Submit your #Dros21 abstract now and showcase your #Drosophila research online! 🧬 Awesome invited speakers 🧬 Large international audience 🧬 Live poster sessions 🧬 No travel costs 🧬 Network and learn with your community Don't miss out! Deadline: Dec 3 bit.ly/2I9XCGV

📢Seminar Info Next week's seminar features talks from Hammed Badmos (Drosophilosopher🔬💊) and Kyra Campbell (@KyraCampbellLab). Same time and links as usual. If you'd like to joint the mailing list: cellmigrationseminars.com

Our new paper is out - on the importance of keeping Hox genes repressed if you want to undergo EMT. Congrats to Grace (Grace Jefferies) and the rest of the team @isabellelohrey, Vishal Chaturvedi, Jacob Calabria, @jasesomers, @OMarshall_lab, and @TonyDSouthall. g3journal.org/content/early/…

A cool web page to learn about the origins of Drosophila gene names. My favorite will always be Tinman! deeptisjourney.wordpress.com/fly-art/

Ever wonder how the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center maintains tens of thousands of fly stocks? indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/food…

Analysis of Gal4 Expression Patterns in Adult Drosophila Females g3journal.org/content/10/11/…

What presenting on Zoom feels like 😭

Warburg-like metabolic reprogramming in aging intestinal stem cells contributes to tissue hyperplasia bit.ly/3q87KBi

*Cellpose: a generalist algorithm for cellular segmentation*, now out in Nature Methods with new analyses! Looking forward to seeing what y’all do with it. With Marius Pachitariu, #NotTheCover #cellpose nature.com/articles/s4159…

Creepy auto fill

PI: How's your writing coming along? Me:

Tomorrow, I will be releasing a new version of the #ImageJ ActionBar plugin in which bars can stick to the ImageJ main window, together with a convenient "channels bar" to easily change display mode and channel visibility. See how it works below.

1. The first paper from my lab became online Nature Metabolism. Our graduate student, Ayaka, mainly worked on this project. white, which should be the most famous fly gene, regulates aging-induced intestinal stem cell proliferation through folate metabolism. nature.com/articles/s4225…

The new #TrackMate #preprint is truly amazing. It now offers support for segmenting blobs and linking them via overlap. And of course, it is easily extensible (awesome!). It took me 3hrs to write a TrackMate-#clij2 plugin. Fantastic work by Dmitry Ershov et al. and Jean-Yves Tinevez !🤩

As my first international conference, #Dros22 is both slightly intimidating and exhilarating! For the last poster session, join me and my guts (that’s right, they are our very own confocal stacks 🪰 ) for a story from morphology to gene function at 586C!!! Murray Lab

And that’s a wrap 👩🏻‍💻 Thank you to everyone that came to my final talk and the never ending support from Murray Lab. It’s been an awesome 8 years and I would never change a thing of it. And of course all the helpful advices from Cheng Fly Lab Gary Hime Robin Lab 🎉

Our latest preprint is now up! Murray Lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Latest from the lab: The Sex of Organ Geometry – aka ORGAN ORIGAMI! Organs exist in male and female configurations. For some 3D insights into how and why see rdcu.be/dJnkI (spoiler: it’s mechanochemical)

Science is not really happening when the goal is a paper, a presentation, a grant, or any product. It only really happens when the goal is a process of discovery.