Neural Developmental and Cell Biologist. My lab studies how neural stem cells build the brain. Cell division, cilia, cytoskeleton, neurogenesis. Mom, feminist, curious person. Opinions are my own.
Noelle Dwyer
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Interviewer: What do you think are the biggest problems science as a whole is facing today?
Linda responds: "... I believe attempts at gaming the scientific publication system will get progressively worse over time. ..." And she didn't even mention AI-generated fake papers!
Cool paper from Rebecca Heald lab! "Triploid brain cells are less proliferative but do not exhibit differences in transcription" (me: !!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our article in MBoC is now available in full text as HTML or formatted PDF! Lots of data added since the preprint! Double KO of Cep55 and p53 disrupts epithelial structure with "frankenstein" undead cells:
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....
Our paper is out in Developmental Biology! It's part of a special issue on Forebrain Development. Mouse KO of Togaram1, a Joubert Syndrome gene, has defects in forebrain morphogenesis and neurogenesis. 🐭🧠🧪 #cilia #devbio #cellbio
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. Story by Ben Mueller & @irenatfh.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ctOSqM
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In have made an effort to comment—more calmly and objectively that I through possible—on the proposed OMB changes. There are extremely strong non-partisan arguments that can be made. I urge my scientific friends to take the time and comment as well.
Heads up: Abstracts for @ascbiology.bsky.social annual meeting are due earlier this year. If you/your trainees want to be considered for a talk or early poster, submit by 9 June! You would save $75.
Also... registration is not open until July
Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon!
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Proper forebrain development relies on precise spatial and temporal control of early neural stem cell (NSC) proliferation and later neurogenesis. Brai…
Neuron size varies significantly over evolution, contributing to diverse nervous systems of variable complexity, while aberrant neuron size is associa…
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Markus Deserno
Lerit Lab
The White House has proposed cutting NIH funding by 12% & NSF funding by 54%. Call Congress today and urge them to reject these harmful cuts to biomedical research, scientific discovery & the future of US science https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/advocacy-alert-oppose-proposed-cuts-to-nih-and-nsf/
So, if there are shenanigans we can fight for people as a group rather than people fighting for their individual comments.
We have full records and are monitoring it nearly hourly at this point.
Here is our public comment portal: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...
Sandy Kawano, PhD
This is good.
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Our latest #abscission paper is online at MBoC www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... . We looked at what happens when there are stochastic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium in vivo. 1/6
Neuronal size and geometry shape brain function
The process of crafting the Fiscal Year 2027 federal budget has officially begun. On April 3, 2026, the White House released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027. Within thousands of pages of charts and graphs, the proposal calls for a 12% cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a 54% reduction to…
Cytokinetic abscission genes are linked to cancers and developmental disorders, but the consequences of disrupted abscission in vivo remain under-explored. Previously we showed that in the forebrain o...
Neuronal size varies across evolution, diseases, and brain regions. It has long been regarded as a descriptor, not a driver of function. Using triploid Xenopus, Liu et al. show that neuronal enlargement remodels neurite geometry, reduces proliferation, increases phospho-extracellular signal regulated kinase (pERK) responses, and alters behavior, linking cellular scaling to brain function.
