Vanderbilt PhD candidate in the Burnette lab @MAG2ART. Interested in studying cellular mysteries via microscopy and also rocks, plants, stars, and cats.
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Graduate student @EmmaKoory in Dylan Burnette's lab (@MAG2ART) received an honorable mention in the 2026 Nikon Small World competition for a video of a heart cell forming sarcomeres that drive contractions. @VanderbiltCBD
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Five alarm.
Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health. nyti.ms/4yhi6RS
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Video of myosin proteins "walking" along actin. Insane that we can image this!
It was made by Toshio Ando's group using atomic force microscopy. All of their papers are a goldmine; they've also recorded a Cas9 protein cutting DNA and ATP synthase spinning.
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Stand with us to protect the future of Nashville Zoo.
A proposed 69,000-square-foot data center is planned next to the Zoo, but no environmental impact studies have been conducted. Sign our petition to help protect the animals in our care ➡️ c.org/KxhXznzBcD
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New-found immune cells called ‘ruptoblasts’ explode when triggered, ejecting toxic chemicals capable of delivering death to surrounding cells in just minutes. The cells’ discoverers say that this process, which they call ruptosis, seems to be a new form of cell death.
go.nature.com/4x3SZBT
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🚨: Whenever you feel sad, remember that there are tiny kinesin proteins doing their best to make you happy.
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Sometimes blebbisomes like to hitch a ride on cells, like you see here! Extracellular vesicles with a personality indeed! These guys do so many cool and unique things that we will be sharing soon! Stay tuned!#fluorescencefriday #blebbisomes #extracellularvesicle
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Excited to share our latest paper, out today @CellCellPress. We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. (1/7)
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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They renamed blebbisomes. The authors claimed erroneously in their paper that blebbisomes are found only in cancer cells, whereas we clearly demonstrated that blebbisomes are produced by normal cells. The structures described here are simply blebbisomes generated by astrocytes.
When key “housekeeper” brain cells grow in lab dishes, they spawn unusual microscopic vesicles that can move on their own and carry energy-generating organelles, a research team revealed.
The biologists have dubbed their discovery zombosomes because the blobs can move like cells for a period despite lacking a nucleus, which acts as a cell's control center.
The group also showed the membrane-bound messengers ferry proteins related to Parkinson’s disease, suggesting they may contribute to it and other brain disorders.
Learn more: scim.ag/49WB4Um @NewsfromScience
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Below are some brief highlights from our recent paper, “Nonmuscle α-Actinin-4 Couples Sarcomere Function to Cardiac Remodeling”. This cover shows iPSC-cardiac myocytes photographed through a microscope by Dr. James Hayes. #CellBiology
Paper link: ahajrnls.org/4peXHYp
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Burnette Lab paper: "Pharmacological Inhibition of β Myosin II Disrupts Sarcomere Assembly in Human iPSC-Derived Cardiac Myocytes" is out! This image is of beta myosin II filaments in an iPSC-derived cardiac myocyte. #CellBiology
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We got the cover to go along with our article "Nonmuscle α-Actinin-4 Couples Sarcomere Function to Cardiac Remodeling"! Read it here:
ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.…
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Zebrafish are my new obsession. This is the tail section of an embryo 72 hours post-fertilization imaged with a 20X objective. Actin (phalloidin) and nuclei (DAPI) are shown. It's incredible how this was a single cell 3 days ago!! @MAG2ART #sciencesunday #cellbiology #scitwitter
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1 minute DIC time-lapse of a blebbisome, a new type of large extracellular vesicle that we first described earlier this year in NCB. These guys are so cool and constantly surprising me with what they can do. Frames every 1s. Scale = 5 um. @MAG2ART
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A mini-Burnette Lab reunion at #CellBio2025! Wonderful to reconnect with my first two grad students, Nilay Taneja and Aidan Fenix, and share the table with the current grad students, Emma Koory and Grace Ward. This dinner reminded me why I love this job! #CellBiology
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"Non-Muscle α-Actinin-4 Couples Sarcomere Function to Cardiac Remodeling" is now online at Circulation Research! Congratulations to Dr. James Hayes on this ambitious work! There is a lot in the paper so let's start with the graphical abstract. @CircRes
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…
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