Eric Peterman

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Research scientist at the University of Washington. Studying skin repair using adult zebrafish. Foot soldier in the war on cars

zebrafish trunk skin immune cells in cyan, older photoconverted ones in magenta (and cyan, too)
Book cover for The Jakarta Method
Covers for the books Raw Dog and Everything is Tuberculosis
Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury
Meme to the tune of Mr. Brightside about a tiktaalik
Pog saying "learn to cook, it's fun to do"
Penguin awareness day 2026, showing a picture of a penguin
Cover: Skin-resident macrophages (white) migrate towards a scratch wound (centre) in a zebrafish skin explant. To reach the wound margin, migrating macrophages must navigate through a dense network of epithelial cells, which are visualised using a reporter for epithelial junctions (α-catenin-Citrine, magenta). Live-cell imaging and chemical perturbations demonstrate that skin macrophages require microtubules to efficiently respond to tissue damage and navigate epithelial obstacles. See article by E. Peterman et al. (jcs264101).
Microtubules in a skin-resident macrophage
zebrafish skin in white, immune cells in cyan
A bigass glove
Calcium flashes (cyan) in skin-resident macrophages (magenta)
Macrophages migrating towards a tissue wound