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Helen Willsey

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Helen Willsey

@goodfrognosis

Using frogs to dissect psychiatric disorders (she/her)

Joined December 2010

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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Dec 9, 2024
Here's our new ✨preprint✨ led by @ElinaKost, identifying striking convergence of autism proteins at the cilium- including chromatin regulators & synaptic proteins. Thinking deeper, we realized how similar the neuronal synapse and cilium really are! Power of 🐸 for discovery
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Mar 10, 2023
Yesterday I decided to stop editing out all the exclamation marks in my emails. I’ve done this for years to seem “more professional.” But what does that really mean???? Less female? Less young? Less excited? Well I’m young and female and IM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get used to it.
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Feb 13, 2025
I can confirm the NIH is still working well enough to score my R01 terribly 😂🤪
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Aug 2, 2023
Congrats to postdoc Micaela from my group for getting the cover of Development! Check out the issue. Thanks to the journal for highlighting our paper too! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Jan 11, 2022
Grateful and happy to be selected as a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator!! Pumped to interact with this cohort and have freedom to let frogs illuminate the biology of psychiatric disorders. Thanks to all my lab members, mentors, and collaborators. 🐸🔬🧠 czbiohub.org/investigator-c…
Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Dec 8, 2022
Check out our new🌟pre-print🌟!! Here we provide evidence that autism-associated chromatin regulators ALSO regulate tubulin. 🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Apr 5, 2023
Teaching scope is live and laevis are so luxurious!!!!!!!!
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Oct 20, 2023
The scariest sight of all- she laid all her eggs overnight! #xenopumpkin
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
May 2, 2023
Putting together a lab expectations document. Any good examples?
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Jan 25, 2021
Check out our latest work using Xenopus tropicalis to identify convergent mechanisms of risk and resilience in autism. With many thanks to Matthew State, @gastrulateordie @WillseyLab @LabNowakowski @UCSFPsychiatry @QBI_UCSF @NIMHgov @UCSF authors.elsevier.com/c/1cTac3BtfGzj…
Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Apr 4, 2019
Epidermal cilia flow as seen by optical coherence tomography!
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Jan 30, 2023
Introducing the ✨Microscope formerly known as Prince✨. A new lab member of a 980 variety has entered the room. Thanks ⁦@zeiss_micro⁩ for the disco show and excellent training sesh. Sample finder is my jam 🥳 A dream come true!
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Aug 22, 2023
Dream come true. Thanks to the Xenopus community and the organizers for championing my lab and our work. Frogs rock 🐸✨
@FrogWranglers
@frogwranglers
Aug 21, 2023
Stoked for the keynote from Helen Willsey @goodfrognosis showcasing beautiful imaging of the Xenopus brain
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Helen Willsey
@goodfrognosis
Aug 18, 2021
Check out our latest work studying comorbidity between autism and congenital heart disease. Great collaboration with @TreyIdeker @sbr28 @WillseyLab and Khokha lab authors.elsevier.com/c/1dbe98YyDffJ…