MorriseyLab
@MorriseyLab
The Morrisey Lab is a team of researchers dedicated to investigating cell fate decisions that occur during tissue development, homeostasis, and repair.
We send another @MorriseyLab alum into the wilds of academia-Dakota Jones starts his lab @uiowa later this Summer! It's been great having him the lab exploring lung fibroblast biology. Mentoring is one of our most important duties-and it's a big reason for #WhyWeScience!

Beautiful cover in this weeks issue of Science…reminds me of those wonderful dinosaur books so many of us read as young (children) scientists! May we all retain that child like wonder and awe of science as we advance in our careers!
Exceptional new fossils from northern Alaska reveal birds lived and nested alongside non-avian dinosaurs in Arctic Alaska long before the radiation of modern birds after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/45u4IhJ
A great new report from the Frank Lab at CHOP. Single cell atlas of the co-development of the lung and heart through CPPs. #WhyWeScience! cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Andy and I launch Gan Zhao to his own lab at Xiamen U! Gan is amazing and defines the concept that being a scientist isn't what we are-it's WHO we are! "Gan The Man" will be missed! #WhyWeScience!

No matter who you voted for the NIH is bipartisan and is here for you. Don’t stop now, America. So many medicines and treatments on the market today began with NIH funding. And we’re just getting warmed up! Keep it going!
#NIH
As more Universities announce reductions of PhD programs in response to governments attacks, Faculty, Students, Staff, Donors should ask: Are these the things #HigherEdication institutions should cut first? Then demand full transparency, details, discussion of alternatives
ft. @tniethamer, @JoePlaner, Michael Morley, @apoorva_babu, @zhao_gan, @MariaCBasil, Edward Cantu, David Frank, Joshua Diamond, Ana Nottingham, Shanru Li, Hannah Hallquist, Lillian Levin, Su Zhou, @vaughandy & @MorriseyLab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.
Congratulations to @JoePlaner (@PennPulmonary) on being named a 2025 @the_asci Emerging-Generation Awardee! Learn more about Dr. Planer & his work here➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfk25eh @MorriseyLab
Online Now! Longitudinal single-cell profiles of lung regeneration after viral infection reveal persistent injury-associated cell states dlvr.it/THNKlh #stemcells
Congrats to our very own Joe Planer @JoePlaner on this important recognition!
The ASCI is proud to announce our 2025 Early-Career Awardees! Click here for the complete list of awardees: YPSA: buff.ly/3PELT2s E-Gen: buff.ly/4g3WJJU Congratulations to our awardees and to the institutions they represent!
Terren and Joe are off to a great start in the New Year with their new opus tracking lung regeneration over a year post flu (strong assist from Mike Morley!). Endothelial cells don't fully recover! this was a fun trip and #WhyWeScience! cell.com/cell-stem-cell…
A huge welcome to our newest @CReM_Boston lab! The @MichaelHerriges Lab is launching and we can’t wait to see all the #lungregeneration discoveries that will follow. Congratulations!! #helpisontheway! @CReM_Boston @BUPulmonary
The ASCI is proud to announce our 2025 Early-Career Awardees! Click here for the complete list of awardees: YPSA: buff.ly/3PELT2s E-Gen: buff.ly/4g3WJJU Congratulations to our awardees and to the institutions they represent!
If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.
Max finally read Dakotas recent paper in Science…overall he thought it was interesting but he did have questions about the analysis in Figure 3🧐😁! (photo courtesy of Cindy). Cats are another reason #WhyWeScience!

The joy of science isn’t in the certainty; it’s in the struggle to make sense of the chaos.
A new Science study provides a framework for distinguishing between fibrotic and degenerative lung diseases and identifies potential therapeutic targets to promote functional lung regeneration. 📄: scim.ag/4fn3q9N
Nature doesn’t care what you think about it. It is what it is, and it works whether you like it or not.
A new Science study provides a framework for distinguishing between fibrotic and degenerative lung diseases and identifies potential therapeutic targets to promote functional lung regeneration. 📄: scim.ag/4fn3q9N