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Join us! #NAVBO #Symposium Tuesday, 2/17 2pm ET.
Emerging Technologies to Investigate, Model, and Restore Vascular Function. Featuring Laura Niklason, Ying Zheng, and Cynthia A. Reinhart-King! Organized by Jessica L. Teo. Register: tinyurl.com/ymt7m98a
Join us! webinar with Dr. Joseph Wu, Stanford University School of Medicine, Feb 5 at 1 pm EST
Dr. Wu will present his work in a talk titled,
'Stem Cells, Organoids, and AI for Drug Discovery'
Register๐https://members.navbo.org/ap/Events/Register/wZFaXWwseCxCw
#NAVBO Symposium! January 29, 2026, 1 PM ET
Smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation in atherosclerosis๐ฅ
Featuring: Dr.Huize Pan, Vanderbilt University
Dr.Laura Shankman, University of Virginia
Dr.Juyong Brian Kim, Stanford University
members.navbo.org/ap/Events/Re...
Journal Club! Join for the #NAVBO JC on this Thursday, Jan 22 at 1 PM EST
Presenter: Edward Guzman, Ph.D
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Register: members.navbo.org/ap/Events/Re...
Don't miss attending !!
Join us today! Free for everyone who would like to attend.
This settlement is the best case scenario for these applications at this point.
Pushing back matters but real damage still done by illegal actions by the current NIH leadership.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this settlement happen!
Sex-resolved Plasma & Tissue Proteomics of ๐คCalcified Aortic Valve Stenosis
Tissue
โ๏ธFibroticโก๏ธNucleotide & Cholesterol metab
โ๏ธCalcifiedโก๏ธAcute Inflamm, ฮณ carboxyl
โ๏ธFibroticโก๏ธPlatelet-Collagen Ad
โ๏ธCalcifiedโก๏ธSpectrin cytosk
@markcblaser.bsky.social #ATVB 2025
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
If you think it's a reflection on the lens of my phone, let me prove you wrong:
A frozen pond with rocks in the foreground and a tree line in the background. The sun is peaking through the layers of smooth clouds. The sun reflects on the clouds to the left of the picture, making it seem like there's a second sun.
We have two suns out today in Massachusetts.
All research is exploratory if youโre confused enough
New athero paper! We only played a minor part but very happy for our @ipekresearch.bsky.social collaborators that this is out now:
www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S002...
Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research.
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
ICYMI: A strategy for reversing age-related cardiovascular diseaseโฆ
@lwilsbacher.bsky.social & team show PAI-1 is important for vascular aging, reveal longer lifespan with its haploinsufficiency (in mice and humans), then reverse vascular damage in mice using a PAI-1 inhibitor: buff.ly/WFh2EHL
If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
#HutchinsonGilfordProgeriaSyndrome
#SmoothMuscleCell Progerin transgene drives #EndMT #Atherosclerosis๐ญ
โซAortic Endothelial Cell permeability
โซLesional EC infiltrโถ๏ธColIV- & TGFฮฒ1-rich plaque๐ฎ
Paracrine of progeroid aortic SMC?๐
#CircAHA 2024
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.
We mapped the whole human fallopian tube in 3D and at single-cell resolution via our CODA workflow.
More about this work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
๐ขInternships on cellular nematics!
๐ฌCome for the pretty images, stay for the cool physics: each project combines in vitro experiments with advanced microscopy and image analysis.
๐งFeel free to DM or email me with any questions.
Lock-in-SIM, a new approach to reject background and minimize artefacts in structured illumination microscopy (SIM): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Glad to see @esoubies.bsky.social's FlexSIM is the best opponent in side-by-side comparisons!
A page from JAMA Insights titled "Microplastics and Human Health," published online October 15, 2025. The article discusses plastics production, microplastics, detection methods, and presence in human tissues.
#Microplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, with potential links to cognitive, cardiovascular, and inflammatory outcomes.
๐ก Learn more in this JAMA Insights:
ja.ma/44tEyub
Ultrack on the cover of Nature Methods! Thanks @alexandredizeux.bsky.social for helping us with the beautiful cover art! ๐
New paper from the @rouxlab.bsky.social on Nature Communications! We study how membrane tension is spatially organized in cells. Using the mechanosensitive probe Flipper-TR to visualize tension across the plasma membrane of adherent cells and to dissect the conditions needed for a gradient to happen
We made it to the cover page!! See our latest findings in TIE2 mutant endothelial cells in Venous Malformations in www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....
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โAny fun plans for tomorrow?โ
โNo, we have people coming over.โ
