Proud of two covers from India this year in JCB....both so beautiful, @rpadinjat.bsky.social and @spindlebehavior.bsky.social

“When one organ is wounded, how does the rest of the body know to protect itself?” We explored exactly this question in our latest preprint 👇 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Preprint #JAKSTAT #Regeneration #Drosophila #ImmuneSignaling #GutHomeostasis

**Attention fly enthusiasts!** We're looking for presenters for the Dipterists Society General Meeting at ESA @entsocamerica.bsky.social in Portland, OR (November 11th) If you're interested in giving a talk, please DM me for a link to submit a title/abstract. Deadline to submit is October 10th.

Happy to share our work in @embojournal 👉 shorturl.at/zXNyn For decades, we’ve known cells dismantle & rebuild the nuclear envelope in sync with spindle poles. But why does this coordination matter? And how do pole material properties ensure error-free division? Follow this thread to know more 👇

Vaccines save lives. There is no credible evidence that they cause autism. Pretending otherwise hurts kids twice – by undermining trust in vaccines, and by distracting from the urgent need to understand and address autism itself.

Attended an inspiring workshop on “Developing & Sustaining Your Academic Writing Practice” with @raulpachecovega.bsky.social ✏️ Full of practical tips, resources, and insight. Feeling motivated to write for once and to keep writing! 😄 #PhDLife #WritingSky #AcademicSky

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

The cover of @jcb.org's July issue (rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...) shows a confocal timelapse imaging of #Celegans one-cell embryo expressing fluorescently labeled plasma membrane, microtubules, chromosomes, and ZEN-4, a plus-end directed kinesin motor protein (Adhikary et al. doi.org/10.1083/jcb....)

JCB July cover (hubs.la/Q03vJ8s50) shows a confocal timelapse imaging of #Celegans one-cell embryo expressing fluorescently labeled plasma membrane, microtubules, chromosomes, and ZEN-4, a plus-end directed kinesin motor protein (hubs.la/Q03vJ8yc0). #SachinKotak lab

Mostoufi, S. L., Singh, N. D. (2024)s. Pathogen infection alters the gene expression landscape of transposable elements in #Drosophila melanogaster. G3 (Bethesda), 14(9) academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

🧬 Grateful to see our lab’s work featured by @India_Alliance in their Stories of Science! We use Drosophila to study how injury in one organ triggers immune/regenerative responses in another, via inter-organ communication. Honoured to share our story! www.indiaalliance.org/stories_of_s...

We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

Thanks to DBT/WT India Alliance for their support over the years and enabling me to have such an awesome mentor like @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social www.indiaalliance.org/news/idwgs_s...

Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I had the pleasure to host Professor Martin Lowe, a leading cell biologist from The University of Manchester, at MIRM, MAHE- Bengaluru. His research has significantly advanced the understanding of vesicle transport, Golgi function, and intracellular trafficking. Our students esp enjoyed his visit!

Fantastic opportunity if you are interested in moving your lab to Montreal, Canada! Through this program, Chairholders will be awarded up to $1 million per year for a period of 8 years. Contact me if you are interested. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Some Marine Cell Biology for you. Migrating cell in #ascidian (Phallusia). Cell leaves (delaminates) the neural tube and migrates towards anterior end (upper left) of forming tadpole. Thanks to AscidianBioCell team and Alberto Stolfi for the lineage-specific marker of this cell.

We are recruiting one postdoc and one PhD student to join our lab on #Drosophila #innate immunity in Lausanne (Switzerland). More info: www.epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...

All interested PhD students please apply!

Traveling from outside the US to attend the #Evol2025 meeting in Athens, GA, USA in June? You may be eligible for our International Travel Stipend! Apply by Jan. 31. Early meeting registration is now open for those needing visas. @evolmtg.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3ZEWUqe

Urmi from our institute MIRM, talking about Lysosomes at #M2T2 sites.google.com/view/m2t2202...

I’ve been saying for a long time that encouraging more girls/women(/underrepresented groups) into academia does not solve inequality @ higher ranks, which is due to the leaky pipeline ie job insecurity, high mobility onus, unconscious bias and overall lack of supports. Good but sad to see the data.

Have you ever wanted to *see* receptor activity in embryos? If so, our new preprint is for you! In it, we showcase a new live-cell biosensor for visualizing receptor tyrosine kinase activity in living embryos – pYtags! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With lab members Ravi Bharadwaj and Swati Jaiswal, put together this review highlighting the connectivity between transports of cyclic dinucleotides and muropeptide as well as attempted to parse the confusing literature on SLC function in the NOD1/NOD2 pathways: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🧪 #DevPres webinars showcase the latest developmental biology & stem cell research. The webinars are chaired each month by a different @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor, who invites talks from authors of exciting new papers & preprints. Catch up on this year's series at https://bit.ly/41Tqvh8 .

Looking for a job still connected to acamedia and research ? Do you like interacting with a lot of people, outreach activity, organising scientific events ? Do you have good writing and organisation skills ? We may have a job for you👇 (permanent position) emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp... 🙏RT

The new Metabolic Pathway reports on FlyBase provide manually curated, high-quality gene lists and visual representations of #Drosophila #metabolic pathways, integrated with the other rich data in FlyBase. E.g., see the report for GLYCOLYSIS (flybase.org/reports/FBgg...).

🌟 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🌟 🔍 TOPIC Online Course on Understanding the Functioning of a Cell 📅 Mark your calendars: 27 - 31 Jan 2025 📝 Know More: cce.iisc.ac.in/self-support-c… Limited Seats! Last Date (updated): 26 Jan 2025#IIScBangalorer#CCEC#CellBiologyg#CellFunctionon

Nothing like a little #PlantScience for the holidays!

A highlight of the year was visiting my alma mater EPFL for the annual alumni chapters meeting organized by EPFL Alumni. The connections I made are going to definitely help me to take the Bangalore alumni chapter to the next level. Great moment to meet old friends.

Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space ! Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns. #morphogenesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)

Thanks for noticing.

Looking for honest feedback/reviews on the new Thunder imager from leica ...if anyone has firsthand experience using it. How does it compare to say the Zeiss Apotome 3...Thanks for your help!

Thanks to Indiabioscience and EMBO for the opportunity to get hands on tips and advice for effective lab management. CJ and Diana are stellar instructors.

Please repost: #BMCBiology is calling for submissions for a new Collection on " #Evolution of #Immunity" - broadly defined, including eco-immunology, comparative immunology, evolutionary dynamics of host-pathogen interactions. More details: biomedcentral.com/collections/...

3.5y funded PhD studentships at #UniversityOfExeter in #UK to work on #aphid immune evolution incl. #Drosophila #Genetics Application deadline of July 29th! Please circulate 📣 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Little green frog embryo. The little dots are special cells called multiciliated cells (MCCs). Close up of MCCs in the next photo. 🧪 🐸 #SciArt

Refreshing to see some places trying to flight the publish or perish model.

Looking forward to attending this exciting conference

🚨 Folks interested in all things Cell/Tissue Polarity🚨 apply for a talk/poster for the GRS on Polarity Signaling! As Chair, I'm organizing a 🔥seminar that is entirely trainee focused. If you've been to a Gordon, you know the awesomeness. If you haven't - apply and find out! Please RT

Excited to share our latest work, published in Cell, led by amazing grad student Junjie Xu! Also see this amazing excellent general audience wrote up: healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new...