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Calling all #Drosophila graduate students and postdocs attending #TAGC24: come meet your #Flyboard representatives Shefali (grad student rep) and me (postdoc rep) on Thursday , March 7th 8-9pm in the Price Georges Exhibition hall!

Highlighting the runner-ups from this year’s Drosophila Art Commission Contest. This piece titled "FRUIT FLY” was created by Lillie Ferreira from the Whitehead Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. #TAGC24

Five Findlay Lab undergraduates (and their PI) are on the way to #TAGC24, but you’ll have to wait til Saturday night for our posters (876 and 878). We’re looking forward to sharing data on cross-species fertility rescue experiments and regulatory evolution of novel genes!

#TAGC24 ! Have you ever wondered how stem cells give their daughters everything they need to replace their mothers - but keep them from doing so until necessary? Come by my talk during Friday afternoon’s Dev Genetics session to chat all about it.

💥Our new preprint! Transposon ADDICTION in development! Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development Study led heroically by Sylvia Ni & Jonathan Wells This work has transformed my view of transposons, no less! 🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Evolution of tissue-specific expression of ancestral genes across vertebrates and insects rdcu.be/dETRg

I'm very glad to share our new work on the evolution of sex peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor interactions! Congratulations to Junhui Junhui Peng , Nicolas, and our collaborator from the Rockefeller Proteomics Core, Henrik. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

Congratulations to Professors Peng Chen, CornellChemistry, and Mariana Wolfner '74, Cornell MBG! They have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Female fruit flies can interrogate the pheromones of their mates to decide how long they will store sperm after mating and when it’s worth re-mating. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Sun, M., Ma, M., Deng, B., Li, N., Peng, Q., Pan, Y. (2023). A neural pathway underlying hunger modulation of sexual receptivity in #Drosophila females. Cell Rep, 42(10):113243 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Can seminal fluid proteins be honest signals of sperm availability? biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

NEW preprint: #PhyKIT is a command-line tool for analyzing multiple sequence alignments and phylogenies. Here, we detail #protocols for using PhyKIT to build #phylogenomic supermatrices, quantifying biases/#errors therein, identifying putative radiations & so much more.

The NIH Career Symposium is a 3-day event that provides a lot of information about different career paths available to biomedical trainees. I’ll be sharing my thoughts on opportunities in higher education amongst a lineup of excellent panels! Details: training.nih.gov/me/cs/

NEW Publication: The promise and pitfalls of synteny in phylogenomics in PLOS Biology!!😄 Synteny—conserved genetic collinearity—is a (re)emerging marker for reconstructing the tree of life. Here, we outline the promise and potential pitfalls of synteny for phylogenetic inference

🧵Excited to share my first author preprint detailing much of my dissertation work! Here we used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… /1

Always a blast to teach the FIR the magic of Drosophila reproduction! and a great reunion with Mariana Wolfner Lab 🪰💓🪰

Our new Current Biology paper provides a rare glimpse into a morphological novelty in Drosophila eugracilis In it, Gavin Rice and colleagues, infer and reproduce the likely initial steps of a novelty's formation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov