Jen McKey

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Nope! This beautiful image was produced by @shmimberly.bsky.social! 🤩

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Ranard, postdoctoral fellow in the @bruceappel.bsky.social lab, on receiving a NINDS K99/R00 award for her proposal entitled, “Impact of nutritional status on mechanisms guiding brain development”! @cupediatrics.bsky.social #zebrafish #devbio

The gene regulatory landscape driving mouse gonadal supporting cell differentiation Multiomics analysis revealed the regulatory elements and transcription factors responsible for gonadal sex determination.

1/n Very excited to share our recent paper published on
@ScienceAdvances
where we dissect the gene regulatory landscape guiding mouse sex determination!
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A huge well done to @IsabelleStevant.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy, Meshi and Elisheva who spearhead this project!

Beautiful work!! Congrats Nitzan and team!! 🤩

Studying ovarian aging and its health impacts: modern tools and approaches

Excited to see this new review piece that we wrote together with Jennifer Garrison and Alison Kochersberger on the modern tools and approaches to study #ovarian #aging out this week at @genesdev.bsky.social!
genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl... #GeroSky #WomensHealth 🧪🧬
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ReproBioArt 2025 #ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro

The 2025 edition of ⁦‪SSRepro‬⁩ #ReproBioArt image contest is live and the gallery is filling up with such beautiful images! Submit yours today!!
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ReproBioArt 2025 #ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro

Hey #ReproSky don’t forget tot submit your beautiful images to the SSR #ReproBioArt contest!! Winners get free registration to the 2026 meeting and a beautiful showcase of their images!! Let’s show off how pretty #ReproBio can be!!
#ReproRocks @ssrwinrs.bsky.social

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Oh yes this will be perfect inspiration!! 🤩🧪🔬

What a nice set of papers- just as I’m beginning to think of our intro to developmental models course this fall @jenmckey.bsky.social !

Honored to received this distinction, and incredibly grateful to be leading a group that makes mentoring the most fun and rewarding part of my job! 🤩

And congrats to Lily for such outstanding community work!
#reprosky #ReproRocks #TeamOvary

Ready for it???
To all the **sex determination lovers**
📢 Save the date to the 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination (VSD) held in the beautiful Hawaii!!
Great community, amazing science, excellent speakers and superb location 🏝
📢 March 23-26, 2026 📢

Rediscovering the rete ovarii, a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary The rete ovarii is a complex secretory structure that may play an important role in ovarian homeostasis.

Excited to share that part of my PhD work is officially published in eLife! Couldn’t have done it without @jenmckey.bsky.social

elifesciences.org/articles/96662

First first author research paper for Lily and first paper out of my lab!! Excited to see this out and so proud of the hard work my lab members put into it :)
Hoping OoCount will save others countless hours of manual follicle counting! @ssrwinrs.bsky.social #TeamOvary #ReproRocks

Congratulations!! This is gonna be such a fun award session 🤩

It was so wonderful to work with Blanche’s colleagues and Capel Lab past and present to put together her nomination. Congrats Blanche!!! So well deserved!!

Such an incredible group of awardees!! 🤩 I’m so excited for my mentor Blanche Capel to be recognized this year with the Conklin Medal! Her contributions to the field and her dedication her trainees’ are so inspiring. I cannot wait to celebrate at the meeting! #devbio @socdevbio.bsky.social

Big congrats to this year's awardees!

Basic science matters more than ever - the awardees represent key aspects of what makes #devbio a central biomedical research endeavor of widespread impact. Applause!

Our values and resolve are only strengthened by recent events.

OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification Summary Sentence: This protocol introduces OoCount, a high-throughput, open-source method for automatic oocyte segmentation and classification from fluores

Congratulations to our very own graduate student, Lily Folts, for her recent publication; "OoCount: A Machine-Learning Based Approach to Mouse Ovarian Follicle Counting and Classification". 🔬🥼🤗 academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

Special Issue: Reproductive Health Our latest Special Issue showcases research in reproductive biology and medicine.

E-Life special issue on reproductive health
#ReproSky #MedSky 🧪
elifesciences.org/collections/...

Listen to 2024 Roger V Short Medal Awardee, Dr. Francesca Duncan, discuss ovarian aging and give trainees a bit of her wisdom on the latest SSR podcast! 👏👏👏
#womeninSTEM #reprorocks
Listen to the full episode here 👇https://www.buzzsprout.com/1786803/episodes/16143433

Congrats to a fabulous collaborator who is not on social media!

Our first manuscript on maternal nutrition and development, which was driven entirely by postdoc Katie Ranard, is now out. @cudevbio.bsky.social #devbio doi.org/10.1016/j.jl...

Congrats!! 🤩

To learn more, please check out my youtube tutorials at www.youtube.com/@oanegros which shows, among others, how to make this video!
The data here is a dinoflagellate from Mocaer et al. 2023, hosted publicly at EMPIAR-11399 (also shown in the first post here).

FIB-SEM dataset visualized with Microscopy Nodes, data from Mocaer et al 2023

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀

This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev).

High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬

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