Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD
@kamryngerner.bsky.social
Postdoc at Baylor College of Medicine in the Poché lab studying craniofacial development. Broadly interested in development and morphogenesis. 🐓🪰🐁
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$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
Trump says his $40B bailout for Argentina's failing libertarian economy is "not gonna make a big difference for our country."
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
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“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
October 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
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Bird’s eye view, literally. 🐦👁️ Glowing quail embryo eye for #FluorescenceFriday, #DevBio 🧪🔬
August 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Bird’s eye view, literally. 🐦👁️ Glowing quail embryo eye for #FluorescenceFriday, #DevBio 🧪🔬
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🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio
August 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio
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✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
#FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
August 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
#FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
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The amount of bots in this place is out of control. "Postdoc" in bio. That's a fake job.
July 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The amount of bots in this place is out of control. "Postdoc" in bio. That's a fake job.
Does anyone know of a beta-gal/lacZ antibody that works for IF in mouse tissues? The one we previously used that worked beautifully is discontinued 😩🧪
July 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Does anyone know of a beta-gal/lacZ antibody that works for IF in mouse tissues? The one we previously used that worked beautifully is discontinued 😩🧪
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i AM an artist and my studio is
R STUDIO
R STUDIO
July 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
i AM an artist and my studio is
R STUDIO
R STUDIO
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It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
July 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is another gorgeous lung image from a Shh lineage tracing survey by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with magenta showing non Shh-expressing cell types and membrane GFP marking Shh-expressing cells. 🤩 🧪 🔬 👩🔬
July 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is another gorgeous lung image from a Shh lineage tracing survey by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with magenta showing non Shh-expressing cell types and membrane GFP marking Shh-expressing cells. 🤩 🧪 🔬 👩🔬
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Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research.
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Check out our work using 3D whole gut spatial genomics, where we found spatially-distinct gene expression patterns along the zebrafish enteric nervous system across 4 to 7 days in development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Check out our work using 3D whole gut spatial genomics, where we found spatially-distinct gene expression patterns along the zebrafish enteric nervous system across 4 to 7 days in development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Disappointing to see a dear colleague’s grant terminated because of anti-DEI ideology. @lisyvila.bsky.social has spearheaded understanding lung endothelial cell heterogeneity, discovering a novel lung endothelial cell, and has groundbreaking unpublished work directly impacted by this decision.
Yesterday, I got this from NHLBI terminating my MOSAIC K99/R00. I'm in year 2 of the R00. I am appealing this decision but have very little hope that my appeal will change anything. For perspective, the grant they terminated is on the mechanisms behind endothelial cell specification in the lungs
June 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Disappointing to see a dear colleague’s grant terminated because of anti-DEI ideology. @lisyvila.bsky.social has spearheaded understanding lung endothelial cell heterogeneity, discovering a novel lung endothelial cell, and has groundbreaking unpublished work directly impacted by this decision.
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🧬 #FluorescenceFriday
Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells.
#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy
Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells.
#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy
May 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧬 #FluorescenceFriday
Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells.
#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy
Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells.
#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy
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Losses like these are, for an old man like me, the most devastating of all losses. Programs like these started my career in 1980 and to deny entry portals to the future scientists of America is to deny our future as a nation 🧪
I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹
But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾
But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾
May 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Losses like these are, for an old man like me, the most devastating of all losses. Programs like these started my career in 1980 and to deny entry portals to the future scientists of America is to deny our future as a nation 🧪
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I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹
But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾
But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾
May 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹
But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾
But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾
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@riceuniversity.bsky.social we started a #DevBio SuperGroup Colloquia where trainees formally presented their work all last academic year. It was a resounding success!
Check out some of the cool science happening at Rice in developmental biology. Special thank you to Lucia Rivas!
Check out some of the cool science happening at Rice in developmental biology. Special thank you to Lucia Rivas!
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
@riceuniversity.bsky.social we started a #DevBio SuperGroup Colloquia where trainees formally presented their work all last academic year. It was a resounding success!
Check out some of the cool science happening at Rice in developmental biology. Special thank you to Lucia Rivas!
Check out some of the cool science happening at Rice in developmental biology. Special thank you to Lucia Rivas!
So excited my PhD work is finally online! Please take a look at our exploration of the chicken lung 🐓🥚🫁
Morphogenic, molecular and cellular adaptations for unidirectional airflow in the chicken lung
Read this Research Article by Kamryn Gerner-Mauro @kamryngerner.bsky.social, Jichao Chen and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Article by Kamryn Gerner-Mauro @kamryngerner.bsky.social, Jichao Chen and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
April 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So excited my PhD work is finally online! Please take a look at our exploration of the chicken lung 🐓🥚🫁
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This trend is so great. I hope every research institution does it.
April 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This trend is so great. I hope every research institution does it.
I submitted my first nih grant!!
I have had impeccable timing, from starting my PhD in 2020 to submitting my first nih grant in 2025. 🧪
I have had impeccable timing, from starting my PhD in 2020 to submitting my first nih grant in 2025. 🧪
April 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I submitted my first nih grant!!
I have had impeccable timing, from starting my PhD in 2020 to submitting my first nih grant in 2025. 🧪
I have had impeccable timing, from starting my PhD in 2020 to submitting my first nih grant in 2025. 🧪
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In case the link disappears…
April 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In case the link disappears…
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The “who” is impacted by cancellation of NIH “diversity” awards is much broader than “not white.” Eligibility criteria included individuals who are disabled, economically disadvantaged, grew up in rural communities, first generation college students, homeless… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
April 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The “who” is impacted by cancellation of NIH “diversity” awards is much broader than “not white.” Eligibility criteria included individuals who are disabled, economically disadvantaged, grew up in rural communities, first generation college students, homeless… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters!
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters!
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
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Many brilliant scientists are now being punished by having our funding terminated because we are from underrepresented groups. We did everything right and we EARNED these awards. Remember us when you’re making decisions on whether DEI should be sacrificed to “protect” research funding. #InMyFeelings
Finally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab.
April 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Many brilliant scientists are now being punished by having our funding terminated because we are from underrepresented groups. We did everything right and we EARNED these awards. Remember us when you’re making decisions on whether DEI should be sacrificed to “protect” research funding. #InMyFeelings