Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD

Guilty

Nuclear ID by vibe checks only

A microscope image showing a developing eye in a quail embryo. Actin is labelled in orange and nuclei are in cyan.

Bird’s eye view, literally. 🐦👁️ Glowing quail embryo eye for #FluorescenceFriday, #DevBio 🧪🔬

A patterning/morph only conference would be bliss

Methylation haters unite

🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio

✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday #DevBio

The amount of bots in this place is out of control. "Postdoc" in bio. That's a fake job.

It happened to me this week 🙈

Does anyone know of a beta-gal/lacZ antibody that works for IF in mouse tissues? The one we previously used that worked beautifully is discontinued 😩🧪

i AM an artist and my studio is
R STUDIO

It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪

Beautiful! 🤩

A confocal image of an E18.5 mouse lung showing Shh-expressing cells in green and non-expressing cells in magenta. Image was acquired on a Nikon A1R.

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is another gorgeous lung image from a Shh lineage tracing survey by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with magenta showing non Shh-expressing cell types and membrane GFP marking Shh-expressing cells. 🤩 🧪 🔬 👩‍🔬

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Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research.

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Check out our work using 3D whole gut spatial genomics, where we found spatially-distinct gene expression patterns along the zebrafish enteric nervous system across 4 to 7 days in development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Disappointing to see a dear colleague’s grant terminated because of anti-DEI ideology. @lisyvila.bsky.social has spearheaded understanding lung endothelial cell heterogeneity, discovering a novel lung endothelial cell, and has groundbreaking unpublished work directly impacted by this decision.

A picture of myself (left) and my postdoc mentor (right) in PhD regalia.

A gif of my postdoc mentor and I hugging after I was hooded for my PhD on the graduation stage.

A picture of my sister (left), myself in PhD regalia and diploma (middle), and my brother in law (right).

A picture of me in PhD regalia with my diploma (left) with my fiancé (right).

I had the privilege to attend my PhD graduation this week. It took a village to get here, but I made it . #firstgen

🧬 #FluorescenceFriday
Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells.

#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy

Losses like these are, for an old man like me, the most devastating of all losses. Programs like these started my career in 1980 and to deny entry portals to the future scientists of America is to deny our future as a nation 🧪

End of Keynote speech where Dr. Joshua Hall received a gift

I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹

But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾

@riceuniversity.bsky.social we started a #DevBio SuperGroup Colloquia where trainees formally presented their work all last academic year. It was a resounding success!

Check out some of the cool science happening at Rice in developmental biology. Special thank you to Lucia Rivas!

Congratulations to you and your lab, Rosa!

So excited my PhD work is finally online! Please take a look at our exploration of the chicken lung 🐓🥚🫁

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This trend is so great. I hope every research institution does it.

I submitted my first nih grant!!

I have had impeccable timing, from starting my PhD in 2020 to submitting my first nih grant in 2025. 🧪

List of eligibility criteria for NIH diversity supplements and related F, K and other awards

In case the link disappears…

The “who” is impacted by cancellation of NIH “diversity” awards is much broader than “not white.” Eligibility criteria included individuals who are disabled, economically disadvantaged, grew up in rural communities, first generation college students, homeless… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters!
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social