Today, I have got a review report from PLOS One after a more than 3 months of waiting ... reviewer #3 wrote: "Overall my assessment is very negative and I would discourage the publication of this work (even after substantial revisions) in any scientific journal" 🤣 #NeverGiveUp

Cassandra Extavour has transformed our understanding of animal development, in some cases disproving widely accepted hypotheses about development and evolution. go.nature.com/2FRDmFF

Here we go. Gradient-independent Wnt signaling instructs asymmetric neurite pruning in C. elegans biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our publication on Wg gradient signaling in Drosophila wing discs. Online now Development dev.biologists.org/content/146/15… Also check out the research highlight. Thanks and congratulations to all collaborators. Very proud of Swapnil's work.

Check out their full Open Access paper 'Robust Wnt signaling is maintained by a Wg protein gradient and Fz2 receptor activity in the developing Drosophila wing' here: dev.biologists.org/content/146/15…

Fab new manuscript on rodent limbs from Adi Saxena and @UCSDCooperLab Interspecies transcriptome analyses identify genes that control the development and evolution of limb skeletal proportion biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fly people - 5th Scottish Fly Meeting will be on Friday 6th December 2019 in Edinburgh! Please save the date and spread the word. More details to follow

5th Scottish Fly Meeting: Friday 6th December 2019 at Edinburgh University. Please join us, it's free: eventbrite.co.uk/e/5th-scottish…

anyone interested in a PhD in tubes? findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

PhD position - Emergence of functional polarity in a tubular epithelium thenode.biologists.com/phd-position-e… via the Node

Belly dancer. Movie of a fly crop imaged by The University of Edinburgh undergrads having fun in the lab #drosophila #drosophilagut #gut #fridayafternoonexperiments

Paradise lost. 7 years ago! Collecting mulberry leaves with Adi Saxena to feed our Bombyx caterpillars. Milton's mulberry tree #ChristCollege #Cambridge #paradiselost

Our paper is out! - How does proximo-distal patterning occur in the epithelial Malpighian/renal tubules? Cells are patterned early by a mechanism involving Wingless/Wnt, and expand by cell proliferation to generate a distal domain frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New Research: Piezo buffers mechanical stress via modulation of intracellular Ca2+ handling in the Drosophila heart frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #Physiology

How do some insects survive without access to water? By drinking from the air with their anus of course! Also, new online resource for #Tribolium enthusiasts, BeetleAtlas.org. New preprint from the lab: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Great colab with Denholm Lab+many not on T

Here is our first foray into the digestive/renal systems of scarab beetles biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The latest on the beetle cryptonephridial complex from our collaboration between Denholm Lab and HalbergLab doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15… Excited to have this published in Development - the first molecular insights into development / cell type specification in the beetle cryptonephridial complex

PhD position in Denholm Lab ' Exploring form & function in one of nature’s most powerful water-conservation systems' working on insect renal system development, physiology and evolution. findaphd.com/phds/project/e… apply by 17th January 2025. Please repost

Our paper on the evolution of Cryptonephridial/rectal complexes in scarab beetles is just out in Arthropod Structure & Development sciencedirect.com/science/articl…