Neha Varshney
nehavarshney.bsky.social
Neha Varshney
@nehavarshney.bsky.social
Cell and development biologist 🦋 Art enthusiast 🎨 Postdoc @Oegema and Desai Labs @UCSD
PhD @JNCASR
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The Oegema/Desai labs are heading to #Worm25! Mark your calendars and check out the talks/posters from our current lab members @greenbeegreen.bsky.social @nehavarshney.bsky.social @aleesaschlientz.bsky.social and Wanying Tian!
June 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Honored to have received the DeLill Nasser Award! Grateful to this opportunity and support that made this possible!
Meet the recipients of the Fall 2024 DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics & join us in congratulating them👏

These grad students & postdocs receive support to attend a conference or complete lab courses.

Read about their research: buff.ly/3Wyb36H
March 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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In our latest paper, Satya Dev and coauthors from JNCASR/Bose Institute and Edinburgh U. report that unlike most organisms the dependence of shugoshin on Bub1-kinase activity is dispensable for the maintenance of spindle assembly checkpoint response in Cryptococcus dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
The dependence of shugoshin on Bub1-kinase activity is dispensable for the maintenance of spindle assembly checkpoint response in Cryptococcus neoformans
Author summary Precise segregation of the genome to daughter cells is the key to cell growth, survival, and proliferation. A proper attachment of spindle microtubules to the kinetochore of each eukary...
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January 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Come visit my poster today at #ascb2024 #CellBio2024 and learn about my work on PP1c regulation by I2 in C elegans one-cell embryo!
We couldn't be more excited to present our work at #CellBio2024! Mark your calendars for these talks/posters by our current lab members and recent alumni, including @aleesaschlientz.bsky.social @beatascienceart.bsky.social @nehavarshney.bsky.social & @jiaweixu.bsky.social. Looking forward to it!
December 17, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Interested in the “mind blowing” 🤯 function of Protein phosphatase 1 beta during C elegans embryonic development!!! Come by my microsymposium talk and poster [B348] today at #cellbio2024!
We couldn't be more excited to present our work at #CellBio2024! Mark your calendars for these talks/posters by our current lab members and recent alumni, including @aleesaschlientz.bsky.social @beatascienceart.bsky.social @nehavarshney.bsky.social & @jiaweixu.bsky.social. Looking forward to it!
December 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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After our #SciArt subgroup at #CellBio2024, join us for a very special Science Art Show & Reception, where you'll get to interact with our amazing speakers and other pioneers in this field. We are honored to feature over 30 scientists/artists in the exhibition! RSVP: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/
December 14, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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Hey ASCB and UCSD folks! Hope you all can attend! I’ll be there showing some work by myself and my students. @ascbiology.bsky.social #sciart
December 9, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Are you planning to perform single-copy insertions in C. elegans???
Check out our first lab paper!! 🥳
Our *Universal SKI System* uses just one plasmid that can be inserted into any chromosome! Easy peasy!
#Celegans #CRISPR #worms #research #science #techniques

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December 11, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by Neha Varshney
The Oegema/Desai Labs are excited to join this community and share our research! In the meantime, check out our most recent papers:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38759650/ (highlighted in the video)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39105756/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 26, 2024 at 12:20 AM