Bryan came to us with unique expertise on PIWI/TEs/aging thanks to his graduate work with @Juliano_Lab@twitter.com in hydra (virtually immortal). Thus, he asked how the short-lived turquoise killifish 🐟 would handle #TE control and #piRNAs in female vs. male gonads during aging. 4/n

Glad and relieved to share on mastodon my first co-first work from one of my PhD projects with Eric Miska & Azim Surani. ☺️ Hope it’s a useful one: we team with Giorgia Battsitoni and Greg Hannon to investigate a prior observation of piRNAs in mPGCs in vitro.
Alas, we do not detect piRNAs in Day 6 mPGCLCs. https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(22)00783-3
#piRNAs #GermCells #mPGC #mPGCLC #DevCell #MattersArising