So good to see you 🌟

On Thursday April 23rd, I will be talking about how I am using neurons of the spinal cord of zebrafish to understand the development of the nervous system. Old and new technologies combined to dissect the emergence of patterns in a population of cells! 🐟🧪

Interested in doing a postdoc in Seattle??

Announcing Seattle DROP: Discover Research Opportunities for Postdocs on May 5th.

👇👇👇Registration is ~~FREE~~ 🥼🧪🧫

Once a microscopist, always a microscopist 🔬 ♥️

NEW CCEH Travel Award Opportunity – Due April 15, 2026

To apply, submit:
🥼 Biosketch
📕 Conference abstract
📜 Statement of purpose
🧾 Budget (up to $2,000)

Application due April 15, 2026 - instructions to apply here 👇 👇 👇
cceh.io/announcement...

Applicants must meet one or more of the following criteria:
🩸 Early career investigator (e.g., instructor or assistant professor level),
🩸 Postdoctoral fellows or senior trainees,
🩸 Investigators new to the field of non-malignant hematology
🗓️ Travel must occur before 7/31/26

📣 💰 Hematology funding alert! Travel awards are available from the NIDDK-sponsored Cooperative Centers of Excellence in Hematology (CCEH) to support early career scientists who are presenting at upcoming conferences! Due 4/15
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cceh.io/funding/cceh...

Boost your grant funding success!! Now accepting applications for the UCSanDiego Health Sciences @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social summer Grant Writing Course (GWC), proven success. Apps due March 17th, space is limited.

My goal this week is to protect my peace. I’m going to take a deep breath instead of reacting to frustrations as they arise. Who’s with me?

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My cup is so full after spending last week at the Keystone Meeting on Hematopoiesis. Time with cutting-edge science, supportive mentors & colleagues, and getting to share this with members of my lab was priceless. Excited to bring new ideas back to the lab - blood rules! ♥️🩸

Heck yeah, I do!!!!! Clean lab, clean mind 💜

Excited to visit Penn later this week and share my career journey with graduate students. Penn took a chance on me 15+ years ago, and I’ll always be grateful for how it helped shape such a rewarding path.

NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.

"The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the science."

STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

The Werner-Washburne principles… preach!!

Day 1 of #CellBio25 - don’t miss the Mentoring Keynote by Maggie Werner-Washburne in Room 126A at 8:45!!!! @ascbiology.bsky.social

Grateful to Isabella Alves & @cterminiphd.bsky.social for writing this fantastic N&V in @natcellbio.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nicely covers our 📰 led by della Volpe & co: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Honestly, blessed to be among these GREATS!!

♥️♥️♥️

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Say cheeeeese! Me and the current, future, and past Presidents of ASCB. Seeing is believing ♥️ 🧬 💗 📸 #CellBio2025 @marymunson4.bsky.social

Image of the four speakers for the "Rising Tide of Science Denial", special President's session on Saturday Dec 6 at 1pm: Kenneth R. Miller, Michael Mann, Paul Offit, and Gale M. Sinatra

Super excited for the upcoming #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org meeting in Philadelphia! Check out the Special President's session on "The Rising Tide of Science Denial" on Saturday at 1pm!

Shoutout to first author, Isabella Alves, a @damonrunyon.org SPARK postbaccalaureate fellow and rising star in hematology. Very proud to see this work in print and honored to have had the opportunity to review the original article and learn more about the coolness of ferroptosis🩸🔮

Blocking ferroptosis to expand human HSCs Nature Cell Biology - Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are used in a variety of cellular therapies, but our ability to support these cells ex vivo remains technically challenging. A new study...

Truly enjoyed writing this piece about recent discoveries by @bloodgenes.bsky.social and colleagues about how we can improve HSC expansion & gene editing by blocking ferroptosis!

Our @natcellbio.nature.com N&V: rdcu.be/eR25t
Associated article: tinyurl.com/msf9x8fn

Who’s going to ASCB this week? Let’s connect ♥️ 🧫

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This faculty journey would be so much harder without a best friend to go through it with. We share all the drama, all the wins, and all the in between. I hope every PI finds a person who gets them like we get each other - thank for @myron_evansPhD this and every season ♥️ 🍁

Recent office addition: peel and stick wallpaper to add some more brightness to accompany my endowed purple chair. It’s a dark time right now, so every bit helps keep me inspired and focused to take on the challenges that each day brings ♥️ 🌺 🩸 🦙

This is awesome 🌪️

lol sorry to break it to you but America does not like women

I've been working hard to bring the most Tina Termini to hematopoiesis. So far, so good!

Apply | leadingedgesymposium Apply. The 2026 Leading Edge cohort application is now open! This cohort is named the Zara Weinberg Cohort, in honor of 2021 Leading Edge Fellow, Zara Weinberg. Applications are due February 2, 2026.

Applications are open for the 2026 Zara Weinberg cohort of Leading Edge, named in honor of the incredible, brilliant, fearless @weinberz.witchlab.org.

The LE community has been truly transformative for my scientific journey and my happiness. Please apply!! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Thank you for your bravery as an advocate for honest and accurate science, for your passion to pursue the mission of human health, for your service to the nation, and for being a role model to us all. May HHS and NIH leadership see the light and course correct for the benefit of all Americans 🙏