Amazing talk by Jennifer Malin from Desplan Lab sharing her work on spatial patterning as a mechanism to regulate neuronal number in fly visual system. #TAGC24

This years Drosophila service award goes to the yeoman efforts over many decades by the leadership and staff of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center; no fly lab exists that does not owe them a huge debt of gratitude 🙏 congrats all!

We are happy to announce our new manuscript in bioRxiv that explores the diverse origins of visual projection neurons in Drosophila! #DesplanLab #FlyLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Recent work from our postdoc Jennifer tackling how making the right number of different neuronal types is baked into development is now in press in Developmental Cell! Congrats! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wow, what an exciting way to end the semester! Postdoc Yu-Chieh David Chen received the NYU 2024 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award! Congratulations on this outstanding recognition🌟#NYUCAS #TeachingExcellence

Excited to share that my postdoctoral work is officially in press at Developmental Cell! I spent my postdoc answering a simple, but often unanswered question: how are cells generated in the correct proportions? 1/x

Desplan Lab and alumni reunion at Neural Development Gordon Research Conference in Tuscany!

The inaugural chapter of Soapbox Science in NYC is upon us! Join the top female and nonbinary scientists as they take science to the streets. Show your support tomorrow from 4-7 in Central Park SoapboxScienceNYC 👩‍🔬🥼

Thrilled to see my advisor’s Desplan Lab opening keynote at #SCDB24. Having both his postdoc advisor (Pat O’Ferrell) and myself in the audience is a truly incredible experience—showing the power of mentorship and inspiration across generations. Grateful to be part of this legacy!

Today we decontaminated our Ethidium Bromide gel station using the Lunn and Sansone method and have made the switch to Midori Green! #gelelectrophoresis #PPE

It was great hosting my mentor Desplan Lab at Stowers last week!

We are pleased to announce the publication of our manuscript “Morphological and functional convergence of visual projection neurons from diverse neurogenic origins in Drosophila” in Nature Communications! #FlyLab #NYUAD rdcu.be/d6QRC

We are excited to share our preprint, identifying the spatial origin of medulla neurons and correlating spatial/temporal/Notch patterning of progenitors with terminal selector expression in neurons: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Commentary on transcriptomes and cell types, by myself and Desplan Lab rdcu.be/d9BL6

Great seminar by 3rd year PhD student Yuwei Zhong on the mechanism of neural diversification in the mushroom body 👏🏼🐜🧠

Another great student seminar! Thanks to one of our PhD scholars Raghu for a great talk on stochastic neurogenesis. 🪰🧬

Incredibly proud of our undergrad researchers at #CURB2025! Congratulations to Hannah for winning Best Academic Poster and Sophia for Best Poster Aesthetic Design! Huge thank you to the department for organizing this opportunity to showcase undergraduate research excellence.