Published in the summer holidays: Roles for TET in speckles. Thanks @cardosolab.bsky.social @deepanshund.bsky.social @roliarnold.bsky.social and the others for this exciting collaboration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint - varied routes to ⬆️ infection susceptibility over age - via bona fide immunosenescence, but also often via reduced tolerance 🪰🕰️🦠☠️ ⬆️ risk to die from infection predicts lifespan in males. Great group effort from the lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Engaging young minds with tiny flies! Fantastic outreach session introducing Drosophila as a model to explore brain, behaviour, and disease. Big thanks to Sanjai Patel for organizing the event and @rituparna-uom24.bsky.social @matthiassoller.bsky.social #FlyLab #Drosophila #Outreach

We're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share! Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline: 10 July More info here: www.rezavallab.org

Big thanks to @clarahowcroft.bsky.social y.social, @toraks.bsky.social ks.bsky.social, @dpdoupe.bsky.social for organising the first NE Fly Meeting! It was inspiring to see the Northern Drosophila community come together with such warmth and energy. Here’s to more science, support, and shared ideas!

A post-meeting hub for North England Drosophilists — to share, connect, and collaborate beyond the room. Please share and add more people to this starter pack. go.bsky.app/KJXNZVg

New insights into alternative splicing of ever fascinating Down syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule in Drosophila and honey bees thanks to @annalassota.bsky.social and T.C.Dix. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Honoured to be invited for a talk at IISER Tirupati! Grateful for the warm welcome — it was a real pleasure catching up with the brilliant faculty and curious minds of IISER. Until next time! 🍄🧬🐞

Here's the link to our latest review, emphasizing the tools required to dig into the RNA world in the brain. doi.org/10.1016/j.nl...

We paid ~£80 to validate our CRISPR edit - still a good price. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Male quality assessment: Venerose seminal fluid sugar sensed by female brain neurons after mating. See our comment thanks to @deepanshund.bsky.social about an exiting story from the Young-Joon Kim lab. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Fungus on the brain. @deepanshund.bsky.social @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social &co show that the #fungus Beauveria bassiana exploits the Toll-1 host response to activate the MyD88 inhibitor Sarm, enabling immune evasion and triggering #neurodegeneration in #Drosophila 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3EIxgZN

🚨 Our paper out in @plosbiology.org! A fungal pathogen hijacks #immune receptor to drive immune evasion and cause #neurodegeneration in the brain. Thanks to the incredible @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social, our amazing collaborators and the funding from DarwinTrust, @wellcometrust.bsky.social & BBSRC.

Thrilled to see our paper out today @plosbiology.org! By wonderful PhD student @deepanshund.bsky.social & great team of collaborating authors. Fungi hack immune receptor to drive immune evasion in the brain & cause neurodegeration. Thanx DarwinTrust @wellcometrust.bsky.social @BBSRC for funding. 😃

Doing CRISPR: Check out our PlatinumCRISPr server update now including Cas12a sgRNA selection, thanks to @roliarnold.bsky.social

Or what about the #Drosophila computer game? Loads of stuff that I almost forgot about: scratch.mit.edu/projects/744...

New preprint from @haraipapilio.bsky.social with @bolinabug.bsky.social @daisukekageyama.bsky.social and others not on bluesky #symbiosky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to see our new gut hormone paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social in collaboration with our alumnus Dr. Yuto Yoshinari (Gunma Univ.) and others! A high-protein diet-responsive gut hormone regulates behavioral and metabolic optimization in Drosophila melanogaster. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What an engaging talk by Fiona Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social , who recently moved her group to Manchester from Nottingham! Thank you all for attending the session and contributing to such an interesting discussion. @mcf-uom.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social #manchesterflyclub

Excited to share our new paper on molecular mechanism for circuit structural plasticity in the Drosophila adult brain. Congratulations @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social and the amazing postdocs Dr. Jun Sun, Dr. Fran Rojo-Cortes & all contributing authors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Incredible energy at the 7th Insect Reproductive Molecules Meeting at Rydal Hall! 🚀 Huge thanks to Prof. Matthias Soller @matthiassoller.bsky.social and Prof. Tracey Chapmen for co-organizing and @gensocuk.bsky.social for the funding. 🧬✨ #InsectReproduction #lakedistrict #RydalHall

Fantastic talks at the 7th Insect Reproductive Molecules Meeting at Rydal Hall. Thanks to Tracey Chapman @deepanshund.bsky.social for co-organizing and @gensocuk.bsky.social for support.

Excited to share our new paper describing how ELAV/Hu RNA binding proteins achieve binding specificity now in NAR thanks to fantastic @davidmcquarrie.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...