Mia Konjikusic, PhD
@konjikusicmia.bsky.social
Just being Mia. A postdoc in a world full of cilia, embryos, and microscopes. AP Giannini Postdoctoral Fellow. Stained glass artist and human to Nala the Great (Dane). Postdoc: Reiter Lab UCSF. Grad: Wallingford and Gray Labs UT Austin. 🖖🏾
If you’re headed to #sfn25 come by our session on cilia in the brain! Our goal: convince you all cilia in the brain are as cool as we think they are!
Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development.
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you’re headed to #sfn25 come by our session on cilia in the brain! Our goal: convince you all cilia in the brain are as cool as we think they are!
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Looking forward to presenting my poster today at #SfN2025 Early Career Poster Session!
Come chat about cilia and autism at poster #A34 in SDCC Room 25A!
Or catch @konjikusicmia.bsky.social and I’s session on cilia in the brain tomorrow! 👇👇
Come chat about cilia and autism at poster #A34 in SDCC Room 25A!
Or catch @konjikusicmia.bsky.social and I’s session on cilia in the brain tomorrow! 👇👇
Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development.
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Looking forward to presenting my poster today at #SfN2025 Early Career Poster Session!
Come chat about cilia and autism at poster #A34 in SDCC Room 25A!
Or catch @konjikusicmia.bsky.social and I’s session on cilia in the brain tomorrow! 👇👇
Come chat about cilia and autism at poster #A34 in SDCC Room 25A!
Or catch @konjikusicmia.bsky.social and I’s session on cilia in the brain tomorrow! 👇👇
Reposted by Mia Konjikusic, PhD
While everyone in my lab is a bit heartbroken. It’s been a good moment to come together to celebrate how fucking awesome Zara was. I know she meant so much to so many people at ucsf, in pharmacology, cell biology, and synthetic biology, the leading edge community, and really across science.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
While everyone in my lab is a bit heartbroken. It’s been a good moment to come together to celebrate how fucking awesome Zara was. I know she meant so much to so many people at ucsf, in pharmacology, cell biology, and synthetic biology, the leading edge community, and really across science.
Zara’s impact on my life will stay with me forever. She was insanely insightful, wonderfully kind, and sassier than myself. I will miss our weekly coffee walks and making her laugh until she coughed. My heart has broken in a new way this week, but I will carry her forward in my heart and career.
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Zara’s impact on my life will stay with me forever. She was insanely insightful, wonderfully kind, and sassier than myself. I will miss our weekly coffee walks and making her laugh until she coughed. My heart has broken in a new way this week, but I will carry her forward in my heart and career.
Come join us at our #sfn2025 Nanosymposium for Cilia in the Brain! What can’t these little organelles do! Excited to co-chair with @elinakosty.bsky.social 🧠🔬
Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development.
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Come join us at our #sfn2025 Nanosymposium for Cilia in the Brain! What can’t these little organelles do! Excited to co-chair with @elinakosty.bsky.social 🧠🔬
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📣 PSA for those going to this Foggy #Folsom: You still need sunscreen when I'm around - otherwise you're gonna end up with a very weird sunburn for a very long time
September 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📣 PSA for those going to this Foggy #Folsom: You still need sunscreen when I'm around - otherwise you're gonna end up with a very weird sunburn for a very long time
I regularly think I was just born in the wrong era. So to keep that going, happy Earth Wind Fire day! May you have something to dance away this 21st of September day to!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
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September 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I regularly think I was just born in the wrong era. So to keep that going, happy Earth Wind Fire day! May you have something to dance away this 21st of September day to!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
A good day in lab, followed by a nice rainbow as I stepped off the train home. ❤️
September 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A good day in lab, followed by a nice rainbow as I stepped off the train home. ❤️
Thanks @cilialab.bsky.social for organizing as usual!
We have a fabulous finish with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social (@reiterlab.bsky.social, UCSF) on #GPCRs, #signaling, and #hypogonadism in #BBS models across the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axes and its many ciliated cell types! #Ciliopathies? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #UKCilia2025 /6
August 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thanks @cilialab.bsky.social for organizing as usual!
‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development
Primary cilia orchestrate several signaling pathways, and their disruption results in pleiotropic disorders called ciliopathies. Bardet Beidl syndrome (BBS), one such ciliopathy, provides insights int...
www.biorxiv.org
July 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Mia Konjikusic, PhD
This is your occasional 🧪 reminder that you test a hypothesis. You don't prove a hypothesis. 🤓
July 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is your occasional 🧪 reminder that you test a hypothesis. You don't prove a hypothesis. 🤓
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Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The human ciliopathy protein RSG1 links the CPLANE complex to transition zone architecture - Nature Communications
The CPLANE complex is essential for ciliogenesis, and mutations to all but one subunit have been associated with ciliopathies. Here they identify three familial mutations in the final subunit, RSG1, t...
