Katheryn Rothenberg
@krothphd.bsky.social
biomedical engineer & quantitative biologist | assistant professor at University of Iowa | cell adhesion & collective migration | views my own
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Welcome to the Rothenberg lab! Our lab includes our P.I. Dr. Katy Rothenberg, graduate students Bri, Elizabeth, and Jiarui, post-bacc Liv, and summer students Tate and Annadelle. Check out our website rothenberg.lab.uiowa.edu and follow along to meet the people in our lab.
Rothenberg Lab | The University of Iowa
rothenberg.lab.uiowa.edu
Hi all! Please follow my lab account @rothenberglab.bsky.social to keep up with our science and our people.
I’m so sad to have missed the Midwest Drosophila Conference due a nasty cold. But some of my students made the journey and had a great time! @jiarui219.bsky.social gave a talk to open up the conference, @briod613.bsky.social gave a very successful poster, and Aiza joined for her first conference!
October 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m so sad to have missed the Midwest Drosophila Conference due a nasty cold. But some of my students made the journey and had a great time! @jiarui219.bsky.social gave a talk to open up the conference, @briod613.bsky.social gave a very successful poster, and Aiza joined for her first conference!
This is really unfortunate and I hope it’s reconsidered. My second year PhD students were busy doing rotations at this time last year and didn’t know what lab they were going to join. They have been working so hard on their applications for this cycle only to find out it could be for nothing.
The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...
The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads
The solicitation for the 2025 submission dates for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is out, with the first deadline of November 10 for life-sciences disciplines. The big news is that el…
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September 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is really unfortunate and I hope it’s reconsidered. My second year PhD students were busy doing rotations at this time last year and didn’t know what lab they were going to join. They have been working so hard on their applications for this cycle only to find out it could be for nothing.
I’ve been really enjoying the #MWSDB25 meeting so far! Great people and science. I can’t wait to give my talk this afternoon and hopefully come away with new ideas and collaborators. I’m so grateful to the organizers for the invitation!
September 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I’ve been really enjoying the #MWSDB25 meeting so far! Great people and science. I can’t wait to give my talk this afternoon and hopefully come away with new ideas and collaborators. I’m so grateful to the organizers for the invitation!
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
It seems like it would be easy to make an unquestionably cute fly plush! But maybe I just have picky taste.
Adding more flies to our creepy fruit fly stuffed animal collection!
September 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It seems like it would be easy to make an unquestionably cute fly plush! But maybe I just have picky taste.
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
We have a fantastic seminar lineup this semester! Join us in Kollros Auditorium (BBE 101) almost every Friday at 3:30pm to learn from prominent researchers from across the country.
All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!
All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!
August 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We have a fantastic seminar lineup this semester! Join us in Kollros Auditorium (BBE 101) almost every Friday at 3:30pm to learn from prominent researchers from across the country.
All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!
All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪.
shorturl.at/xNRKn
shorturl.at/xNRKn
August 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪.
shorturl.at/xNRKn
shorturl.at/xNRKn
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Our lab mascot, Samwise, is always encouraging us to keep reaching higher!
July 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our lab mascot, Samwise, is always encouraging us to keep reaching higher!
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@briod613.bsky.social from our lab is at #bobiac2025 learning from the best all about Python-based image analysis!
First day of #bobiac2025. Six days of intensive Python based #BioImageAnalysis. Intro by @fedegasparoli.bsky.social
- "This will be a long week, but it will change your life".
iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/
- "This will be a long week, but it will change your life".
iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/
July 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@briod613.bsky.social from our lab is at #bobiac2025 learning from the best all about Python-based image analysis!
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
The Martin Lab in the Department of Biology is seeking a full-time Associate Research Scientist to conduct research in neurobiology, with a focus on electrical and chemical synapse formation.
For more information and to apply, please visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc...
For more information and to apply, please visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc...
July 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Martin Lab in the Department of Biology is seeking a full-time Associate Research Scientist to conduct research in neurobiology, with a focus on electrical and chemical synapse formation.
For more information and to apply, please visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc...
For more information and to apply, please visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc...
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
We are very proud to be featured throughout this newsletter among all of the excellent departmental achievements. Congrats to all of our lab members for doing great things!
The UI Department of Biology’s Points of Interest Newsletter (2025, Issue 1) is now available! Discover the latest awards, promotions, publications, and more from our staff, faculty, and students here: anyflip.com/vimso/lffm/
July 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We are very proud to be featured throughout this newsletter among all of the excellent departmental achievements. Congrats to all of our lab members for doing great things!
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
Lab is for getting research done and having a little bit of fun!
July 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Lab is for getting research done and having a little bit of fun!
Come be my colleague!! It’s a great department, university, and town! Feel free to ask me about my experience.
The UI Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in genetics, beginning in the academic year 2026. Review of applicants will begin on November 1, 2025. For more information about the position and to apply, please visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
July 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Come be my colleague!! It’s a great department, university, and town! Feel free to ask me about my experience.
