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Michay Diez
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Graduate student at the Stowers Institute. Long-read enthusiast, zebrafish biologist, passionate about everything ribosome, and occasional artist.
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GRCz12tu is available on Genbank. This will be one of two genomes that will be considered "reference" genomes, there will also be a GRCz12ab assembly coming. It has entered the NCBI annotation pipeline and will also go into the Ensembl annotation pipeline.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...
Danio rerio genome assembly GRCz12tu
- Danio rerio
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The Institute mourns the loss of R. Scott Hawley, PhD. A brilliant scientist, cherished colleague, and true mentor. Scott's contributions to our understanding of genetics and passion for training the next generation of scientists will forever be remembered. bit.ly/3WPqqYG
Remembering R. Scott Hawley, Ph.D.
A Legacy of Scientific Excellence and Mentorship
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February 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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From plants to proteins – Sankari Lab predoc Paco Guerra-Garcia explores how legumes use small molecules to fix nitrogen & fight pathogens in a new @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social article. Learn more about potential implications for sustainable farming & #healthcare: www.stowers.org/gradschool/n...
Symbiosis between plants and bacteria: Stowers Graduate School Predoc…
Molecules produced by certain legume plants that turn soil bacteria into organic nitrogen converting machines have potential agricultural and human health…
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January 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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This beautiful #MicroscopyMonday shows a #zebrafish karyotype, the complete set of chromosomes in its cells.
@michaydiez.bsky.social (Gerton Lab)
December 23, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Another great week of #FridayScienceClub with presentations from @michaydiez.bsky.social and Alex Von Schulze! 👏
December 6, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Where did our neck muscles come from?🧪
Here's our #evodevo #devbio deep dive feat. #zebrafish, mouse, axolotls, & more!

Led by Eglantine Heude & Tajbakhsh lab at Pasteur, the team at National Museum of Natural History France, & lab alumni Karin Prummel & Rob Lalonde.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Co-option of neck muscles supported the vertebrate water-to-land transition - Nature Communications
The evolutionary water-to-land transition involved the separation of the skull from the pectoral girdle, though these musculoskeletal changes have not been deeply characterised. Here they show that th...
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December 5, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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Let's take a look #UnderTheScope at two zebrafish – one showing fluorescently labeled germ cells. 🔬 👀 #Zebrafish are freshwater vertebrate animals used to study #development, #genetics, and #regeneration. @michaydiez.bsky.social (Gerton Lab)
November 27, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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🦃 Around Thanksgiving, we often stop to consider what we’re grateful for. But gratitude is important for our relationships and physical health all year long. It has also been linked to decreased loneliness. So how do we cultivate a practice? Me for @washingtonpost.com 🎁🔗 wapo.st/3Zmq8tM
Gratitude can improve our mental health. Here’s how to create a practice.
Research shows that gratitude had a significant inverse relationship to loneliness — as gratitude increased, loneliness decreased.
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November 27, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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A little birdie told us we should migrate to bluer skies. 😉 Hello Bluesky world. 👋🌎 Please re-share this post so we can follow you and help to grow the genomics community on here! 🧬✨
November 12, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Today we celebrated with pastries that I passed my qualifying exam. I'm officially a PhD candidate! @stowersinstitute.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Meet an Institute postdoc! Leo Yan's #research focus is on understanding how different types of ribosomes affect early #development in #zebrafish in the Kostova Lab. "I’m curious to understand how things work from the inside out."

Read more: www.stowers.org/news/postdoc...
Postdoc Profile: Leo Yan
Q&A with Kostova Lab Postdoc Leo Yan
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November 20, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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#MicroscopyMonday | A #zebrafish oocyte (immature egg), including the animal pole where the future embryo will develop (shiny blue upper left), the yolk (central dark space), & follicular cells that support the oocyte maturation (orange). (Si & Bazzini Lab)
November 18, 2024 at 2:12 PM