Natalia Duque-Wilckens, DVM, PhD
@nduquewilckens.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences, NC State. Www.DuqueWilckenslab.com
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Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!
Open Rank Faculty Position Artificial Intelligence in Biological Sciences
Position DescriptionThe School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) seeks to fill multiple open-rank (Full, Associate, or Assistant Professor) tenured/t...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!
Happy to share that the first data paper from my lab is out! We find that developmental exposure to PBDE flame retardants drives persistent and sex specific effects on mast cells in and ex vivo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Developmental PBDE exposure persistently impairs mast cell function in vivo and drives sex-specific morphological and transcriptional changes in bone marrow–derived mast cells
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are synthetic flame retardants once widely used in furniture, electronics, and other consumer products. Althoug…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Happy to share that the first data paper from my lab is out! We find that developmental exposure to PBDE flame retardants drives persistent and sex specific effects on mast cells in and ex vivo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
Has anyone self-built an apparatus for the The 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time task, or know a company that would make it for less that $6K? TIA!
August 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Has anyone self-built an apparatus for the The 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time task, or know a company that would make it for less that $6K? TIA!
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Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
August 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent
or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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My quote of the day
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia Butler
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia Butler
July 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My quote of the day
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia Butler
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia Butler
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Waking up to learn that the EPA office of Research and Development, which supports environmental science and informs environmental policymaking has been eliminated.
#NoWords
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#NoWords
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EPA eliminates its scientific research arm
The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.
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July 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Waking up to learn that the EPA office of Research and Development, which supports environmental science and informs environmental policymaking has been eliminated.
#NoWords
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#NoWords
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Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀
Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!
Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀
Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!
Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!
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A discussion of the use of animals in research.
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Director’s Desk: The Future of Animal Models in Research | NIH’s Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer
YouTube video by National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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July 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A discussion of the use of animals in research.
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Please share!! NIH funding for studies that are conducted using animal models - listen to the conversation at the 7/7 FDA meeting and COMMENT on the results of the meeting by July 14th www.fda.gov/news-events/... FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing - 07/07/2025 | FDA
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
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July 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Please share!! NIH funding for studies that are conducted using animal models - listen to the conversation at the 7/7 FDA meeting and COMMENT on the results of the meeting by July 14th www.fda.gov/news-events/... FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing - 07/07/2025 | FDA
Lastly, Thank you to NCSU Center for Human Health and the Environment for being the first to support our baby lab with a pilot grant! ❤️
I also wanted to thank our collabs and support: Heather Patisaul (who was kind to share PBDE sol. in early 2023 so I could get started in a still empty lab), Heather Stapleton (a true flame retardant expert) and Leslie Sombers, who’s lab collected crucial FSCV data.
July 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Lastly, Thank you to NCSU Center for Human Health and the Environment for being the first to support our baby lab with a pilot grant! ❤️
I also wanted to thank our collabs and support: Heather Patisaul (who was kind to share PBDE sol. in early 2023 so I could get started in a still empty lab), Heather Stapleton (a true flame retardant expert) and Leslie Sombers, who’s lab collected crucial FSCV data.
July 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I also wanted to thank our collabs and support: Heather Patisaul (who was kind to share PBDE sol. in early 2023 so I could get started in a still empty lab), Heather Stapleton (a true flame retardant expert) and Leslie Sombers, who’s lab collected crucial FSCV data.
This has implications not only across tissues and systems-mast cells are widely distributed in our bodies, incl the brain, where they play important physiological pathological roles-but also all hematopoietic cell lines, potentially explaining many of the negative effects of developm PBDE exp 4/n
We found that, PBDE exposed adults M+F show blunted responses to allergy-like challenges, associated with a deficit in mast cells’ (MCs) capacity to sustain histamine release. These deficits are also present in MCs derived from adult bone marrow, suggesting reprogramming of hematopoietic precursors
This is especially concerning for developing individuals, as they can be exposed via placenta, milk, and are more exposed to contaminated dust as toddlers. 3/n
July 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This has implications not only across tissues and systems-mast cells are widely distributed in our bodies, incl the brain, where they play important physiological pathological roles-but also all hematopoietic cell lines, potentially explaining many of the negative effects of developm PBDE exp 4/n
We found that, PBDE exposed adults M+F show blunted responses to allergy-like challenges, associated with a deficit in mast cells’ (MCs) capacity to sustain histamine release. These deficits are also present in MCs derived from adult bone marrow, suggesting reprogramming of hematopoietic precursors
This is especially concerning for developing individuals, as they can be exposed via placenta, milk, and are more exposed to contaminated dust as toddlers. 3/n
PBDEs are flame retardants once widely used in consumer products. Although phased out (2000’s) due to multiple reported negative effects (including neuro, metabolic and reproductive), widespread environmental contamination and human exposure is still a huge problem 2/n
July 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We found that, PBDE exposed adults M+F show blunted responses to allergy-like challenges, associated with a deficit in mast cells’ (MCs) capacity to sustain histamine release. These deficits are also present in MCs derived from adult bone marrow, suggesting reprogramming of hematopoietic precursors
