Helen R Horkan
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Helen R Horkan
@hrhorkan.bsky.social
Postdoc with @Gibson_Lab at Stowers Institute for Medical Research 🇺🇸. PhD minted in the Uri Frank lab 🇮🇪. // Roller Derby Ref. Rock Climber. Snowboarder(faller) She/Her 🏳️‍🌈
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Meet Helen Horkan, a postdoctoral researcher in the Gibson Lab! She aims to establish the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, as a better #research organism for studying stem cell #biology. Read more: bit.ly/3FvtweC
Postdoc Profile: Q&A with Helen Horkan, Postdoctoral Researcher in…
“The sky is the limit at the Stowers Institute. If you have an idea, there is always somebody willing to help you make it happen.”
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March 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It’s finally outtttt!!!
Great to see this huge collab out, wouldn’t have been possible without any of the authors but especially my co-first @drsalamander.bsky.social and our mentors

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Hydractinia cell atlas reveals cellular and molecular principles of cnidarian coloniality - Nature Communications
Here they generate a cell type atlas of the colonial cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, which reveals that distinct colony parts are mostly made from unique combinations of shared cell types, an...
www.nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It was great to be involved in this, after years of joking with @camillectz.bsky.social about her ‘sexual story’ I thought it only right to share it with a meme of its own
January 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Check out our new preprint looking at regeneration from reaggregated cell suspensions in Hydractinia. Once again i-cells are flexing their capacities
#Hydractinia takes regeneration to the extreme¬in a new preprint, Curantz et al. show that dissociated, reaggregated cells can form a new individual. We also show how they do it and which cells types actually contribute to the new individual (tip: not many of them).
tinyurl.com/mr2s9zyf
January 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM