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Blake Hernandez
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PhD student @ UPenn | Early mammalian development, mitosis, & microscopy
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Another aspect to consider is how much colors are saturated, depending on the LUT, the screen type and settings it can make a huge difference on data readability. Green Fire Blue is popular but really saturated
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Not all colormaps are created equal. Notice the nonlinear brightness scaling in two very popular ImageJ LUTs! (Glow & GFB)
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Let's start the week with this movie kindly shared by @loxstoplox.bsky.social
The movie shows a mouse embryo labeled with Formin-2-GFP and SPY650-DNA during nuclear envelope breakdown. Note the nuclear dilution of Formin-2-GFP immediately before the SPY650-DNA labeled chromosomes start compaction.
June 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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New findings in Science demonstrate that successful mitosis may draw on more mechanisms than commonly assumed.

Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4dFbqnp
Rewriting the rules of cell division
Microtubules get help from actin filaments during mitosis
scim.ag
May 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Actin sun.
May 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I’m excited to announce that my paper describing non-canonical mitotic mechanisms in the early mouse embryo is out in @science.org ! (link at end of 🧵)
May 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Actin does it again #cytoskeletonwar
May 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Dynamic mitochondria labeled with PKmito #FluorescenceFriday
April 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
DM1A never disappoints 🤩 #FluorescenceFriday
April 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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What started as a brief chat with @buvansr.bsky.social and @vgelfand.bsky.social at the 2023 CellBio meeting @ascbiology.bsky.social has grown into our published collaborative work on single vimentin IF dynamics and organization in cells. Love when stuff like that happens.
Renganathan, Moor, @vgelfand.bsky.social et al. use single-particle tracking to show that #vimentin intermediate filaments display active movement throughout the cell, with individual filaments within a bundle moving independently rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Cytoskeleton #Microscopy
March 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Analyzing data in Prism
January 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Confocal image or painting?🤔
#FluorescenceFriday
December 27, 2024 at 8:01 PM