Go Dafni go!!

Pleased to share our preprint on a new class of venoms of the parasitoid wasp Asobara japonica, which induces the interesting phenomenon called "imagined disc degradation." Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do embryos build organs with the right shape, size and function to keep our bodies ticking?🫀🫁👀 Rashmi Priya and I give our take here, in a rollercoaster ride from local cell behaviors to organ-scale physiology and back cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/early/…

In this @nature article our director Paul Nurse discusses why the next Government must prioritise strengthening the UK research ecosystem. A strong scientific standing is vital in achieving key political strategies and objectives. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Understanding living systems has never been more exciting, thanks Prisca Liberali and Alex Schier for an engaging bird's eye view of developmental biology

We are recruiting! Fully funded post-doctoral positions are available. Interested in #morphogenesis #imaging #zebrafish? Join us The Crick to help us understand how embryos build a functional beating heart during development. Please RT 🙏 crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

Join me and Jaime at ICM!

Great news for The Crick and UK science, welcome back Heard_Lab

ICYMI: check out our lab's latest publication in Cell, where we discovered that FGFBP1 is a novel marker of stemness in the intestinal epithelium cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Good job. Nice city.

Meeting alert! Join us in London next year The Crick for the next Developmental Biology symposium. Stellar lineup of speakers and more talks to be selected from abstracts. crick.ac.uk/whats-on/the-3…

A grand day out of science and fun Kew Gardens with Rashmi Priya and lab, our new friends at The Crick. They had the guts and we hearted it!

Jellyfish, worms, flies, fish, mice, humans... all welcome. Excited to be organizing this HHMI | Janelia with Oliver Hobert and Nikhil Sharma. Great speaker lineup, join us!

"...an evolutionary rationale for restoring laboratory mice with wild gut bacterial strain diversity." Can not agree more!!!! Quote from: Recent genetic drift in the co-diversified gut bacterial symbionts of laboratory mice biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper out nature - why are males more vulnerable to severe infections (ex acute #COVID), while females suffer more from autoimmunity (SLE, MS etc and also #LongCovid)? sex chromosomes or hormones? Here we studied adaptation of human immune systems to gender-affirming

I am pleased to inform you of the publication of the Drosophila immunity handbook. The pdf version of the book is free, or a physical version of the book is available for purchase at EPFL press.epflpress.org/produit/1514/9…

Flies gone Freudian. Cool work from Carolina Rezaval and lab

"Distinct but interconnected neural circuits process each step of food intake, from sensory detection of food to feeding initiation and sustained ingestion". Beautiful work!

Latest from Bruno Hudry and lab, featuring tools to visualise endogenous TraF expression and genetically interrogate it nature.com/articles/s4146…