Jens Rister
@rister
Associate Professor @UMassBoston. K99/R00 fellow @NatEyeInstitute. We study photoreceptor development and the effects of vitamin A deficiency on the eye. 👁
I am grateful for having been part of this year's CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course. Thanks to my co-directors @mariadelapax.bsky.social and Tingting Wang, our TAs, instructors, and lecturers! We wish our highly talented students all the best! @cshlcourses.bsky.social #scicomm #drosophila 🪰🧪
In the 'Behavior' section of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, we studied grooming behavior (Andy Seeds/Steffi Hampel), visual navigation (Michael Reiser), courtship (Christa Baker), and aggression (Sarah Certel)! @cshlcourses.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social Tingting Wang #scicomm 🧪🪰
In the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, our students successfully performed NMJ recordings (Tingting Wang), voltage imaging (Cheng Huang), and patch-clamp recordings (Nara Muraro). Thanks also to Yimei, Ruibao, and Flor for their support! @cshlcourses.bsky.social @mariadelapax.bsky.social 🧪
In the 'Development' section of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course, our students learned to stage, stain, and dissect fly embryos, larvae, pupae, and adults. Khanh and Heena explained how to handle fragile pupal brain and eye tissue! 🪰🧪 @mariadelapax.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social
Great to be back with @mariadelapax.bsky.social and Tingting Wang as co-directors of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course 🪰! Thank you for the excellent technical support, Heena Khurana and Khanh Lam-Kamath! 🧪 @cshlcourses.bsky.social @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlaboratory.bsky.social
We had an excellent time at the NESDB meeting in Woods Hole. Note how PhD student HEENA KHURANA uses 'state of the art technology' to highlight the highlights on her poster! #Drosophila 🪰🧪 #UMassBoston #scicomn
Very proud of our undergrads Caroline Wong and Elnor Bashir who presented their research at the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago! 🧪🪰 #Dros26 #scicomm @umassboston.bsky.social
Having a great time discussing our research on preventing photoreceptor degeneration, listening to inspiring talks, and meeting old friends at the Cold Spring Harbor Neurobiology of Drosophila conference! #cshldros @cshlmeetings.bsky.social @cshlaboratory.bsky.social @cshlmeetings.bsky.social 🪰🧪
Attention: the NINE INCH NAILS show in Boston was excellent. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 😜🧪
This year's edition, the 40th anniversary(!), of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course is in the books! Thank you Tania Reis, Robert Carrillo, and Tim Mosca for this unique opportunity! We wish our exceptionally talented students all the best! 🪰🧪 @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social
Having a great time serving as co-director of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course with Tania Reis and Robert Carrillo! 🧪🪰👀 #drosophila #scicomm #cshl
R01 Notice of Award comes in, confetti canon comes out! Thank you @NatEyeInstitute @UMassBoston #vision #research #NEIfunded 🪰👀🧪
Proud mentor moment: Congrats to Dr. Deepshe Dewett on the 'Outstanding teaching award' and Dr. Joe Bunker on the 'Outstanding PhD dissertation award'! 🧪🍾👀🪰👁️
🧪Party on the left, business on the right! 😎 Graduate student Heena Khurana found this interesting mutant: #Science #Drosophila #scicomm #Flyeyes
Our talented REU student Adharsha Ramesh received a travel award and presented her project at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists! @ABRCMS
Our former undergraduate researcher Alexis Perry (now at Tufts) received the 'Emerging Leader' award from Chancellor Suárez-Orozco! So proud!
Wonderful parting gift from Dr. Deepshe Dewett: a lab celebration cork 🍾 wall!
Congratulations to Jules Pouokam Kambou on a very successful undergraduate research experience this summer! Big thanks also to Joseph Browne and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center-UMass Boston U54 Partnership for their support!
Two Rister lab PhD defenses in one week! Congratulations to Deepshe and Joe, excellent job! #proudPI #partyalarm
Great to be back at Cold Spring Harbor as an invited speaker for the Drosophila Neurobiology course!
Another fun collaboration with the Shevchenko lab, now online: Lipidome Unsaturation Affects the Morphology and Proteome of the Drosophila Eye. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #lipidomics #proteomics #massspec #eye #drosophila