TUBA1A has long been associated with neurodevelopment due to its spatial and temporal expression as well as its causal role in tubulinopathies (Miller et al., 1987; Gloster et al., 1994; Bamji and Miller, 1996; Gloster et al., 1999; Poirier et al., 2007; Fallet-Bianco et al., 2008; Kumar et al., 2010; Lecourtois et al., 2010; Oegema et al., 2015; Aiken et al., 2017), but cellular visualization of a single α-tubulin isotype or mutant has remained elusive due to the limited availability of isotype-specific tools. The gene discussed is TUBA1A; the disease is tubulinopathy.