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Yelena Bern, Ph.D

@yelenab.bsky.social
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Developmental biologist trying to learn the secrets of embryos. Lab website: yelenabern.owlstown.net

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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Always happy to see Ciona represented and popularized #ciona #ascidian #tunicates
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We got an unexpected visitor to the Ciona tank! Little dude has his own little container now and is doing well #nudibranch #seaslug #PIlife
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Sometimes it pays to dig through the Altmetrics of your papers! My rendered image of migrating trunk ventral cells from our latest paper was featured by @bpodaily.bsky.social as the image of the day and I had no idea 😂 beautiful images are what we're all about! 🧪🔬
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The guests of honor have arrived! It feels like a functional lab now. Don't worry, they're getting plenty of light, it's my phone that's too dark 😁 #cionarobusta #newpi #lablife
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Our latest on how cells get ready for fate transition! @noahbruderer.bsky.social @margauxfailla.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors | The EMBO Journal
imageimageDuring development, multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors express both cardiac and pharyngeal muscle transcriptional programs. This study in the tunicate Ciona shows that cell cycle-regul...
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
When your tank arrives, your electroporator order goes through, and the business office says you're good to place your first #ciona order:
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a cartoon character is smiling with the words oh yeah it 's all coming together below him
ALT: a cartoon character is smiling with the words oh yeah it 's all coming together below him
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Fascinating talk today by @danielkronauer.bsky.social about a novel mechanism for odorant neuron fate acquisition in ants, thanks for visiting us here in @umassamherst.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Transcriptional interference gates monogenic odorant receptor expression in ants
Ant pheromone communication relies on an expanded odorant receptor repertoire, with many genes in large genomic tandem arrays. Glotzer et al. describe a novel mechanism, conserved across ants and othe...
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
All the parts are here, now comes the assembly! #lablife #newpi #onestepatatime
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Yelena Bern, Ph.D @yelenab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The Bernadskaya Lab is officially open for business today in beautiful UMass-Amherst! We'll be looking for postdocs, grad students, and a full-time tech. If you love dev bio, morphogenesis, and microscopy this just might be the place for you!
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