Cell biologist studying how a heart grows and dies; also Blebbisomes. Associate Professor at Vanderbilt. Married to @gillianhoo.
Joined January 2015
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21 Feb 2025
I am excited to finally be able to share with you our work reporting the first Extracellular Vesicle with a personality! This video does not show a cell, it is a Blebbisome! #CellBiology
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A control cell going through cell division with normal membrane blebs (top) and a cell we messed with (bottom). Both were videoed through a DIC microscope. #CellBiology
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Jun 13
Not all cells do the whole membrane blebbing thing the same. Some of them get weird about it. This is a single cell videoed through a DIC microscope. #CellBiology
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Jun 10
Actin filament-based structures in a cell photographed using structured illumination microscopy. The video starts with the bottom of the cell and steps up through the Z dimension (i.e., going up from the substrate). #CellBiology
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Microtubules (green) fighting retrograde actin flow (magenta) in a neuronal growth cone videoed through a TIRF microscope. #CellBiology
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Jun 2
The newest episode of Nikon's Small World Speaks.
"Dylan Burnette (that's me) shares some of the stories behind one of his favorite images he's submitted to the Nikon Small World competition to date." #CellBiology
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May 26
This was my first journal cover from back in the day. It shows the side of a neuronal growth cone photographed with an electron microscope. The microtubules (green) were labeled with nanoscale particles of colloidal gold bound to antibodies (i.e., immunogold). #CellBiology
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May 22
Sometimes blebbisomes like to hitch a ride on cells, like you see here! Extracellular vesicles with a personality indeed! These guys do so many cool and unique things that we will be sharing soon! Stay tuned!#fluorescencefriday #blebbisomes #extracellularvesicle
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May 19
A dividing cell videoed through a microscope. Hot tip: Don't mess around with myosin II paralogs if you don't want your cells to freak out. #CellBiology
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The inside of a heart muscle cell photographed with an electron microscope. The powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria, are shown in pink. The repeating structures are the basic units of contraction that drive each heart beat (i.e., sarcomeres). #CellBiology
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May 13
The heart of a zebrafish embryo photographed through a microscope. (Ventricle: Left; Atrium: Right). The nuclei of both the heart cells and blood cells are shown. "What? Red blood cells do not have nuclei!", you say. So human centric of you......
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Immature heart muscle cells photographed through a microscope. Nuclei (yellow/green) and the molecular motor driving muscle contraction, myosin II (purple/blue), are shown. #CellBiology
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Neuronal growth cones at the end of neurites (immature neural extensions that have yet to turn into axons or dendrites) videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology
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Apr 16
Cover image for "The microtubule GTP-tubulin cap size is modulated during cell division" by Anna Cassidy! I know it says "May 1, 2026", but it is already online so here it is!
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A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (cyan), mitochondria (yellow), and the actin filament cytoskeleton (magenta) are shown. #CellBiology
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A cell going through cell division to create two daughter cells videoed through a spinning disk confocal microscope. DNA (red), Golgi apparatus (green), actin filaments (blue) are shown. #CellBiology
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Feb 27
Are there still Zoom-based scientific seminar series? As I plan for a promotion cycle that expects ~10 invited talks/year. I love giving talks and talking with interesting scientists, just not the travel part. I study the growth and function of the heart and large EVs.
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A cancer cell videoed through a microscope. It has 3 nuclei (magenta). The powerhouse/overlords of the cell, mitochondria, are also shown (green). #CellBiology
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Feb 25
Two cells isolated from a fish scale videoed through a DIC microscope. The cells are cool but now all I see are extracellular vesicles floating by in the media and stuck to the substrate....... #CellBiology
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