Zainab Afzal
@xainabafzal
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DevBio/PFAS sciencing, Toubleshootin expert in z makin #myScienceDiaries and poet at heart #mOodyWriter previously #GradStudent at Stowers Institute/KuMedCenter
Joined July 2011
Studying patterns of genes that define body patterns in a variety of animals😍 showcasin the nascent transcription patterns of Hoxb genes🥰. My PhD work in Krumlauf lab @ScienceStowers n Anatomy and Cell Biology department @KUMedCenter is now up online🥰😃.
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Was alot of fun hosting you and introducing our institute to a new system to showcase beautiful evo-devo 😍.Thankses for coming over and telling us about your awesome work!! 😀😀.
Had an amazing visit to North Carolina Central University!.Huge thanks to @xainabafzal for the kind invite and organizing the RCMI Research Seminar. It's always exciting to talk about cavefish, especially when it ends with an amazing discussion! .@ScienceStowers
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RT @08Kats05: Exciting news! Our work on Hippo pathway TF cis-regulation is now published in Cell Genomics!. Check it out here: https://t.c….
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Dalal et al. show how AI can be used to systematically uncover the sequence rules that guide how signaling pathways interact with DNA inside cells. This work provides a new lens for discovering the...
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RT @Ruth_Y_Williams: The postdoc position in my lab @FBMH_UoM is open for applications until 15th November and I am….
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RT @HernanGGarcia: We're finally out at @NatureComms. Congrats to @jzhao111, Nick Lammers, @yangjoonkim, Simon Alamos and @gabrimartini_ny….
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Nature Communications - Using optogenetics in the fly embryo, this study investigates how a transcriptional repressor drives switch-like, rapidly reversible repression by modulating transcriptional...
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RT @Jaya__Krishnan: Postdoc Position Available.I am seeking an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to join my lab @OMRF, studying Astyanax….
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RT @Jaya__Krishnan: It's happening. My new cavefish facility @OMRF! Exciting times ahead. Soon it will be time to bring in the fish. https….
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RT @notdatkndofdctr: Want a simple story about chromosomes? Here it is! This video is meant to teach basics of genetics to young minds. Hop….
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RT @KunchalaPreethi: 23 pairs! The magic chromosome count that helps humans thrive. But what if all our DNA were arranged in just two chrom….
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Engineered yeast with fewer but longer chromosomes are used to explore spindle scaling. Kunchala et al. show that the mitotic spindle adapts by reducing microtubule number and spindle pole body size...
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Itsh been an amazing meeting with so much to learn. thankses thankses everyone for such an amazing time and the organizers for setting it up 🙏🙏.Safe travels back home folks. till next time😀 #2024SDB @SocDevBio.
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This sums up day4 #2024SDB 😍 beautiful talks on Apple snails and crispy chickens 😍☺️. Really fun round table discussion on omics data n where d field is goin?!. More reunions nd discoveries of small worlds. Gettin a custom yoummy fruit drink. gettin d DJ to play Hindi songs 🥰
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Social battery was a little low today so had to hibernate a bit, but so amazed at how all different people networks came together for me at #2024SDB.Tea time/lunchy fun/elos yellows chit chats/dinner shenanigans 😍 z amazing scientific community @SocDevBio 🙏🥰
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Poster session @ #2024SDB always an amazing experience talkin to all career stages,backgrnds, interest. Taking notes on sO many good ideas and suggestions 🤓😃. N oo got to meet the people behind all the amazing insightful threads I usually save @TanentzapfLab @jbwallingford 🤩🤓
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Day 3 #2024SDB started seeing fish fins in the floor-sleep deprivation or exciting fish talks?😅.Njoyd learnin abt sulphatase activity switches in zfish,chromatin architecture in cavefish, effects on planarian regenerative abilities, sea robins ah these fish have legs to talk😳😃
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No day here be complete without connecting with people you only know online. ones you meet again after a while so catch up time. nd some you can hang out with over and over and still feel like you want to talk more 😀😀 #2024SDB
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Day 2 #2024SDB 😀 bounced around sessions. learnt about aging, horned beetles, optogenetic tools fa signaling. false alarms happen everywhere😅.Oxygen impacts on hindlimb, rex elements role with enhancers. Enhancers Warburg and EMT tied together 😍🤩😃.N so much more.
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Poster has arrived 😀 #2024SDB please do come by tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear about a new project I have been setting up. would love to get any feedback 🤓🙏😃
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One awesome bit is meeting mentors in person who aren't officially designated as such anywhere, but who have guided u and supported u. thankses thankses always @aussiebiologist 😀😀🙏🙏. Also met up with some old friends and made some new friends🥰🥰 #2024SDB
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#2024SDB Day 1😀🙌. Satellite symposium with some amazin talks. segmentation clock. wound healing. assembloids. more organoids. modelin biology🤓. Presidential symposium. enhancer biology. transcription😍. How's is this only day 1?!🤓😃
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A fitting painting told me where to go register for #2024SDB 😀.My brain started looking for all the hidden systems (cute species) one could study 😍.Excited to be here and hoping to meet all d awesome folks that make this meeting home 😃
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Thank you thank you #PFASconference2024 organizers for putting together such beautiful symposiums of talks and activities. I learnt a lot and also am happy to have made new friends from all over. bye bye pretty Ann Arbor, MI. till next time 😊😊
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