Kevin Collins
@kevinemco.bsky.social
Practically a C. elegans neurobiologist. Views are my own and not my employer. https://collinslabmiami.com
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So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
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Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
facultypositions.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
Nice microPublication reporting methods to image C. elegans egg laying under a coverslip www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...
Time-lapse imaging of C. elegans egg-laying with high spatiotemporal resolution | microPublication
www.micropublication.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Nice microPublication reporting methods to image C. elegans egg laying under a coverslip www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...
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I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Daily ultrastructural remodeling of clock neurons
A cluster of Drosophila clock neurons remodel their axonal arbors daily. Using volumetric
electron microscopy at different times of day, Ispizua, Rodriguez-Caron, and colleagues
reveal ultrastructural...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our paper on Rho signaling in the C. elegans egg-laying circuit is now available as a pre-print on BioRxiv.org! In this study, we manipulate Rho signaling pre- and postsynaptically and find interesting activity and behavior defects.
Rho signaling promotes cell excitability and synaptic transmission https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688363v1
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Our paper on Rho signaling in the C. elegans egg-laying circuit is now available as a pre-print on BioRxiv.org! In this study, we manipulate Rho signaling pre- and postsynaptically and find interesting activity and behavior defects.
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C. elegans enthusiasts- save the date for two consecutive C. elegans meetings, taking place in Bordeaux, 29 June–3 July 2026.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
European C. elegans and CeNEURO Meeting 2026 - Sciencesconf.org
2026 European C. elegans and CeNEURO meeting
ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
C. elegans enthusiasts- save the date for two consecutive C. elegans meetings, taking place in Bordeaux, 29 June–3 July 2026.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
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New preprint!
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High-efficiency targeted integration of extrachromosomal arrays in C. elegans using PhiC31 integrase
Extrachromosomal arrays are unique chromosome-like structures created from DNA injected into the C. elegans germline. Arrays are easy to create and allow for high expression of multiple transgenes. Th...
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
New preprint!
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Yes they are both timeless, but also: great grant writing music.
Recent celebratory concerts dedicated to the two composers Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley have been sites “not of reverence but of restless rediscovery,” Alex Ross writes. “Both retain the power to make the familiar strange.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8foDqy
At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
Both composers remain intriguing outliers, notable for the stubbornness with which they have held to their youthful convictions.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Yes they are both timeless, but also: great grant writing music.
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A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit
How do neural circuits switch between distinct patterns of activity, known as “internal
states”? Prashad et al. describe how PVW neurons, which lack any identified neurotransmitter,
generate one of th...
www.cell.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
Meet Paul Maddox
Paul Maddox is a world-renowned cancer researcher, two-time entrepreneur, and native son of Western North Carolina–and now, a candidate for U.S. Congress. ....
www.maddoxforcongress.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
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IN CURRENT BIOLOGY
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
IN CURRENT BIOLOGY
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www.cell.com/current-biol...
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#DBfeature 🧑🔬
David Sherwood draws a powerful parallel between morphogenesis and a scientific career, showing how becoming a biologist is a continual process of shaping, adaptation, and growth. Like development, a scientific life unfolds through adaptation and emergence.
tinyurl.com/6yd46wcx
David Sherwood draws a powerful parallel between morphogenesis and a scientific career, showing how becoming a biologist is a continual process of shaping, adaptation, and growth. Like development, a scientific life unfolds through adaptation and emergence.
tinyurl.com/6yd46wcx
October 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
#DBfeature 🧑🔬
David Sherwood draws a powerful parallel between morphogenesis and a scientific career, showing how becoming a biologist is a continual process of shaping, adaptation, and growth. Like development, a scientific life unfolds through adaptation and emergence.
tinyurl.com/6yd46wcx
David Sherwood draws a powerful parallel between morphogenesis and a scientific career, showing how becoming a biologist is a continual process of shaping, adaptation, and growth. Like development, a scientific life unfolds through adaptation and emergence.
tinyurl.com/6yd46wcx
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ICYMI: Yesterday's Alliance webinar, 'A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource' is now posted to our YouTube channel youtu.be/fr7T5Y1hxAI
You can find all our previous webinars on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar
You can find all our previous webinars on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar
A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource
YouTube video by Alliance Of Genome Resources
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October 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
ICYMI: Yesterday's Alliance webinar, 'A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource' is now posted to our YouTube channel youtu.be/fr7T5Y1hxAI
You can find all our previous webinars on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar
You can find all our previous webinars on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar
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Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
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Looks like @dacolon.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc. Reposting here from the other place because this is truly a great opportunity to do very exciting work with a renowned mentor.
September 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Looks like @dacolon.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc. Reposting here from the other place because this is truly a great opportunity to do very exciting work with a renowned mentor.
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Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
September 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
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The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: [email protected]
September 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: [email protected]
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...
plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Biomechanics: Squeezing power drives ballistic tongues
Chameleons and lungless salamanders independently evolved very fast projectile tongues.
In both cases, ballistic performance involves a long, blunt-ended skeletal rod that
slides freely within a power...
www.cell.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...
plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025
September 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025
States as laboratories of democracy? More like incubators of contagion.
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RFK Jr. allies claim momentum as Florida targets vaccines: ‘Fight is coming’
Florida’s plan to end school vaccine mandates, announced by Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo, has energized vaccine skeptics in other states.
wapo.st
September 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
States as laboratories of democracy? More like incubators of contagion.
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wapo.st/3K6yBfo
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I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
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But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events