Avital Rodal

Cells come in many shapes and sizes, with diverse physiological functions. But how do #organelles and their interaction networks remodel during #differentiation of stem cells into different cell types? Here’s what we discovered about neuronal differentiation: 1/13

This kind of shit gives me white hot rage. Go back to your cave.

Mixed reviews..... My senior student "host" came to join me on their couch. Frankly this did not feel awesome to me, even in the wacky 90s.

Ooh enjoy!!!

Close-up of a small fly with red eyes perched on a green blade of grass against a blurred green background.

Calling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome Journal is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience.

Submit by June 30, 2026 ▶️ https://ow.ly/LFph50XBE3b

#DrosophilaResearch

Now we don't even know where we are on #TheStupidestTimeline.

I'll be over in ten minutes.

@ascbiology.bsky.social 's Women in Cell Biology (WICB) has yet another fantastic event today at 4pm, room 126A. A networking panel on "Thriving in Uncertain Times: Navigating Career and Funding Challenges". #cellbio2025.

Method applied to data from Kasthuri et al (2015)

We take advantage of the characteristic geometries of dendritic spines--their saddle-like necks and bulbous heads--to eliminate (or at least significantly decrease) the need for the painstaking work of manual image segmentation.

#cellbio2025 The Women in Cell Biology (WICB) Committee has put together some truly fantastic events for this year’s meeting! We can’t wait for you to check them out:

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
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The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.

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I’m here too!!! But hanging out with parental units. Hi!!!!!

Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11 Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

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 🙏

Glad to hear it!!

very satisfying to see these structures 27 years after first grappling with the Aip1-cofilin mechanism as a beginning graduate student!

With apologies to @xkcd.com

The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism “The current political establishment and their supporters have consistently pathologized difference,” particularly when it comes to autism, a professor of medicine writes.

🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... via @statnews.com

Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.

I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:

“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Come see Mónica, who is on the job market! This is a really cool story using beatiful imaging to reveal unexpected properties of the presynaptic ER.

FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking Thursday 25 September, 15:00 -17:00 BST (UTC+1) Chaired by Francesca Bottanelli, Felix Campelo and Ishier Raote Nick Ader (UNC Greensboro) Keep it together! Mechanisms of membrane maintenance and biogenesis Hannes Maib (University of Sheffield) Multiplex and super resolution imaging of phosphoinositide conversion during receptor trafficking Mónica Quiñones-Frías (Brandeis University) Loss of ER-Shaping protein Atlastin causes synaptic ER stress and membrane trafficking defects Keynote speaker Gillian Griffiths (Yale University) Unexpected membrane dynamics in T cells

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

Highly recommend for anyone considering a career as a journal editor! 🧪🧬🔬🥼 #sciencecareers #scientificediting #journaleditor #careersoutsidescademia

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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