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Robert Van Sciver

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Assistant Professor at UAB PKD | 🐀 | CILIA | 🏳️‍🌈 www.rvansciver.com

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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My primary postdoc work from @tamaragenes.bsky.social's lab is out now!
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EuroCilia2027 @eurocilia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📣 Abstract submission and early registration are now OPEN for the 7th European Cilia Conference—an official EMBO workshop! 📅 8–12 March 2027 📍 Stresa, Italy Submit and register: meetings.embo.org/event/27-cilia www.eurocilia.eu #EMBOCilia #Cilia2027
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Jim Myers @kidneystories.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Congratulations to PKD researchers Ashima Gulati, M.D., Ph.D., Mohona Gupta, P.h.D., and Robert Van Sciver, Ph.D., on being among the 34 investigators selected for 2026 funding from… | PKD Foundation
Congratulations to PKD researchers Ashima Gulati, M.D., Ph.D., Mohona Gupta, P.h.D., and Robert Van Sciver, Ph.D., on being among the 34 investigators selected for 2026 funding from KidneyCure! Thank...
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UAB CDIB @uabcdib.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In this installment of Meet the Minds of CDIB, Anna Thalacker‑Mercer, Ph.D., discusses her research on identifying and understanding nutrients and their metabolism in skeletal muscle aging and chronic disease. Read more: buff.ly/H6SvGBJ
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ASNKidney @asnkidney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 KidneyCure Grant Recipients! 34 new investigators join 22 continuing grantees in a cohort of 56 researchers. More than $4 million in research funding supports their work advancing kidney research and improving patient care. 🔗https://www.kidneycure.org/pages/qa.aspx
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Only two more weeks to submit abstracts for the FASEB Cilia and Centrosomes. Abstract submission deadline is June 8. Submit an abstract and come share your exciting science with the community! events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...
Flyer for FASEB cilia conference
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David Katz @katzlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Submit your abstract by April 10 for what is sure to be an outstanding Southeast Society for Developmental Biology Meeting May 18-20 at Kennesaw State University www.sdbonline.org/sesdb2026 @socdevbio.bsky.social
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Society for Developmental Biology | 2026 SDB Southeast Regional MeetingSociety For Developmental Biology
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 17/01/2026
Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
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Dealing with ScienCV formatting
Some tips for composing and making your new NIH biosketch not look like garbage
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UAB CDIB @uabcdib.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In this installment of Meet the Minds of CDIB, Robby Van Sciver, Ph.D., discusses his research on polycystic kidney disease and cilia biology using mouse models. Learn more 🔗 buff.ly/vTSjhfv
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Meet the Minds of CDIB: Van Sciver’s journey to PKD discovery | Heersink School of Medicine News
Meet the Minds of CDIB spotlights the diverse faculty who power the department’s groundbreaking research. Through candid interviews, it gives readers a closer look at the career paths, passions, and…
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Our #JCSciliaSI is complete Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image shows tracheal epithelial cells from an air-liquid interface culture imaged using U-ExM from Oliver Mercey and Marine Brunet @centriolelab.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
JCS Cover: Human tracheal epithelial cells (hTECs) from an air–liquid interface culture imaged using ultrastructural expansion microscopy (U-ExM). Cells are labelled for tubulin (magenta), mCLING (cyan) and DNA (blue, DAPI). Image from Olivier Mercey and Marine Brunet in the Guichard-Hamel lab. See article by O. Mercey et al. (jcs264260).
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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 13/10/2025
Going to #ASHG25 #ASHG this week? So is our Deputy Editor, George Inglis! Please reach out to him at gsinglis.bsky.social or by email (george.inglis@us.nature.com) if you'd like to talk about your work. He'll also be part of an editor panel on Wednesday (Oct 15) from 11:45AM-1:15PM
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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A summary of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's comments during his visit to UAB today for a town hall style presentation: -Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated
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TanentzapfLab @tanentzapflab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
So proud to know you! And I'm equally grateful to you for your mentorship, training and support
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We're live! @inikon.bsky.social used modular proximity labeling to identify ciliary EV cargo in #celegans. This EV-TurboID approach can be applied in cell- & tissue-specific manners to define the composition of distinct EV subtypes, a major challenge of the EV field. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Polycystins recruit cargo to distinct ciliary extracellular vesicle subtypes in C. elegans - Nature Communications
Decoding the content of extracellular vesicles (EVs) is key to understanding cell communication. Nikonorova et al. used targeted proximity labeling to uncover polycystin EV cargo and cargo-loading mec...
