Janet Iwasa
@jiwasa.bsky.social
Molecular animator, cell biologist, biochemist, science communicator. Head of the Animation Lab and Director of the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, and writer of the RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month
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Thanks, @kutv2news and @utahdhhs for the shout-out in your online story about learning your family's health history!
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Check it out - our activities are FREE, easy and printable: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basi...
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Check it out - our activities are FREE, easy and printable: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basi...
Check Your Health- Fun & Easy Ways to Talk to Your Family About Health History
Did you know that talking about your family health history could be one of the most important traditions you make with your family? Health problems that tend to
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November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Thanks, @kutv2news and @utahdhhs for the shout-out in your online story about learning your family's health history!
kutv.com/features/hea...
Check it out - our activities are FREE, easy and printable: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basi...
kutv.com/features/hea...
Check it out - our activities are FREE, easy and printable: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basi...
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Meet the speakers of the very first inaugural WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water, happening Tuesday, Nov 18! 💧
To Learn More about the symposium: walii.science/virtual-symp...
To Learn More about Dr. Amy Gladfelter: www.cellbio.duke.edu/amy-gladfelter
@gladfelterlab.bsky.social
To Learn More about the symposium: walii.science/virtual-symp...
To Learn More about Dr. Amy Gladfelter: www.cellbio.duke.edu/amy-gladfelter
@gladfelterlab.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Meet the speakers of the very first inaugural WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water, happening Tuesday, Nov 18! 💧
To Learn More about the symposium: walii.science/virtual-symp...
To Learn More about Dr. Amy Gladfelter: www.cellbio.duke.edu/amy-gladfelter
@gladfelterlab.bsky.social
To Learn More about the symposium: walii.science/virtual-symp...
To Learn More about Dr. Amy Gladfelter: www.cellbio.duke.edu/amy-gladfelter
@gladfelterlab.bsky.social
I'm so honored to receive the 2025 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social and I look forward to this year's annual ASCB meeting in Philly!
Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...
August 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I'm so honored to receive the 2025 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social and I look forward to this year's annual ASCB meeting in Philly!
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“In bone marrow alone ~500 million cells are born every min” says Bruce Stillman. Each must duplicate 2+ meters of DNA to avoid errors that can cause cancer & autism. See more from Stillman, @crick.ac.uk’s John Diffley & @uuhsresearch.bsky.social's @jiwasa.bsky.social
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Licensed to live | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“In bone marrow alone ~500 million cells are born every min” says Bruce Stillman. Each must duplicate 2+ meters of DNA to avoid errors that can cause cancer & autism. See more from Stillman, @crick.ac.uk’s John Diffley & @uuhsresearch.bsky.social's @jiwasa.bsky.social
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The Animation Lab will be giving an animation workshop and table demos, and the GSLC will have a table all day with demos! Come join us!
Summer Science Day is TOMORROW! Join us at the U of U to talk to scientists, tour labs, see demos, and listen to talks! Over 80 activities for all ages! See our action-packed schedule & directions here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Animation Lab will be giving an animation workshop and table demos, and the GSLC will have a table all day with demos! Come join us!
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Almost fifty U of U researchers are giving over 80 demos, lab tours, workshops and talks for the public this Saturday, July 12th! Science-curious? We have something for everyone! 10am-4pm @utah.edu. Schedule and directions here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
July 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Almost fifty U of U researchers are giving over 80 demos, lab tours, workshops and talks for the public this Saturday, July 12th! Science-curious? We have something for everyone! 10am-4pm @utah.edu. Schedule and directions here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
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Zoom In. Geek Out. Take a Backstage Pass to the Secret Life of Cells! Take a tour of the HSC Cell Imaging Core at 12, 1 or 2pm during Summer Science Day this Sat July 12th!
Find the full Summer Science Day schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
Find the full Summer Science Day schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
July 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Zoom In. Geek Out. Take a Backstage Pass to the Secret Life of Cells! Take a tour of the HSC Cell Imaging Core at 12, 1 or 2pm during Summer Science Day this Sat July 12th!
Find the full Summer Science Day schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
Find the full Summer Science Day schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
So grateful to be posting happy work-related news. First- I'm now tenured! Thank you @uofubiochem.bsky.social, @utah.edu, and Animation Lab collaborators! Also, 2 of GSLC's (@learngenetics.bsky.social) terminated science education grants were reinstated! AND Summer Science Day is next week!
a dog is dancing in a room with the words happy dance written on the bottom .
ALT: a dog is dancing in a room with the words happy dance written on the bottom .
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July 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So grateful to be posting happy work-related news. First- I'm now tenured! Thank you @uofubiochem.bsky.social, @utah.edu, and Animation Lab collaborators! Also, 2 of GSLC's (@learngenetics.bsky.social) terminated science education grants were reinstated! AND Summer Science Day is next week!
