Kevin Collins

JIP4 deficiency causes a lysosomal storage disease arising from impaired cystine efflux Lysosomes break down macromolecules, clear cellular waste and recycle nutrients such as cystine. We describe a novel mechanism whereby JIP4 regulates lysosomal cystine storage by controlling the abund...

Interesting pre-print! First author Layla was an undergrad in the lab, and this is her PhD work in the Ferguson lab at Yale! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yeah, that's the first thing I saw: Pruitt as co-author, etc. He made that whole field fucking radioactive.

We are still recruiting for a lab tech position, as well as for a postdoc position-small lab, mice+human ephys, neurodevelopment-DM for details!

Histmed job!!

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

Research Associate in Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia Apply for Research Associate in Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

As promised, here is a new opening for my lab, this time for a postdoc: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Our lab is recruiting a postdoc to join a project that studies the activity in the neonate brain (mouse and human !)

My department lobbied to get one, and I had no idea what it was

"includes, but are not limited to..."

At this point I could be convinced that a time traveler keeps going back to 2016 to try and fix it and just keeps unwittingly making it worse

Yes, Gen X won't try to clean this up. We're already the olds, maintaining the status quo. It will instead be the Millenials, etc. who have already started to step up.

Long-term ex ovo culture of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos The genetic tractability, transparency and invariant development of the C. elegans embryo have led to its broad adoption as a model system for the study of cell and developmental biology. Its impermea...

New preprint! Grad student Clover Stubbert and undergrad Cherry Soe worked out a serum-free media that sustains eggshell-less C. elegans embryos all the way through development, now making it possible to access any embryonic developmental stage with small molecules
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hot damn this is cool

a man and a boy are standing next to each other in a room . ALT: a man and a boy are standing next to each other in a room .

As someone who works at umiami

Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!

Endorse!

In the midst of (*waves hands*), our lab received our first NOA from NIMH, as well as our first major private foundation funding. Of course, given everything, hiring at UVA currently is...challenging, to quote our admins, but the first position for our lab is up!

Today, NSF added another 500 GRFP awardees, bringing this year’s total to 1500
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu.

apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry)
apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)

Megalomaniacal narcissism is the new separation of powers

Fund astronomy, not genocide. You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...

SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science.

h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Boston Has Worms (The Good Kind) Inside the world of C. elegans worms and the scientists who know them best.

Delighted to share this timely article in Boston magazine on our local C. elegans community and the effects of NIH freezes.

"There might be no group more enthusiastic, self-aware, or life-affirming than the worm people."

www.bostonmagazine.com/news/c-elega...

Thanks for the shout out @meera-sundaram.bsky.social ! This was such a fun project! 101 knock-ins and counting and they all had such cool and unique localization pattern and substructures!

Trichoplax adhaerens is one of the simplest and most enigmatic animals on earth. Its body shows incredible fluidity, changing shape within minutes. In a recent visit by Andrea Pasini we had the chance to host and observe these amazing animals live.
[movie accelerated 3x; animal 0.5 to 1 mm in size]

Fuck. Seems bad.

ALERT

The expiration dates for the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for the PARENT F30, F31, and F32 awards have been changed to May 8, 2025.

To my knowledge, no new NOFOs have been posted.

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It’s really hard to make it more of a conversation. It feels like I’m talking at them, and I wish they asked more questions or shared what they think I should be doing more of. But, that’s often true at lab meetings as well.

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n