New preprint showing Adgrg6 and Sox9 genetically interact, increasing the penetrance and severity of scoliosis in mice and that Adgrg6-Sox9 signaling works through a self-reinforcing feedforward circuit to maintain ECM expression in connective tissues of the spine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I’m all in so damn good
Alright bone aficionados! The 2026 Lawrence Family Bone Disease Program of Texas program is planned, with keynote:
Dr. Mone Zaidi.
Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory. txbonediseaseprogram.org/index.php/an...
St. Louis folks I’ll be giving a talk 2:20pm as part of the Diane Sepich Memorial Symposium
At the Fort Neuroscience Auditorium WASHU med campus, on our work to automate the detection and quantification of cilia morphodynamics and implications on scoliosis. @wu-ciliopathygroup.bsky.social
Our newest work on quantification and statistical testing of scoliosis severity using microCT and R. www.cell.com/star-protoco... Thanks to @eceatayeter.bsky.social @brittneyvoigt
Great collaboration with Dan Cohn's group showing that small molecule inhibition of Trpv4 can rescue skeletal dysplasia of Trpv4 mutant mice.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41574606/
20th annual @jbwallingford.bsky.social lab chili cookoff 🌶️ previlaged to be part of a few along the way. Congratulations to the top chili winner Ty Gardner!
Our new work Cilia.io is out on the Rxiv. Ece Atayeter and Jason Ho trained an ML computer vision transformer for detection and quantification of cilia morphology and dynamics. We will provide a GUI soon. Another great collaboration w/ @jbwallingford.bsky.social
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Brittney Voigt! After defending a fantastic thesis spanning work in my lab and the @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social lab.
An a reserve O-4 so even less weight to throw…something, something about hats and cattle.
The most important element of nucleotide polymer synthesis is a 3’-OH.
Greatest hotel eh-va!
It’s fish sauce all the way down.
That real purdee
As Vice Chair of the GRC Bones and Teeth, I am delighted to invite you to join us for our upcoming meeting, on January 25–30, 2026, at Hotel Galvez in Galveston, TX, a cherished venue for our conference.
We look forward to welcoming you to what is sure to be an exciting and memorable meeting!
Mr Kevin ‘shiny ribs’ Russell at Wyldwood
New music Friday. @leifvollebekk.bsky.social is incredible. Highly recommend. Can’t wait to see you in the ATX in November.
Skeet a PERFECT Album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam. I wore this goddamn album out.
Fun times with friends
Beautiful.
If you offer coffee and cookies he doesn’t throw them as hard. #themoreyouknow
Slightly diminish a band: the Meh Dead
Slightly diminish a band: U1
No more like ice cube …
Today was a good day…
Cool new paper on the role of cilia in postnatal pituitary development.
Great new paper showing that human AIS may be in part modeled as a sub-clinical neuromuscular disorder.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40662934/
It’s like I always say the best Beatles album is “Exile on Main Street”
