Savage-Dunn lab

Thanks to @dmmjournal.bsky.social for a clear and helpful editorial process!

This month's Editor's Choice highlights an article on the connection between #InnateImmunity and #LipidMetabolism, investigated using the worm model #Celegans

Read the short, simple retelling here journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
More details in the thread.

@cswormlab.bsky.social

Big news! Our episode of The College Tour is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video! 🎥😁

This is the first-ever @cuny.edu episode filmed on the Queens College campus, featuring ten students who share what QC is all about.

Watch now on Amazon Prime Video and meet the students who bring QC to life.

I am hiring a postdoc (or two!) to work on C. elegans reproductive system development. Our MIRA funds work on cell size, migration, and niche signaling. Our CAREER funds work on regulation of gonad growth, degrowth, and regeneration during and after starvation

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/310...

image showing the CellBio app entry for the microPublication roundtable

Are you interested in learning more about #micropublications ? Check out the roundtable at #CellBio2025 Monday, December 8, 12:00 pm
@ascbiology.bsky.social, @micropub7n.bsky.social

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A new paper, co-authored by WormAtlas directors Dave Hall and Nate Schroeder, describes how C. elegans community research resources, including WormAtlas, provide the infrastructure that supports nematode research around the world.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks Ethan!

Fattening up immune tolerance through BMP signalling Host responses to infection are primarily focused on fighting the pathogen, but certain responses aim to reduce the indirect impact of infection on host survival and fitness, known as immune tolerance...

We showed that worms exposed to a bacterial pathogen induce changes in lipid metabolism that promote survival, and that these changes are dependent on #BMP signaling.

Also very grateful that this study was featured as an Editor's Choice!

journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

This study was lead by Kat Yamamoto when she was a doctoral student in the lab, and co-authored by two high school students Maggie Wan and Rijul Penkar!
#proudPI #womeninscience

BMP-dependent mobilization of fatty acid metabolism promotes Caenorhabditis elegans survival on a bacterial pathogen Editor's choice: Host metabolism may impact response to infection. In Caenorhabditis elegans, a conserved cell signaling pathway regulates fatty acid metabolism upon pathogen exposure, leading to impr...

Something to be thankful for ~ our paper on the intersection of fatty acid metabolism and host-pathogen response in #Celegans is now published in DMM!

journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

#aECM Cub starts next week Nov 18 with talks on patterning the Drosophila lens, mouse tectorial membrane, and C.elegans cuticle furrows. You can still sign up for access using the link below.

A short story about our heroes inside NIH:

Between a Trump-imposed freeze on grant-making in Jan/Feb and new political hurdles in spring & early summer, NIH was in trouble.

By the end of June, NIH was 8,300 grants and $3.1 billion behind its FY24 pace. Morale was in the toilet. Things were bleak.

Micropublication @micropub7n.bsky.social is peer reviewed and PubMed indexed. A great way to get the data out in uncertain times
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A chemostat-based model for growing bacterial biofilms | Microbiology Spectrum Biofilms are the predominant way that bacteria live in natural environments and are characterized by three emergent properties: ubiquity, resilience, and impact. They can be found across all environme...

I am so excited to have this published today detailing a new system for growing biofilms and observing the resulting populations (stress on the plural!) in chemostats!

A chemostat-based model for growing bacterial biofilms | Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

For what it’s worth, The Wyoming Worm lab has funding for 5 years along with exciting projects with solid foundations. We are is still looking for capable, dedicated, and fun-to-work-with lab members at all career stages. davidfay@uwyo.edu

scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!

If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.

Please RT 🙏

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Saturday morning, waiting for kid's soccer game, is a great time to indulge in the lowest form of humor:

LAB HAIKU!

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Does anyone know
whose PCR is in there?
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM This EMBO Workshop on C. elegans Biology is t he IV Latin American Worm Meeting. It will convene in Mérida, Mexico. The overall mission of this meeting is to create an inclusive environment that pro…

Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026.

Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025

meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪

Articles of Impeachment for RFK, Jr. introduced

thehill.com/policy/healt...

Did you know? GSA Award nominations stay active for at least three years—giving nominees three chances to be selected and recognized for their impact on genetics.

Nominate yourself or a colleague by October 1: buff.ly/YYKKGJx

aECM Club Seminars A virtual seminar series to highlight work on apical ECM across different systems Organizers: Meera Sundaram, UPennMax Heiman, Boston Children’s, Harvard U.Nathalie Pujol, U. Aix MarseilleJor…

The 2025-2026 #aECM club schedule is now posted on our website, where you can also find the link to sign up for access. I’m looking forward to lots of great talks and discussions! sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl...

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

CALL TO ACTION!

During one of our meetings this week with a House Dem, who shall remain nameless, the idea that "DEI research doesn't save anyone's life" was espoused.

My team was *flabbergasted* by this assertion.

PLEASE DROP YOUR PEER REVIEWED WORKS OF "DEI" SAVING LIVES HERE SO WE CAN SHARE!

Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

By adding your name, you join a growing chorus of federal workers and the public telling Senate Democrats:

Stand firm. Protect our democracy. Fight, don’t fold.

✍️ Sign here and Spread the word 🔥

#FightingCR #SchumerShutdown

A slide about how NIH will fund foreign collaborations going forward.

Some information from the NIGMS Advisory Council meeting today.

On foreign grants...

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