Mehrnaz
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Post-Doc in Wolfner and Clark labs. Interested in female reproduction and evolution.
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#DigitalBlackoutIran
#IranRevolution2026
#IranMassacre
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5 days ago
Forbes: Kill Switch’—Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet For First Time “We have never seen anything like this before. Iran’s digital blackout has now reached a stage where, through the deployment of military jamming systems, access to Starlink internet is also being targeted.
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‘Kill Switch’—Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet For First Time
No way out — Iran's blackout just got worse.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/11/kill-switch-iran-shuts-down-starlink-internet-for-first-time/
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People of Iran are rising up against a dictator regime. It has been 4 days of absolute internet and communication blackout. The free world needs to know. The free world needs to respond.
#DigitalBlackoutIran
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Catherine Linnen
9 days ago
PhD student
@rdridenbaugh.bsky.social
is traveling solo to present his amazing work at
#PAG33
. Be sure to check out poster P027 on Jan 12th!!
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Genetics Society of America
23 days ago
@rebeizlab.bsky.social
presents a detailed 3D atlas of transcription factors expressed in developing genital structures in
#Drosophila
. This new resource in
#GENETICS
suggests that the same transcription factors may control development in female and male genitalia.
buff.ly/ICLiC2F
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Stephen F. Goodwin
27 days ago
A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity: Cell Genomics
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
Follow-up paper on sex, online in the New year
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A high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity
Using an integrated single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila central brain, Allen et al. uncover over 4,000 transcriptionally distinct neuronal subtypes. The authors show that adult ne...
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X%2825%2900359-3
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Royal Society Publishing
about 1 month ago
Killer whales and humans share a trait that is otherwise rare in nature: a long female menopause. Read 'Sexually antagonistic selection, X-chromosome relatedness and the
#evolution
of menopause in killer whales':
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
#BiologyLetters
#ecology
Image: Christopher Michel
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Perrimon Lab
about 1 month ago
Marques et al. (2025) In-situ glial cell-surface proteomics identifies pro-longevity factors in Drosophila. eLife14:RP109422https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.109422.1
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Alison Pischedda
about 1 month ago
New paper out from our lab today in Biology Letters! This work, led by our former lab tech
@avigayillev.bsky.social
and lab alum Isabella Martinez, used hemiclonal analysis to show that longer matings with previously mated females are advantageous to males!
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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Longer matings increase male competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster
Abstract. Copulation duration is a variable behaviour that is often extended by males beyond the time needed for sperm transfer. In many insect species, th
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0435
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fly paper broadcast
about 1 month ago
Molecular evolution of octopamine receptors in Drosophila
#Drosophila
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Molecular evolution of octopamine receptors in Drosophila #Drosophila
PubMed link
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41352366/?utm_source=Other&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pubmed-2&utm_content=1tih1KzP2IVszyspVOiUrPn-jnW1Q1Ryj5vJBQtngFA-7oVYAA&fc=20250213113502&ff=20251207012354&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2
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Chen Ran
about 2 months ago
A beautiful paper on the role of Piezos in uterine biology. I have known first author Yunxiao Zhang since 2012. Yunxiao is rare talent (and a wonderfully kind human being) now on the job market!
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
2 months ago
Sparse learning for scalable phylogenetic network inference
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688704v1
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Sparse learning for scalable phylogenetic network inference
Phylogenetic networks account for signals of hybridization, reticulation, and gene flow, and provide an opportunity to analyse species evolution from a more complex perspective than bifurcating phylog...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688704v1
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fly paper broadcast
4 months ago
Female membrane proteins regulate postmating ovulation in Drosophila melanogaster by ovulin-dependent and -independent pathways
#Drosophila
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Female membrane proteins regulate postmating ovulation in Drosophila melanogaster by ovulin-dependent and -independent pathways #Drosophila
PubMed link
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40920921/?utm_source=Other&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pubmed-2&utm_content=1tih1KzP2IVszyspVOiUrPn-jnW1Q1Ryj5vJBQtngFA-7oVYAA&fc=20250213113502&ff=20250908192352&v=2.18.0.post9+e462414
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Harry Dunn
5 months ago
Thank you on this labor day!!
