Elysa Ng 🌻
🇮🇩ID/ENG | she/her | Tsai Lab Postbacc in Dev Bio @WashU ' 26 | @NotreDame '24 | i know too much animal facts | interested in evolution and development biology | i also draw!
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- Orangutan looking at my labubu in #StLouisZoo
- Sometimes I am reading a paper and I see it was published in 2018. For a moment I think it's pretty recent until I realize its almost 8 years ago 🙁
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻Finally had a chance to read this beautiful paper from Susan Mackem's lab. It's interesting that even well-established paradigms, like Sonic Hedgehog's role as a traditional morphogen in limb development, can be proven wrong over time. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- I always feel like I am opening Pokemon TCGP cards whenever I am imaging and looking for a mutant....
- Back in 2022, I drew this comic exploring the history of whale meat consumption for a course I took back in Notre Dame. (1/2)
- Long successful day of imaging some immunostaining ☺️☺️ Some of the pictures are for sure going to be on the manuscript!!
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻I'm thrilled to see this beautiful work by recent Prince lab members Theresa Christiansen and Vish Venkataraman now in print! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻Rocket Frog, Damselfish, and Bandicoots: The Species Declared Extinct in 2025 • The Revelator
- My F1s that I set up for the first time instantly gave me some eggs 😤 And to think the wildtype fish from the facility took 3-4 tries before they were willing to breed, when they got us new younger stock
- I hope that at some point in 2026, I can go to Japan and also whale watch in Cape Cod 🙂↕️
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻How can structures at the vertex of 3 cells have effects at the tissue level? Join me, @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social, to explore how tricellular junctions (TCJs) act as local tension sensors and regulators of global tissue organization. 🧵⤵️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻More than 400 million years ago, during the Silurian Period, an evolutionary event led to the later emergence of spiders’ spinnerets—the abdominal organs that make silk—according to new #ScienceAdvances research. scim.ag/4sFX3pJ
- PHENOTYPE!!!!! Today is a big W in my project
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻How does ageing influence the way our bodies handle infection? go.nature.com/4sMZuqW
- Screened and found my F1 fish found for this new different line 😈
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l
- As it goes with some experiments where we don't know the answer, my PI and me likes to do a little bet on if we will see a phenotype or not after I am done staining this... My PI is definitely more willing to gamble than I am 😀
- My PI did his magic and helped me get the ndr2.2 fish to breed (they are old and I havent been able to get them to lay since November). Well now there are 12 embryos and we are praying that at least 1 will be a mutant 🐟 May the zebrafish Gods bless us tomorrow, we shall see
- Reposted by Elysa Ng 🌻Our research on reptile pigmentation is featured on the cover of Genetics 🧬🦎 We uncover how mutations in TYR, SLC24A5, and OCA2 shape hypomelanism in snakes & geckos, revealing modular and flexible melanogenesis. 🔗 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
- Today i discovered my height of 5'2 was actually perfect to do bench work without straining my back. My lab mates proportions and height means they have to bend down at an angle and crane their necks 😭 I guess I can't stay mad when the scope chairs keep on changing in setting....
- Visited St Louis zoo again yesterday and got to see the amur leopard and cheetah cubs :) They are so cute! Sadly the big ungulates and the asian elephants were all not in their enclosures. I imagine it was cold. I wish I got to see the baby asian elephant again but next time
- American Robin in his full-on winter plumage in St Louis! He was big backing the berries and a female robin who I suspect was his girlfriend was also hanging out nearby.
- Thinking if I should take the L and just buy an Adobe Illustrator subscription for myself to make figures or try to bug WashU to give me a free one (idk if they do that)
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- So our fish facility mixed up and lost our mutant fish line that we imported 🥲 My PI broke the news to me by saying "there is a little bit of a curveball to our schedule....."
- I'm trying to breed Chocolate/Cinnamon back into my lines for this silly cat breeding game but its so hell 😭 I can't remember who might be carrying the recessive
- I love seeing some awesome work done on Ciona this year in dev bio 🥺 I can't wait to see more. Here at St Louis we have two Ciona labs so far, and they're doing some cool stuff
- Very happy to see this piece on the Tunicate Ciona published. Grateful to @alexandrejan.bsky.social and @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social for the Illustrations, and to @natmethods.nature.com for the opportunity to showcase our ever emerging model organism www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- So I found some dry fish at the bottom of my lab's cabinet outside and started munching on them, only to discover that they've been expired a year ago, but it's okay because it's dried fish. Kept on munching on some more.
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