Les Sutton

Btw 🐟💕 excited for @socdevbio.bsky.social 2027

Spooky science from LSK grad students + post baccs

Positive results on my experiment !! Happy holiday :)))

Had my friend come in and update my headshots and he got this cute lil one of me (+ Lila) 🥹

Come say hi at the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC!

Super excited to share my project at the cell adhesion and planar polarity Gordon conference today! Come find me at poster #27 after you snag some coffee :)

Read this forbidden fruit--the editorial that got the Past President of the American Diabetes Association kicked out of the organizations meeting with a police escort 🧪

The current President of the ADA is Harvard Medical School's Dr. Enrique Caballero. Perhaps he'd like to hear from you if you think the ADA's actions in ejecting Dr. Kahn and his colleagues from the national meeting were wrong enrique_caballero@hms.harvard.edu hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staf...

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Have you ever wondered if fish yawn? (and if they do, what that tells us about yawning?) The first preprint from the lab and a serendipitous observation ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bike prom tonight with my big Friday bike crew. Nothing makes me love St. Louis like the Bici. Hair matches dress matches bike.

*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️

✨ A developmental biology classic! Somitogenesis of a chick embryo 🐣 is lighting up in this fluorescent HCR staining. The notochord (Chordin 🟡) and somites (PAX7 💎) are labelled. 🔬 📸 credit: Tatiane Kanno #FluorescenceFriday #devbio

Sooooo... Several people shared this slide with me. NIH is apparently working on a new parent mechanism called an RP1. I have many questions (and only a few answers). (EPMC is the NIH-wide Extramural Program Management Committee co-chaired by Jon Lorsch). 1/4

David Attenborough's nature documentaries and conservation work have sparked a love of the natural world in countless scientists. To mark his 100th birthday today, I spoke with several researchers whose discoveries became tributes to his legacy. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

eeeeee so excited im presenting a poster at the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors Gordon Research Conference this year 🤩 can't wait to spend a whole week thinking about cellular adhesion

A reminder that the registration deadline for the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC is May 10, just a few days from now. Hope to see you there, and please pass along to anyone you think would be interested. www.grc.org/signaling-by...

Today is #RareDiseaseDay & we are celebrating by highlighting the invaluable work of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)! Formed in 2020, it aims to solve the most challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies. In this thread, we will highlight their use of the #zebrafish model. 1/5 🧪

Come see my exhibition at the Intersect Arts Center! It is bringing me so much joy, I hope it will do the same for you (which I know we all need). #SciArt www.instagram.com/p/DVhLvYoCaX...

Switching fields or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research? The @mblscience.bsky.social 2026 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! Application deadline: March 2 Please spread the word! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Whole-body Single-cell Spatial transcriptomic atlas of adult Danionella ~1 cm long scRNAseq MERFISH (500-gene) HCR Endothelial cell podxl+ (Fig S8) Vascular vs Visceral mural cell (Fig S10) Peter Reddien lab bioRxiv 2026 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very much worth 3 min of your day.

so excited I get to go TA at the zebrafish embryology course at MBL in July 🤩🤩

My cohort is trying to do Grillz for our defenses where we all get grillz to celebrate becoming doctors and I think this is the best idea I've heard in ages

Sitting here with friends, scheming to bring more beautiful things into the world. I open bluesky, am met with more horror. Every day more horror. On Sunday, I gave a talk to the scientists where I implored everyone to do *anything*. It's easier to break than make things. Please make something.

Passed my qual yesterday :) 🐟

I love grading students homeworks because I just have fun talking to myself in the comments. Highlighting the good text and commenting "slay," or "bars" throughout their assignment makes me giggle, hope my kiddos enjoy it too

Every time I need to reconnect I watch Cave of Forgotten Dreams from Werner Herzog for this reason exactly

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

My students keep finding out how old I am and saying I've reached unc status :(