Woodruff Library Periodicals Reading Room, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. My current office away from office.

Fluorescent image of a mouse organ of Corti. Teal and pink labeling shows N-cadherin and E-cadherin in the inner and outer compartments respectively. Yellow labels the hair cells and their stereociliary bundles. Contact me about postdoc opportunities related to this work!

Postdoc @ Emory Univ.
The Deans lab is recruiting postdocs to work on inner ear development, hair cells and innervation. We use mouse genetics, imaging, and dev bio to understand how the machinery for hearing + balance is built.
Email a CV and brief statement of interests.
🔁 Boosts appreciated

Macclesfield? Really?

Dr Jennie Nelson PhD posing with her advisor Michael Deans

A pair of images showing Jennie during her defense seminar and an immunofluorescent image of the cochlear nucleus projected onto the seminar room screen

Let me introduce you to Dr. Jennie Nelson who just defended her PhD in the UofUtah Neuroscience program.

I was just sent for eggs and Xmas cheer/beer 🤞

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

“Strengthened by the launch of the Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Ph.D. program, Georgia Tech takes another big step forward as a top-tier destination for neuroscience,” says Tim Cope.

Meet the inaugural cohort: neuro.gatech.edu/georgia-tech...

To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.

Hope so - I tried this last week but PubMed Central wouldn’t let me change the embargo period - 12 months was the only option

Our lab is looking to recruit a new postdoc to join our team. You can visit us at leritlab.org to learn more and submit applications here: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/149999/... (or scan the QR in the ad below!) Review will commence in early August.

Graphical abstract for our paper in Developmental Biology describing the normal (left side) and Prox1 mutant (right side) innervation of the mouse organ of Corti. Findings are also summarized in the Haiku format.

Another congratulations to Shubham Kale whose paper about cochlear development and innervation just came out in Developmental Biology. See the details in person here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It wasn’t for Crystal Palace but I still saw Wilfried Zaha score at the Benz

How’s that rear suspension holding up? Looks like she’s packed pretty full.

Congrats Bryan - I am so excited for you

An abstract, colorful and pretty image of spatial metabolomic retinal ganglion cells imaged for amino acid metabolism, arranged in 8 blocks of values.

BWJoneslab Moving To The University of Pittsburgh

I can now officially reveal that we are moving the BWJoneslab from the University of Utah, Moran Eye Center to the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, effective August 1st, 2025.

bryanwjones.com/2025/06/bwjo...

You sound hangry. Maybe try GrubHub instead?

A collection of images showing Dr Kale during his research presentation, a key data slide and my photo op with him after the defense

Big congratulations to new Dr Shubham Kale PhD who successfully defends his dissertation on Friday. See is efforts here: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

This explains a lot

I did tell you that there is a faculty search here …

A plate of deep fried macaroni n’ cheese with pork bbq, onion rings and sauce

The other reason to join us is for the Southern comfort food

There is some sort of joke in there

Like .. “you would think they could have seen that coming”

I just can’t get the delivery right

I really hate it when a vendor or sales rep asks to know my budget before giving us a quote.

My budget is as low as possible - haven’t you read anything about the NIH lately?

A green cartoon drawing of the golgi apparatus, in this case one from a vestibular hair cell. NIH public asset 1275

challenge accepted

Now that my lab has moved to Emory I want you to join us in Atlanta. We have an NIH-funded postdoc position available to study Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) signaling using vestibular hair cells of the mouse as a model.
Please repost and/or DM for details

A snowman wearing a black cap is melting asymmetrically with greater loss on its south facing side

Who needs moss on a tree when the south side of your snowman always melts first

Repo?

Just one more reason to hate the Yankees

Nope - just some me time

I went to a 730am meeting and was the only one there