callista yee
worm neurobiologist, assistant professor at UBC zoology. loves tater tots, synapses, dpy worms, and transcription factors. she/her. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
- teaching is wild y'all
- first day of teaching, pray for me
- reasons to visit ubc: go to the UBC WINE LIBRARY (!!!), visited by prominent worm folk such as sydney brenner and bob waterston
- Reposted by callista yeeI’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
- current biology ftw
- these travel cases get more sophisticated every year, big chonker
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- we’ve come a long way from 20 labs! #celegans
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- quite possibly the best tshirt I have bought this year 🙏, linking it here, you’re welcome. octopiedmind.com/en-ca/produc...
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- trying the 5% DMSO freezing solution, here’s goes nothing!
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- I was lucky enough to inherit a bunch of racks where a graduate student had labelled all of them with Rack jokes 😂, perfect. I am dead at Racksputin.
- I am really enjoying the no context “NO” on top of this one. December 1973 Nematologica. #celegans
- Reposted by callista yeeWhen asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: scim.ag/4qFrPON
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- Reposted by callista yeeAnd, check out this News & Views on both pieces www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores - today in i’m not crying, you’re crying, found some projection slides on unc-52 splicing, old school scicomm right here. so simple. so perfect. #celegans
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- Reposted by callista yeeWhat does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
- legit obsessed with this kumon pumpkin outside the LSC right now
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- Reposted by callista yee🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
- had such a lovely day today at SFU. thank you so much @estherverheyen.bsky.social and @lisaj456.bsky.social for hosting me 💫, SFU rules. excellent science, bright trainees, and good vibes.
- Reposted by callista yeeThe Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:
- got to hangout with don today and look what he gifted us…an original print of genetics that had The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans by Brenner 😭 #celegans 🧪
- Reposted by callista yeeHi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :) www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...
- Reposted by callista yee🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
- 1993 gilson pipettes!!! 😭😭😭😭
- I am ready for the apocalypse, got my sequence of pPD95.75 and others right here #celegans
- if anyone wants a billion cardboard freezer boxes, hmu.
- today in I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying, original reprints from the CGC (1976, 1977) #celegans
- got the keys to my office today - I’m not crying you’re crying
- Reposted by callista yeeThe chromatin remodeller CHD4 controls both nucleosome integrity and transcription factor binding to promote activity of active regulatory elements and to prevent activation of silent enhancers biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- our department @zoology.ubc.ca has a tenure-track faculty position opening at the level of Assistant Professor of Teaching in the educational stream with a focus on Neuroscience! please share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30389
- Reposted by callista yeeNew paper on the role of H3K4me3 at enhancers! We (led by Haoming Yu) used dCas9 epigenome editing to add H3K4me3 to intergenic enhancers. This was (1) sufficient to turn up transcription at open, active regions and (2) has no effect on target gene transcription. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
- heck yeah ethan!
- Reposted by callista yeeWorms love flies! Please consider donating to FlyBase. Model organisms unite! #celegans
- FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
- thank you so much @celjauebel.bsky.social for the warm send off poster, been a pleasure to organize the Stanford Superworm seminar series. also #celegans has 300 neurons, don’t fight me
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- nice new pape out on autism-associated genes and experience-dependent neuron remodeling! congrats @michaelphart1.bsky.social and lab squad! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40795403/
- found my old FACS gating notes 😭; worm flow back in 2016 was so hard (still is hard)
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- Reposted by callista yeeI just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
