Sonya Neal

Associate Professor @UCSD| HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar| Research on rhomboid proteins|First Gen & Black in STEM| Proud mom|co-founder of @bummp_ucsd

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

@quinascience Thank you @quinascience🥰🥰

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

Double announcement I'm excited to share🩷 So proud to share a new paper led by my incredible graduate student @dagarwal99 .

We highlight the real experiences of mothers in academia and the structural & cultural changes needed to retain them.

https://t.co/ch816xwPvY

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

@cohenlaboratory Thank you Sarah!

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

Proud of @dagarwal99 for leading this and grateful to contribute to pushing this conversation forward.

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

On a personal note: I’m also expecting a baby this summer! I now find myself raising 3 kids across different stages of academia (grad school, pre tenure, post tenure) while navigating the demands of this career. This work is deeply personal.

[Michael Baym @baym]

By all means, if you're deciding, take the time you need. But if you're deciding between two places, and there are three others you've ruled out, let those three know as soon as possible, not once you've picked a school

You could make a huge difference to someone else's life

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

@bradylabupenn @ASBMB Congrats @bradylabupenn🎉🎉 Thank you paving the way🙏🏽

[Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) @phdgprotein86]

Grateful for an incredible time at #Cardiometabolism in Keystone 🇺🇸
Honored to present our work on DRP1, mitochondrial dynamics, lipid droplets & muscle oxygenation in PAD.
@KeystoneSymp @czi @officialbiohub @BWFUND @VUBasicSciences

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

Massive congrats to first author Saroj Gourkanti and the entire team & collaborators!

So proud of this work , from CRISPR fish to live imaging to proteomics to mechanism.

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

New model:
Rhbdl2 functions as an immune checkpoint for regeneration, restraining Rac2-dependent macrophage accumulation and preventing excessive tissue growth.
This has implications for:
• Chronic wounds
• Fibrosis
• Tumor–immune interactions
Intramembrane proteases just entered the regeneration chat.

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

This week in Social Issues in Biology, we were honored to welcome @clairemlchapman , chair of @bummp_atucsd who shared the powerful impact of mentorship at @UCSD and facilitated amazing discussion with our students!

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

@drstarbird @bummp_atucsd Happy Holidays to you and your beautiful family🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

Happy Holidays from @Neal_Lab and @bummp_atucsd friends!!!!

[Leslie Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall]

@HHMINEWS Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
https://t.co/FglNF1FdiF

[ASBMB @ASBMB]

Congratulations to ASBMB member Eric Jordahl, who has been named a 2025 Gilliam Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Jordahl is a #PhD candidate in the @Neal_Lab at @UCSanDiego & will receive three years of funding to support his thesis research.
https://t.co/gR3kVur7lK

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

The #ABRCMS2025 conference was my first scientific meeting as an undergrad, and it was the experience that propelled me into science. Being back this week, surrounded by brilliant, aspiring young scientists, has been incredible. #Seeingisbelieving

[Sonya Neal @Neal_Lab]

Amazing turn out for @bummp_atucsd Welcome Lunch♥️♥️♥️

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has on the well-being of myself, my team, and pretty much every scientist I know (maybe you’ve noticed from my stupid jokes… :) I was exhausted of dealing with the huge delays, reviewers that can be abusive, and how arbitrary it all is. Unfortunately, the most important factors are often WHO your reviewers are and who YOU are... It’s clear we need alternatives or at least ways to improve the situation. So, together with a really special and talented team we worked to develop this idea into “qed” a platform where you can get CONSTRUCTIVE feedback on your own work or CRITICALLY assess other people’s papers. It can be a real difference maker if many of you join us (thousands have tried it already, but today we release a NEW and much stronger version ;) Let’s harness qed to put the power back in the scientists’ hands, to do, to read & to publish science on our own terms. I’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!