Lerit Lab
@lablerit.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Cell Bio at Emory. Fan of centrosomes, RNA, legal egalitarianism.
✅ watered plants
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
December 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
✅ watered plants
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
A work of art! Bonus: little guy thinks the cookie tastes good.
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A work of art! Bonus: little guy thinks the cookie tastes good.
Go big or go gingerbread home.
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Go big or go gingerbread home.
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Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
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I have an announcement to make. It's huuuge.....
December 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I have an announcement to make. It's huuuge.....
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I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
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WaPo: “Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later” per three immigration lawyers
H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they’re stuck.
H-1B holders who returned to India this month to renew their visas had consular appointments canceled, stranding them far from their homes and jobs, lawyers said.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
WaPo: “Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later” per three immigration lawyers
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Breaking news: The government has admitted fault in the Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River, opening the door for the families of the 67 victims to pursue a monetary settlement.
Government admits failures by Army and air traffic controllers in DCA crash
The Jan. 29 collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport killed 67 people.
wapo.st
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Breaking news: The government has admitted fault in the Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River, opening the door for the families of the 67 victims to pursue a monetary settlement.
The lab did a great job getting us in the running for our department’s door decorating contest! Very creative theme: Rudolph the red-eyed fruit fly!
🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁
🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The lab did a great job getting us in the running for our department’s door decorating contest! Very creative theme: Rudolph the red-eyed fruit fly!
🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁
🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁
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Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668
The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a Tenure Track Professors...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Join us in Porto for the forefront of RNA localization & local translation research! Registration is live!
Registrations are due March 10, and both travel grants and dependent care grants are available. We look forward to seeing you in Portugal next summer!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...
meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...
RNA localization and local translation
Gene expression is regulated through a series of complex, coordinated events, including the localization of specific RNA molecules to distinct subcellular locations. This subcellular organization of …
meetings.embo.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Join us in Porto for the forefront of RNA localization & local translation research! Registration is live!
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Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!
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If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
"When... diversity, equity, and inclusion are rebranded as discriminatory, how do academic institutions respond to the challenge...?"
Check out this perspective out now in MBoC. Co-written w/ Dr. Powers, the last woman in my dept to obtain tenure (now retired)
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
Check out this perspective out now in MBoC. Co-written w/ Dr. Powers, the last woman in my dept to obtain tenure (now retired)
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
Celebrating Women in Academia and Addressing Underrepresentation | Molecular Biology of the Cell
The barriers limiting the number of women appointed, retained, and promoted in academia are well documented. Addressing these barriers is key to increasing participation in STEM, which in turn is esse...
www.molbiolcell.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"When... diversity, equity, and inclusion are rebranded as discriminatory, how do academic institutions respond to the challenge...?"
Check out this perspective out now in MBoC. Co-written w/ Dr. Powers, the last woman in my dept to obtain tenure (now retired)
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
Check out this perspective out now in MBoC. Co-written w/ Dr. Powers, the last woman in my dept to obtain tenure (now retired)
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
It’s another reply all to the reply all. How long before someone replies all asking people not to reply all? 🥸
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It’s another reply all to the reply all. How long before someone replies all asking people not to reply all? 🥸
ASCB people who like F1… the finale is Sunday at 8 am 🏎️ 🤩
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ASCB people who like F1… the finale is Sunday at 8 am 🏎️ 🤩
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The NIH grant cuts in 2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The NIH grant cuts in 2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Ultrack on the cover of Nature Methods! Thanks @alexandredizeux.bsky.social for helping us with the beautiful cover art! 😍
Our November issue is now live! 🎉
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Ultrack on the cover of Nature Methods! Thanks @alexandredizeux.bsky.social for helping us with the beautiful cover art! 😍
I loathe a jack n Jill bathroom. Get your own damn bathroom.
AI is cooking architects in its gourmet kitchen connected to 3 bathrooms in a row
Oh shit waddup
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I loathe a jack n Jill bathroom. Get your own damn bathroom.
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We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩
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Breaking News: The death toll rose to 13 in a fire that engulfed several apartment towers in Hong Kong. Firefighters were struggling to contain it.
Follow live.
Follow live.
Hong Kong Fire Live Updates: At Least 13 Killed as Fire Engulfs Apartment Buildings
Firefighters were still trying to extinguish the blaze at an apartment complex in the city’s northern Tai Po district.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Breaking News: The death toll rose to 13 in a fire that engulfed several apartment towers in Hong Kong. Firefighters were struggling to contain it.
Follow live.
Follow live.
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A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's cases against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor who led them was unlawfully appointed. Here's what to know about her. n.pr/4pw4Kwo
The case against Comey failed because of Trump's prosecutor. Who is she?
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's cases against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor who led them was unlawfully appointed. Here's what to know about her.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's cases against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor who led them was unlawfully appointed. Here's what to know about her. n.pr/4pw4Kwo
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Deeply saddened by the passing of my colleague, Prof. Meng-Chao Yao, a remarkable scientist and mentor. He left an indelible mark on all of us fortunate enough to know him. His legacy in molecular and ciliate biology will endure. Rest well, my friend. 1/
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Meng-Chao Yao Obituary | 1949 - 2025 | Seattle Times
View Meng-Chao Yao's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 1 tribute posts from the community.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Deeply saddened by the passing of my colleague, Prof. Meng-Chao Yao, a remarkable scientist and mentor. He left an indelible mark on all of us fortunate enough to know him. His legacy in molecular and ciliate biology will endure. Rest well, my friend. 1/
obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/men...
obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/men...
If you’re going to put up your holiday decorations this early, then I’m going to make myself a pie the week before Thanksgiving.
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If you’re going to put up your holiday decorations this early, then I’m going to make myself a pie the week before Thanksgiving.
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Decided not to go to SfN this year. Mostly because I don’t study neuroscience.
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Decided not to go to SfN this year. Mostly because I don’t study neuroscience.