Check out our latest paper on how human milk oligosaccharides trigger the B. fragilis colonization program in the current issue of Cell Host & Microbe! 🦠 🤱🏻

The “ORBIT for E. coli” paper is out in Nucleic Acids Research! doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… **Perform genetics (e.g. deletions) without any PCR / cloning – just transform an oligo!** The paper demonstrates benefits over λ Red & shows how oligos scale to high throughput libraries.

Big love to a big team. Enjoy X biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🧠Janelia scientists have reached another milestone in connectomics: A wiring diagram of the fruit fly visual system. With 50K+ neurons, the optic lobe connectome provides the fullest picture yet of one of the most important parts of the nervous system. janelia.org/news/seeing-is…

In our latest preprint, we use connectomics to uncover that the FeCO, the largest somatosensory organ in the fly leg, is not only proprioceptive, but also has a subset of sensory neurons that are dedicated to sensing external substrate vibrations as well: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy to share that Rituja Singh Bisen's work on the nutritional state-dependent modulation of #insulin-producing cells in #Drosophila is out on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Rituja was the 1st person to join the lab and it’s a privilege to accompany her on her PhD journey.

the lab is recruiting scientists HHMI | Janelia! we are particularly excited about engineering fluorescent proteins and biosensors using high-throughput assays and machine learning. questions? please get in touch!

This one is very close to my heart, proudly sharing our newest preprint “Comparative connectomics of the descending and ascending neurons of the Drosophila nervous system: stereotypy and sexual dimorphism”. A short summary of this project that was 4 years in the making:

Excited to share the first Rogers lab paper is officially out at Nucleic Acids Research! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… RNAi pathways maintain robust coordination of other RNAi pathways during stress, ultimately ensuring proper sperm function 🔥Congrats Trilotma sen and Cara McCormick!

Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict. We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🦟New research led by Sr. Group Leader David Stern & Research Scientist Hiroshi Shiozaki examines neural activity in singing fruit flies to understand how neurons in the fly nerve cord produce fly courtship songs. ➡️nature.com/articles/s4159… Learn more ➡️janelia.org/news/why-do-fl…

Excited to share our new preprint on connectomic analysis of fly taste circuits! We used the connectome to identify neurons and brain regions involved in taste processing, compare properties of neurons that process different tastes, and more! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Looking forward to presenting and talking with everyone tomorrow. Thanks for having me!

Finally, its out on biorxiv. Our labs collaboration with Rubin lab@Janelia building CX specific cell types, determining their neurochemical identities and screening them for sleep phenotypes. 7 years in making and hopefully a great resource for the community.

I’m so excited and honored to be included in this new cohort of #HannaGrayFellows!! I can’t wait to get to know this community of outstanding scientists and advance our research together!