Kacy Gordon
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Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)
The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center Curated Special Collections: a guide to protein degradation systems
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The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center Curated Special Collections: a guide to protein degradation systems
Abstract. The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center is launching a new website feature—“Curated Special Collections”—designed to help researchers navigate the eve
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January 29, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)
I am hiring a postdoc (or two!) to work on C. elegans reproductive system development. Our MIRA funds work on cell size, migration, and niche signaling. Our CAREER funds work on regulation of gonad growth, degrowth, and regeneration during and after starvation
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December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I am hiring a postdoc (or two!) to work on C. elegans reproductive system development. Our MIRA funds work on cell size, migration, and niche signaling. Our CAREER funds work on regulation of gonad growth, degrowth, and regeneration during and after starvation
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/310...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/310...
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What cell states are possible when they are missing key factors - Nanog, Pou5f3 (Oct4), & Sox19b (Sox2) - that are required for the first embryonic reprogramming steps? Follow along with our latest publication, finally out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #devbio #reprogramming #zebrafish #embryo (1/6)
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
What cell states are possible when they are missing key factors - Nanog, Pou5f3 (Oct4), & Sox19b (Sox2) - that are required for the first embryonic reprogramming steps? Follow along with our latest publication, finally out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #devbio #reprogramming #zebrafish #embryo (1/6)
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The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.
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The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
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October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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This was a HUGE effort, taking years of diligent work. Hongfei was a true leader, and I'm really proud of this cool piece. We'd love any feedback y'all might have. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials
Understanding evolutionary repeatability is a central question in biology, as it informs how predictably organisms respond to similar selection pressures. However, the extent to which phenotypic repea...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This was a HUGE effort, taking years of diligent work. Hongfei was a true leader, and I'm really proud of this cool piece. We'd love any feedback y'all might have. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: christian.braendle@univ-cotedazur.fr
September 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: christian.braendle@univ-cotedazur.fr
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Last year we sold 5x more advent calendars than we have this August. Advent calendars are the biggest thing that keep the lights on at Skype a Scientist so this makes me a bit nervous!
These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels!
Get one here: EelFacts.net
These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels!
Get one here: EelFacts.net
August 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Last year we sold 5x more advent calendars than we have this August. Advent calendars are the biggest thing that keep the lights on at Skype a Scientist so this makes me a bit nervous!
These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels!
Get one here: EelFacts.net
These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels!
Get one here: EelFacts.net
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I profiled @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for @thephilacitizen.bsky.social! thephiladelphiacitizen.org/2025-rad-awa...
2025 Rad Awards: Dr. Sarah McAnulty
Philadelphia biologist Sarah McAnulty brings science to the masses in classrooms, through burlesque, at meet-ups and on telephone poles
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July 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
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Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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July 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
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Whew, ok, with a few hours to spare, the 2025 classroom map is ready! The 7th annual United States of Science competition starts tomorrow.
If you wanna get your region off to a head start, just between us night owls, here's that link 😘
givebutter.com/USS2025
If you wanna get your region off to a head start, just between us night owls, here's that link 😘
givebutter.com/USS2025
June 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Whew, ok, with a few hours to spare, the 2025 classroom map is ready! The 7th annual United States of Science competition starts tomorrow.
If you wanna get your region off to a head start, just between us night owls, here's that link 😘
givebutter.com/USS2025
If you wanna get your region off to a head start, just between us night owls, here's that link 😘
givebutter.com/USS2025
I'm happy to share this preprint by first author Fred Koitz, a Genetics and Molecular Biology grad student in my lab! Fred came into the lab with an interest in dauer, and I am interested in gonad development, so we thought we'd start studying dauer gonad development.
Pre-dauer starvation decouples somatic from germline development with lifelong reproductive consequences in C. elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.655783v1
May 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm happy to share this preprint by first author Fred Koitz, a Genetics and Molecular Biology grad student in my lab! Fred came into the lab with an interest in dauer, and I am interested in gonad development, so we thought we'd start studying dauer gonad development.
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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
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Engineering the C. elegans genome with a nested, self-excising selection cassette https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.651742v1
May 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Engineering the C. elegans genome with a nested, self-excising selection cassette https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.651742v1
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We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community!
Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions!
apply.interfolio.com/164677
Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions!
apply.interfolio.com/164677
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May 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community!
Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions!
apply.interfolio.com/164677
Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions!
apply.interfolio.com/164677
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As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy
April 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social!
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Demographic history, genetic load, and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti
Abstract. Aedes aegypti is the main vector species of yellow fever, dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The species is originally from Africa but has experienced
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April 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social!
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
New preprint! First author Xin Li (QBio UNC) used a scRNA-seq study to find that mig-21 is highly and specifically expressed in the C. elegans germline stem cell niche, but it had no known function there. We found that it integrates Wnt and Netrin signaling to regulate A/P and D/V cell migration.
MIG-21 is a novel regulator of Wnt and Netrin signaling in gonad migration identified from published scRNA-seq data and functionally validated in C. elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.24.639896v1
February 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New preprint! First author Xin Li (QBio UNC) used a scRNA-seq study to find that mig-21 is highly and specifically expressed in the C. elegans germline stem cell niche, but it had no known function there. We found that it integrates Wnt and Netrin signaling to regulate A/P and D/V cell migration.
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Every one of these cards has a fact about the animal on the front, *and* an action people can take to protect that animal.
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We’re learning about cool bugs.
We’re caring for our wildlife.
What are you waiting for?? Get this year’s valentines here
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January 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Every one of these cards has a fact about the animal on the front, *and* an action people can take to protect that animal.
We’re looking at cute art.
We’re learning about cool bugs.
We’re caring for our wildlife.
What are you waiting for?? Get this year’s valentines here
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We’re looking at cute art.
We’re learning about cool bugs.
We’re caring for our wildlife.
What are you waiting for?? Get this year’s valentines here
squidfacts.net
New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Former postdoc Dr. Kayt Scott was interested in vesicle trafficking in the gonad and screened Rab GTPases; co-first author GMB grad student @noorsingh_ finished the RNAi screen of the whole Rab family. We are excited to share the results!
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December 10, 2024 at 3:58 PM
New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Former postdoc Dr. Kayt Scott was interested in vesicle trafficking in the gonad and screened Rab GTPases; co-first author GMB grad student @noorsingh_ finished the RNAi screen of the whole Rab family. We are excited to share the results!
Exciting preprint led by GMB student Noor Singh t.co/WuKEWhksQI who found Rac1 mutants have gonad defects due to leader cell breaking apart during migration. Twist: the fragment without a nucleus can still lead outgrowth of a gonad branch! Please share and help me connect with ppl over here? Thx!
Getting there in one piece: The Rac pathway prevents cell fragmentation in a nonprotrusively migrati...
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December 7, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Exciting preprint led by GMB student Noor Singh t.co/WuKEWhksQI who found Rac1 mutants have gonad defects due to leader cell breaking apart during migration. Twist: the fragment without a nucleus can still lead outgrowth of a gonad branch! Please share and help me connect with ppl over here? Thx!