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
How and why did Inna Nikonorova isolate and profile individual ciliary extracellular vesicles? Learn more here, at the behind-the-scenes blog by @inikon.bsky.social
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
LOOK at how few white counties there are on this map. Almost EVERY county in this country loses with the White House's proposed cuts to health research 🧪
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PKD Foundation @pkdfoundation.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
For over 40 years, we have driven research in efforts to find a cure for PKD. Now, a 57% cut to CDMRP funding threatens that progress. Urge Congress to protect this critical funding, PKD research depends on it! Take action now: p2a.co/5rwekfw
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PKD Research Resource Consortium @pkdresearch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The 2025 PKD RRC Symposium is almost here! See our 2 day agenda full of exciting and innovative talks! For more details, visit our website at pkd-rrc.org or www.scgcorp.com/PKDRRC2025/
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScienceATL was so empowering. Great speakers and lots of cars honking in support too #StandUpForScience2025
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Unlike the people taking a chainsaw to institutions, the people working at these institutions are real patriots, who have worked their entire careers to keep the US at the forefront of science, to protect against threats, natural and man-made, to ensure a high quality of life for all Americans.
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Comeback Town: UAB and Birmingham are in trouble; do something
UAB means life, death, and financial security to me, my family, and many of you.
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Eduardo Gigante @edgigante.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Sure, one of those jobs is mine, but we are doubling the value of that investment! Protect public support of science!
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Rachel @rachelf22.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
📢 Atlanta! Time to stand up for science! Why? Because science is for everyone. Join us on 3/7 from 12-4 at Liberty Plaza- Georgia State Capital @standupforscience.bsky.social
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David Mick @mick-lab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Interested in primary #cilia, #microtubules, #protein trafficking, molecular #signaling, #GPCRs, and #ciliopathies? We are looking for a #postdoc and a #PhDstudent to apply advanced #biochemistry and #proteomics methods to study cilia. Check out our website and send your application until March 10.
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The fact that Brian Lea on behalf of the DOJ argues in defense of cutting NIH funding that "Diversity of viewpoints ultimately lead to a better decision"...
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you for sharing this in real time.
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Eduardo Gigante @edgigante.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
CDC saves lives. Diseases are real. They're out there. It's not just COVID and bird flu.
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Posted at the crosswalk between CDC and Emory today
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Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH @stephenwpatrick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In Georgia- NIH FUNDING: $780 M JOBS SUPPORTED: 11,816 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $2.18 B www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Sylvain Gigan @sylvaingigan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
An nice and inspiring cartoon about what is a PhD (from Matt Might #OldieButGoldie).
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Congrats to all the newly elected members of the GSA Board of Directors, including TAGC24 veteran @barrlab.bsky.social genestogenomes.org/new-members-...
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New members of the GSA Board of Directors: 2025–2027
We are pleased to announce the election of six new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors: 2025 Vice President/2026 President Cassandra Extavour Timken Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology an...
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DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
@vansciver.bsky.social & @tamaragenes.bsky.social provide a tool to prioritise primary cilia-associated genes, their corresponding mouse 🐭 and zebrafish 🐟 alleles & phenotypes. journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Check out the tool here: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
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A prioritization tool for cilia-associated genes and their in vivo resources unveils new avenues for ciliopathy research
Summary: By compiling data on primary cilia-associated genes, their corresponding mouse and zebrafish alleles, and phenotypes, we provide an editable, Excel-based tool to help researchers identify and...
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PKD Research Resource Consortium @pkdresearch.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Check out What's Happening with the PKD RRC! SAVE THE DATE for the Annual PKD RRC Symposium March 12-13, 2025, more details to come! pkd-rrc.org #endPKD #PolycysticKidneyDisease
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PKD Research Resource Consortium @pkdresearch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Did you miss the PKD RRC Monthly Scientific Roundtable for December? No worries, the outstanding presentation by Moe R. Mahjoub is now available at www.pkd-rrc.org/pkd-rrc-mont... #endPKD #PolycysticKidneyDisease
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PKD RRC Monthly Scientific Roundtable Recording December 2024 – Mahjoub – PKD Research Resource Consortium
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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
FYI I've added a lot of new ppl to this #cilia list take a look to see who you might want to follow! go.bsky.app/ELfYqxw
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Susana Godinho @susanagodinho.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We got a Centrosome & Cilia starter pack 🙌 lots of space to add anyone interested!
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Side-hustle activated. Stoked to have this popular science piece out in Aeon Magazine: aeon.co/essays/after...
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After 3,000 years of science, the embryo is very different | Aeon Essays
For 3,000 years, humans have struggled to understand the embryo. Now there is a revolution underway
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PKD Research Resource Consortium @pkdresearch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our next PKD RRC Monthly Scientific Roundtable Talk is December 2nd, 2024. Our guest speaker will be Moe R. Mahjoub, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. For more details please visit pkd-rrc.org. #endPKD #PolycysticKidneyDisease
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
So happy to see so many scientists heading to Bluesky! Looks like it's finally reached the critical mass needed to leave X behind.
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Robert Van Sciver @vansciver.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
It was a packed car, but we left #SESDB2023 with more knowledge and friends than we came with! See you in ATL next summer for the national #SDB24 meeting!
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Pessimus Prime @pessimusprime.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Hair coming out of your ears is silly but hair inside your ears is cilia
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