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One week until Summer Science Day! Everyone is welcome to visit @UofUHealth for lab tours, public-friendly talks, demos, and workshops! Saturday July 12th from 10am-4pm. Check out our action-packed schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
July 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
One week until Summer Science Day! Everyone is welcome to visit @UofUHealth for lab tours, public-friendly talks, demos, and workshops! Saturday July 12th from 10am-4pm. Check out our action-packed schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
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Artists belong in science! Come to Summer Science Day & learn about:
+ How to draw dinosaurs!
+ Animating science w stop-motion animation!
+ Making a science comic!
+ Using 3D animation to bring science to life!
Sat 7/12, 10am-4pm. Free all-ages open house at the U. gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
+ How to draw dinosaurs!
+ Animating science w stop-motion animation!
+ Making a science comic!
+ Using 3D animation to bring science to life!
Sat 7/12, 10am-4pm. Free all-ages open house at the U. gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
July 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Artists belong in science! Come to Summer Science Day & learn about:
+ How to draw dinosaurs!
+ Animating science w stop-motion animation!
+ Making a science comic!
+ Using 3D animation to bring science to life!
Sat 7/12, 10am-4pm. Free all-ages open house at the U. gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
+ How to draw dinosaurs!
+ Animating science w stop-motion animation!
+ Making a science comic!
+ Using 3D animation to bring science to life!
Sat 7/12, 10am-4pm. Free all-ages open house at the U. gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Working with collaborators at the Crick Institute and the University of Utah, CSHL's President and CEO Bruce Stillman explores how pre-replicative complexes (pre-RCs)—even earlier than ORCs—assemble to initiate DNA replication in all plants, animals, and fungi.
Researchers at the Crick, @cshlnews.bsky.social and the @utah.edu have laid out in detail how the ‘pre-replicative complex’ is assembled at the start of DNA replication.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mechanisms for licensing origins of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Here, the authors comprehensively discuss the different mechanisms for origin licensing in yeast and human cells. Importantly, they present intuitive videos illustrating such mechanisms with unprecede...
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July 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Working with collaborators at the Crick Institute and the University of Utah, CSHL's President and CEO Bruce Stillman explores how pre-replicative complexes (pre-RCs)—even earlier than ORCs—assemble to initiate DNA replication in all plants, animals, and fungi.
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You're trying to fill the summer days. What do we have that might be interesting for you and your kids? How about electron microscopes? Glowing fish?! Pig lungs??!! Come to Summer Science Day at the U on Saturday, July 12. Free and open to the public! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
July 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
You're trying to fill the summer days. What do we have that might be interesting for you and your kids? How about electron microscopes? Glowing fish?! Pig lungs??!! Come to Summer Science Day at the U on Saturday, July 12. Free and open to the public! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
U of U Summer Science Day is less than two weeks away! Come to the U on Saturday July 12th between 10am-4pm for lab tours, science demos, talks, and fun for all ages! Free and open to the public. Schedule will be coming out in the next day or two! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
July 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
U of U Summer Science Day is less than two weeks away! Come to the U on Saturday July 12th between 10am-4pm for lab tours, science demos, talks, and fun for all ages! Free and open to the public. Schedule will be coming out in the next day or two! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...
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Paper Published: A new chapter for Molecule of the Month
Read how @jiwasa.bsky.social has taken over as the series creator of stories about critically important biological macromolecules
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Read how @jiwasa.bsky.social has taken over as the series creator of stories about critically important biological macromolecules
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May 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Paper Published: A new chapter for Molecule of the Month
Read how @jiwasa.bsky.social has taken over as the series creator of stories about critically important biological macromolecules
pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy...
Read how @jiwasa.bsky.social has taken over as the series creator of stories about critically important biological macromolecules
pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy...
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...and big thanks to @jiwasa.bsky.social for making this amazing video to illustrate the strand-sliding mechanism!
May 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
...and big thanks to @jiwasa.bsky.social for making this amazing video to illustrate the strand-sliding mechanism!
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📣New FREE module drop!
In Genetic Tech Investigations, students explore what technologies like sequencing, mass spec, and others reveal about the process from genes to proteins.
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#ScienceTeachers #NGSS #Genetics #STEM
In Genetic Tech Investigations, students explore what technologies like sequencing, mass spec, and others reveal about the process from genes to proteins.
➡️ teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/gent...
#ScienceTeachers #NGSS #Genetics #STEM
May 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
📣New FREE module drop!
In Genetic Tech Investigations, students explore what technologies like sequencing, mass spec, and others reveal about the process from genes to proteins.
➡️ teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/gent...
#ScienceTeachers #NGSS #Genetics #STEM
In Genetic Tech Investigations, students explore what technologies like sequencing, mass spec, and others reveal about the process from genes to proteins.
➡️ teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/gent...
#ScienceTeachers #NGSS #Genetics #STEM
Meet Dr. Laura Dassama, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. This illustration by Rachel Torrez showcases how the Dassama Group uses tools of chemistry and physics to provide molecular insights into complex biological processes.