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Mia Konjikusic, PhD
Reposted by Mia Konjikusic, PhD
Just your typical temperate range for a city that's only 7x7 miles
May 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just your typical temperate range for a city that's only 7x7 miles
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I once asked a scientist whom I respect enormously her advice for a successful career and life in science.
Her advice: Leave every place better than you found it.
It surprises me that many people would try hard to do the compete opposite …
and we would elect them to run the country.
Her advice: Leave every place better than you found it.
It surprises me that many people would try hard to do the compete opposite …
and we would elect them to run the country.
May 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I once asked a scientist whom I respect enormously her advice for a successful career and life in science.
Her advice: Leave every place better than you found it.
It surprises me that many people would try hard to do the compete opposite …
and we would elect them to run the country.
Her advice: Leave every place better than you found it.
It surprises me that many people would try hard to do the compete opposite …
and we would elect them to run the country.
Reposted by Mia Konjikusic, PhD
I always like to reference this comparison chart that @rrbehringer.bsky.social made awhile back. Hope it helps put things in perspective! -KT
April 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I always like to reference this comparison chart that @rrbehringer.bsky.social made awhile back. Hope it helps put things in perspective! -KT
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Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
@lblanchoin.bsky.social
@manuelthery.bsky.social
@gelinmatthieu.bsky.social
@lblanchoin.bsky.social
@manuelthery.bsky.social
@gelinmatthieu.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
@lblanchoin.bsky.social
@manuelthery.bsky.social
@gelinmatthieu.bsky.social
@lblanchoin.bsky.social
@manuelthery.bsky.social
@gelinmatthieu.bsky.social
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Finally out! Brittney Voigt et al show the shared role of Inppl1a expansion of notochord vacuolated cells and also for hypertrophy of chondorcytes and bone lengthening. @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
Cell expansion for notochord mechanics and endochondral bone lengthening in zebrafish depends on the 5′-inositol phosphatase Inppl1a
Voigt et al. show that the 5′-inositol phosphatase gene inppl1a drives notochord expansion
independent of vacuole fusion. Defects in notochord expansion are exacerbated by locomotion,
causing more sev...
www.cell.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Finally out! Brittney Voigt et al show the shared role of Inppl1a expansion of notochord vacuolated cells and also for hypertrophy of chondorcytes and bone lengthening. @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
An honor to have gotten to play a part in this one from the talented Thi Nguyen in the Reiter lab, @reitergroup.bsky.social, hope people enjoy it!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Smoothened inhibition of PKA at cilia transduces Hedgehog signals
Hedgehog (HH) signaling in vertebrates is dependent on the primary cilium, an organelle that scaffolds signal transduction. HH signals induce Smoothened (SMO) enrichment in the cilium and indirectly t...
www.biorxiv.org
April 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
An honor to have gotten to play a part in this one from the talented Thi Nguyen in the Reiter lab, @reitergroup.bsky.social, hope people enjoy it!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to be headed to Austin to watch an old friend defend her thesis, catch up with old friends, and chat science with old mentors! See yall soon! @neftaliv.bsky.social @jbwallingford.bsky.social @slewzeus.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Excited to be headed to Austin to watch an old friend defend her thesis, catch up with old friends, and chat science with old mentors! See yall soon! @neftaliv.bsky.social @jbwallingford.bsky.social @slewzeus.bsky.social
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Alex Long, the last postdoc from my lab at Stanford, is starting her own lab, continuing her beautiful work on evolutionary cell biology using chytrid fungi as a model. Check it out! alonglab.org
Long Research Group
Long Research Group - Univ. Kentucky
alonglab.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Alex Long, the last postdoc from my lab at Stanford, is starting her own lab, continuing her beautiful work on evolutionary cell biology using chytrid fungi as a model. Check it out! alonglab.org
On the Caltrain into lab this morning. Overhearing some teenagers talk about cuts to science and how it scares them gives me a little hope for the future. ❤️
March 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
On the Caltrain into lab this morning. Overhearing some teenagers talk about cuts to science and how it scares them gives me a little hope for the future. ❤️
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Five weeks into what has been a constant onslaught on science, working on a paper seems like such a privilege, which many of our recently fired colleagues no longer have.
And a rebellious act.
But mostly it's self-care.
(Give yourself permission to turn off the news for the weekend.)
And a rebellious act.
But mostly it's self-care.
(Give yourself permission to turn off the news for the weekend.)
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Five weeks into what has been a constant onslaught on science, working on a paper seems like such a privilege, which many of our recently fired colleagues no longer have.
And a rebellious act.
But mostly it's self-care.
(Give yourself permission to turn off the news for the weekend.)
And a rebellious act.
But mostly it's self-care.
(Give yourself permission to turn off the news for the weekend.)
Reposted by Mia Konjikusic, PhD
Reposted by Mia Konjikusic, PhD
Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.