Stephanie Woo

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy C Las Americas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in El Paso, Texas providing free and low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees in West Texas, New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

You might also consider supporting Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (www.las-americas.org). They provide low cost legal services for immigrants. And they have a merch shop! www.bonfire.com/store/mercad...

Texas Supreme Court sides with AG Ken Paxton in efforts to get records from El Paso’s Annunciation House The Texas attorney general won a significant victory in his efforts to get records from the Annunciation House shelter network.

Annunciation House has also been the target of lawsuits by Ken Paxton: elpasomatters.org/2025/05/30/s...

El Paso is my hometown, and my birthday happens to be this week. Please join me in donating to Annunciation House (annunciationhouse.org). They help migrants, immigrants, and refugees in El Paso. More recently, they've sheltered people released from ICE detention: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk

Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹

Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻

bit.ly/467TO0M

I’m recruiting new members to the Farrell Lab this summer. We will have space for 1 postdoc (since Abhinav is leaving to start his own lab at U Arizona!!) and 2 postbacs, since my current two will leave for PhD programs at the end of the summer. More details in thread:

Applications are open for PREP Bio at the University of Oregon! A great opportunity for postbacs looking for additional research experience while preparing for graduate school. More here: cas.uoregon.edu/UO-PREP-Bio

If you like your #zebrafish with a side of fluid dynamics, check out Susie’s talk!

Ha! Just yesterday I was at the farmers market and my husband said “the stand over there has the fractal vegetable”

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back! 🎉
Check out the flyer for a great lineup of speakers for Lent Term 2026!
Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to get all the information, including the Zoom link. We are excited to see you again soon 👋

That’s my hometown! I ⭐️ EPTX

Feb 1 deadline approaching for our @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social QBio summer course on Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals. @streichan.bsky.social
@maurazimmermann.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @yusuke-mori.bsky.social @akankshi.bsky.social @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?

Publisher: No notes.

Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)!

An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools.

🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026

Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,

🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?

20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026

✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️

🔁 pls!!

www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting website is LIVE!!! Go see the incredible list of scientists who will be speaking at the meeting next summer! (...and check the site early next year for info on registration and abstract submission.)

scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Congratulations, Franck!

I had to adjust the blinds in my office! I forgot I have blinds!

Big congrats to everyone who’s applied to grad school! 🥳🎉

It’s a huge milestone, and we’re so proud of all the hard work you’ve put in. Take a moment to celebrate—you deserve it! 🌟

Tag a friend who’s on this journey so we can cheer them on too! 🙌🎓

Judges were on our side!

#onlywithHCR: LaBelle et al. reveal that cell–cell collisions are drivers of the dispersal of endodermal cells in zebrafish embryos. With #HCRtechnology, they observed epha2a expression, finding that endodermal cells undergo RhoA-dependent, active repulsion-type CIL.

Read more: tinyurl.com/mrx934sc

The Woo and Materna Labs have weighed in on the “Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie” debate

Thanks Vishank! Hope things are going well at Duke!

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word!

tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

🔍 Seniors, thinking about going to STEM grad school or medical school?

A post-baccalaureate program can help you build research experience, take classes, and even earn a stipend along the way!

Learn what a postbac can do for your STEM path:
🔗 cientificolatino.com/why_postbac

And new QSB grad student German Paniagua will examine how CIL changes (or doesn’t???) as endodermal cells transition from dispersal to convergence movements. 6/6

Physics grad student Nolan Brown in Ajay Gopinathan’s group is looking at whether endodermal cell dispersal can be described by hyperuniformity and motility-induced phase separation. 5/6

This paper has pushed my lab in lots of new and unexpected directions. Things to stay tuned for: Jesselynn is working on ways to use topological data analysis to assess morphogenesis defects in collaboration with applied mathematician Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn. 4/6

Jaxson Ramirez, an undergrad, performed the @hcrimaging.bsky.social fluorescent in situs of EphA expression. We wish him best of luck as he starts pharmacy school at UCSD! 3/6

This paper was truly elevated by our computational collaborator Tom Wyatt. We owe our collaboration to @vgzt2021.bsky.social (Tom got in touch after I gave a talk). We also received early support and feedback from the Finding Your Inner Modeler meetings. 2/6

Author spotlight thread!
This study was heroically led by @qsb-uc-merced.bsky.social grad student Jesselynn LaBelle who consistently pushed for our work to be quantitatively rigorous. She is looking for a postdoc position! Her interests are mathematical biology, image analysis, and microscopy. 1/6