A great group of people! No bias whatsoever. 😄
What happened to #BioStarterPacks?
People still join here, but we’ve stopped sharing them!
Let’s repost them from time to time to help newcomers find their way 😊
Here’s my starter pack collective: #cellmigration
Comment if you’d like to be added—I haven’t updated it in months 😉
#cellbio #devbio
People still join here, but we’ve stopped sharing them!
Let’s repost them from time to time to help newcomers find their way 😊
Here’s my starter pack collective: #cellmigration
Comment if you’d like to be added—I haven’t updated it in months 😉
#cellbio #devbio
June 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A great group of people! No bias whatsoever. 😄
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
Last week much of the lab went to the Holden Comprehensive Cancer center retreat. We had a great time sharing our science, learning about the efforts to fight cancer at all levels, and meeting fellow scientists.
June 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Last week much of the lab went to the Holden Comprehensive Cancer center retreat. We had a great time sharing our science, learning about the efforts to fight cancer at all levels, and meeting fellow scientists.
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
We took the day off from the lab in recognition of #Juneteenth. A few of us took the opportunity to show our visiting student Annadelle some of the nature Iowa has to offer! We visited Lake MacBride State Park and the Iowa Raptor Project.
June 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
We took the day off from the lab in recognition of #Juneteenth. A few of us took the opportunity to show our visiting student Annadelle some of the nature Iowa has to offer! We visited Lake MacBride State Park and the Iowa Raptor Project.
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
Delighted to share our latest work on the mechanisms of epithelial curvature and 3D morphogenesis ! Amazing work from newly graduated Dr @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social 🎉
@lmcb-ucl.bsky.social
@uclnews.bsky.social
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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@lmcb-ucl.bsky.social
@uclnews.bsky.social
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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Integrins coordinate basal surface contraction and oriented cell growth to enable thickening of a curved epithelium
During development, tissues undergo morphogenesis to achieve their final form. This process relies on coordinated cell shape changes, which have predo…
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June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Delighted to share our latest work on the mechanisms of epithelial curvature and 3D morphogenesis ! Amazing work from newly graduated Dr @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social 🎉
@lmcb-ucl.bsky.social
@uclnews.bsky.social
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@lmcb-ucl.bsky.social
@uclnews.bsky.social
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
go.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade.
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
June 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
Reposted by Katheryn Rothenberg
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Hi all! Please follow my lab account @rothenberglab.bsky.social to keep up with our science and our people.
Welcome to the Rothenberg lab! Our lab includes our P.I. Dr. Katy Rothenberg, graduate students Bri, Elizabeth, and Jiarui, post-bacc Liv, and summer students Tate and Annadelle. Check out our website rothenberg.lab.uiowa.edu and follow along to meet the people in our lab.
Rothenberg Lab | The University of Iowa
rothenberg.lab.uiowa.edu
June 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hi all! Please follow my lab account @rothenberglab.bsky.social to keep up with our science and our people.
Congrats, Aiza! Well-deserved!!
Congratulations to Aiza Khan for receiving the Biology Undergraduate Research Travel Award for 2024-2025! 👏
Aiza (Rothenberg Lab) will use the award to attend the Annual Drosophila Research Conference where she will present her work on how collagen IV affects cell migration during wound healing.
Aiza (Rothenberg Lab) will use the award to attend the Annual Drosophila Research Conference where she will present her work on how collagen IV affects cell migration during wound healing.
May 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Congrats, Aiza! Well-deserved!!
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Latest in #G3journal: @jocmcdonald.bsky.social and the team used an unbiased screening approach to identify new candidate regulators of Rap1, a small GTPase crucial for embryogenesis and cancer cell migration, in #Drosophila collective border cell migration. 🪰
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
May 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Latest in #G3journal: @jocmcdonald.bsky.social and the team used an unbiased screening approach to identify new candidate regulators of Rap1, a small GTPase crucial for embryogenesis and cancer cell migration, in #Drosophila collective border cell migration. 🪰
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx
On my way to #Dros25 by train after a quick visit with the in-laws in LA. Looking forward to reconnecting with my fellow fly researchers! Model organism research is fundamental to our understanding of how biology works so we can develop new approaches to address human health issues.
March 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
On my way to #Dros25 by train after a quick visit with the in-laws in LA. Looking forward to reconnecting with my fellow fly researchers! Model organism research is fundamental to our understanding of how biology works so we can develop new approaches to address human health issues.
This is a really cool story that I was excited to contribute to! It brings in some new players to think about: mTor and autophagy
Paper published!!! Tremendous work by Gordana Scepanovic, with key contributions by @negberry.bsky.social and @krothphd.bsky.social. We ask why is mTor signalling necessary for rapid wound repair. 🧪 #drosophila #devbio
Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...
Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...
January 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is a really cool story that I was excited to contribute to! It brings in some new players to think about: mTor and autophagy