Samira Musah

Drs. @oscarabilez.bsky.social, Huaxiao 'Adam' Yang, and a team in Dr. Joseph Wu's lab generated vascularized cardiac and hepatic #organoids!

Read the @science.org paper: bit.ly/3FBuHtr
Listen to the discussion: bit.ly/4kRfsMk

Announcing the 4th successful PhD dissertation defense from the Musah Lab at Duke University, by PhD student Yasmin Roye. Lab website: https://musahlab.pratt.duke.edu

Thrilled to announce the 4th successful PhD dissertation defense from the #MusahLab! Dr. Yasmin Roye’s work advanced patient-specific disease modeling, uncovered mechanisms of diabetic podocytopathies and revealed new therapeutic avenues. Congratulations on a remarkable scientific growth, Dr. Roye!🎉

Photo showing a beautiful first bloom of Sweet William from a very excited amateur gardener, Samira Musah:-)

So excited to grow Sweet William for the first time. This beauty bloomed in my amateur garden, all thanks to catching the gardening bug from an amazing faculty colleague and friend!😊

Wondering if your PO, SRO, or other NIH official is still at NIH? Tara pointed out this useful search tool. Unfortunately my MIRA PO, who just took over this portfolio in December, is no longer listed. 💔

A science themed flag that reads “Science, it’s like magic but real”

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Receiving grant and program cancellation notices from federal & private agencies without clear justification is disheartening, but seeing talented trainees lose job and fellowship opportunities—and their confidence in the system—is devastating. This is not how science and society should be.

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National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist The NSF said on Sunday that its payment system was back on line, after it froze out researchers and sparked financial worries.

www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...

The Moon & Venus spectacle, Feb 1st, 2025

Gorgeous night sky from NC (here on earth:-)). Absolutely stunning — Moon & Venus spectacle, Feb 1st, 2025

Headshots of 102 women and non-binary scientists who are now assistant professors. At the bottom is the Leading Edge logo and www.leadingedgesymposium.org

Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊

Learn more about them:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3).

You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.

Undergraduates - Join us for summer research at MIT!

Final #MusahLab publication of 2024 is here, open access! We explore epigenetics in hypertensive nephropathy, a major contributor to kidney disease & rising healthcare cost. Congratulations to PhD students/coauthors Yize Zhang, Hamidreza Arzaghi, Zhehan Ma, & Yasmin Roye! tiny.cc/epigenHN

“NIH reiterates that compliance with the Policy does not require the payment of an open access fee to a journal…free pathway to compliance can be achieved by depositing the Author Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central for public availability upon the Official Date of Publication without embargo.“

All eight shapes of mitochondria

Reconstruction of mitochondria from Confocal imaging of human cells

Mitotracker staining (orange) and nucleus (green) in Hela cells

I’m here ! It took a while! Still love all the same things 😎😁

One of the most surprising lessons for me during my 30 years of doing science is how it's essentially impossible predict what major scientific breakthroughs will emerge or where they will emerge from. But the way we fund science is mostly based on the assumption that we can make such predictions.

Dr. Xingrui Mou is being celebrated by the Musah Lab at Duke University for his successful PhD thesis defense and becoming the 3rd graduate student from the Musah Lab to achieve this milestone. He is pictured with a huge smile while holding a mug with the text 'Dr. Mou" on it. Members of the Musah Lab research group are also pictured as they celebrate Xingrui for his successful work on engineering biomaterials and microfluidic organ chip devices for tissue engineering and disease modeling.

Big congratulations to Dr. Xingrui Mou on defending his PhD and becoming the 3rd PhD grad from #MusahLab! 🎉 His work on engineering vascularized #microfluidic #OrgansOnChips & disease modeling is remarkable. His next stop: Postdoc at #NYSCF! Check out his research publications: tinyurl.com/MusahLab

Such a privilege to speak with Yuki Noguchi & @npr.org about my experience as a cancer patient and now cancer researcher. #CCIL #UIllinois 🧪

Check out the radio interview here (article coming soon!)

Cancer survivorship: Navigating the disruptions to schooling www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...

Today we report in 𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙡 a systematic approach to generate neural #organoids resembling various domains of the neural axis
Neal Amin & @kevinkelley.bsky.social developed a multiplexed morphogen screen to generate #organoids that mapped to almost 2/3 of the clusters in the 1st trimester CNS

Generation and long-term culture of human cerebellar organoids from pluripotent stem cells Nature Protocols - Generation and long-term culture of a human pluripotent stem cell-derived human cerebellar organoid model, which successfully replicates the cellular diversity of the fetal...

We're excited to share our comprehensive protocol for generating human cerebellar #organoids, addressing the many requests we've received from the scientific community! Congratulations to Alex Atamian, @marcellabirtele.bsky.social, and Negar Hosseini! rdcu.be/d13Zu @natureportfolio.bsky.social

I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh

Weekend update!

NephSky up to pack 5!

5th pack go.bsky.app/JJ4h8su

4th pack: go.bsky.app/YeuH82
3rd pack: go.bsky.app/2yLiYN4
2nd pack go.bsky.app/N27Kzri
1st pack: go.bsky.app/H4td28C

+ PedNeph pack from @kidneywiki.bsky.social
and many more

Reply or DM with what I have missed

Great list. Thank you!
I’d appreciate it if you could add me. My lab (link below) explores ECM development and remodeling in stem cell differentiation, health, disease, and injury repair. Thank you!

musahlab.pratt.duke.edu

HBPA 4th Annual Symposium — Harvard Black Postdoc Association Join Us for the 4th HBPA Annual Symposium and Networking Mixer! Kick off the event with the HBPA Annual Symposium Networking Mixer on Thursday evening, December 12, 2024 . This exciting evening i...

🎉 This season, we are grateful to
@BlueprintMeds, @bostonchildrens.bsky.social, @PathfinderDFHCC, @harvardmed.bsky.social &
@broadinstitute.org for their continuous support on our HBPA Annual Symp. on Dec 13th 🗓️
🔗 Details & Register: hbpa.hms.harvard.edu/events/hbpa-...
#HBPA2024 #Gratitude

Musah Lab Welcome to the Musah Lab!

Hello and thank you for putting this together! I’d appreciate it if you could add me to the list. My lab studies mechanotransduction in stem cell differentiation, human disease progression, and injury repair. Thank you!
More about our research: musahlab.pratt.duke.edu

Recruitment Summit for Postdoctoral Scholars in Cell Biology and Genomics | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Recruitment Summit for Postdoctoral Scholars in Cell Biology and Genomics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. null at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Recruitment Summit for PhD students (within 1 yr of graduating) & Postdoctoral Fellows (within 1-2 yrs of receiving doctoral degree). Meet dedicated faculty recruiting postdocs to work in cutting-edge research labs at CHOP and UPenn. 🧪🔬🧬
careers.chop.edu/us/en/event/...

Thank you very much and have a great week!

Working on a #StarterPack to collect researchers using human biology-based tools ( #organoids, #microphysiologicalsystems, other human-derived #invitro tools) + computational models & the orgs & accounts that promote non-animal science. Small so far, but I'm new here. Msg to add.
go.bsky.app/SVWGwgu

Musah Lab Welcome to the Musah Lab!

Thank you for putting this together! I’d appreciate it if you could add me. More about my lab: musahlab.pratt.duke.edu

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Musah Lab Welcome to the Musah Lab!

Thank you for putting this together! I’d appreciate it if you could add me. More about my lab: musahlab.pratt.duke.edu
Thank you!