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Cell biologist studying how a heart grows and dies. Associate Professor at Vanderbilt. Artist and fashion designer at . Married to @gillianhoo .

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DNA during cell death and cell division. #CellBiology #microscope
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THE "CITIZEN CANE"..... ......OF MICROSCOPY I'm teaching 1st-year grad students about cell migration tomorrow. This is the first movie they will see. An immune cell hunting down a bacterium among red blood cells. Movie credit: David Rogers. #CellBiology
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Cell 1: “I am going this way.” Cell 2: “No. You are coming with me.” #CellBiology #screenplay
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The Citizen Kane of Microscopy An immune cell (neutrophil) hunting down a bacterium among red blood cells. Filmed through a microscope by David Rogers. #CellBiology #Microscopy
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Just a normal cell going through cell division.....WHAT? A dramatic cellular phenomenon? Let’s study that! #CellBiology #microscopy
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Just a normal cell going through cell division…… Wait!!! What???!!! It was not so normal after all! I guess we have to study membrane blebs now…. The data said so.
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A cancer cell with three nuclei and active mitochondria videoed through a microscope. @NikonSmallWorld
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A cell going through cell division videoed through a microscope. Chromosomes are shown in pink. @NikonSmallWorld
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DNA during cell death and cell division. #CellBiology #Microscopy
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A cell going through cell division videoed through a microscope. #Science #CellBiology #Art
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NEURONAL GROWTH CONES I spent years studying these little critters and I still do not understand them. Such is the burden that comes with choosing not to be a reductionist. Upside? Cells surprise me all the time. That has kept me coming back for 20 years. #CellBiology
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NEURONAL GROWTH CONES I spent years studying these little critters and I still do not understand them. Such is the burden that comes with choosing not to be a reductionist. Upside? Cells surprise me all the time. That has kept me coming back for 20 years. #CellBiology
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Mitochondria (green), microtubules (red) and actin filaments (blue) in a living cell as seen through a microscope. #CellBiology #MitoMonday
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A cell going through cell division videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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Cell 1: “I like going right.” Cell 2: “I like going left.” Cell 1: “I think I will go right forever.” Cell 2: “Nope. You’re coming with me.” Cell 1: “Where are we going?” Cell 2: “No idea but at least we’ll be together.”
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Mitochondria (purple), DNA (yellow) and actin (blue) in an epithelial cell. @CellBiology @microscopy
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Mitochondria (yellow) and microtubules (blue) in a cell videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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Movie of a single cancer cell crawling around acquired through a microscope. Actin (purple); nucleus (yellow); Golgi (blue) #Cancer #CellBiology
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Mitochondria and three nuclei in a cell videoed through a microscope. Only mitochondria videos until 30K (followers). #CellBiology
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A cancer cell videoed through a microscope. It has three nuclei (blue). The mitochondria (yellow) and a cytoskeletal component (VASP;red) are also shown. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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DNA (green) and mitochondria (purple) in a cancer cell as seen through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #Melanoma
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FULL OF ENERGY Mitochondria (purple) create much of the chemical energy for the cell. And when compared to the slow moving nucleus (green), mitochondria seem hyperactive. Full of energy indeed. #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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Dying melanoma cancer cells videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology
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Mitochondria (blue) and DNA (green) in a melanoma cell as seen through a microscope. #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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Cells pretending to be galaxies. #CellBiology
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The powerhouses of our cells, mitochondria, moving around the nucleus. It reminds me of a toddler interacting with a patient golden retriever. #CellBiology #microscopy
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Mitochondria (green), microtubules (red) and actin filaments (blue) in a living cell imaged through a microscope. #CellBiology #MitoMonday
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A cell going through cell division photographed through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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This is the first video of cell division captured in the Burnette lab. The DNA--starting in condensed chromosomes--and DIC are shown. Little did we know then that we would become obsessed with membrane blebs; apparent in this video during cytokinesis. #CellBiology #microscopy
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Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a single heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte)--which itself is shaped like a little heart--as seen through a microscope. #cardiotwitter #CellBiology #SciArt
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Mitochondria (green) in a cancer cell with three nuclei (purple). #CellBiology #MitoMonday #microscopy
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A dividing cell photographed through a microscope. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art
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DNA (yellow), actin filaments (blue), and the mighty mitochondria (purple) as seen through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy
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The cell’s nucleus (blue), mitochondria (yellow), and focal adhesions (purple). #CellBiology #Microscopy
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Neuronal growth cones videoed through a DIC microscope. #Science #Biology #CellBiology
