Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.

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#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired

I've always loved the openness and collegiality of our C. elegans community 🪱, but this perspective really helps emphasize just *how important* those traits are for scientific progress. A true tribute to how curiosity-driven science leads to innovation! 🙌

A new paper, co-authored by WormAtlas directors Dave Hall and Nate Schroeder, describes how C. elegans community research resources, including WormAtlas, provide the infrastructure that supports nematode research around the world.

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To help support early career scientists and their research, AWIS is offering microgrants (up to $5,000) to researchers who have lost federal funding. Applications are due by December 15. Learn more. https://awis.org/awis-bridge-grant-program/
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The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

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Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG

🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, September 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Sarah Colijn (Washington University in St. Louis) Novel roles for centriolar protein WDR90 in endothelial cells and cardiac tissue Shyama Nandakumar (University of Pittsburgh) Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response http://bit.ly/4649fWS

Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe.

In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab:

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Flyer for the Graduate Student Mentorship Initiative webinar series on "Applying to Graduate Programs in STEM". This webinar will go over demystifying the application process on Thursday, August 28th, 2025 at 5.30pm ET. The two speakers pictures, titles, and affiliations are listed. There is a list of sponsors and text that says register for zoom link.

🎓 Planning to apply to STEM graduate programs?

Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET.

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Congratulations to the @socdevbio.bsky.social 2025 West Coast Regional Meeting postdoc poster winners (left to right): 1st place- Celja Uebel (Villeneuve lab), 2nd place- Kira Heikes (Munjal lab), honorable mention- Hailey Edward's (Yelon lab)!

Congratulations to the @socdevbio.bsky.social 2025 West Coast Regional Meeting postdoc poster winners (left to right): 1st place- Celja Uebel (Villeneuve lab), 2nd place- Kira Heikes (Munjal lab), honorable mention- Hailey Edward's (Yelon lab)!

Congratulations, Ethan! 👏 Such a cool story! 🤩

🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1

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The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans.

Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.

Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.

Go worms! #worm25

I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱

Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."

I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌

Congratulations @mads100tist.bsky.social! 👏

Want to support us? Tell the NIH to (at least) reinstate ESI status to new PIs whose grants were withdrawn. Let your representative know that meritious research that would move us forward is being defunded. Tell your peers about this! Raise awareness. Please help us! 12/12

Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research “If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes Carole LaBonne of Northwestern.

Check out SDB President Carole LaBonne's op-ed on how basic science is the engine that drives transformative discoveries. 'Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research' bit.ly/4lhm2Mv

I am excited to share that the project that taught me how to do science is now published at Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org.

Aww, thank you so much Dada! 🥹 I’m so grateful to have you as an inspiring role model and a wonderful friend! ❤️

Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social, Taylor Medwig-Kinney @tmedwigkinney.bsky.social, & colleagues from the Goldstein lab found that a population of Arp2/3 recruited to where cells touch each other makes an unexpected contribution to apical constriction rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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In honour of #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience this week, we are revisiting timely #DMMEditorials from fantastic #WomeninScience who are part of our editorial team.

First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759

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Look up the impact of NIH funding in your state: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

A depressing question with a lot of great answers. We need #devbio to understand birth defects, cancer, stem cell biology (and the resultant therapeutics) and so much more. And, frankly, because it's just amazing how a single cell can make a complex organism.