Erika Geisbrecht
@GeisbrechtE_Lab
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Geisbrecht E lab in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BioPhysics at Kansas State University. Drosophila Developmental Genetics Lab.
Kansas State University
Joined April 2020
Ran across this yesterday in our TEM imaging. Muscle nuclei have feelings too😆
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Coincidence that 'Muscle Bucky' was outside my hotel while attending a Mechanisms of Muscle Growth and Development meeting in Madison? Probably fate:)
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Much thanks for NIAMS for supporting a new research direction in our lab!
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The Geisbrecht Lab migration. With bittersweet memories of Burt Hall, we rounded up our experiments and moved across the street to make new attachments with colleagues and students in Chalmers Hall. Can't wait to get back to research!.
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Chitin deacetylases are necessary for insect femur muscle attachment and mobility | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Muscle attachment sites (MASs, apodemes) in insects and other arthropods involve specialized epithelial cells, called tendon cells or tenocytes, th...
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Fun trip to KC to use get trained in TEM. Yungui is a master!
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RT @KStateCancerRes: Congrats to JCRC faculty members Brian Geisbrecht @BvgLab in biochemistry & molecular biophysics and Roman Ganta in di….
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Excited my students could share their work at the Drosophila conference. The excitement upon their return to lab is contagious. Much thanks to @KStateCancerRes for travel awards.
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RT @J_Exp_Biol: Muscle loss is a disabling consequence of #aging and #disease, but now tobacco hawk moth pupae are teaching us about some o….
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RT @EricTWang: @UFScienceWriter thank you for writing about and sharing our work! @lancetdenes @chasepkelley @UFHea….
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To allow movement and function, our muscles use tiny “contraction machines” inside of cells. Each on its own is too weak to move even a fingernail, but muscles…
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nature loves muscles too! check out the beautiful sarcomeres floating in northern Kansas!
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These flies were shipped by an international colleague in July 2020. They arrived yesterday. We don't need more reasons to slow down basic research.
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The Geisbrecht Lab at is seeking a motivated post-doctoral candidate to understand muscle tissue remodeling in Drosophila. Inquiries should be directed to geisbrechte@ksu.edu.
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RT @GeneticsGSA: There are now many tools to help connect model organism and clinical researchers. GSA President Hugo Bellen has launched….
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GSA President Hugo Bellen announces a new seminar series on tools and resources for exploring gene function across organisms. Some of us are worried about the future of the research enterprise,...
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RT @CraigMontell1: I am so excited that Denise Montell has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences!!!!!!..
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RT @drosophiladysci: Sometimes #Mondays are soul-sucking and other times your PhD advisor texts you with fresh screenshots that resurrect a….
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I hope I am not the only scientist who secretly gives herself a high five on a Saturday morning in the microscope room after finding a new mutant in her screen. Some days science is great.
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Today is bittersweet. Last lab meeting for Simran before she embarks on her postdoctoral studies. and congratulations to Addie for her graduation. Good luck in grad school!
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