Azra Atabay
@azratabye.bsky.social
Marie-Sklodowska Curie PhD fellow in @igflyon.bsky.social @michalis-averof.bsky.social lab interested in early triggers of leg regeneration in 🦐 | Previously Center for Regenerative Therapies @tudresden.bsky.social and Bilkent University
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How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵
Check our latest preprint
Check our latest preprint
A toolkit for testing membrane-localising tags across species
Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...
www.biorxiv.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵
Check our latest preprint
Check our latest preprint
Reposted by Azra Atabay
Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6
August 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6
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📢 We are recruiting!
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
July 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📢 We are recruiting!
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
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German pianist Davide Martello, who played during the Gezi protests in 2013 and at other demonstrations and sites of conflict and violence around the world, says he was deported from Turkey before a planned performance in Istanbul this week.
🔴Kadıköy'de vereceği resital öncesinde piyanosuna el konulan ve gözaltına alınan Gezi'nin piyanisti Davide Martello sınır dışı edildi
kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...
kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
German pianist Davide Martello, who played during the Gezi protests in 2013 and at other demonstrations and sites of conflict and violence around the world, says he was deported from Turkey before a planned performance in Istanbul this week.
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Important to note this is much bigger than the mayor. While he was the spark, thousands are in the streets now despite bans clashing with cops due to rampant corruption in the current admin, crumbling economy, soaring unemployment, unlawful arrests… The people are fighting for democracy. #Turkey
March 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Important to note this is much bigger than the mayor. While he was the spark, thousands are in the streets now despite bans clashing with cops due to rampant corruption in the current admin, crumbling economy, soaring unemployment, unlawful arrests… The people are fighting for democracy. #Turkey
Dear Bluesky community, please spread the word about what is happening in Türkiye and the fight for democracy! Don’t be silent! Your turn will eventually come if you remain silent! We are all going through the same hell!
Turkey arrested Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of Istanbul, the top political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on accusations of corruption and terrorism on Wednesday. Imamoglu was set to be named the opposition’s presidential candidate. nyti.ms/4ho834z
March 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Dear Bluesky community, please spread the word about what is happening in Türkiye and the fight for democracy! Don’t be silent! Your turn will eventually come if you remain silent! We are all going through the same hell!
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Reposted by Azra Atabay
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
Super interesting article about how companies like Tesla are threatening the unique biodiversity of New Caledonia, a French territory island, in their pursuit of nickel mining: The Island Where Environmentalism Implodes www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Super interesting article about how companies like Tesla are threatening the unique biodiversity of New Caledonia, a French territory island, in their pursuit of nickel mining: The Island Where Environmentalism Implodes www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
Reposted by Azra Atabay
Looking for a tag to localise fluorescent proteins to the plasma membrane? Unsure which tag might work in your species? We generated a toolkit of 11 membrane-localising tags, which can be screened rapidly by microinjecting mRNA in your species of interest. 1/4
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A toolkit for testing membrane localisation tags across species
Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...
www.biorxiv.org
November 12, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Looking for a tag to localise fluorescent proteins to the plasma membrane? Unsure which tag might work in your species? We generated a toolkit of 11 membrane-localising tags, which can be screened rapidly by microinjecting mRNA in your species of interest. 1/4
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We’re thrilled to pre-advertise an EMBO Workshop we're organizing, featuring an incredible lineup of speakers! 🎉
Bring your unconventional models and join us in Edinburgh next June for an exciting and inspiring event.
Stay tuned for our official poster and website, coming soon!
🧪
Bring your unconventional models and join us in Edinburgh next June for an exciting and inspiring event.
Stay tuned for our official poster and website, coming soon!
🧪
November 21, 2024 at 4:49 PM
We’re thrilled to pre-advertise an EMBO Workshop we're organizing, featuring an incredible lineup of speakers! 🎉
Bring your unconventional models and join us in Edinburgh next June for an exciting and inspiring event.
Stay tuned for our official poster and website, coming soon!
🧪
Bring your unconventional models and join us in Edinburgh next June for an exciting and inspiring event.
Stay tuned for our official poster and website, coming soon!
🧪