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Amber Stratman

@astratman.bsky.social

Vascular Biologist, Developmental Biologist, Zebrafish enthusiast, and Mom. WashU School of Medicine, but thoughts are my own.

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20.01.2026 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Make Your Voice Heard! Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have advanced draft spending bills that maintain federal funding for lifesaving...

NAVBO is joining the January 21st Day of Action to urge increased FY26 funding for medical research! ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿซ€๐Ÿ”ฌ

โœ… Join us: speak4.app/lp/6t01dslt/...

#SupportCures #FundMedicalResearch #CuresCantWait

17.01.2026 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Over the last century, research has helped improve the
early detection and treatment of serious diseases. But
future progress is at risk unless we continue federal
funding for medical research.
#AmericansForMedicalResearch

19.11.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Over the last century, research has helped improve the
early detection and treatment of serious diseases. But
future progress is at risk unless we continue federal
funding for medical research.
#AmericansForMedicalResearch

19.11.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
super resolution microscopy image of neutrophils to visualize the depolymerized f-actin (phalloidin staining visualized in yellow) in cells that took up lipid (visualized in magenta)

super resolution microscopy image of neutrophils to visualize the depolymerized f-actin (phalloidin staining visualized in yellow) in cells that took up lipid (visualized in magenta)

Super excited to share our newest story! We found that despite their well-known reliance on glucose, neutrophils also like lipids! Lipid uptake is induced by immune signals, and we think this is important in atherosclerosis and other lipotoxic metabolic diseases!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

15.07.2025 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excited to be involved with this work driven by @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social and her team! Read the preprint now!

"Neutrophil TLR2 signaling promotes lipid accumulation and vascular plaque growth"

15.07.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join us! Abstract submissions due in one week

10.03.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A sign that says โ€œsmall fish big impact fund scientific researchโ€ with a picture of an adult and larval zebrafish

A sign that says โ€œsmall fish big impact fund scientific researchโ€ with a picture of an adult and larval zebrafish

I stood up for science! Shoutout to @astratman.bsky.social for the sign idea. #StandUpForScience #standupforscience2025

07.03.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My colleague Dan beat me to the punch but I am so thankful that my hometown paper (and others) was willing to share this with the community.

23.02.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Exciting news! We are launching Applied Health Analytics for Delivery & Innovation (AHADI) led by Abdisalan Noor and @jalinegerardin.bsky.social. AHADI is an organization focused on Africa that works for countries on #SelfRelianceInHealthAnalytics Learn more here ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ shorturl.at/8XQVN.

30.01.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Hello #Bluesky! We'd like to introduce ourselves...

We are the WashU Ciliopathy Research Group - a multidisciplinary team of investigators at Washington University in St Louis that perform fundamental, translational, and clinical research on #ciliopathies.

Follow us for updates from the group! ๐Ÿ‘‡

17.01.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

NK: PIEZO1 p.Pro42Leu causes narrowed aorta in zebrafish, in work by @astratman.bsky.social lab #ASHG24

06.11.2024 00:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This one is a great collaboration with @astratman.bsky.social on characterization of U12-spliceosome gene ZCRB1, U12-intron splicing and its role in ciliogenesis and WNT-signaling. Halloween passed but we can still get headless zebrafish. #RNA #splicing #RNAbiology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

13.11.2024 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*Tap tap tap* Is this thing on? New paper alert from the lab, featuring first author Dymonn Johnson and a whole host of collaborators who helped this paper come together. We couldn't have done this without the whole team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

03.04.2024 04:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Check out our new paper on mural cell populations in the developing zebrafish! What transgenic marker should be used to see mural cells in different vascular beds over time? Read on to find out about Pdgfrb vs Tagln expression-with some new twists: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

30.12.2023 23:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Go check this out! Fun to collaborate on work driven by the Nicoli Lab ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ”ฌ

18.12.2023 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Genomics

utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/153... Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Genomics at Univ Utah

21.11.2023 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿงช 3 tenure-track microbiome faculty job openings in Hawaii! ๐ŸŒž ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿงซ ๐Ÿงฌ ๐Ÿฆƒ

21.11.2023 00:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Super proud of this work! Still much to do, but excited to see where it takes us!

thanks Hao for the feature! ๐Ÿ˜€

13.11.2023 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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cxcr3.1/3.3 as #EndothelialCell flow sensor

CXCR3 inhibition (AMG487) in #Zebrafish๐ŸŸ
->โซ๐Ÿง vascularity +โซpERK1/2 in EC
->โฌpdgfb in EC->โฌ๐Ÿง #Perciyte recruitment

Any distinct/redundant function vs CXCL11-CXCR4 axis?
1/3๐Ÿงต

@astratman.bsky.social bioRxiv 2023
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.11.2023 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

WashU CellBio is launching a new program called the RISE Fellows Program: cellbiology.wustl.edu/education/ri...
This is a mentored-fellowship to tenure track faculty position open to defending PhD candidates/< 3rd year postdocs. All areas of cell biology considered. Reach out with any questions!

11.10.2023 02:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats @teresaomeara.bsky.social on this beautiful work!!

28.09.2023 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New preprint from the lab! Gain and loss of CXCR3 activity in endothelial cells alters their vessel expansion and stabilization potential.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

18.09.2023 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One reason I got into science social media was a small project to highlight women whose work I admire in neural engineering & systems/comp neuro. Since X is dying, I'm migrating those posts here. To give folks their due, we'll go one post per day.

Follow along to celebrate some amazing science!

21.08.2023 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Excited for postdoc Javier Abello's appointment to WashU's TriMED T32! Exciting working coming- stay tuned!

09.09.2023 04:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yea!!

23.08.2023 03:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd like to be added, thanks!

19.08.2023 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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