Kate McCluskey

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Kate McCluskey

@pieceofkate

she/her | Neuroscience PhD @UCSFNSGrad in Helen Willsey's Lab 🐸 | on bsky 🦋

Katılım Mart 2012

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·7 Mar

This is now published @NatureComms ! Thanks to the editor and reviewers for helpful feedback improving the paper! Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Excited to say that it’s preprint time🎉! Here we provide evidence that autism gene variants affect enteric neuron migration and cause gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·10 Tem

@n_mosquedaa @emboreports @cshlxeno Beautiful!!!! Congrats !! 🎉🐸

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nmosqueda@n_mosquedaa·9 Tem

Check out the Brownlee Lab's first publication and journal cover in @emboreports 🎉Cover image showcases neural progenitor cells in a developing Xenopus brain taken at @cshlxeno course🐸! embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

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Mitchell Lab@BMitchell_Lab·25 Haz

Super excited that our paper is out. It describes a new mechanism for dealing with tissue crowding that does not involve cell extrusion. nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Development@Dev_journal·25 Haz

Finding commonality in autism and congenital heart disease Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Nia Teerikorpi, Tomasz Nowakowski @labnowakowski, Jeremy Willsey @WillseyLab, Helen Rankin Willsey @goodfrognosis & co @UCSFPsychiatry @UCSF: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

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Helen Willsey@goodfrognosis·10 May

New PhD candidate on the block! Congrats to Christina 🐸🎉

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Helen Willsey@goodfrognosis·30 Nis

A new PhD candidate is on the block! This time DROSOPHILA! Yes, we are also a fly lab now thanks to Anna 🪰

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Xenbase@Xenbase·23 Nis

McCluskey et al. publish in Nature Communications how expression of autism genes is enriched in migratory embryonic gut progenitors causing GI dismotility. xenbase.org/xenbase/doNews… #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·9 Mar

@rachelmckneuro @Franze_Lab Congrats Dr. Mckeown !! 🎉🐸

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Rachel Mckeown@rachelmckneuro·8 Mar

After four and a half years in the @Franze_Lab, I’m so pleased to have defended my PhD and signed my name next to my ceiling champagne cork dent!🍾 Thank you to all I’ve had the pleasure of sharing this extraordinary journey with😊 #PhDone

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·6 Şub

So honored to be part of this group !! Thanks to @goodfrognosis and the lab for the nomination !

Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs@UCSFGradDiv

Introducing the recipients of the 2025 Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Mentoring! ✨ This outstanding group was recognized during our 6th annual ceremony last night. Well done everyone! 👏 @UCSF

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Helen Willsey@goodfrognosis·21 Oca

Congratulations to newly PhD'ed @pieceofkate Dr. McCluskey!! She gave a fantastic thesis seminar to cap it off 👏🎓🐸✨

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🐸Rachel🐸Miller🐸@rkmille·9 Oca

Check out this video to learn about the fantastic work that students do in the course! youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E

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🐸Rachel🐸Miller🐸@rkmille

Getting excited about the @cshlxeno course! Applications are due January 31st. Apply now! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?c…

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·10 Ara

🎉Congrats to the wonderful and talented @ElinaKost !! Check out her exciting new preprint where she shows that autism proteins (chromatin regulators and synaptic proteins ! ) converge to localize on cilia

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·22 Kas

Xenopus is an awesome model for ENS development !

@FrogWranglers@frogwranglers

Happy #FluorescenceFriday from this #Xenopus tadpole gut stained for acetylated tubulin (magenta) and calretinin (green). By @pieceofkate who has been studying the development of enteric neurons in frog! @zeiss_micro Zoom widefield scope with apotome

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Helen Willsey@goodfrognosis·15 Kas

Check out our new ✨preprint✨ led by James Schmidt! Here we identified a new role for the gene KANSL1 in ciliary biology using Xenopus, with validations in patients with associated Koolen-de Vries Syndrome, which is characterized by hypersociability. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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John Wallingford@jbwallingford·1 Kas

This course changes lives. If you are serious about a career in #devbiol, you should apply! Generous fellowships are available so don’t be shy, apply!!!

Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)@MBLScience

Embryology: Concepts and Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology 🧫 🧬 🔬 🦠 June 1 – July 15, 2025 Deadline: January 22, 2025 go.mbl.edu/embryology

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Peter Walentek@WalentekLab·27 Eki

New preprint from the lab 🙌 @biorxivpreprint. We found new foxi1 functions in multipotent mucociliary progenitors in #xenopus. 🐸 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Congrats to 3 first authors @_bowden @MagdaBrislinger @Mona__Hansen & team! @CIBSS_UniFR @SFB1453_NephGen @dfg_public

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·26 Eki

@goodfrognosis James is a professional photographer now

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Helen Willsey@goodfrognosis·26 Eki

Photo credit to James Schmidt who can really rock the 0.5x am I right @pieceofkate

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Helen Willsey@goodfrognosis·26 Eki

I AM YOUR MOTHER (centriole)

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Wills Lab@WillsLabFroggos·20 Eki

Check out our new preprint investigating progenitor patterning after Xenopus spinal cord injury! 🐸🧠🔬@SwearerAvery

biorxiv_devbio@biorxiv_devbio

Shh signaling directs dorsal ventral patterning in the regenerating X. tropicalis spinal cord biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_devbio

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Helen Willsey@goodfrognosis·19 Ağu

Check out our latest ✨preprint✨ on the common coincidence of congenital heart disease and autism, a great collaboration with @WillseyLab and @LabNowakowski led by graduate student Nia Teerikorpi! She identified shared roles in ciliary biology in human NPCs & frogs 📡🧫🐸

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Kate McCluskey@pieceofkate·17 Tem

Congrats @ElinaKost 🎉🎉🎉 🐸 so thrilled for you and excited to see what’s next !!!

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@n_mosquedaa @emboreports @cshlxeno @labnowakowski @WillseyLab @goodfrognosis @UCSFPsychiatry @UCSF