Beautiful paper from former student @dy-chen.bsky.social now postdoc in Zernicka-Goetz lab. Human embryos, stem cell models & mice: BM heterogeneity drives AP symmetry breaking. High-end microscopy, live imaging, physical modeling, mechanistic tests. Tour de force. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing and multitalented postdoc @ongkaty.bsky.social taking time out from writing her new paper with this generous initiative. #genetics, #CRISPR, #drosophila, hallmarks of #cancer and more. For a great cause; support @flybase.bsky.social!

All proceeds from my #sciart Etsy shop will now be donated to @flybase.bsky.social . Due to fed cuts, this beloved resource that I use daily has lost it's funding, and I'm helping in my small way. Now's a good time stock up on #STEM & #drosophila gifts & swag! www.etsy.com/shop/Picosti...

Happy to share a new publication: an introduction to comparative oncology in @natrevcancer.nature.com‬. Thanks to the leaders in the field for welcoming me as an invertebrate researcher. rdcu.be/etKdN

New paper from superb postdoc Hui-Yu Ku about how proteases pattern extracellular matrix to precisely sculpt an organ. She will soon be an independent PI at National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan, expanding to study how ECM regulates egg activation. Congratulations! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thursday, May 22 from 1 – 2:15 pm ET, Wu-Min Deng, @perrimonlab.bsky.social and I will discuss fly cancer models during a #BeyondMammals webinar held by the NCI. Register for free to hear some of the many ways that Drosophila can contribute to #CancerResearch. events.cancer.gov/dcb/beyond-m....

Congrats to MCB's Diana Bautista and David Bilder for being named as AAAS Fellows @aaas.org! @bilderlab.bsky.social 👏 🎉https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/27/seven-faculty-members-named-fellows-of-american-association-for-the-advancement-of-science/

#Drosophila community: Dr. Istvan Ando has generously donated his invaluable anti-hemocyte monoclonal Abs to the #NIH-founded public repository @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social in #Iowa. We’ve tested several of them and they look great. See the🧵 for details. (1/5)

Citrus tasting at the annual @bilderlab.bsky.social Lunar New Year Party 🍊

Thursday, January 30 from 1 – 2:15 pm ET, Wu-Min Deng, @perrimonlab.bsky.social and I will discuss fly cancer models during a #BeyondMammals webinar held by the NCI. Join to hear some of the many ways that Drosophila can contribute to #CancerResearch. events.cancer.gov/dcb/beyond-m....

Part of our lab studies #Drosophila cancer models. Delighted to announce ‘Beyond Mammals: Exploring Cancer Models” webinar held by NCI, hopefully in advance of funding opportunities. I’m speaking with @perrimonlab.bsky.social and others incl #Zebrafish and #Celegans PIs. Registration free.

Hosted a joint lab retreat with @LOBrienLab.  Shared lots of science, some lore, and a bit of history, and introduced the Stanford folks to some of the joys of Berkeley.

New lab preprint —longtime project finished in Hong Kong by new investigator @Jung_Kim_PhD. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now accepting applications- come join us in Berkeley! #Drosophila #Celegans careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...

We are hiring a research technician for June here in Berkeley.  Great for a post-bac interested in genetics, development or cancer biology.  bilderlab.berkeley.edu Will update w/ official posting but feel free to reach out now, esp. candidates w/ model organism experience #drosophila. Please RT.

The Interactive Fly (www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/ai...) is a guide to fruit fly development. It describes the literature of over 1,700 genes, dealing with developmental pathways and gene regulation. Sections include Drosophila as a model for human diseases, evolutionary biology, and neural circuits

Thomas Brodsky has arrived on Bluesky! Tom runs The Interactive Fly website and tirelessly surveys the #Drosophila literature. He won one of the inaugural Drosophila Community Service awards last year. Please follow him, like his posts, and welcome him here!

Nice @berkeleyMCB turnout tonight for @nkwhiteman.bsky.social 's triumphant talk about his book 'Most Delicious Poison'! @gastrulateordie Don Rio Georjana Barnes @DavidGDrubin @Choano_Lab n/s @danfeldman.bsky.social @mfeller.bsky.social @nickingolia @lianafaye.bsky.social Sabeeha Merchant

@bilderlab Halloween 2023: The (Extracellular) #Matrix @KatyOng1 @CajulaoJan

another awesome @bilderlab alumni talk. @d_y_chen, former @berkeleyMCB PhD, visits to describe his exciting work in @ZernickaGoetz lab and catch up with @MeganMartikPhD and @gastrulateordie. When he heads for the job market, grab him!

from student @CajulaoJan 🇵🇭

from @CajulaoJan: Fun @bilderlab outing at the ballpark last night! So far, the @SFGiantshave a 100% win rate whenever the lab is at the game😉😉

At group meeting this week, we introduced the three @bilderlab expat postdocs (Hui-yu Ku, Yoshiki Sanai, Stephan Gerlach) to good old American #Twinkies.  Check out the before and after.

Welcome Cody Doubravsky, @berkeleyMCB grad student and @Olzmannlab alum, for the first rotation!

Golden Dragon pluots edge out Dapple Jack pluots for overall best. Birthday celebrant @KatyOng1 and @CajulaoJan provide the tie breaking votes. O'Henry yellows from JJ Ramos orchard take the peach/ nectarine category. @BerkeleyBowl

Some labs do whiskey tastings… Preparing for @KatyOng1’s birthday celebration, which always coincides with stone fruit season. Here’s a partial guide to today's buy from @BerekelyBowl.   White peaches and white nectarines underrepresented, b/c really? Will post lab favorites

Reminded to post this: before @HSCRB seminar in May. I first learned to be a scientist here in the Biolabs working with @StainierLab and Wally Gilbert. Knew I had the ‘bug’ when I found myself going into lab even when I didn’t have experiments to do….

from @katyong1: My 1st postdoc paper is out @CurrentBiology. Co-authored w/Tsai-Ching Hsi, this was a fun journey: a new Drosophila tumor model, an unexpected phenotype, insight into cancer mortality & ancient origins of host response to malignancy 1/n https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hIb53QW8S2Qxt