Maureen Barr

Thanks @katzlab.bsky.social for a 🤯 seminar!

The function of histone modifying enzymes in transgenerational phenotypes, neurodevelopmental disorders and Alzheimer’s disease

Using C. elegans & mouse models

Rutgers peeps: David Katz is presenting this exciting work tomorrow Oct 8 at 2pm in Waksman 1001. #celegans

"If everything around you looks dark, look again, you may be the light"

-Rumi

Blinded by the light
She got down, but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night

-Bruce Springsteen

Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

Lab website header in the link

Picture of Kacy

UNC Biology had a 3rd terrific tenure talk by Kacy Gordon. They study interactions between germ cells & somatic gonad support cells of C. elegans exploring how genetic signals produce cellular movements & shape changes during development & the reproductive life of the animal 1/2
www.kacygordon.com

@kacylynn.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Really looking forward to visiting Rutgers and @barrlab.bsky.social tomorrow!

leftist terror cells

going nuclear

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Rutgers peeps: David Katz is presenting this exciting work tomorrow Oct 8 at 2pm in Waksman 1001. #celegans

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92 It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

So sad to hear the news - John truly was an inspiration to so many, and one of a kind.

www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

My quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Excited to learn that we have a second great climate champion running for Congress in NJ: in addition to ecologist @meganorourke.com running to unseat Tom Kean Jr in NJ-7, former @rewiringamerica.bsky.social VP @cammiecroft.bsky.social is running to succeed @mikiesherrill.bsky.social in NJ-11.

Thanks to @currentbiology.bsky.social I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers

Biology is amazing.

I was feeling scared to protest on No Kings on October 18 but now WHAT COSTUMES will we wear?

Resistance. Refusal. Ridicule. Those are the ingredients to bring down regimes and among them ridicule is arguably the most delicious. The emperor isn't just naked; his goon squad is afraid of an inflatable frog.
Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

A wooden embroidery hoop with cream colored Aida lies on a wooden surface. At left a spectrum of thread skeins in green, yellow and brown. On top of the unstitched fabric is a bitty pair of TSA-permissible scissors.

Heading to #CSHLDros this week, which means it’s time to get an embroidery project cued up to keep my hands busy while I listen!
🧪 🧬 🪰🪡

What do you & your classmates think about his worm idea?

I recall Sidney Brenner visiting the Cambridge Genetics Department in 1967/68?on the Mill Road, and telling my Part2 class (9 men and me) that he was going to use this small worm to understand neural development. Fabulous progress from an idea to half a century of achievement.

copy of Genetics, Volume 77 number 1

Brenner’s The Generics of Caenorhabditis elegans in print format

got to hangout with don today and look what he gifted us…an original print of genetics that had The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans by Brenner 😭 #celegans 🧪

Investigating Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Vaccines: Is There a Link? Research exploring the link between vaccines and Guillain-Barre syndrome suggests there is a minimal overall risk for GBS associated with vaccination.

Since this question came up in class last week on flu vaccination and Guillain-Barre syndrome, I think I’ll mention this tomorrow: “most research indicates that active influenza infection poses a higher risk for GBS, and vaccination may provide protection against it” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

You don't have to get less angry as you get older. That's why you have to drink more water. It's coolant for the rage

Spit out my water laughing

Really looking forward to this event celebrating a century of the Chrysler #Herbarium at Rutgers, where I have been asked to reflect on botany/collections at RU in the 1990s-- the ancient period during which I did my BS and MS. #iamabotanist

herbarium.rutgers.edu/history-arch...

LOL true

Promotion dossier submitted. Time for a big boy beer