I baked 💩 cupcakes for our lab meeting today.

Calling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience. Submit by June 30, 2026▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI #DrosophilaResearch

This #CanFly collection highlights research presented at the 2025 Canadian Drosophila Research Conference. Submit your work and be part of this showcase of innovation in Drosophila science. Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI #DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025

#ASD diagnosis could get a precision upgrade! 🧬 Long-read sequencing reveals complex structural variants missed by short-read methods, helping to clarify #genetic contributions to #autism #PrecisionMedicine buff.ly/nm5kd7q

Seen walking in London tonight. Inspired to change the name of my lab?

Can’t wait to join the Riboclub 2025 Annual Meeting! See you there to talk RNA and share ideas! @rnacanada.bsky.social #BiologyConference #RNABiology

Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle. New review from Mike Henne (@hennelab.bsky.social), Emma Reynolds, and William: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets

I just realized you can use Chat GPT to rewrite emails into any style you wish.

JCB has rounded up a good collection of papers outlining best practices regarding reproducability in Cell Biology experiments, especially microscopy. Worth a read, and passing along to your trainees.

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Donated! Without Flybase our reserach would be impossible.

#Cytogenomics: Exploring #Chromosome Structure and Function is still open for submissions in @genomejournal.bsky.social! Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m #CallForPapers #Genomics

Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway

Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up: #Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome! www.bcell.org

🐝 #CanFly2023 Throwback! Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠 ow.ly/XUvC50WqbAx 🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025? Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝 #ModelOrganisms

Advice to new PIs. Running an academic laboratory, - is like running a small business, - wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university) - that is owned by the government. The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.

Bluesky is dying?! Really? Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X. www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...

Simmonds lab and Dept. of #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social alumni Matt Anderson-Baron reaches a new milestone with their #YEG biotech - Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors share.google/RJvHTcdh4ugS...

One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology @ualberta.bsky.social is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute @wchriuofa.bsky.social See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025 ar.wchri.org

Publish your next breakthrough in Genome with no fees. Corresponding authors with @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social can submit unlimited OA manuscripts and benefit from unlimited read access. Discover how 🍁▶️ buff.ly/oUyzd2x 🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome

🍎🪰 Only ONE WEEK until #CanFly2025! The fruit fly frenzy is almost upon us — can’t wait to connect with the amazing Drosophila research community. Wings up, let’s fly! ✈️🧬 #Drosophila #FruitFlyScience buff.ly/5IE09fh

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

The final session of today's #CellBiology symposium honouring Rick Rachubinski, highlighting his trainees over the years. Here is Andrea Bodnar presenting their work on sea urchins and aging. @ualberta.bsky.social

Missed a few talks (had to go to another meeting). Got back in time to see Tom Hobman from @ualberta.bsky.social presenting their work on how #peroxisomes are involved in RNA virus infection

In the last talk of morning session - Jennifer Smith outlines the major areas of innovation over Rick Rachubinski's career and the work of their current company PreCyte developing blood based diagnostics. #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social

Chris Tam, talks about their 20 year journey from trainee in Rick Rachubinski's lab to therapeutic development. @ualberta.bsky.social

Dr. Chris Winrow, former trainee with Rick Rachubinski lists Rick's " keys to the research game", as well as his current efforts in research commercialization working at Merck. @ualberta.bsky.social

Here we see Peter Kim, as he reminisces about Rick Rachubinski's time at McMaster,the evolution of models of peroxisome biogenesis, as well presenting their current work on #peroxisomes

Francesca DiCara, who worked with Rick Rachubinski while a post-doc in #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social is presenting their work on immno-metabolism regulation by #peroxisomes in flies and mammals.

Fred Mast - graduate of the @ualberta.bsky.social #CellBiology undergraduate program and former PhD student with Rick Rachubinski tells up about kinases that regulate human #peroxisomes

Suresh Subramani, longtime collaborator of the Rachubinski lab gets us going with the first talk today. @ualberta.bsky.social #CellBiology #peroxisomes

It's bittersweet as we start a day-long symposium at @ualberta.bsky.social #CellBiology to honor the career and retirement of Rick Rachubinski. #peroxisomes

🪰 Warming up for #CanFly2025 with a deep dive into #Drosophila filamins: cheerio and jitterbug - How flies sense and respond to mechanical forces provides insights into how human #muscles respond to injury and repair 💪🏽

One of our Cell Biology faculty, @rlhull-meichle.bsky.social gives the first talk of the Islet Cell Biology session for the Scientific Symposium: 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Edmonton Protocol and Future of Islet Replacement Therapies @ualberta.bsky.social

I always love the @biologists.bsky.social plants a tree when I reivew for one of their journals. Let me introduce my newest tree no. 11887 Beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Everybody in NA - Flybase.org needs your help but hold up for a bit - more info coming!

Canadian Developmental Biology Conference wrap up with a picture of our poster and oral presentation award winners. #CDBC2025

The last session of the Canadian Developmetnal Biology Conference goes into overtime with a couple of last-minute talks thanks to Dr. Katia Del Rio-Tsionis (Miami University, Ohio) and Dr. Curtis French (Memorial University of Newfoundland). #justcantstop! #newts! #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Next speaker in the (sadly) final session of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference is Gabriel Bossé, Université Laval talking about “Investigating the neurodevelopmental impact of polydrug exposure using zebrafish” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Kicking off thje last session of the Canadian Developmental Biology meeting, Gurpreet Moroak, Simon Fraser University tells us about “Tumor growth in Drosophila larval epithelial tissue induces distant organ wasting through fat body metabolic dysregulation” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Continuing with the our morning session at the Canadian Developmental Biollgy Conference. Here we have Jeff Rasmussen from University of Washington telling us aobut "Building and maintaining the touch system: Insights from zebrafish skin". #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

First trainee talk for Day 4 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference. Andy Cheng, University of Alberta, telling us about how “Lipid coordination between peroxisomes, peroxins, and lipid droplets” affects early fly development. #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Introducing our amazing summer student, Maddie Dee and her collegues in the WCHRI summer studentship program. www.wchri.org/our-impact/s...

Here we go with Day 4 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference! Starting us off is Brittany Carr, University of Alberta speaking abourt “The role of prominin-1 in photoreceptor development and disease”. #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social @drbjcarr.bsky.social

Last talk of a long Day 3 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference from trainee Andreas Dauter - “A Model of the Middle: How do cell behaviours shape the embryonic face?” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Update from the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference Day 3! - YuXuan (Rain) Xiong, Graduate Student, UBC is seen here presenting their reserach on morphogenesis #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social (Go Oilers! - ahead 1-0 at end of the first period)

Jessica Feldman, Stanford University, presenting what is probably the best titled talk ever at the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference Day 3 #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

When you want to see the talks at the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference, but Oilers are playing game 4 of the conference final! #CDBC2025

Canadian Developmental Biology Conference Day 3 continues - Min Zhu Postdoctoral Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, “Tissue stiffness mapping by light sheet elastography" #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social