I’m so sad to have missed the Midwest Drosophila Conference due a nasty cold. But some of my students made the journey and had a great time! @jiarui219.bsky.social gave a talk to open up the conference, @briod613.bsky.social gave a very successful poster, and Aiza joined for her first conference!

This is really unfortunate and I hope it’s reconsidered. My second year PhD students were busy doing rotations at this time last year and didn’t know what lab they were going to join. They have been working so hard on their applications for this cycle only to find out it could be for nothing.

I’ve been really enjoying the #MWSDB25 meeting so far! Great people and science. I can’t wait to give my talk this afternoon and hopefully come away with new ideas and collaborators. I’m so grateful to the organizers for the invitation!

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

It seems like it would be easy to make an unquestionably cute fly plush! But maybe I just have picky taste.

We have a fantastic seminar lineup this semester! Join us in Kollros Auditorium (BBE 101) almost every Friday at 3:30pm to learn from prominent researchers from across the country. All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!

To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪. shorturl.at/xNRKn

Our lab mascot, Samwise, is always encouraging us to keep reaching higher!

@briod613.bsky.social from our lab is at #bobiac2025 learning from the best all about Python-based image analysis!

The Martin Lab in the Department of Biology is seeking a full-time Associate Research Scientist to conduct research in neurobiology, with a focus on electrical and chemical synapse formation. For more information and to apply, please visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc...

We are very proud to be featured throughout this newsletter among all of the excellent departmental achievements. Congrats to all of our lab members for doing great things!

Lab is for getting research done and having a little bit of fun!

Come be my colleague!! It’s a great department, university, and town! Feel free to ask me about my experience.

A great group of people! No bias whatsoever. 😄

Last week much of the lab went to the Holden Comprehensive Cancer center retreat. We had a great time sharing our science, learning about the efforts to fight cancer at all levels, and meeting fellow scientists.

We took the day off from the lab in recognition of #Juneteenth. A few of us took the opportunity to show our visiting student Annadelle some of the nature Iowa has to offer! We visited Lake MacBride State Park and the Iowa Raptor Project.

Delighted to share our latest work on the mechanisms of epithelial curvature and 3D morphogenesis ! Amazing work from newly graduated Dr @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social 🎉 @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Hi all! Please follow my lab account @rothenberglab.bsky.social to keep up with our science and our people.

Congrats, Aiza! Well-deserved!!

Latest in #G3journal: @jocmcdonald.bsky.social and the team used an unbiased screening approach to identify new candidate regulators of Rap1, a small GTPase crucial for embryogenesis and cancer cell migration, in #Drosophila collective border cell migration. 🪰 Read more: buff.ly/xD3FKjx

On my way to #Dros25 by train after a quick visit with the in-laws in LA. Looking forward to reconnecting with my fellow fly researchers! Model organism research is fundamental to our understanding of how biology works so we can develop new approaches to address human health issues.

This is a really cool story that I was excited to contribute to! It brings in some new players to think about: mTor and autophagy

I'm so honored to have received the R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology. Thank you @anatomyorg.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to meeting everyone and sharing my science at #Anatomy25

Yes, do it!!

Cell and developmental biologists: as you start looking at conferences in 2025, consider joining us at the 2025 Cell Contact & Adhesion GRC. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost www.grc.org/cell-contact...

Last full day at #cellbio2024! If you didn’t catch my talk on Saturday, I’m also giving a poster today at B91. It’s been a real pleasure to represent UIowa Biology for the first time at an international conference!

Today from the Rothenberg lab at #cellbio2024 is a poster by Liv, a postbac in the lab. Check it out!

#cellbio2024: sorry to miss you all this year (Final Exam & grading), but our lab will be well represented. Postdoc @maikbischoff.bsky.social will be giving a talk Monday 12/16 4:00 PM in the "Welcome to the Zellenstaat" session. He'll describe his exciting work on regulation of cell migration 1/3

#cellbio2024 is upon us! I’m excited to give a talk in the epithelial polarity and trafficking session today. If you can’t make it but want to hear about this work, I’m also giving a poster on Tuesday.

Essential reading for all that serve as reviewers. Please help your authors as if they were in your lab. Make your reviews constructive. Overly onerous reviews amount to blocking each others’ work. It slows progress and demoralizes junior investigators. Let’s elevate, not crush, #DevBio

We are declaring today #ReSCU-NetThursday!!! @ray-hawkins.bsky.social @negberry.bsky.social @krothphd.bsky.social 🧪 #Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What is cooler than neural networks? Recurrent neural networks!!! Take a look at our pre-print describing #ReSCU-Nets, a recurrent nn architecture to segment and track biological structures from microscopy movies. Work led by the great @ray-hawkins.bsky.social ... 🧪🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking forward to it!!

2024 Midwest #Drosophila Conference at Allerton. From inspiring talks to engaging discussions, the event was a celebration of science and collab. Huge thanks to everyone who participated and made it a success. Until next time, let's keep flying high!

The first Rothenberg lab pets - a couple of crayfish retired from the animal behavior lab. Working on names and a more enriching environment. 🦞

I had a wonderful time at the Midwest Drosophila conference this weekend! I got to give the very first science talk to kick off the meeting. Everyone was so welcoming! Many opportunities for trainees to present and they rose to the occasion. I’m looking forward to being a regular attendee.

Some world class cell migration experts about to speak at The University of Toronto.

Come check out my poster [B670] during today's session at #CellBio2023! I'll be presenting my work on epithelial organization in the developing kidney, including some perspectives/future directions for engineering branched epithelial networks in organoids!

If you are at #cellbio2023 come check out my poster today at B563! I’ll be talking about our work that just came out in JCS about cell-ECM adhesion in embryonic wound heading and some of the research directions that have come out of it. 🪰✂️

Heading to ASCB today! Come see my poster in the MAC session Saturday or the Integrins and Cell-ECM Interactions session on Monday. Looking forward to catching up with everyone!

I'm really proud of this work and grateful to @rodrigofg.bsky.social for letting me try out my crazy ideas, to Clara and Ray who did the initial experiments, and to Michelle who worked hard to bring everything to fruition. A true team effort!

My seasonally-appropriate WFH buddy - he has a heatable pouch in his belly! 🧛‍♂️🦥🔥

In the coming collapse decades, "Bad stuff is about to happen, you should just leave" is going to be government policy in a lot of places

mTOR inhibits autophagy to facilitate cell swelling and rapid wound repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.10.561758v1

I used scholargoogler.com to make a word cloud representing my research. Would love to connect with #cellbio #devbio researchers with similar interests!

I've very much enjoyed my time in the lab. Please reach out if you want a current trainee perspective!