David Katz

Congratulations to all of the @emoryuniversity.bsky.social Genetics and Molecular Biology program members who won awards at this year’s biological sciences division awards!

It was an immense pleasure to host the great @erincram.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social Erin gave a 🤯 seminar on how the tiny tube (spermatheca) stretches to accommodate the giant oocyte in C. elegans! Everyone should hear about this stunning science!

It has been awesome to have the great @yanoworm.bsky.social in the lab for the last couple of days working at the bench with my student @mackenzzzzie.bsky.social on a collaborative project!

I am afraid that this conference is not heating up!

Awesome.

Not you Harmit. There must have been some knowledge and wisdom in the stuff you were making up! LOL

On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵

Very excited to be in Barcelona to share our latest data on how LSD1 is a critical target in the Alzheimer’s disease pathway at the Neurobiology of Brain Disorders GRC

Congratulations Adam!

Amazing scientist. Well deserved.

Science satire. Hilarious. Well done! Highly recommend. inpreparation.substack.com

Pretty remarkable.

Remarkable talk from my former postdoc @bscarp84.bsky.social who is doing great science @kennesawstate.bsky.social #wormtopicmeeting2026

Excellent course. Was delighted that my grad student Caitlin Fix (pictured here) got this amazing opportunity!

It was my great pleasure to get to introduce the great Jane Hubbard as the keynote speaker at the MAPSS+DevCell C. elegans topic meeting last night #wormtopicmeeting2026

Amazing working with Ryo Sanabria, Danielle Garsin, Rob Dowen, Jordan Ward, Swathi Arur and Jennifer Schisa to organize the MAPSS+DevCell 2026 topic meeting here in Madison, WI #wormtopicmeeting2026

Very proud of my undergraduate honors thesis student Zohra Jamil, pictured here receiving the James Edward Oglethorpe Award for graduating senior who demonstrated the highest excellence in scholarship, leadership and excellence @oglethorpeuniv.bsky.social from President McClymond at graduation

Very proud to be Director of such an amazing program with exceptional students!

Very proud of my graduate student Mackenzie Roberson for winning best grad student talk at the southeast @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting!

Very proud of my former postdoc Teresa Lee, for serving as organizing chair of the Northeast @socdevbio.bsky.social Meeting (see ⬇️) and for my former postdoc Brandon Carpenter, for serving as organizing chair of the Southeast @socdevbio.bsky.social Meeting. Building the scientific community!

Congratulations to my students Saahj Gosrani and Monica Reeves for winning best talk and best poster at the Emory Graduate Student Biological Sciences Division Symposium. Very proud!

Remarkable story about how transcriptional repressors and nucleosome remodeling reinforce the function of histone modifications to specify cell fate (germline vs. soma). Have a read!

Don’t forget to submit your abstract for the C. elegans topic meeting June 10-14 in Madison, WI. Oral abstract deadline April 3rd! uwmadison.eventsair.com/mapsdev26/

Submit your abstract by April 10 for what is sure to be an outstanding Southeast Society for Developmental Biology Meeting May 18-20 at Kennesaw State University www.sdbonline.org/sesdb2026 @socdevbio.bsky.social

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Happy to be hosting Jane Hubbard from NYU Grossman School of Medicine @emoryuniversity.bsky.social for a seminar today in the Dept. of Cell Biology

Atlanta stands up for science! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

I will be there!

Stand up for science, Atlanta!

The best keynote talks make you wish you studied the question the speaker is presenting. In that respect, this amazing talk by Amita Sehgal (UPenn) on how and why flies sleep (which is likely the same reason we do) is just so amazing it’s hard to describe. Mind is truly blown. #Dros26

Don’t forget to register for the C. elegans topic meeting June 10-14 in Madison, WI. Early bird registration deadline this Friday 2/27! uwmadison.eventsair.com/mapsdev26/

Was very excited to work on this with @bscarp84.bsky.social

Great

Excited to be at the University of Kentucky to give a seminar hosted by @emduncan.bsky.social

Wanted to report a significant outcome. 0.05 snow fall accumulation in Atlanta.

Really proud of our 8 @oglethorpeuniv.bsky.social seniors who presented posters on their C. elegans pipeline CURE data, along with the whole mentorship team! @aliciakrogers.bsky.social @odedrechavi.bsky.social

Very excited to have @aliciakrogers.bsky.social here today in person @oglethorpeuniv.bsky.social to discuss data with our undergraduates as part of our C. elegans Pipeline CURE!

Exciting to see our Emory University Genetics and Molecular Biology students pursuing their passion for science and imaging! Way to go Nicole! thenode.biologists.com/interview-wi...

Amazing lab. Terrific opportunity!

Was really privileged to play a very small part in providing feedback on the development. Once again @odedrechavi.bsky.social innovating science. Brilliant!

Really excited to host @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Awesome science!

Really enjoyed my visit

Happy to be back @princeton.edu , where I received fabulous PhD training, to give a talk in MolBio and serve as a Health Science panelist for the Many Minds Many Stripes 125th Graduate Anniversary celebration!

Really looking forward to visiting Rutgers and @barrlab.bsky.social tomorrow!