Kiara C. Eldred
@KiaraCEldred1
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Living the Post-doc life, loving retinas
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2018
🚨New #preprint alerte💡 For the first time, we show reprogramming of human Muller glia in 3D, using a novel glia/progenitor driver of proneural genes. This approach could accelerate human retina regeneration in the *near* future! 👀‼️ Check it out: https://t.co/qLpjaHQv5B
biorxiv.org
Retinal diseases often lead to degeneration of specific retinal cell types with currently limited therapeutic options to replace the lost neurons. Previous studies have reported that overexpression...
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Check out our paper! We identify a population of retinal progenitors that are maintained late in human retinal development, and give rise to both first- and last-born cell types in the retina, condensing 100 days of retinal development into a small region at the retinal margin!
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Standing in solidarity with Postdocs and Staff Researchers at the University of Washington as we strike for fare wages!
science.org
At issue are salary and overtime pay, among other concerns
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Thank you to HHMI for this amazing opportunity, I am so honored and excited to be a part of the Hanna Gray Family! Big thanks to my amazing mentors Tom Reh, @BobbyJEyeGuy, and @SamerHattar, and the rest of my scientific community for all the support!
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Thank you to all who helped make this possible, I am honored to have the support of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation!
Congratulations to our new Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Research Fellows! These brilliant young researchers are committed to making daring discoveries in pediatric cancers that will save patient lives. @StJudeResearch @UW Read more https://t.co/XEBIOkB4pO
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Check out this awesome new paper and learn how to make chromatin fibers, then view them with super resolution microscopy to uncover the secrets of DNA replication!!! Congratulations Matt!!!
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Check out an awesome new paper from our lab by Kayla Viets Layng!!! Learn about how the distance between genetic elements and the shape of chromosomes can affect gene expression!!! Congratulations Kayla!!!
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Check out our newest paper!
Interested in cell fate specification? Binary vs. graded fate choices? Check out our new paper from @KiaraCEldred1 in collaboration with Elijah Roberts at JHU. Modeling binary and graded cone cell fate patterning in the mouse retina
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I am very grateful that Dr. Francis Collins appreciates our work!
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Check out an awesome new paper from our lab! Investigating gene regulation, TADs, and chromosome pairing! Congrats @kayla_viets!
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Listen to our “behind-the-science” interview with All Things Considered on NPR to learn about growing retinas from stem cells and cone cell fate determination!
npr.org
Our ability to see colors develops in the womb. Now scientists have replicated that process, which could help accelerate efforts to cure colorblindness and lead to new treatments for diseases.
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Check out our new paper! We grew retinas from stem cells to understand the developmental cues that produce blue and red or green cone cells!
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Unfortunately, my lab's grant was terminated. Time to write some more grants! March of Dimes abruptly scales back research funding
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And here is the March of Dimes story in Nature. I'm quoted in this one. Hopefully, my lab will have real Science and/or Nature papers soon 😀 https://t.co/Fk6atey5Mt
nature.com
Nature - The US-based March of Dimes says it revoked awards to 37 researchers as part of a shift in its funding priorities.
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Subpopulations that perform distinct metabolic roles emerge in populations of genetically identical bacteria https://t.co/WLJeuDGzY1
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Check out our new paper where we grow human eyes in a dish for 9 months to understand how cone photoreceptors are made! Thyroid hormone signaling specifies cone subtypes in human retinal organoids
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We submitted! Check out the pre-print of the paper on Biorxiv!
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