This is especially concerning for developing individuals, as they can be exposed via placenta, milk, and are more exposed to contaminated dust as toddlers. 3/n
PBDEs are flame retardants once widely used in consumer products. Although phased out (2000’s) due to multiple reported negative effects (including neuro, metabolic and reproductive), widespread environmental contamination and human exposure is still a huge problem 2/n
The 1st manuscript from my lab is online! This study, led by 2nd y PhD student Jared Franges (w/ key contributions from grad and 4! UG students), shows that developmental exposure to PBDEs drives persistent impairment of histamine+serotonin release by mast cells www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 1/n
July 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is especially concerning for developing individuals, as they can be exposed via placenta, milk, and are more exposed to contaminated dust as toddlers. 3/n
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PBDEs are flame retardants once widely used in consumer products. Although phased out (2000’s) due to multiple reported negative effects (including neuro, metabolic and reproductive), widespread environmental contamination and human exposure is still a huge problem 2/n
The 1st manuscript from my lab is online! This study, led by 2nd y PhD student Jared Franges (w/ key contributions from grad and 4! UG students), shows that developmental exposure to PBDEs drives persistent impairment of histamine+serotonin release by mast cells www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 1/n
Developmental PBDE exposure impairs histamine release dynamics in adult male and female mice via disrupted granule maturation and calcium mobilization
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are synthetic flame retardants once widely used in furniture, electronics, and other consumer products. Although phased out in the early 2000s, their chemical pe...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
PBDEs are flame retardants once widely used in consumer products. Although phased out (2000’s) due to multiple reported negative effects (including neuro, metabolic and reproductive), widespread environmental contamination and human exposure is still a huge problem 2/n
PBDEs are flame retardants once widely used in consumer products. Although phased out (2000’s) due to multiple reported negative effects (including neuro, metabolic and reproductive), widespread environmental contamination and human exposure is still a huge problem 2/n
The 1st manuscript from my lab is online! This study, led by 2nd y PhD student Jared Franges (w/ key contributions from grad and 4! UG students), shows that developmental exposure to PBDEs drives persistent impairment of histamine+serotonin release by mast cells www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 1/n
Developmental PBDE exposure impairs histamine release dynamics in adult male and female mice via disrupted granule maturation and calcium mobilization
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are synthetic flame retardants once widely used in furniture, electronics, and other consumer products. Although phased out in the early 2000s, their chemical pe...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
PBDEs are flame retardants once widely used in consumer products. Although phased out (2000’s) due to multiple reported negative effects (including neuro, metabolic and reproductive), widespread environmental contamination and human exposure is still a huge problem 2/n
The 1st manuscript from my lab is online! This study, led by 2nd y PhD student Jared Franges (w/ key contributions from grad and 4! UG students), shows that developmental exposure to PBDEs drives persistent impairment of histamine+serotonin release by mast cells www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 1/n
Developmental PBDE exposure impairs histamine release dynamics in adult male and female mice via disrupted granule maturation and calcium mobilization
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are synthetic flame retardants once widely used in furniture, electronics, and other consumer products. Although phased out in the early 2000s, their chemical pe...
www.biorxiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The 1st manuscript from my lab is online! This study, led by 2nd y PhD student Jared Franges (w/ key contributions from grad and 4! UG students), shows that developmental exposure to PBDEs drives persistent impairment of histamine+serotonin release by mast cells www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 1/n
Grant writing is fun! Don’t get me wrong. I dread the stress linked to the outcome. But the thrill of having dedicated time to think about new ideas and learn mind blowing discoveries feels SO amazing! Maybe more than a scientist I am just a really good dreamer 😬 #catpics just because.
June 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Grant writing is fun! Don’t get me wrong. I dread the stress linked to the outcome. But the thrill of having dedicated time to think about new ideas and learn mind blowing discoveries feels SO amazing! Maybe more than a scientist I am just a really good dreamer 😬 #catpics just because.
Companion soils notebook series finished! Hope these inspire wise, funny, and insightful words.
June 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Companion soils notebook series finished! Hope these inspire wise, funny, and insightful words.
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Join the 22,339 people who have joined to support our NIH colleagues. Let's get this to 50,000 RT
The new leadership of NIH is dismantling long standing biomedical science programs & putting in their place scientifically questionable ideas. A courageous group of current NIH employees pushed back, publishing “The Bethesda Declaration” 1/2
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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June 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Join the 22,339 people who have joined to support our NIH colleagues. Let's get this to 50,000 RT
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Good morning, dorks!...Today's your chance to stand up with us and 23,380 other proud science stans by signing your name to our Open Letter in Support of the 300+ NIH heroes of the historic #BethesdaDeclaration.
Be historic with us!
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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June 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Good morning, dorks!...Today's your chance to stand up with us and 23,380 other proud science stans by signing your name to our Open Letter in Support of the 300+ NIH heroes of the historic #BethesdaDeclaration.
Be historic with us!
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#StandUpForScience
#NIHLoveLetter
#GetInDorks
Be historic with us!
zurl.co/Jdx4s
#StandUpForScience
#NIHLoveLetter
#GetInDorks
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Null results aren't dead ends, they're vital data. Submit to FASEB BioAdvances' Null Findings Call for Papers by Dec. 31, 2025. Let's make science more transparent and reproducible.
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#CallForPapers #NullFindings
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#CallForPapers #NullFindings
June 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Null results aren't dead ends, they're vital data. Submit to FASEB BioAdvances' Null Findings Call for Papers by Dec. 31, 2025. Let's make science more transparent and reproducible.
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#CallForPapers #NullFindings
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#CallForPapers #NullFindings
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Happening NOW: Senate hearing on NIH research
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A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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June 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Happening NOW: Senate hearing on NIH research
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