Yi Feng

Yi Feng

@fengfishlab.bsky.social

Want to prevent cancer through research, if I persist we may get there in the end or at least I will learn something along the way. Zebrafish lab in Edinburgh study tumour initiation. Favourite cell is neutrophils. I❤️fish! I paint to relax 🎨

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Check it out! NewsSplash that highlights a lot of cool zebrafishy things, including the education resource sheet (with lots of links). #education_outreach #zebrafish

Reeling in the Educators: Kara Cerveny (@kara-cerveny.bsky.social), Chair of the #IZFS Education and Outreach Committee, writes about the Education Workshop at the recent #EZM. Included in the article is a link to a helpful Education Resource Sheet: www.izfs.org/newssplash/n... #NewsSplash

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Neutrophils are my favourite immune cells, this new study brings a new amazement about these cells!! Could this be happening in more species?

Syd Sattler@sydsat.bsky.social

What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵

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Kara Cerveny@kara-cerveny.bsky.social

The first fruits of my curiosity about what happens to vertebrate (zebrafish) brains in the face of blindness. Many thanks to the village of scientists who contributed! Now looking forward to what colleagues and reviewers have to say www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....

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Lovely story by #ZDM19 invited speaker, @benlai-taiwan.bsky.social, about the journey behind the lab's new paper! Featured on @the-node.bsky.social 🐟 🔗 to original research ICYMI: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

DMM Journal@dmmjournal.bsky.social

“One never really knows when a basic science finding will transform translational research…" ”From comparison to mechanism: decoding heart regeneration thenode.biologists.com/from-compari...

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Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

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🎨Calling all artists and scientists!🐟🧬 The Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS) is launching its first #SciArt Competition. We are looking for creative work that illustrates how zebrafish research is transforming human health. And there’s cash prizes for the winners! 💰🐟 See thread for details⬇️

Want to have a taster session of both discovery and translational cancer research using #zebrafishlarval models? Here are some first hand research insights! Credit also going to organiser @zebrafishrock.bsky.social 👇👇

Zebrafish Rock! 🎃@zebrafishrock.bsky.social

Our first double feature was all about #cancer and immune cells featuring Dr. Rita Fior @champalimaudr.bsky.social with "Zebrafish avatars for personalized medicine" & @fengfishlab.bsky.social with "Oncogenic Ras driven phenotypic plasticity in epithelium fuels tumour-promoting neutrophil response"

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How is technology transforming zebrafish cancer research? 🐟🔬 The first @zdmsociety.bsky.social Cancer RIG is ✨diving✨ into just that and we'd love to see you there! 📅 Monday, May 4th | 10–11:30 AM EST

#ZDMS Research Interest Group (RIG) Meet Ups return for 2026! These FREE webinars showcase the latest tools & research from a wide variety of expert speakers across multiple career stages. 🐟👩‍🔬 For a full list of topics and to register, visit: www.zdmsociety.org/2026-zdms-ri... Please share widely!

Makes you wonder how many cell types are capable of self-generating gradients?

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Want to make your images/videos more inclusive? Avoid Red-Blind LUTs! 🫷 While single-color red images are accessible, multi-color LUTs with red can be confusing for a small proportion of the population with Protanopia. I'll give a quick example from a paper I covered in journal club. 1/2

As part of the ZDMS cancer RIG 2026 meet up webinars, we want to encourage ECR participants to apply for the opportunity to share their research with our community, if you are doing cool cancer research using #zebrafish please apply here eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Current RIGs include: Aging, Cancer, Drug Discovery, Education, GI Metabolism Disease, Hematological Disorders, Infection & Inflammation, Muscle & Cardiac Disease, Neural Disorders, Skeletal Disease, and Toxicology 🐟 Your interest not listed? You can always start a new RIG with your colleagues 💪😎

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🦴🐟 I’ve step into the role of Senior Leader for the Skeletal Diseases Research Interest Group (RIG) within the Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS). 🐟🐟🦴🦴I’ll be reaching out soon to discuss our roadmap for the year, upcoming webinars, and collaborative initiatives. #ZebrafishResearch #ZDMS

The added bonus for join the #ZDM19 in Oxford is you can join an additional one day UK ZII meeting in partnership with the ZDM19, co-registration discount applies www.zebrafishinfection.co.uk in the beautiful Worcester college!

