Monthly Life This Month’s Reflection – Jun. 2026
I conducted exploratory single-cell transcriptome analyses to characterize cell populations in an in vitro differentiati...
Monthly Life Science Topics The effect of stress during organoid culture
In cell biology, a common approach has been to seed cells on 2D culture dishes.The method is simple and highly reproduci...
Career Note Career Note – Introducing Career Notes
In Career Notes, I write reflections on how I think about my research, career, and life—capturing what happens as it hap...
Monthly Life This Month’s Reflection – Dec. 2025
Last December, I explored transcriptomic differences between in vivo and in vitro somatic cells using droplet-based sing...
Science Topics Why Nature Makes Millions of Oocytes—Then Discards 99%
In humans and mice, oocytes—the precursor cells that can ultimately become eggs—are formed during fetal development, yet...
Monthly Life This Month’s Reflection – Nov. 2025
I have started to collect gene expression data as part of my ongoing work toward preparing a manuscript.Single-cell anal...
Science Topics Zebrafish Ovaries Reveal New Insights into Oocyte Development
This preprint by Elkouby et al. "Morphogenetic ovarian modules for oocyte production from germline stem cells" provides ...
Monthly Life This Month’s Reflection – Oct. 2025
I began organizing prior results toward a future manuscript submission.For figures, I used Illustrator; ChatGPT and simi...
Science Topics Tracing the Birth of Ovarian Cells: What Single-Cell Data Reveals
Understanding organ development is one of biology's most fascinating questions. A new preprint "Ovarian development is d...
Monthly Life This Month’s Reflection – Sep 2025
I have observed that prolonged culture periods are associated with increased cell attrition in my current system. Two no...