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I had a lot of fun presenting my first piece of research as a postdoc at ComBio2022, and enjoyed learning about all the other cool research going on in Biology! Can’t wait to attend next time 😊

Very proud of my first honours student, Astrid Nissilä-Browne who did an amazing job in presenting her honours work on the effect of mitochondrial haplotype on glioblastoma. So great to see all the results come together, well done Astrid!

Congratulations to ⁦Ekta⁩, who presented an outstanding final PhD seminar today, overviewing her research on mitonuclear interactions and climatic adaptation in fruit flies; followed by celebratory cake and drinks! ⁦School of Biological Sciences, Monash⁩ #DowlingLab

Super excited to share my latest paper in Jeb open access 🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je… Looking at standing genetic variation in a population and how it shapes plasticity! With fantastic people @ChristenMirth Greg Walter Carla Sgrò Keyne Monro @BioAndreNA #evolution #plasticity

Our laboratory is recruiting a research assistant specialised in molecular biology. They will be responsible for cloning, knockouts/knockdowns, and protein expression with mycobacteria and clostridia. Previous mol bio experience needed. Please email with CV if you're interested.

We've done it! It's out! Restricting a single amino acid cross-protects Drosophila melanogaster from nicotine poisoning through mTORC1 and GCN2 signalling | Open Biology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

So happy to kick off the new year by sharing that our paper "The Nuclear Transporter Importin 13 Can Regulate Stress-Induced Cell Death through the Clusterin/KU70 Axis" has been published in Cells MDPI Read it here: mdpi.com/2073-4409/12/2… Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Check out this study in Heredity by former student Sean Layh, and Venkatesh Nagarajan-Radha, in collaboration with Bernardo Lemos, in which we found effects of Y chromosome genotype on locomotor activity in males, with were consistent across environments. nature.com/articles/s4143…

In Nov 2015, we were invited to write a paper for the Flybook series in Genetics Society of America on the evolutionary genetics of the mitochondrial genome. Seven and a half years later, myself and Jonci Wolff have completed the project: academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…

Come by poster 123 to see all the cool work Jade Kannangara is doing with mitochondria in Drosophila! Nice experimental evolution looking at frequency-dependent selection and temperature #ICG2023

Fantastic poster by @jadekannangara at @icg2023! Awesome evidence of 4-way interaction between mito mediated selective forces #icg2023

Amazing closing plenary talk by Neil Gemmell! So much to learn about sex determination in fish #ICG2023

More fantastic mitochondrial research from @marivelasque, demonstrating tissue-specific mitochondrial respiration consistent with mother's curse predictions #icg2023

So excited to see Ekta present the results of her research on the effects of mitochondrial thermal adaptation on male reproductive success in drosophila at International Congress of Genetics 2023 very exciting culmination of her phd! #icg2023

Amazing talk by Vanessa Higham looking at the diet modification and changes in phenotypic expression mediated by mito-nuclear interactions #icg2023 #dowlinglab

Check out this study led by @a_j_dobson: effects of diet on fly fitness depended on interactions with mtDNA haplotype, and mitonuclear interactions. Genotype matters in responses to diet, and the mtDNA is a key part of this, including a SNP in the 16S rRNA of the mito ribosome.

In this review in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, led by Jack Brand, we outline why we believe that mitochondrial genetic variation is likely to be a driver of behavioral diversity; with Bob Wong (@bbmwong.bsky.social) and Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last time I was at the Plenary at MCEC was for Nick Cave. Today, Jade Kannangara from our lab rocked that very stage Biomolecular Horizons 2024 presenting her research on the evolutionary implications of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in response to thermal selection.