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Vishakha
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Postdoctoral fellow @NIH (Weinstein Lab) 🐟🐟 | PhD @LSU (Chung Lab) 🪰🪰| Cell and developmental biologist | She/Her.
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Our new paper, “Organization of the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation”, has been published in
@elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Organization of the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation
elifesciences.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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It's been a long time coming and I'm super excited to share our new preprint is out: "A novel transgenic reporter to study vertebrate epigenetics". We generated a zebrafish epigenetic reporter and found a fatty liver disease mutant with weird epigenetic phenotypes 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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We recently described the Axillary Lymphoid Organ (ALO) in the #Zebrafish. It's on the OUTSIDE of the fish, making it great for imaging! Learn more by checking out our paper in @jem.org rupress.org/jem/article-...
April 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Special congrats to NIH Senior Investigator Brant Weinstein, Ph.D., who was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Weinstein was honored for his contributions to vascular biology. Learn more at go.nih.gov/sl2B1ka. #zebrafish @izfs.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Cells are full of protein machines. Most don’t act alone, but instead form part of larger multiprotein complexes. For example, epithelial tissues & organs assemble by virtue of the multiprotein machines mediating cell-cell adhesion or adhesion of cells to the underlying extracellular matrix 1/n 🧪
January 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Full spectrum of ‘zebrabow’ embryos. Credit to @jhenninger.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
December 15, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Please spread the word!
We are looking for postdoc(s) interested in quantitative problems in Development and Regeneration. Previous experience in quantitative biology is not required. We will support you and provide a great training environment if you are committed to learn new things.
December 12, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.

www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
December 11, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Building the body of an embryo or maintaining tissues in adults rely on cell migration. From neural crest cells leaving the neural tube to form our peripheral nervous system to migrating lateral line cells in a zebrafish to skin cells migrating to repair wounds, its key 1/n
youtu.be/IqUs29Kz3HE?...
Zebrafish lateral line migration
YouTube video by The Company of Biologists
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December 7, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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No such thing as a standard career path - a new careers interview series

We chatted to several #DevBio scientists who've had vastly different career trajectories. We hope whichever career stage you're at and whatever journey you're embarking on, these stories show that many valid career paths exist
No such thing as a standard career path - the Node
Introducing a new careers interview series, featuring developmental biologists who have had vastly different career trajectories.
thenode.biologists.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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#ZebrafishFunFacts: Did you know the popular WT strain 'AB' originated from a mating between strain A & strain B purchased by Charline Walker on two separate occasions from a pet shop in Albany, Oregon? This helped transform #zebrafish from household pet to a model of human disease & development. 🧪
November 27, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Happy to see our first preprint out about human meninges! Excited about the fast progress and impact of the field. Here some little extra protein labeling (layers not perfectly scaled to each other) that didnt make it into the paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 24, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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Zebrafish cardiac lymphatics (grey) inching along vegfc (red) expressing coronary arteries. Fun collaboration with the Cao lab published this week 🙌
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
November 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Are you an #ECR who would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next ~6 months but don't have sufficient funding, check to see if you are eligible for our JCS-FocalPlane Training Grant.

Next deadline: 22 November 2024

www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
November 19, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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#ZebrafishFunFacts: While Kimmel et al. (1995) famously standardized the embryonic development of #zebrafish, Parichy et al. (2009) takes it one step further with characterizing postembryonic zebrafish. They establish Standard Length (SL) as measure of developmental progress rather than age. 🧪
November 18, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Zebrafish cone photoreceptors in their pretty row mosaic. #FluorescenceFriday #sciart
November 15, 2024 at 12:39 PM