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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD
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Fair, but the sentiment is understandable. Why spend time reading and seriously critiquing applications if that expert advice is going to be overlooked? You can parse it to say that isn't going to be the case, but so far leadership has made it clear that they don't value expertise over their ideas.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Since she cloned it and found the gene mutated was c21orf59 - now called cfap298- she got to name the mutant. So "Kurly" to merge her name and the phenotype so "she can be immortalized in science." /x
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
There is a convention in some labs that if you clone the gene affected in a mutant, you get to name the mutant. My student, whose last name was Ku, cloned the mutant as part of her senior thesis. The mutant fish has a tail that curls down as part of its phenotype./1
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is our first submission to @jcellsci.bsky.social and the experience was fantastic. We will absolutely be submitting here in the future. Highly recommended.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM