a postdoc and are interested, please sign up as a mentor: tinyurl.com/37msvdm7 And please spread the word!
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Mentor sign-up for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
Sign up is close for now, but please add your name here for the next matching cycle. Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to postdocs and faculty...
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