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ARC Future Fellow & Group Leader @IMBatUQ Development biologist/ neuroscientist/ live imager passionate about understanding embryo morphogenesis.
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A sombre #FluorescenceFriday this week. This (developing quail) heart goes out to my fellow scientists & their students in the US. Science can be a brutal career at the best of times but watching from afar as your system struggles, I can only imagine how you feel. Dark times. We see you. Hold on. 🧪

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A cell undergoing cell division photographed through a microscope. Actin filaments (red) and myosin II filaments (cyan) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Happy #FluorescenceFriday to those who celebrate! Here's a beautiful quail neural tube and somites labelled for microtubules 🟠 and actin 🔵. Imaged by Power-RA Siew Zhuan Tan. #devbio 🧪🔬👩‍🔬

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Happy last #FluorescenceFriday before Xmas! It's been a long, stressful 2024 that ended on a high with news of 3 successful grants. Nearly time to rest, relax & regroup before an exciting 2025. Enjoy this beautiful quail neural tube & somites imaged by talented undergrad Avelynn Ang Xin Li 😍🧪#devbio

submitted 71 days ago • 6 comments

The lab has been very good all year and Santa is feeling generous! 🎁🎄🧪🔬

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

Yup. That feels about right...

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Hey Aussie scientists… here’s your chance to have your say on the future strategy for health and medical research. Make your voices heard! 🇦🇺🧪🥼

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

A big thank-you to the @inflammasomelab.bsky.social for involving us in this powerhouse work. Beautiful movies by my team members; Robert Ju and Alexandre Libert rdcu.be/d2mjm #cytoskeleton #actin

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

I’m delighted & grateful to be awarded an ARC Discovery Project Grant to use live imaging to study epithelial fusion in our #devbio transgenic quail model. But I’m acutely aware of all the outstanding work that didn’t get funded due to too little investment in Australian science. 🥹 #bittersweet 🧪👩‍🔬

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

A 🦋-inspired neural tube for #FluorescenceFriday! Imaged by @siewzhuan.bsky.social #DevBio 🧪👩‍🔬

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

I’m excited there’s enough #devbio peeps here to start having subfield starter packs! 🧪

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday to those who celebrate! Here's another beautiful quail neural tube and somites, imaged by Dr Siew Zhuan Tan. That fibronectin is on fire! ❤️‍🔥 🧪 👩‍🔬 #devbio

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

One to watch 👀 🧪👩‍🔬 #devbio

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

A cross-section through the quail neural tube. Look at those beautiful microtubules! ❣️ Imaged by the wonderful Dr Siew Zhuan Tan 🧪 #devbio

submitted 106 days ago • 11 comments

Woohoo! Julia Pagan has entered the chat @celljulia.bsky.social Follow her for cool biochem/protein ubiquitination/ mitochondria science stuff. And probably pictures of her ridiculous dog.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Great balls of fibronectin! 😍

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

If you see this repost with a beach photo from your gallery 🌏

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

What we do: work out how cells move by watching them. (Movies by Robert Ju; you can check out his work (art?) here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... > I'll repost the paper tutorial later for those who are interested). #microscopy #microtubules #cytoskeleton #cellmigration #confinement

submitted 111 days ago • 6 comments

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here’s a transgenic quail embryo growing some beautiful blood vessels 😍

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Hey bsky peeps. Today seemed like the perfect day to finally leave the bad place

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled to see our Lifeact-EGFP quail published @JCellBiol after a fantastic and speedy editorial process. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments