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Lillian Fritz-Laylin

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Lillian Fritz-Laylin

@FritzLaylin

Studies the cell and developmental biology of Naegleria and chytrid fungi. UMass Amherst and HHMI. Looking for students and/or postdocs.

Massachusetts, USA

Joined August 2015

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Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jul 23, 2024
So excited and grateful for this fantastic support for our lab! This is an honor earned by the lab as a community of fantastic, smart, and wonderful colleagues. Congrats, team!
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Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Aug 27, 2021
Replying to @PracheeAC
One of the most pleasurable things I've done in recent history is to say no to something, and put the deadline on my calendar anyway so I got to enjoy the absence of that particular burden.
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jan 10, 2022
Very pleased that our NSF CAREER award on the developmental response of frog-killing chytrid fungi to amphibian mucus has been funded! 🥳 So excited for the discoveries to come!
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jun 9, 2022
The best part of being awarded tenure is sharing the good news with all of the many people who have made it possible! Thanks to my family, lab members, collaborators, colleagues, and friends! Science is a team sport and I'm so glad to have you on my team! 🥰🥰🥰
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jul 16, 2021
Good news everyone: my R35 MIRA is funded! 🥳Thanks to awesome lab members and, especially, encouragement from mentors/colleagues over the years💕Curious about emerging model systems and/or the evolution and specification of cytoskeletal networks? Come join the dark side!
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jun 9, 2021
We are hiring a molecular biologist to work on chytrid fungi in beautiful western Mass! Help us develop new tools for understudied organisms with important ecological, evolutionary, and cell biology as part of a @MooreFound project w/ @hyphaltip & Tim James. Open to any rank. 1/2
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
May 7, 2019
My husband unwittingly brought home microtubule sheets. Him: “Are these acceptable?” Me: 😍
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jan 29, 2019
"Every image you take, every buffer you make, every beaker you break, we'll be watching you."
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
May 5, 2022
This is such an honor given all of the fantastic research happening in @CNS_UMass! Thanks to my incredible lab members, collaborators, and colleagues who make doing science a delight ☺️🥰
College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst
@CNS_UMass
May 5, 2022
Congrats to #Biology Prof. Lillian Fritz-Laylin for being awarded the CNS Outstanding #Research Award in the Early Career division!
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jun 14, 2021
Check out the gorgeous images of chytrid actin networks we are collecting in @MBLPhys course at @MBLScience!!! 🍄🔬 🤩 This one was taken by @mycozoa and @samjlord on a #VT_iSIM, equipment from @BioVisTech @VisiTech_UK installed by @MuscatoMargaret
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Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jan 23, 2022
🚨New preprint from the lab! @K_aRobinson and @smprostak discovered how the frog-killing chytrid fungus responds to amphibian mucus: in < 5min it transitions from its motile, dispersal form to its growth form using calcium signaling! Don't worry, actin's involved, too!🐸🍄🔬
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Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Jul 1, 2022
Big congrats to @KatrinaVelle on the notice of award for a @NIGMS K99! 🥳Finding out today while hanging out with the magisterial Meg Titus is the cherry on top!
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Aug 30, 2018
Because of the generous support of the @NSF EDGE program, we now have resources to develop molecular genetics for chytrid fungi! We will be sharing protocols and reagents as we go. So much beautiful cell biology in our future! 🍄🦠🔬😍nsf.gov/news/news_summ…
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
@FritzLaylin
Feb 8, 2022
Out today in @CurrentBiology: a delightful collaboration between my lab, the Wadsworth lab, @Toliclab, and Luke Rice on divergent Naegleria tubulins and the spindles they build. 🦠🔬🧬Tweetorial to come from authors @KatrinaVelle and @askennard! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…