This summer we welcome Noor AlHajri from Qatar University to our lab @geneticsub.bsky.social Noor will be doing some research in axonal guidance in #Drosophila Welcome Noor! @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Ideally, we should stop talking about IFs. The IFs are highly skewed, short-sighted metrics that judge popularity rather than individual paper quality and encourage predatory journal behaviour, citation inflation and bad research practice sfdora.org/read/

🥇 Ahir vam celebrar l’entrega de premis d’Explora la Ciència,un projecte organitzat per @geneticsub.bsky.social que fomenta la curiositat per la genètica entre els més joves,i que ha estat possible gràcies al suport de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona. 🥳Enhorabona a tot/es els participants i premiats! 1/3

We had a great time today at the ECDay @ibub-ub.bsky.social , a great opportunity for our students and potsdocs to present and discuss their results and to make new contacts and collaborations! #ibub @geneticsub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Yesterday and today #Drosophila was a supermodel at the #FestaCienciaUB Thank you to all who joined us during this great Science party, super well organised as always by @ubdivulga.bsky.social @ub.edu

As every year, we are participating in the UB Science fair. We had a great day today showing off our model flies and tatooing ourselves and the participants! We will be back tomorrow for more fun! #festacienciaUB @ubdivulga.bsky.social #drosophila @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

🗣️ Tallers @geneticsub.bsky.social a la #FestaCiènciaUB @ubdivulga.bsky.social 🧬 "La mosca de la fruita com a model de recerca", del grup @araujolabub.bsky.social 🔬 Aquest taller donarà a conèixer les característiques bàsiques d'aquest organisme i l'ús que se'n fa en recerca.

Els propers dies 15 i 16 de maig estarem a la #FestaCienciaUB @ubdivulga.bsky.social @ub.edu amb la nostra mosca de fruita que es diu #Drosophila !! Veniu a veure’ns i a coneixer aquestes supermodels de la ciència i podeu sortir amb un petit tatuatge! Us hi esperem!

of many projects Craig Venter led, of personal significance was the fly genome, a unique and i think unexpected collaboration of his company Celera Genomics and the BDGP, led by my pd advisor Gerry Rubin. the power of a shotgun sequenced metazoan, benchmarked to a physical map, transformed genomics.

Thank you very much Sofia for being such a super-host! I had a wonderful day full of science fun and great company.

It was great to host @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social today @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social Inspiring research and great scientific discussions! Thank you Alicia!

🎨 We merge science and art in our #PicOfTheMonth at @geneticsub.bsky.social 🔬 Immunostained Drosophila melanogaster embryo at stage 17 🔵 Tracheal lumen (CBP antibody). 🟢 Mitochondria surrounding the tracheal lumen (GFP antibody). 📸 By @simysimge.bsky.social @araujolabub.bsky.social

Congratulations to Simge Ceyhan @araujolabub.bsky.social for being a runner-up in this year’s edition of #GeneticArt @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social with her artistic composition “Togetherness”. Well done!!!

It was great to attend #DrosoSpain2026 Fantastic science and a solid scientific community using #Drosophila as a model organism to answer many different scientific questions! Looking forward to #DrosoSpain2028 or will it be the first #DrosoIberia ?

Yesterday Beatriz Gonzalez gave a seminar at #DrosoSpain2026 @drosospain.bsky.social on her latest results on the role of Rho GTPases in organogenesis @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

It was a great #DrosoSpain2026 first day, with sessions on Cell dynamics and Stem Cells and regeneration, flash talks and poster session! More fun tomorrow!

We had a lot of fun today at #DrosoSpain2026 , with excellent science and Simge got to give her first talk at a conference! @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

Join us at El Rompido for #SEBD2026 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

The #SEBD offers its junior members (PhD students and postdocs) travel grants to attend #SEBD meetings. In the last #GfESEBDDSDB joint meeting the awardees were Miguel Angel Garitagoitia, CNIC , Jorge Mañes @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social and Daniel Barcenilla @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social. Join the #SEBD!

