I was truly impressed with the breadth of topics, quality and numbers of undergrad research posters yesterday at the UM UROP and UM Program in Biology&Neuroscience poster sessions. A great reminder of the impact of hands-on research experience in education! @umich.edu

Reminder of a fantastic meeting coming up in July - FASEB Cell Cycle Regulation in Health and Disease. Note this meeting is also co-located with the FASEB Yeast Chromosome Biology Yeast Conference w/ shared poster session and joint talks. Please share! events.faseb.org/event/cell-c...

🧪🧪 Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, who discovered molecular 'scissors' to cut DNA, dies at 94 -- Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionized the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/04/n...

PREACH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

New cell cycle meeting starts next summer! events.faseb.org/event/c40174...

Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS

New in #GENETICS: From a genetic screen, Yi-Ting Huang and Brian Calvi identified the Src42A-Shark-Slpr pathway as an upstream regulator of JNK in induced endocycling cells in #Drosophila wing disc. buff.ly/wJmn8lp

'The ship is going down and we are powerless'- The Impact of Federal Funding Changes on Researchers Training the Next Generation of Scientists https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671828v1

Thank you for featuring this work on #polyploidy and organ growth.

Highly frequent undesired insertional mutagenesis during Drosophila genome editing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.669658v1

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Congrats to Kristen Verhey ‪@kjverhey1.bsky.social‬, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's Sandra Masur Senior Leadership Award. She combines remarkable scientific insight into molecular motors with leadership and mentoring in cell biology 🧪 www.ascb.org/society-news...

A window of cell cycle plasticity enables imperfect regeneration of an adult postmitotic organ in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.05.658044v1

Evidence for Transcriptomic Conservation Between the Main Cells of the Drosophila Prostate-Like Accessory Gland and Basal Cells of the Mammalian Prostate. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.05.658085v1

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

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

As a “fly person” even I have to admit this is pretty cool! 😎

Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪

Pleased to share and amplify our most recent paper. Looking at #oncogene effects in the #drosophila #prostate which is #postmitotic and #polyploid. 🧪

Love seeing the cancer cell biology collection @jcb.org! The image they went with for the cover is also pretty great 😜. rupress.org/collection/6...

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Why Publish in Developmental Biology? 1/8 Reason #1 - DB is strongly committed to supporting trainees and junior scientists. Publish your first paper with us! DB is the official journal of the SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social Learn more here elsevier.com/locate/ydbio

Developmental biology research leads to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. 12/12 RNA Interference. Fire et al., 1998 PMID: 9486653 Worm image by Tokiko Furuta @socdevbio.bsky.social @rrbehringer.bsky.social

The “drosophila dress” at #dros25. (For the fly peeps - zoom in on the pattern at the neckline)

Developmental biology research leads to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. 5/12 In Situ Hybridization Gall & Pardue, 1969. PMID: 4895535 Frog image by Brandy Walker (Rachel Miller Lab) @socdevbio.bsky.social @rrbehringer.bsky.social

Before it is all taken down, a good reminder that the NIH has (or maybe had) an expansive definition of what constitutes diversity. So this means less participation by #womeninSTEM, #URMinSTEM, #disabledinSTEM, plus those that grew up rural, #firstgen, unhoused, or low-income. #academicSky 🧪👩‍🔬 2/n

Reposting as the deadline to submit draws near.

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

Finally made it here! Delighted to share our newest paper in #DevBio on #Drosophila. We reveal interesting cell cycle regulation in the #drosophila male reproductive system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...