@BlockInTheBack

Professor, U of Utah. Follow the lab @Kwantourage. Biology, family, football, food. Knitter, musician. SLC, via LA, the Bay Area, and Boston.

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Joined February 2011
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the Cagle Cats@CagleCats6 Nov 2024
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Dave Itzkoff@ditzkoff4 Nov 2024
not saying things are tense, but all the characters from Les Miserables are gradually gathering out side my window to sing a song
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As part of my appointment as Chair of @UofUGenetics, we will be launching a multi-year effort to recruit faculty with innovative research programs that complement and build upon our strengths in computational, developmental, disease, and evolutionary genetics. Stay tuned.
Aaron Quinlan@aaronquinlan14 Aug 2024
When I started grad school in 2004, I never could have imagined I would write the following sentence. I am honored and thrilled to be the Chairperson of Human Genetics @UUtah! I look forward to future excellence w/ current & new scientists in our amazing department. Stay tuned!
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Jim Fadool@jfadoollab27 Jul 2024
Kicking off the 25th running of the Zebrafish course @MBLScience. Another amazing group of students.
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Justin Kumar@FlyEyeLab31 May 2024
Thanks to all attendees, discussion leaders, and speakers for making the 2024 Visual System Development GRC a fantastic experience. I loved working with Valerie Wallace and @jnk_lab this year. Can't wait to organize the 2026 GRC with @jnk_lab @BobbyJEyeGuy and @BlockInTheBack!
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Wei Li@Wei_Li_Vision23 May 2024
Fresh from the GRC Visual System Development 2024! Thank you, Valerie, Jeremy @jnk_lab, and Justin @FlyEyeLab ! Congrats, Kristen @BlockInTheBack and Bob @BobbyJEyeGuy 🎉🎉🎉 and the GRS leaders @KiaraCEldred1, Robert Mackin, @M4rik0, Danielle Little @drl5141
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“The retina through the life course”. An amazing symposium by incredibly talented scientists. Thank you for coming to @UCLeye before the #GRCVisualSystems. Great day. @Brian_S_Clark @BlockInTheBack @NCLNoel @LatorreLab @RobertHindges @JoelMiesfeld @Pierre_Mattar_ @TaYoshimatsu
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Greatly enjoyed attending this brilliant symposium organised by ⁦@MacDonald_Lab⁩. Much discussion and exchange still ongoing when I left an hour after the end. The retina is amazing and still yielding new mechanisms
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Dinner at #TAGC24 with @MaryC_Mullins @BlockInTheBack @flomarlow_lab @chrmosimann @CeciliaMoens
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Nels Elde@ElEarlyBird21 Nov 2023
A little late to the party. Please apply for our newly posted faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics - broadly defined- here in the Department of Human Genetics at Utah @UofUHealth. PS: the photo below was taken 15 minutes from your new lab. utah.peopleadmin.com/posting…
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IZFS@InfoIzfs6 Nov 2023
Don't Forget: Abstracts for TAGC 2024, March 6–10, 2024 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Metro Washington, DC, are due this Thursday November 9th! You can submit your abstracts here: genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/a…
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#TAGC24’s abstract submission deadline is only a week away! 😱 If you have a submission in progress, and have questions about the submission or review process, contact @GeneticsGSA  genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/a… Don’t miss the chance to be selected for a talk at #TAGC24 – at Taipei City, Taiwan

Abstract Submission - TAGC24

BRINGING GENETICS TOGETHER

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Mark your calendars for #TAGC24 March 6–10, 2024, at National Harbor, Washington, DC. Highlighting recent advances in zebrafish biology in organism-specific and pan-model sessions. Abstract submission starts Sept. 29 2023
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Being in Chicago for #2023SDB meant we just had to try Malört. Reviewer responses:
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IZFS@InfoIzfs13 Jul 2023
Congratulations to our Chi-Bin Chien award winner Peter Fabian and to our Streisinger award winner John Postlethwait! #IZFSawards #EZFC #ChiBinChienaward #Streisingeraward #Zebrafish
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Hooray, it’s #FluorescenceFriday! And we are admiring the beautiful work of Cassie Kemmler, @chrmosimann @aburger2009 @blockintheback @kwantourage & colleagues. They share their next-generation plasmids for transgenesis in zebrafish and more! @Dev_journal: journals.biologists.com/dev/…
Zebrafish labelled with mCerulean, a versatile blue fluorophore, from Kemmler, et al.

ALT Zebrafish labelled with mCerulean, a versatile blue fluorophore, from Kemmler, et al.

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Univ Utah Human Genetics is excited to welcome our newest faculty member - Marina Venero-Galanternik @vg_biomarina! Welcome! Can't wait for all the cool science to come. @UUtah @UofUResearch @UofUHealth
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Interested in: Dev Bio Eyes Gene expression Morphogenesis Flies Vertebrates Organoids Evolution And more! Check out this special issue I organized with @Dev_Bio_Journal ! summary sciencedirect.com/science/ar… TOC sciencedirect.com/journal/de… Thanks to @cleaverlab and all the authors!
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DMM Journal@DMM_Journal23 Dec 2022
For the last day of #12DaysofEdsChoice @kwantourage @UUtah wrote a highlight of a resource article by @PennyLamPhD @MCW_CBNA that developed a new system for in vivo imaging of #disease in adult #zebrafish relatives 🐟 ⚡journals.biologists.com/dmm/… 📰journals.biologists.com/dmm/…
Lateral view maximum intensity projection of 3-month-old adult female Tg(mpeg1:dendra2, kdrl:mCherry-caax) fish. Anterior is to the left and dorsal is up.

ALT Lateral view maximum intensity projection of 3-month-old adult female Tg(mpeg1:dendra2, kdrl:mCherry-caax) fish. Anterior is to the left and dorsal is up.

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Thank you to ⁦@SethBlackshaw⁩ and Valerie Wallace, our co-chairs #GRCvisualsystems for a fantastic meeting!!!
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