Anna Cassidy
@annacassidy.bsky.social
Cell and Developmental Biology PhD Candidate in @zaniclab.bsky.social at @vubasicsciences.bsky.social👩🏼🔬studying microtubule dynamics in cells and in vitro🧫🔬 • Passionate about STEM Outreach • UPitt alum • she/her/hers • views are my own
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Anna Cassidy
@annacassidy.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Happy #fluorescencefriday! One of my favorite images that was featured on the cover of @ascbiology.bsky.social MBoC’s October issue. Pictured is the microtubule cytoskeleton (white) and a colored temporal projection of EB. Check out the associated paper here: doi.org/10.1091/mbc....
As an AQLM alumnus, I wholeheartedly recommend this course to anyone eager to deepen their understanding of the science behind microscopy. The insights gained are invaluable for developing methods and conducting effective quantitative image analysis.
🗣️ Procrastinators, rejoice: we have extension announcements!
The deadline to apply for the MBL's 2025 Embryology course has been extended to February 5. The deadline for Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy has been extended to January 29.
Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V
#ScienceStartsHere
The deadline to apply for the MBL's 2025 Embryology course has been extended to February 5. The deadline for Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy has been extended to January 29.
Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V
#ScienceStartsHere
January 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
As an AQLM alumnus, I wholeheartedly recommend this course to anyone eager to deepen their understanding of the science behind microscopy. The insights gained are invaluable for developing methods and conducting effective quantitative image analysis.
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! I've always been inspired by the intersection of art and science. This microscopy image collage, inspired by Andy Warhol, highlights the beauty of cells 🔬
January 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! I've always been inspired by the intersection of art and science. This microscopy image collage, inspired by Andy Warhol, highlights the beauty of cells 🔬
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I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!!
Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!!
Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Anyone could help with an ID?
I've been seeing this vortex of cilia inside different dinoflagellate species at different sites along the European coast. It's several layers of cilia facing into a central cavity, emerging from regularly spaces basal bodies (arrows and centrin ). #ProtistsOnSky
I've been seeing this vortex of cilia inside different dinoflagellate species at different sites along the European coast. It's several layers of cilia facing into a central cavity, emerging from regularly spaces basal bodies (arrows and centrin ). #ProtistsOnSky
January 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Anyone could help with an ID?
I've been seeing this vortex of cilia inside different dinoflagellate species at different sites along the European coast. It's several layers of cilia facing into a central cavity, emerging from regularly spaces basal bodies (arrows and centrin ). #ProtistsOnSky
I've been seeing this vortex of cilia inside different dinoflagellate species at different sites along the European coast. It's several layers of cilia facing into a central cavity, emerging from regularly spaces basal bodies (arrows and centrin ). #ProtistsOnSky
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How did microtubules adapt to support life across 🐸 species at divergent thermal niches?
Now online & OA @currentbiology.bsky.social
Thanks to Ella, Luca, @biswashere.bsky.social & Carolyn @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de @BirkbeckUoL 🙌
Enjoy reading! 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Now online & OA @currentbiology.bsky.social
Thanks to Ella, Luca, @biswashere.bsky.social & Carolyn @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de @BirkbeckUoL 🙌
Enjoy reading! 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Mechanistic basis of temperature adaptation in microtubule dynamics across frog species
Despite tubulin’s evolutionary conservation, microtubule dynamics are highly temperature sensitive. Troman et al. use natural tubulin variants from closely related Xenopus species to show that a decrease in tubulin’s apparent activation energy and weakening of lateral lattice contacts stabilize microtubules in cold-adapted frogs.
www.cell.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How did microtubules adapt to support life across 🐸 species at divergent thermal niches?
Now online & OA @currentbiology.bsky.social
Thanks to Ella, Luca, @biswashere.bsky.social & Carolyn @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de @BirkbeckUoL 🙌
Enjoy reading! 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Now online & OA @currentbiology.bsky.social
Thanks to Ella, Luca, @biswashere.bsky.social & Carolyn @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de @BirkbeckUoL 🙌
Enjoy reading! 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Happy #fluorescencefriday! One of my favorite images that was featured on the cover of @ascbiology.bsky.social MBoC’s October issue. Pictured is the microtubule cytoskeleton (white) and a colored temporal projection of EB. Check out the associated paper here: doi.org/10.1091/mbc....
January 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Happy #fluorescencefriday! One of my favorite images that was featured on the cover of @ascbiology.bsky.social MBoC’s October issue. Pictured is the microtubule cytoskeleton (white) and a colored temporal projection of EB. Check out the associated paper here: doi.org/10.1091/mbc....
Reposted by Anna Cassidy
Good work everyone! We have 1,071 scientists in the matching database for our 1st match of 2025!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists w/ classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups.
Want a group Q&A with a scientist? First match is tonight!
👇
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists w/ classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups.
Want a group Q&A with a scientist? First match is tonight!
👇
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
January 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Good work everyone! We have 1,071 scientists in the matching database for our 1st match of 2025!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists w/ classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups.
Want a group Q&A with a scientist? First match is tonight!
👇
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists w/ classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups.
Want a group Q&A with a scientist? First match is tonight!
👇
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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I released the LUT finder: A plugin to see all your ImageJ / Fiji LUTs in a table with previews, auto generated descriptions and filtering! You can try it with the KTZ_LUTs update site or from github.com/kwolbachia/L.... I'm looking for your feedbacks!
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
January 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I released the LUT finder: A plugin to see all your ImageJ / Fiji LUTs in a table with previews, auto generated descriptions and filtering! You can try it with the KTZ_LUTs update site or from github.com/kwolbachia/L.... I'm looking for your feedbacks!
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
In 2024 I spoke with 269 students from 14 different classrooms, 7 different grades, and 6 different states through the Skype a Scientist program. It has been so incredible to connect with students who are enthusiastic about science and eager to learn! Here’s the link to sign up if you’re interested!
Scientists!
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
January 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In 2024 I spoke with 269 students from 14 different classrooms, 7 different grades, and 6 different states through the Skype a Scientist program. It has been so incredible to connect with students who are enthusiastic about science and eager to learn! Here’s the link to sign up if you’re interested!
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Would appreciate a RT from the scientists for this one! We have 665 scientists in the spring database and I want to get us to about 1000 before we set the teachers loose on the database for January matches.
Scientists!
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
December 30, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Would appreciate a RT from the scientists for this one! We have 665 scientists in the spring database and I want to get us to about 1000 before we set the teachers loose on the database for January matches.
Mesmerizing work! The level of detail captured here is truly incredible 🤩
A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt
December 28, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Mesmerizing work! The level of detail captured here is truly incredible 🤩
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Some microscopy reading 🔬📰 Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches | Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics | Cambridge Core
Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches - Volume 57
www.cambridge.org
December 23, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Some microscopy reading 🔬📰 Single-molecule orientation-localization microscopy: Applications and approaches www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Anna Cassidy
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! These are polarized epithelial cells with microvilli on their apical surface! Captured using the #Nikon NSPARC, and color-coded by depth #actin #microscopy @tyskalabactual.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! These are polarized epithelial cells with microvilli on their apical surface! Captured using the #Nikon NSPARC, and color-coded by depth #actin #microscopy @tyskalabactual.bsky.social