📣 Congratulations to #SEBD board member @jrmarmor.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social for being an awardee of this year’s HFSP grant to explore the hidden roles of organs as electrochemical organizers of #morphogenesis with @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social Charlie Duclut and @djcohen.bsky.social

New article from @araujolabub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social out today @plosone.org in collaboration with the Tear lab at CDN-KCL, London. Congratulations to all!

🚨🚨 New preprint 🚨🚨 We found that the ovary directly controls protein appetite in Drosophila. Yes — the ovary doesn’t just make eggs… it tells the fly what to eat! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... If you want all the details, click above ☝️ If you just want the fun, GIF-guided overview, keep reading 👇

Happy to see this out @plosone.org together with the Tear lab at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, KCL. How different sequoia alleles affect axonal extension and guidance in diverse ways. New insights into how this TF modulates nervous system development journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Is your golden retriever friendly because of its breed? Genetics says: not really. A citizen science study of 18,000+ dogs found breed explains only 9% of behavioral variation in individual dogs. Personality predates modern breeds by thousands of years. #2026MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very useful for all starting #Drosophila embryo work, especially staging live embryos! Thank you @mariadiazillus.bsky.social and @stramerlab.bsky.social @besaizsanchez.bsky.social

That's it: #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026 is over. Thanks for the science, talks, posters, chairing, discussions, helpers in back & front. See you latest at #GfE2028 for more #DevBio & oidsks for all the fish, plants, mice, worm, flies, frogs, squids, brown algae, human, -oids, whatnots and you.

Our lab had a great time at today’s Calçotada Genètica! Fantastic day out with our @geneticsub.bsky.social colleagues!

The @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social was very well represented at this week’s joint meeting of the @sebioldev.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social and DSDB meeting in Potsdam with talks by @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social @araujolabub.bsky.social

Sofia J. Araújo (@sofiajaraujo.bsky.social) concludes the session with her talk on „Centrosome loss in embryonic development disrupts axonal pathfinding and muscle integrity." in Drosophila #GfE2026

How do cells like neurons create complex branched morphologies? @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social uses fly nervous and tracheal systems to understand how cells take shape, highlighting the importance of cellular organelles called centrosomes. #gfe2026 Read the #preprint⤵️

it’s already … tomorrow?! Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Every year, the @araujolabub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ibub-ub.bsky.social participates in the #cientifiques programme and we go to local schools and present our research using #Drosophila This year @nuriacorbella.bsky.social visited a secondary school in Igualada!

Today is #rarediseaseday and in the @araujolabub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ibub-ub.bsky.social we’re using Drosophila melanogaster as a powerful model to study rare diseases. Small flies, big insights! 🪰#RareDiseaseResearch #Drosophila #Science

Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones? www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...

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Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento de nuestro socio Máximo Ibo Galindo, investigador de encefalopatías del desarrollo, como el síndrome de Dravet y pionero en la utilización de #Drosophila en la investigación de enfermedades humanas en España. DEP

Looking forward to participating in this mini-simposium next monday! Under the umbrella of the #Womenandgirlsinscience day and the Genome Year, we will be talking about the genome, the jurassic, human disease, evolution and #SciArt Join us @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Congratulations to Stephanie Alexiev @araujolabub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social for being awarded the Best Poster prize at the XXXVII Jornada de Biologia del Desenvolupament de la @scb.iec.cat 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The @araujolabub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social is well represented today at the “xxxvii jornada de biologia del desenvolupament” @scb.iec.cat with 2 flash talks and posters by Simge Ceyhan and Stephanie Alexiev and a short talk from Sofia Araújo!

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Early bird registration deadline of our joint meeting in Potsdam between March 10-13, 2026 - “Joint international meeting of the German @gfeev.bsky.social, Dutch (DSDB), and #SEBD for #DevBio “Development & Regeneration” is approaching fast. Please apply before the 15th of January!

Join us at #DrosoSpain2026 for some great #Drosophila science! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social @dgrc.bsky.social