Thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Dept. of Genetics, Cell Biology, & Development and the Developmental Biology Center at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor in early 2023!

now that the video is published, happy to share the first publication from my lab, reporting our method to transplant cells in late embryonic and larval zebrafish. it's a cool and fun technique. congrats to Lindsey and Rabab on the great work!

was tidying up my desk at work today and came across this old post-it note. To what or whom it refers we will never know. I can only hope that whatever distraction truncated this thought at least temporarily stayed their execution.

I write like a million emails a day, and i just spent 5 minutes staring at my inbox unable to find the "compose" button. I think maybe my period of productivity for this day is over.

📢 Two #postdoc roles available! 📢 Application deadline is now 🌟20th January 2024🌟 Please get in touch if you're interested!

The lab will focus on how tyrosine #phosphatases perform their cellular functions. #newPI Two #postdoc positions are available! https://t.co/gWVRb9anUu Please help spread the word!

Our #SpotlightZebrafish this week is on Dr. Austin Seroka (@austinseroka1), a #postdoc with @CeciliaMoens @fredhutch. He uses zebrafish to study specification & development of the vagus nerve motor neurons and how these neurons choose and innervate organ targets. (1/2)

As a real symbol for how my luck has been going recently, this weekend I was bitten by a ladybug.

I did it again this morning! I didn't think my incompetence would come on so quickly.

Yesterday I tried to help a lab member with an experiment and totally screwed it up for her, and then slunk back to my office in shame. I am now well and truly a PI.

A classic correlation vs causation problem: did my toddler squat because he needed to poop, or did he poop because he squatted? I’m at an n of like 200 and I can’t figure it out.

As trainee I was reticent to send reminder emails to PIs who didn’t respond to me. thought I was being bothersome. Let me tell you, as now a PI: I will feel nothing but gratitude to you for reminding me of that email I meant to respond to but that I let slip in the email deluge

on the upside, the lab's first hire started last week and has been a welcome reminder of the parts of this job that I love and that have been missing the last few months I've spent mostly sitting alone in my office, and super excited for the @socdevbiol meeting next week!

feeling a bit down about all the antagonism on #scitwitter this week.

Incredible course. highly recommend to any zebrafish trainees.

Beautiful paper by @dena_goldblatt @schoppik et al showing the role of temporal patterning (or neuronal birth order) in establishing a functional topography in the vestibular system of larval zebrafish.

The Isabella lab is open and ready to get experimenting! And job ads are up for Researcher ( https://t.co/mUcp8R1fct) and Postdoc ( https://t.co/GJc3lAkXMy) positions. Check them out if interested in neurodevelopment and regeneration. #ZebrafishJobs #devbiojobs

It’s a testament to the perseverance of scientists that we continue, against all odds, to put our sciency words into spelling bee, only to be once again dismayed by the result.

Calling all zebrafish early career scientists: looking for a mentored science writing experience? Consider writing a “Science Spotlight” article for the next IZFS NewsSplash newsletter. DM @CeciliaMoens or @kzrna, or email cmoens@fredhutch.org or k.sampath@warwick.ac.uk @InfoIzfs

If you, or someone you know, would be interested in a postdoc position combining mass spectrometry phosphoproteomics, bioinformatics, and virology to study the virus:kinase signaling interface, come join me! https://t.co/cfbCgt5IRu #TeamMassSpec #postdocjobs

The new Isabella lab website is live and lab opening is just around the corner! We are hiring at ALL LEVELS, so anyone interested in studying zebrafish nerve development and regeneration in fun and affordable Minneapolis, please get in touch.