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This is a single cell as seen through a microscope. It shows the movement of mitochondria (green), microtubules (red) and actin filaments (blue). #CellBiology #Microscopy
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The Citizen Kane of Cell Division Walther Flemming published this time-lapse of a dividing cell in 1882. He drew the data by hand while looking in his microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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Neuronal growth cones photographed using a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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This movie shows the powerhouses of the cell, mitochondria, and DNA within a single cancer cell with three nuclei as seen through a microscope. #CellBiology #Microscopy
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The actin filament cytoskeleton in a single cell photographed through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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A cell going through cell division photographed through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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This is a single epithelial cell as seen through a microscope. The nucleus (blue), mitochondria (yellow) and the actin filament cytoskeleton (magenta) are shown. #CellBiology #microscopy
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The "Citizen Kane" of Microscopy I am teaching first-year graduate students about cell motility tomorrow. This is the first movie they will see; a classic recording by David Rogers of a neutrophil chasing down a bacterium. #CellBiology #Microscopy
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DNA during cell death and cell division. #CellBiology #microscopy
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A dividing cell photographed through a microscope. Actin and myosin II filaments are shown. #CellBiology #Science #SciArt
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Three cells going through cell division videoed through a microscope. Left to right: Control, Myosin IIA depletion, and Myosin IIB depletion. This data screamed, "Study membrane blebs!" So we did.... #CellBiology #Biology #Science
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A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA (cyan), mitochondria (yellow), and VASP (magenta) are shown. #CellBiology
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Mitochondria (green), microtubules (red) and actin filaments (blue) in a living cell as seen through a microscope. #CellBiology
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THE CELL’S POWERHOUSE Mitochondria (yellow) make much of the chemical energy that fuels the life of a cell. They also move rapidly as seen in this cancer cell compared to the relatively slow moving nucleus (blue) and cellular adhesions (purple). #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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A single heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) videoed through the microscope. The spaghetti looking organelles are the powerhouses of the cell, mitochondria. Those white dots? You tell me... #CellBiology #cardiotwitter #microscopy
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Some of my favorite cell-shape changes happen during cell division. #CellBiology
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THE CELL’S POWERHOUSE Mitochondria (yellow) make much of the chemical energy that fuels the life of a cell. They also move rapidly as seen in this cancer cell compared to the relatively slow moving nucleus (blue) and cellular adhesions (purple). #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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FULL OF ENERGY Mitochondria (purple) create much of the chemical energy for the cell. And when compared to the slow moving nucleus (green), mitochondria seem hyperactive. Full of energy indeed. #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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A mitochondrion dancing on microtubules in a living cell as seen through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (green) and the powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria (purple), are shown. If your biology teacher taught you that mitochondria look like little beans, you now know better. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art
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THE "CITIZEN CANE"..... ......OF MICROSCOPY An immune cell hunting down a bacterium among red blood cells. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a movie can contain exponential insights. Movie credit: David Rogers ( @VanderbiltU , 1950's). @VUBasicSciences
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POWERHOUSE AND HARD DRIVE Watching the powerhouse of the cell - mitochondria (yellow) - can be as mesmerizing as watching a camp fire. DNA (blue) is not as fun at this timescale. Luckily there are people who can image DNA better than me. #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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A cell videoed through a microscope. The powerhouses of the cell, mitochondria (purple), and DNA in the nucleus (green) are shown. #CellBiology
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The Citizen Kane of Cell Division Walther Flemming published this time-lapse of a dividing cell in 1882. He drew the data by hand while looking in his microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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The powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria (yellow), and DNA in the nucleus (blue) videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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A mother cell dividing into two daughter cells photographed through a microscope. @NikonSmallWorld
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POWERHOUSE AND HARD DRIVE Watching the powerhouse of the cell - mitochondria (yellow) - can be as mesmerizing as watching a camp fire. DNA is blue. #CellBiology
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The powerhouses of the cell, mitochondria, doing what they do. #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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The powerhouse of our cells, mitochondria (green), and the genetic information in our cells, DNA (purple), videoed in a cancer cell with three nuclei using a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy
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CANCER CELL ON THE MOVE viewed through a microscope #Cancer #CellBiology
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The leading edge of a cell videoed through a microscope. Actin filaments and adhesions are shown. #CellBiology
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A single cell photographed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus, the Golgi apparatus, and actin filaments are shown. The cell is sitting on a circular substrate. #CellColorBlast #CellBiology #Biology #Science #Art