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Sushant Potdar
5 months ago
On my way to participate in
#behaviour2025
in Kolkata this week 😁 Looking forward to meeting friends and connecting with new peeps 😁 Also, do attend my talk on the last day if you are interested in ejaculates and behaviour 😁
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
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fly paper broadcast
5 months ago
Asymmetric development and function of paired sperm-storage organs in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila
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Asymmetric development and function of paired sperm-storage organs in Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila
PubMed link
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40828028/?utm_source=Other&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pubmed-2&utm_content=1tih1KzP2IVszyspVOiUrPn-jnW1Q1Ryj5vJBQtngFA-7oVYAA&fc=20250213113502&ff=20250819222352&v=2.18.0.post9+e462414
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Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
5 months ago
FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource.
wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
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fly paper broadcast
5 months ago
Investigation of the molecular-genetic basis for courtship differences between Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans and their hybrids
#Drosophila
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Investigation of the molecular-genetic basis for courtship differences between Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans and their hybrids #Drosophila
PubMed link
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40799586/?utm_source=Other&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pubmed-2&utm_content=1tih1KzP2IVszyspVOiUrPn-jnW1Q1Ryj5vJBQtngFA-7oVYAA&fc=20250213113502&ff=20250813072352&v=2.18.0.post9+e462414
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The Oviposition Inhibitory Neuron is a potential hub of multi-circuit integration in the Drosophila brain
#Drosophila
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The Oviposition Inhibitory Neuron is a potential hub of multi-circuit integration in the Drosophila brain #Drosophila
PubMed link
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40791496/?utm_source=Other&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pubmed-2&utm_content=1tih1KzP2IVszyspVOiUrPn-jnW1Q1Ryj5vJBQtngFA-7oVYAA&fc=20250213113502&ff=20250812102352&v=2.18.0.post9+e462414
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Dr Sian Gramates
5 months ago
I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
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Li Zhao
7 months ago
If you are an SMBE member and received the election email (it may have gone to your junk folder), I would be honored if you would consider voting for me for councilor. You may also choose to vote for other scientists, and I encourage you to participate in the election. Thank you!
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Stephen F. Goodwin
7 months ago
New preprint from lab:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.
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A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages
Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657833v1
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Dmitri Petrov
8 months ago
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-cambridge/physiology-development-and-neuroscience/drosophila-genetic-database
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Li Zhao
8 months ago
I’m very glad to share our recent publication
@pnas.org
, led by UnJin Lee from our lab at
@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
:
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
. In this work, he 1) developed a method to efficiently compare single-cell RNA-seq data from rapidly evolving tissues across multiple species, and
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Comparative single-cell analysis of transcriptional bursting reveals the role of genome organization in de novo transcript origination | PNAS
Spermatogenesis is a key developmental process underlying the origination of newly evolved genes. However, rapid cell type–specific transcriptomic ...
https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2425618122
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Geoff Findlay
8 months ago
While it is a dark time for US science, I'm grateful to be able to celebrate some recent lab successes! A brief thread... 🧵 First, the final version of our article on the katherine johnson (kj) gene came out in GENETICS
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
in March!
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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An orphan gene is essential for efficient sperm entry into eggs in Drosophila melanogaster
Abstract. While spermatogenesis has been extensively characterized in the Drosophila melanogaster model system, very little is known about the genes requir
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article-abstract/229/3/iyaf008/7998592
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Society for the Study of Evolution
9 months ago
Join SSE,
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
&
@systbiol.bsky.social
in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF
#SaveNSF
#SupportNSF
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Frontiers | Functions of Drosophila Toll/NF-κB signaling in imaginal tissue homeostasis and cancer
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cell-and-developmental-biology/articles/10.3389/fcell.2025.1559753/full
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