Mariana Wolfner Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…

The 2025-2026 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ of Washington Univ in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the Univ of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS #SDBPostdocSeminar

Today we celebrate 1945 GSA President & Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock. Continue her legacy—nominate for the 2026 GSA Awards by Oct 1, 2025. 🔗 buff.ly/bIdKqcw

My lab’s newest preprint is now available. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The #Flyboard and #FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel @shyama13.bsky.social @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @frankmac.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social & Jonathan look forward to having you on board.

new review alert❗️ thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones. see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️

Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...! febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

FlyBase needs your help! Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

New paper alert. The fat body in Drosophila larvae is comprised of pairs of adipocytes that are connected to one another throughout larval development! Ring canals here are v.v.small, allow selective organellar cargo transport, mediate stress tolerance and more....! Full thread coming soon!

Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.658881v1

Thank you for the highlight of our work! #drosophila #cancer model.

Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !

Drosophila folks at the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Fly meeting please take some time to thank the amazing organizers who put in a lot of hard work: genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2... Special thanks to GSA folks especially the tireless Suzy Brown (who appears to run entirely on diet Mountain Dew)

Really looking forward to this workshop!

#Dros25 workshop alert! Today at 8pm, Pacific Ballroom C - Go Big or Go Home : Polyploidy on the Fly. Excited to host this with @gavinrrice.bsky.social

The committee has unanimously voted to have the next cycle in summer/early fall - so early career scientists, keep an eye out for announcements !!! 👀 If you have suggestions/ideas for the future cycles, please feel free to reach out !!

#drosophila #mentoring

#Drosophila folks, anyone looking for a roommate (Female) at fly meeting? I know someone who would appreciate a roommate. Comment/DM for details

Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!

Bringing in some joy - FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel Raftery, @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social , Frank Macabenta and Jonathan Andrews have completed the #Drosophila mentor-mentee matching process ! Emails will start rolling out in mid-Feb.

First official post! A new paper out about #cytokinesis in #epithelia www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Explore our journey as we uncover how regulators of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions modulate cytokinesis efficiency, while revealing new roles for the Dystrophin-Dystroglycan complex.

hive mind, please help - I am looking for an anti-myc epitope primary antibody that is NOT raised in rabbit, mouse, or chicken - is there such an antibody that would work for IF? #drosophila #cellculture

Drosophila folks, new workshop alert for #dros25: @gavinrrice.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on Polyploidy, please consider submitting an abstract by 15 January to [email protected] #polyploidy #drosophila

Drosophila folks, new workshop alert for #dros25: @gavinrrice.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on Polyploidy, please consider submitting an abstract by 15 January to [email protected] #polyploidy #drosophila

Herriage, H. C., Calvi, B. R. (2024). Premature endocycling of #Drosophila follicle cells causes pleiotropic defects in oogenesis. Genetics, 226(4) academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Deadline to sign up for FlyCROSS in just 2 days!

If you are an #EarlyCareerResearcher (grad student, postdoc, pre-tenure faculty) using #Drosophila, consider the new mentoring initiative #FlyCROSS. Complete the survey (link and QR code in the reposts) by Jan 5 to get matched up with a mentor.

Abstract accepted and registration complete for #Dros25! Who else on here is planning to attend? #Drosophila #SymbioSky #Wolbachia

Closing out the year with a new pre-print! Here, we show that the stress response factor Atf4 is more abundant in female vs male fat (likely directly Doublesex-regulated). This dimorphism renders females more resilient to starvation-induced death. Lots of follow-up work to come!

Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr

Season’s greetings and happy holidays! #drosophila #flyextract

Hello #Drosophila early career scientists, this is your chance to get mentored and achieve your goals - a one of a kind opportunity!!! Complete the survey by Jan 5th !! #holidays #genetics #AcademicTwitter Please share @fly-eds.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social #ABRCMS24

Calling #Drosophila #grad students #postdoc and #pretenure #faculty to participate in FlyCROSS and be matched by a #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs ! #genetics #dros25 #phdlife @flybase.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social