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A colony of stem cells photographed through a microscope by @nilaytaneja . #Science #Nature #CellBiology #Art
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This photograph of a cell kind of looks like a person. #CellBiology #microscopy
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A cancer cell with three nuclei (purple) and mitochondria (green) as seen through a microscope. #melanoma #CellBiology #microscopy
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Neuronal growth cones as seen through a microscope. Movie shows a time lapse of the extensions from a cultured bag cell neuron isolated from Aplysia californica (i.e., a giant sea slug). #CellBiology #microscopy
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A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus and the powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria, are shown. #Science #Nature #CellBiology #Art
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A crawling cancer cell as seen through a microscope. #CellBiology #Melanoma
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A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (blue), mitochondria (yellow), and the cytoskeletal protein VASP (purple) are shown. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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Mitochondria (top) and microtubules (bottom) in the same region of a cell videoed through a microscope. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art
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Neuronal growth cones videoed through a microscope. They are quite active little critters; if they are happy. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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A cancer cell dividing a seen through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy
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Who is watching mitochondria change shape inside of a live cell? #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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Movie of mitochondria (green), DNA (blue) and actin (red) in an epithelial cell acquired with a spinning disk confocal microscope. #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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Neuronal growth cones integrating information from their environment. 1- “Hey ya’ll. Are we on glass.” 2- “Yup” 3- “Yup” 4- “Yup” 1- :-/ A #CellBiology story.
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A crawling cancer cell as seen through a microscope. The nucleus (yellow), Golgi apparatus (blue) and actin cytoskeleton (red) are shown. #CellBiology #Microscopy #Melanoma
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A cell photographed through a microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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DNA (green) and mitochondria videoed in a single cancer cell using a microscope. Mitochondria play multiple roles inside of a cell (e.g., powerplant, judge, and executioner); all while impersonating worms at a dance party. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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A dividing cancer cell photographed with a microscope. Actin filaments, microtubules and DNA are shown. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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POWERHOUSE AND HARD DRIVE Watching the powerhouse of the cell - mitochondria (yellow) - can be as mesmerizing as watching a camp fire. DNA (blue) is not as fun at this timescale. Luckily there are people who can image DNA better than I can. #MitoMonday #CellBiology
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A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (red) the powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria (cyan), and actin filaments (gray) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art
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For those who like membrane blebs during cell division.
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The first movie of cell division made in the Burnette lab; captured by ⁦ @AidanFenix ⁩. #CellBiology #microscopy
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A cell photographed through a microscope. #CellBiology
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Who is watching mitochondria change shape? #CellBiology #Microscopy
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The powerhouses of our cells, mitochondria, are not all bean-shaped as your high school text book would you have you believe. As soon as you define their shape, they change it. Mitochondria are not into labels. #MitoMonday #CellBiology #Microscopy
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A TALE OF TWO CELLS One dies; One divides. DNA is shown. It's not a long tale as it turns out. #CellBiology #Microscopy
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Dying melanoma cancer cells videoed through a microscope. I find the moment when they finally "pop" quite satisfying. Notice the "apoptotic bodies" that were released from the cells scattered around the dish. #ScienceTermOfTheWeek . #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art
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A cancer cell as seen through a microscope. The three nuclei in this cell (blue), mitochondria (yellow) and the cytoskeleton (red) are shown. #CellBiology Should a cell have three nuclei? No. Explanations #NSGC20 ? Genomic instability? Cytokinesis failure?
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The is a single cell as seen through a microscope. Actin filaments (purple), mitochondria (blue) the nucleus (orange) are shown. The excitation light caused phototoxicity. Does anyone know how I figure that out? #CellBiology #Microscopy #SciArt
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Dylan Burnette
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A cell photographed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus, Golgi apparatus, and actin filaments are shown. #CellBiology
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A cell videoed through a DIC microscope. The worm-like organelles are mitochondria and the circle at the bottom is the nucleus. #CellBiology
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A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (blue), the powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria (yellow), and actin filaments (purple) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art
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The powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria, videoed through a microscope. Yeah, I know. Not as many bean-like shapes as you were expecting? Your textbooks lied to you. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art
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