April 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Meet Dr. Laura Dassama, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. This illustration by Rachel Torrez showcases how the Dassama Group uses tools of chemistry and physics to provide molecular insights into complex biological processes.
Had a great time chatting with Flora Lichtman and Tim Lee @nhmu.bsky.social a couple of weekends ago here in SLC, and excited that our Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social piece will be airing today! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sci...
How ‘Science Interpreters’ Make Hidden Science Visible
A cell animator and a museum designer tell us how they translate scientific findings into visual experiences.
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April 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Had a great time chatting with Flora Lichtman and Tim Lee @nhmu.bsky.social a couple of weekends ago here in SLC, and excited that our Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social piece will be airing today! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sci...
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IT ALL STARTS NOW!!! #UGivingDay is underway! donate.utah.edu/giving-day-2...
Go here tinyurl.com/482kzszf RIGHT NOW. Be among the first donors to the GSLC in our first-ever Giving Day campaign!
Follow #MeettheGSLC to see to some of our most popular activities.
Go here tinyurl.com/482kzszf RIGHT NOW. Be among the first donors to the GSLC in our first-ever Giving Day campaign!
Follow #MeettheGSLC to see to some of our most popular activities.
April 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
IT ALL STARTS NOW!!! #UGivingDay is underway! donate.utah.edu/giving-day-2...
Go here tinyurl.com/482kzszf RIGHT NOW. Be among the first donors to the GSLC in our first-ever Giving Day campaign!
Follow #MeettheGSLC to see to some of our most popular activities.
Go here tinyurl.com/482kzszf RIGHT NOW. Be among the first donors to the GSLC in our first-ever Giving Day campaign!
Follow #MeettheGSLC to see to some of our most popular activities.
Please consider supporting the Genetic Science Learning Center (gslc.utah.edu) and Learn.Genetics (learn.genetics.utah.edu)! We're raising funds during #UGivingDay to help maintain this free (and fun!) resource that's used by science learners around the world.
#UGivingDay donations are already open, and more than 400 donors have already given to projects across the #UniversityofUtah. Join in today! Support the Genetic Science Learning Center: tinyurl.com/482kzszf Be among the very first to donate! The first $3000 in donations are matched.
April 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Please consider supporting the Genetic Science Learning Center (gslc.utah.edu) and Learn.Genetics (learn.genetics.utah.edu)! We're raising funds during #UGivingDay to help maintain this free (and fun!) resource that's used by science learners around the world.
We're excited to feature Dr. Shahzad Khan @zadkhan.bsky.social , an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill, for #SeeingDiversity! This illustration (by @ann-hl.bsky.social ) highlights his studies on the molecular mechanisms of primary cilia loss in neurodegenerative diseases.
March 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We're excited to feature Dr. Shahzad Khan @zadkhan.bsky.social , an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill, for #SeeingDiversity! This illustration (by @ann-hl.bsky.social ) highlights his studies on the molecular mechanisms of primary cilia loss in neurodegenerative diseases.
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6th-8th grade teachers: Join our pilot study to get the first look at a new integrated science/engineering module. Try out “Bioengineering” in your classroom and let us know how we can make it better! Sign up by 2/20 here: utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #STEM #TeachersofBluesky #k12
February 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
6th-8th grade teachers: Join our pilot study to get the first look at a new integrated science/engineering module. Try out “Bioengineering” in your classroom and let us know how we can make it better! Sign up by 2/20 here: utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #STEM #TeachersofBluesky #k12
For #SeeingDiversity, we are featuring Dr. Liz Ransey, an Assistant Professor at CMU Biological Sciences. Liz’s lab studies gap junctions and explores how their compositional diversity shapes cellular communication in health and disease (illustration by Tiffany Lai). tinyurl.com/eranseycmu
January 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
For #SeeingDiversity, we are featuring Dr. Liz Ransey, an Assistant Professor at CMU Biological Sciences. Liz’s lab studies gap junctions and explores how their compositional diversity shapes cellular communication in health and disease (illustration by Tiffany Lai). tinyurl.com/eranseycmu
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🏅 Après 300 numéros de la molécule du mois, David S. Goodsell passe le flambeau à @jiwasa.bsky.social, spécialiste de la création d'images et d'animations pour la biologie.
Découvrez son premier article, traduit sur Planet-Vie !
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Découvrez son premier article, traduit sur Planet-Vie !
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La molécule du mois : les polycétide synthases à chaîne d’assemblage
Les polycétide synthases sont de grands complexes formés de plusieurs enzymes qui synthétisent diverses petites molécules de manière séquentielle.
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January 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🏅 Après 300 numéros de la molécule du mois, David S. Goodsell passe le flambeau à @jiwasa.bsky.social, spécialiste de la création d'images et d'animations pour la biologie.
Découvrez son premier article, traduit sur Planet-Vie !
planet-vie.ens.fr/thematiques/...
Découvrez son premier article, traduit sur Planet-Vie !
planet-vie.ens.fr/thematiques/...