Noelle Dwyer
@noelledwyerphd.bsky.social
Neural Developmental and Cell Biologist. My lab studies how neural stem cells build the brain. Cell division, cilia, cytoskeleton, neurogenesis. Mom, feminist, curious person. Opinions are my own.
Pinned
Here's a Dwyer Lab Papers word cloud (in the shape of a brain!) Find our papers in Pubmed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=dwyer+n...
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble.
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed - NASA
Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight
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December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble.
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Enjoyed the sessions at #SfN25? Have an idea for a session, event, or professional development workshop?
#SfN26 Call for Proposals open Thursday, December 5.
Discover how you can contribute to the scientific dialogue & networking opportunities at Neuroscience 2026.
🔗 vist.ly/4fchn
#neurosky
#SfN26 Call for Proposals open Thursday, December 5.
Discover how you can contribute to the scientific dialogue & networking opportunities at Neuroscience 2026.
🔗 vist.ly/4fchn
#neurosky
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Enjoyed the sessions at #SfN25? Have an idea for a session, event, or professional development workshop?
#SfN26 Call for Proposals open Thursday, December 5.
Discover how you can contribute to the scientific dialogue & networking opportunities at Neuroscience 2026.
🔗 vist.ly/4fchn
#neurosky
#SfN26 Call for Proposals open Thursday, December 5.
Discover how you can contribute to the scientific dialogue & networking opportunities at Neuroscience 2026.
🔗 vist.ly/4fchn
#neurosky
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Are you a postdoc or assistant professor on the job market? Reminder that our department is hiring! We are a scientifically diverse department looking for a colleague that is excited about science, teaching, and potential collaborations! Please apply by 12/5/25!
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Are you a postdoc or assistant professor on the job market? Reminder that our department is hiring! We are a scientifically diverse department looking for a colleague that is excited about science, teaching, and potential collaborations! Please apply by 12/5/25!
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Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464
The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Bringing my umbrella to #SfN25!! ☔
PSA: it’s gonna rain at #sfn25! @krissylyon.bsky.social tried to warn me, but I’d already left my house without a rain coat 🙀
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Bringing my umbrella to #SfN25!! ☔
I'll be here: Satellite social at #SfN25 to honor the legacy of Dr. Dennis O'Leary, Mon night 7pm. SAT37 - "Nature and Nurture in Neural Development" www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'll be here: Satellite social at #SfN25 to honor the legacy of Dr. Dennis O'Leary, Mon night 7pm. SAT37 - "Nature and Nurture in Neural Development" www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
See you at #SfN25! Our poster by Hayley Dingsdale: genetic mosaic loss of Cep55 and Kif20b. PSTR 053.20 / A18 - Cellular context matters: Use of a genetic mosaic mouse model to identify autonomous and non-autonomous effects of cytokinesis gene mutations in the developing cortex. Sun Nov 16, 8a-12p
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
See you at #SfN25! Our poster by Hayley Dingsdale: genetic mosaic loss of Cep55 and Kif20b. PSTR 053.20 / A18 - Cellular context matters: Use of a genetic mosaic mouse model to identify autonomous and non-autonomous effects of cytokinesis gene mutations in the developing cortex. Sun Nov 16, 8a-12p
Whaaaaaat??? I may have to join you in screaming.... I already had to submit again after an (unfair IMO) admin withdrawal from a June submission... We cannot go on like this.
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Whaaaaaat??? I may have to join you in screaming.... I already had to submit again after an (unfair IMO) admin withdrawal from a June submission... We cannot go on like this.
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🍂 🏛️ 🧪 NIH Study Sections Rescheduled
Triaging of ~70% of applications for next 2 rounds
Triaging of ~70% of applications for next 2 rounds
Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🍂 🏛️ 🧪 NIH Study Sections Rescheduled
Triaging of ~70% of applications for next 2 rounds
Triaging of ~70% of applications for next 2 rounds
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Thank you UVa for being the first places asking for grad school recomendations that did not include ANY of the silly ratings questions
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Thank you UVa for being the first places asking for grad school recomendations that did not include ANY of the silly ratings questions
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Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together.
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Volume 138 Issue 20 | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
Journal of Cell Science publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. It is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation.
journals.biologists.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together.
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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September 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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Restricting visas to 4 years would be yet another way to strangle innovation in science. Please comment TODAY. Average PhD length in biomedicine is 5-6 years in USA.
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
September 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Restricting visas to 4 years would be yet another way to strangle innovation in science. Please comment TODAY. Average PhD length in biomedicine is 5-6 years in USA.
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
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Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share
September 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share
Very pretty but is it a time-lapse or single time point going through the z-stack?
September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Very pretty but is it a time-lapse or single time point going through the z-stack?
Ahhh, the late 90's were the best! 😊
September 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Ahhh, the late 90's were the best! 😊
One thing to realize is that it's a patchwork of phenotypes, some cells with normal apical surface and some enlarged. We think many cells can succeed at abscission without Cep55, but the rate of failure increases. If p53 deleted, mistakes can add up over multiple cell cycles....
September 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One thing to realize is that it's a patchwork of phenotypes, some cells with normal apical surface and some enlarged. We think many cells can succeed at abscission without Cep55, but the rate of failure increases. If p53 deleted, mistakes can add up over multiple cell cycles....
Ooh, great questions! We haven't seen extra folds or noticeable ventricle shape changes. Tension could change but we don't have a good way to measure that. It does not appear that cells are extruded.
September 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ooh, great questions! We haven't seen extra folds or noticeable ventricle shape changes. Tension could change but we don't have a good way to measure that. It does not appear that cells are extruded.
Thanks Pleasantine! 😀 In a previous paper, we showed that preventing apoptosis in Cep55 ko via p53 dKO only partly rescued brain size and thickness, made other neurogenesis phenotypes worse. www.jneurosci.org/content/41/1... ...Relevant figure here: www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...
www.jneurosci.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Thanks Pleasantine! 😀 In a previous paper, we showed that preventing apoptosis in Cep55 ko via p53 dKO only partly rescued brain size and thickness, made other neurogenesis phenotypes worse. www.jneurosci.org/content/41/1... ...Relevant figure here: www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...
Thank you so much!
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thank you so much!
Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytokinetic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium affect apical membrane size and cilia
Cytokinetic abscission is the last step of cell division, during which the intercellular bridge between daughter cells is severed. While abscission genes are linked to cancers and developmental disord...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...