💥Call for Speakers💥 Hey metabolism enthusiasts! Do you, or someone you know, dive into the fascinating world of metabolism? 🔬 We are seeking speakers for the Metabolism in Development & Physiology seminars! Showcase your work & connect with our community! 👉 Apply at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🗨️ Just published in Nature Biotechnology: Our CellWhisperer AI enables chat-based analysis of single-cell sequencing data. You can talk to your cells & figure out the biology without writing any computer code. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Annotated walkthrough in a thread below (1/11)

Excited to share our study out in @natcellbio.nature.com! Led by @mikelangelipid.bsky.social, we identify the first #LipidDroplet lipid quality control pathway: LD-localized FSP1 protects stored lipids from oxidative damage and prevents LD-initiated #ferroptosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Calling early career PIs. A great opportunity to start your lab at @crick.ac.uk in the heart of London.

Abstract deadline (Dec 15th) approaching for the 2026 Neurogenesis meeting in Ascona. The last one was outstanding, so we’re all really looking forward to this second edition. Reassuringly in this day and age it’s held on the “Mount of Truth”.

Passionate about doing a PhD on metabolism in neural stem cells and their niche? The call just opened for applications for a PhD position in our lab @crick.ac.uk in London. Please repost. tinyurl.com/ysnkdrmw

Excited to share our collaborative PhD project with Adam Dobson ([email protected]) on interorgan signalling in the ageing gut. Please contact Adam If you are a highly motivated student wanted to work on a super exciting Fly project.

LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…

One of our favourite tabs is Resources: we're listing all of our datasets, codes, beginning to upload and make accessible raw imaging data and lab protocols. Please check it out, we hope this is useful! niakanlab.com/resources/

Thank you to all #EDRC2025 participants and a big applause to the organizing committee for this great #Drosophila meeting! See you all in Bonn for #EDRC2027

The #EDS has the pleasure to announce that, after #EDRC2027 in Bonn, we will have #EDRC2029 in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!

🪰 Calling all Drosophilists interested in nutrition…HolFast, Sebastian Sorge’s new chemically defined diet works really well. We’ve given some free HolFast aliquots to @vdrc-flies.bsky.social Please contact them directly if you fancy trying it out. Hurry while stocks last!

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025 Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract. #genetics #devbio @flybase.bsky.social

Only a few hours left before our meeting starts! Are you travelling to #EDRC2025 now? Let us know by using the oficial #EDRC2025 hashtag!

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

Drosophila research without FlyBase would be untenable. Time for all labs who can afford it to step up.

Expanding metabolic roles for the GIPR in oligodendrocytes #weightloss www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

12 examples of how developmental biology research led to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. There are many more! Download ppt & jpg versions on @socdevbio.bsky.social website. Use & modify as needed. Poster formats are also posted to print & hang in your lab!

We are hiring! If you are looking for a postdoc position and you are interested in signaling lipids and proteomics, come join us in beautiful Switzerland! More information on www.epfl.ch/labs/gr-schu...

🆕🧪‼️ New lab preprint! We study how germ cells (the cells that give rise to gametes, in this case sperm) are supported by somatic (non-germ) cells of the gonad. This matters for our understanding of reproduction - without germ cell development, animals are sterile. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios. thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

In defense of silly science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

Calling all European #Drosophila labs. Time for all of us, that are able, to step up to support FlyBase during this funding crisis.

As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you! Please spare 5min to take our survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Calling all #Drosophilists Congrats to @adrienfranchet.bsky.social and Dominique Ferrandon.

And cite the model organism databases and other resources you use!

Our latest preprint…Adrien Franchet, Yuhong Jin et al @crick.ac.uk show that circulating glutamine drives brain sparing during nutrient restriction. Great collab with labs of Yaël Grosjean and Ian Gilmore. #metabolism #Drosophila #neuralstemcells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does marrying a fellow scientist boost your career? In academia, homogamous couples—where both partners are scientists—are common, especially among top achievers. But who benefits more? Let’s dive into our latest research!

Epic effort led by Tomo Ameku in the lab, with contributions from the labs of Nick Bellono, Vassilis Pachnis, @francoisleulier.bsky.social, @schwarzergnoto.bsky.social, @priscaliberali.bsky.social, ‪@coxlabkcl.bsky.social,‬ @priscaliberali.bsky.social and Maria Rodriguez-Colman

European Drosophila Board election call for nominations. Join the EDB to represent and support Drosophila research in Europe! Five representatives will be elected for different regions. Check our election page for details: europeandrosophilasociety.org/european-dro... #Drosophila, #EDRC2025

We have a postdoc position available in our team to undertake a UKRI-funded project to develop a new cultured skeletal muscle model for studying glc metabolism and insulin action. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50597/ @ims-mrl.bsky.social Please RT. Please email if interested.

My lab at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Muenster, Germany offers postdoc positions in stem cell mechanobiology. www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/departments/... drop me an email

Our latest... Congrats to Seb Sorge, Victor Girard & coauthors for devising HolFast, a chemically defined (holidic) diet for #Drosophila development that performs almost as well as a yeast diet. If you study developmental #nutrition or #metabolism please try it out... www.cell.com/developmenta...

As we're entering the last month for registering the FlyJEDI meeting 2025 shorturl.at/8VO7A I am happy to share with you that the event is now sponsored by @fly-eds.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social Many thanks for supporting the community's reboot. Join us to build a strong research community!

Hi all, our lab will soon recruit a PhD student working within a very exciting MSCA Horizon Doctoral network working on ageing, UNION, which gathers some fantastic scientists. Please apply if your profile fits our project (see attached advert). Looking forward to working with you!

Spatial multi-omics has just gone to the next level! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... —Integration of 5 omic modalities w/ spatial resolution at 20 -50 μm —"a new era for characterizing tissue & cellular heterogeneity that single-modality studies alone could not reveal"

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...

FlyBoard elections are open through Feb. 16, 2025. Please look for Genetics Society of America email: Select future FlyBoard leadership! Here is a link to access the candidate statements and ballot: genetics-gsa.org/2025-fly-boa... Please repost. #Dros25 @GeneticsGSA

A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market Deadline: January 31 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Really looking forward to it.

Return of the JEDI…

Our review in J. Neurochem on how neurons regulate neural stem cell fates is live! The paper was led by our talented PhD student @dittmannwith2ns.bsky.social. This review was written as part of my 2024 ISN Young Scientist Lectureship Award onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The anatomy of brainwashing. #Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Poster abstract submission for #Dros25 is open until 7:59 p.m. EST on Jan. 25 2025. genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...