Robert Van Sciver

JCS Cover: Human tracheal epithelial cells (hTECs) from an air–liquid interface culture imaged using ultrastructural expansion microscopy (U-ExM). Cells are labelled for tubulin (magenta), mCLING (cyan) and DNA (blue, DAPI). Image from Olivier Mercey and Marine Brunet in the Guichard-Hamel lab. See article by O. Mercey et al. (jcs264260).

Our #JCSciliaSI is complete

Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

Our cover image shows tracheal epithelial cells from an air-liquid interface culture imaged using U-ExM from Oliver Mercey and Marine Brunet @centriolelab.bsky.social.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Going to #ASHG25 #ASHG this week? So is our Deputy Editor, George Inglis! Please reach out to him at gsinglis.bsky.social or by email (george.inglis@us.nature.com) if you'd like to talk about your work. He'll also be part of an editor panel on Wednesday (Oct 15) from 11:45AM-1:15PM

A summary of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's comments during his visit to UAB today for a town hall style presentation:

-Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

So proud to know you! And I'm equally grateful to you for your mentorship, training and support

We're live! @inikon.bsky.social used modular proximity labeling to identify ciliary EV cargo in #celegans. This EV-TurboID approach can be applied in cell- & tissue-specific manners to define the composition of distinct EV subtypes, a major challenge of the EV field.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How and why did Inna Nikonorova isolate and profile individual ciliary extracellular vesicles? Learn more here, at the behind-the-scenes blog by @inikon.bsky.social

LOOK at how few white counties there are on this map.

Almost EVERY county in this country loses with the White House's proposed cuts to health research 🧪

For over 40 years, we have driven research in efforts to find a cure for PKD. Now, a 57% cut to CDMRP funding threatens that progress. Urge Congress to protect this critical funding, PKD research depends on it!

Take action now: p2a.co/5rwekfw

The 2025 PKD RRC Symposium is almost here! See our 2 day agenda full of exciting and innovative talks! For more details, visit our website at pkd-rrc.org or www.scgcorp.com/PKDRRC2025/

@standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScienceATL was so empowering. Great speakers and lots of cars honking in support too
#StandUpForScience2025

Unlike the people taking a chainsaw to institutions, the people working at these institutions are real patriots, who have worked their entire careers to keep the US at the forefront of science, to protect against threats, natural and man-made, to ensure a high quality of life for all Americans.

Sure, one of those jobs is mine, but we are doubling the value of that investment! Protect public support of science!

📢 Atlanta! Time to stand up for science!

Why? Because science is for everyone.

Join us on 3/7 from 12-4 at Liberty Plaza- Georgia State Capital
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Interested in primary #cilia, #microtubules, #protein trafficking, molecular #signaling, #GPCRs, and #ciliopathies?

We are looking for a #postdoc and a #PhDstudent to apply advanced #biochemistry and #proteomics methods to study cilia.
Check out our website and send your application until March 10.

The fact that Brian Lea on behalf of the DOJ argues in defense of cutting NIH funding that "Diversity of viewpoints ultimately lead to a better decision"...

Thank you for sharing this in real time.

CDC saves lives. Diseases are real. They're out there. It's not just COVID and bird flu.

Posted at the crosswalk between CDC and Emory today

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

In Georgia-

NIH FUNDING:
$780 M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
11,816
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$2.18 B

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

An nice and inspiring cartoon about what is a PhD (from Matt Might #OldieButGoldie).

New members of the GSA Board of Directors: 2025–2027 We are pleased to announce the election of six new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors: 2025 Vice President/2026 President Cassandra Extavour Timken Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology an...

Congrats to all the newly elected members of the GSA Board of Directors, including TAGC24 veteran @barrlab.bsky.social

genestogenomes.org/new-members-...

@vansciver.bsky.social & @tamaragenes.bsky.social provide a tool to prioritise primary cilia-associated genes, their corresponding mouse 🐭 and zebrafish 🐟 alleles & phenotypes. journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Check out the tool here: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Check out What's Happening with the PKD RRC! SAVE THE DATE for the Annual PKD RRC Symposium March 12-13, 2025, more details to come! pkd-rrc.org #endPKD #PolycysticKidneyDisease

Did you miss the PKD RRC Monthly Scientific Roundtable for December? No worries, the outstanding presentation by Moe R. Mahjoub is now available at www.pkd-rrc.org/pkd-rrc-mont... #endPKD #PolycysticKidneyDisease

FYI I've added a lot of new ppl to this
#cilia list take a look to see who you might want to follow!
go.bsky.app/ELfYqxw

We got a Centrosome & Cilia starter pack 🙌 lots of space to add anyone interested!

After 3,000 years of science, the embryo is very different | Aeon Essays For 3,000 years, humans have struggled to understand the embryo. Now there is a revolution underway

Side-hustle activated. Stoked to have this popular science piece out in Aeon Magazine:

aeon.co/essays/after...