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Jay Thierer
@jamesthierer.bsky.social
Through which lens do you choose to see the world?
Retinas, zebrafish, Genetics, cholesterol, I love it all.
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Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! She identified 120 genes involved in specifying embryonic pattern development.
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪
I Dreamt of Fruit Flies - Lasker Foundation
In the mid-1970s, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was struggling. Two years after finishing her PhD in molecular biology, she was working as a postdoctoral researcher in a lab she longed to leave. The…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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📢 Hiring 2 Postdocs (CNRS Research Engineer) @ IRCAN (Université Côte d’Azur), Nice 🇫🇷. Spread the word, please.

Focus: intestine aging & immunity in fish 🐟
Start Nov–Dec 2025 • ~€3,175/mo

Apply:
ImmunoGUT (zebrafish) → tinyurl.com/3jx9a4ks
GUTPOWER (reef fish) → tinyurl.com/mt2ekpks
October 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Hello Vision Science Peeps!
Be sure to put the @iser.bsky.social / @brightfocus.bsky.social Concepts and Breakthroughs In Glaucoma Meeting on your schedule. It will be in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from October 8-11, 2025
iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org
February 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Y-a-t'il des débrouillards
derrière le brouillard?
January 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy #fluorescencefriday everyone!
January 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Bird pics for the Blsky
November 25, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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The Kebschull and @rezakalhor.bsky.social labs are recruiting a joint postdoc for an exciting project at the interface of phylodynamics and neuroscience. Come join us at JHU BME. Spread the word, and contact us if you are interested. #hiring 🧪🧠. More on www.kebschull-lab.org and below.
November 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Hello World!
I’m Jay. I saw my first transgenic zebrafish >10 years ago and never looked back. Dissertation using tg fish to study bad cholesterol in the Farber lab (#lipoglo) and current postdoc in the Mumm lab studying regeneration of retinal ganglion cells / optic nerve.
November 15, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Müller Glia Glowing 🧬🔬
November 15, 2024 at 1:05 AM