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KhaiChung (KC)

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Asst Prof, Penn State College of Medicine; geneticist, biological anthropologist, #pigmentation, #daphnia & #zebrafish researcher, #microCT, scuba diver. πŸ‡²πŸ‡ΎπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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Masking tape to the rescue! #AA

06.11.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Boarding my flight with #UnitedAirlines on a Saturday night, and right at 9pm, #PianoMan plays on the speaker! Love that!

04.10.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great start to the #SETAC meeting!

29.09.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re hiring! The Ang Lab at Penn State is looking for a motivated Lab Technician to be a part of the team. If you love #Zebrafish, #genetics, #microCT #imaging #science #research #food #fun, come join us! #PennState www.myworkday.com/psu/d/inst/9...

25.09.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zebrafish Facility Manager - Gittlen Cancer Institute APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

We are hiring! Looking for a zebrafish facility manager who will also be involved in exciting research to create 3D microanatomical #zebrafish atlas.
tinyurl.com/zfresearch

13.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alliance Of Genome Resources Event Registration Webinar recordings are posted at https://www.youtube.com/@AllianceOfGenomeResources A schedule of future events is on the Alliance Events Calendar https://www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

The next Alliance webinar will be Thursday Aug 21, at noon EDT. The topic will be Ontologies and the Alliance, presented by Chris Mungall. You can register for the Zoom link here forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP... or via the link on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

11.08.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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It’s always great to be back at the Bay Area. Looking forward to a great #ALSUserMeeting2025

11.08.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So excited and grateful to receive R24 NOA from NIH ORIP to create an integrated #zebrafish omics, histology and microCT 3D atlas!

Looking forward to an exciting work with Dr. Postlethwait of U of Oregon, who is the co-PI of the grant.

05.08.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CRISPR-based functional genomics tools in vertebrate models - Experimental & Molecular Medicine Recent advances in DNA sequencing have allowed scientists to gather vast amounts of genetic data, but understanding what those sequences actually do requires additional tools that allow scientists to ...

Wrote a big review with my friend and colleague @varshneylab.social on the state-of-the-art in CRISPR used experimentally in vivo. We wanted to focus on their use in experimental vertebrate animals (apparently passΓ© now but we persist).

31.07.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

That looks amazing!

21.07.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!!!! Woohoo!!!

16.07.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo showing empty shelves in a chiller in a UK Co-op store.

Photo showing empty shelves in a chiller in a UK Co-op store.

Welsh climate impact story: my mum's local Co-op store in Cardiff has been unable to stock perishable food and dairy for over a week because its chill cabinets are powered by a gas generator. The gas tanks that power the generator are overheating thanks to a heatwave affecting the UK.

13.07.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 344    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 14
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DANIO-CODE DCC This Data Coordination Center allows DANIO-CODE consortium members to submit and view their data sets annotated with standard metadata nomenclatures.

#IZFC2025 #zebrafish #DANIO-CODE data coordination centre is back online. Note changed address: danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

13.07.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Surely, biosafety officer loves this! What better way to drink coffee in the office?

19.06.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
DaniocellDesktop logo, depicting a fish on a laptop screen.

DaniocellDesktop logo, depicting a fish on a laptop screen.

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

13.06.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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This is what you get for talking #science during breakfast! #daphnia #humor #jokes #restingegg

20.04.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Working on #Zebrafish atlas next!

09.01.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the first daphnia microanatomical atlas to include male and female daphnia, and we hope this atlas will be a great resource for researchers.

lnkd.in/ek8g945U

09.01.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MeeSiing Ngu led the work; together with Keith Cheng at Penn State University, Luisa Orsini and John Colbourne at the University of Birmingham, and Dr. Beaton at Mount Allison University, Canada, we curated an open-access atlas for the daphnia community.

09.01.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am excited to share our latest work on the #Daphnia atlas (daphnia.io). We curated an open-access atlas for the daphnia community.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is the first daphnia microanatomical atlas to include male and female daphnia

09.01.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

We are trialing a central hub for questions/queries for the #zebrafish community as they tend to get lost in our feed. (Really wanted to try this on Twitter) These will be reposted by us. Check there if you want to help. Amplifications appreciated πŸ™

13.11.2024 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We routinely use PTA in my lab. We stained Daphnia, Zebrafish, mouse, Xenapus, axolotl without much issue. Occasionally need to optimize for duration and concentration. Fly has been the hardest to stained. We tried pricking the fly abdomen, but also requires long staining duration.

12.11.2024 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, the uptake is too long. The cuticles makes it hard to stain the fly. And also hard to get an even staining throughout the whole fly.

12.11.2024 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you try to stain the fly with other metal stains such as PTA or PMA?

12.11.2024 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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