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Registration & Abstract submissions are now open for #ZDM19 in Oxford 🤩 Please share with your colleagues! 📅When: 28th-30th September, 2026 🌍Where: Mathematics Institute at University of Oxford, UK Find more details (including deadlines) at the official conference website: www.zdmsociety.org/zdm19

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Fin-omenal webinar, for those interested! 16:00-17:00 CET | 20:30-21:30 IST Free for IZFS members ($25 for non-members). More details here: www.izfs.org/education/we...

NEW IZFS Webinar! From Code to Coat: The 'complete' zebrafish genome and the developing epidermis. Join Shawn M. Burgess (@burgesslab.bsky.social) and Mahendra Sonawane at 10:00 am EDT on March 19th! Register today at www.izfs.org/education/webinars #IZFSWebinar2026 #Genome #ZebrafishResearch

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Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines. So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming: www.science.org/content/arti...

science.orgRare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people

Time to use your skills to make a big splash Kevin!! Great to have you on board to aid advocating zebrafish for modelling human diseases with ZDMS!

Kevin Thiessen, PhD@kevinthiessen.bsky.social

Finally putting my social media skills to work for my favorite societies 💪 Happy to announce I've joined the IZFS Publications & Communications Committee to coordinate their member news for the News Splash! I've also taken on the role of Co-Chair of the newly-formed ZDMS Communications Committee!

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Our take on a really interesting new study by the Franz lab at UCL, a version of epithelial polarity where you would not expect it! Read our Spotlight and the original paper!

Spotlight: Ball and Röper @pdncambridge.bsky.social discuss recent findings by Almasoud, Franz et al. (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) describing how apical–basal polarity regulates cell–cell adhesion in the #Drosophila fat body. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Adhesion #Cytoskeleton #Development

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Excited to share work led by the wonderful Gopi Viswanathan examining roles of granuloma neutrophils &defining bacterial transcriptional profiles within mycobacterial granulomas. Cool collab with Qingyun Liu at UNC for evolutionary analysis of granuloma-specific genes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgGranuloma dual RNA-seq reveals composite transcriptional programs driven by neutrophils and necrosis within tuberculous granulomasDual host-pathogen transcriptional profiling defines granuloma-specific programs during mycobacterial infection.

Wow! 🤩 this is amazing! What will be the master controllers for these structural dynamics?

Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪@loicaroyer.bsky.social

📡🧵 Excited to release an updated version of our preprint: Zebrahub-Multiome: Uncovering Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics During Zebrafish Embryogenesis 🧪🧬🖥️🐠 doi.org/10.1101/2024... A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!

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With @burgesslab.bsky.social, not one, but TWO freshly caught T2T zebrafish reference genomes for the Tübingen and AB strains 🎣 🎣 🎉

Javan Okendo@javanokendo.bsky.social

🎉 Excited to share our new preprint presenting a complete de novo assembly of the zebrafish genome; a major advance for zebrafish genomics and research! 🧬 Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social

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For those interested, we’ve got two #WomenInScience lists, a list of resource and society accounts that support #zebrafish and lists of Senior Scientists & Group Leaders that work with our favorite fish. If you’re not on a list and want to be added (or just want to double-check), please reach out! 🧪

Zebrafish Rock! 🎃@zebrafishrock.bsky.social

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The first international workshop that focused on #zebrafish was convened in 1990 in Eugene, Oregon. Sponsored by NIH and NSF, the gathering of ∼40 scientists sought to evaluate the research potential of the tiny fish. Today, nearly 1,800+ zebrafish labs exist worldwide. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