Emma Koory
@EmmaKoory
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PhD candidate in the Burnette lab @VanderbiltU. Interested in studying cellular mysteries via microscopy and also rocks, plants, stars, and cats.
Joined March 2014
"Non-Muscle α-Actinin-4 Couples Sarcomere Function to Cardiac Remodeling" is now online at Circulation Research! Congratulations to Dr. James Hayes on this ambitious work! There is a lot in the paper so let's start with the graphical abstract. @CircRes
https://t.co/OQ4tj9RGnu
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These breast cancer cells are so dynamic!! These frames are every 10 mins and the cell is almost unrecognizable from one frame to the next 🤯
Some cells are just in it for the drama! The bottom 5 microns of cells videoed through a microscope by @EmmaKoory. The middle cell rounds up (for fun?) and subsequently rounds up to divide. We missed so much of the action by just sampling the bottom. @CellBiology
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A hungry heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) videoed through a microscope by Burnette Lab graduate student, @EmmaKoory. What is it eating and why? We may never know....... #CellBiology
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Been doing a lot of time lapses of iPSC-derived cardiac muscle cells lately! Here's one of my favorites. This cell is expressing fluorescent alpha-actinin-2 and the colors represent depth. Movie length = 24h with frames taken every 20m. #microscopymonday #cellbiology @MAG2ART
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I made this muscle myosin II expression plasmid with a fun surprise on it that, if I can get to work, will be big. Stay tuuuneddd
iPS cell-derived cardiac myocytes (heart muscle cells) typically beat about once per second, so I usually speed up the movies I post; otherwise, scrollers might miss the action. But every now and then, a cell looks like this in real time. Could we use these rare cells to uncover
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An iPSC-derived heart muscle cell assembling sarcomeres videoed through a spinning disk confocal microscope by Burnette Lab graduate student, @EmmaKoory. Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. Colors denote Z slices (red-bottom; green-middle; blue-top). Movie length- 40 hours.
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An iPSC heart muscle cell forming sarcomeres videoed through a microscope by @EmmaKoory for 20 h before it dies most dramatically. This was our first try on a new microscope, and Emma now has the imaging parameters dialed in so her cells do not go POP! #CellBiology
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Cardiomyocyte dressed up as the Millennium Falcon for Halloween! One of my favorites! #fluorescencefriday #cellbiology
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The Burnette Lab did well this year in the Nikon Small World contest this year! Way to go James and Zach! 🔬 https://t.co/9Q5jkpa3qd
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Has anyone even asked the cells if they wish to be perturbed
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Second-year grad students are now ineligible for the NSF GRFP, screwing over an entire cohort of students who postponed submitting last year in hopes to have a more solid app this year. No announcement from the @NSF. What gives?
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Excited to share that I got an honorable mention in the #nikonsmallworldinmotion competition this year! Contracting human heart muscle cells | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition | Nikon Small World:
nikonsmallworld.com
Zachary Sanchez - Contracting human heart muscle cells showing mitochondria (red) and calcium waves (blue)
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Breaking News: @EmmaKoory won the Best Graduate Student talk award at the Program in Developmental Biology retreat today! Carries on Burnette Lab tradition! #CellBiology @VUBasicSciences
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A heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) photographed through a microscope by PhD candidate @EmmaKoory. #CellBiology
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Are my basic scientists still here? Haven’t done #FluorescenceFriday in quite a bit. Feeling sad about the state of science in the US? Go stare at some fibroblast actin networks (shown here) in a microscope until your eyes bleed! It works!
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I’m excited, relieved, and honored to announce that my paper describing non-canonical mitotic mechanisms in the early mouse embryo is out in @ScienceMagazine ! (link at end of 🧵)
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We designed “Rainbow Nucleus” to reveal the secret relationships among five major nuclear membrane-less organelles using live-cell imaging. A lot is unknown: what mediates these interactions? What are the functions? https://t.co/5YE6Sf7lbT
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At 15, I left all my family and friends and came to the US , ALONE, seeking a country where MERIT and HARD WORK mattered-not politics. For 30 years, I worked tirelessly, even doing reseach at MIT the day my mother died, knowing she’d want me to keep pushing forward. Today, my
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It’s a little late, but as of last Monday, I am now officially Dr. Sanchez. So incredibly grateful for the training and mentorship that I received in the Burnette lab under @MAG2ART! Can’t wait to change research paths a little bit and start studying Toxoplasma with @LouridoLab
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Do you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N
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