Just an #ImaginalDisc from #Drosophila, DNA stained with DAPI, represented with LUT, taken using #Zeiss #Apotome and exported using #Fiji

I did not realize ant nests could grow THIS big 🤯 These are leafcutter ant nests in South America, excavated by Luiz Forti and colleagues. Some nests span hundreds of sq meters, extend 8 m deep, and required the ants to move 40+ tons of soil 📷 Forti et al

It’s feeding time! Welcome to Purrassic Park #OwlKitty #JurassicPark #halloween2021

The ability of molecular biologists to control DNA has relied on enzymes derived from the phage-microbe arms race. In this new work, we systematically mined thousands of new serine integrases (LSRs) and developed them for human genome editing. 🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dear Drosophila scientists and students did you know the registration deadline for #IndiaDrosMeet21 has been extended till the 22nd of November! Registration is free but mandatory. #Drosophila #Genetics #Science Link to the website: iiserkol.ac.in/~indrc2021/

Drosophila Image Award 2022 now open for submissions through Feb 25, 2022. Enter and view past winners here: drosophila-images.org Please RT FlyBase @flystocks Genetics Society of America Drosophila Genomics Resource Center Jorge Garcia-Marques was the 2021 winner for this image from nature.com/articles/s4159…

PSA: do not crop #microscopy images in Adobe Illustrator. Left: area selected using a clipping mask Right: area selected by cropping. Yikes!

New paper from the lab! We developed a novel human organoid that periodically forms somite-like structures. The spheroid of human iPS cells elongates and starts forming pairs of somites according to the segmentation clock. nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/

Sharing our new preprint on antimicrobial wound care in Megaponera. We show that ants with an infected wound change their CHC profile leading to more wound care and application of antimicrobial compounds by nestmates to ultimately help cure the infection. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What's happened to the Sun? There are millions of tiny lenses: ice crystals. Water may freeze in the atmosphere into small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals: a bright 22 degree halo and a much fainter 46 degree halo [source, read more: go.nasa.gov/2CjV9Wu]

This montage of more than 600 images collects 30 years of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. From our own cosmic neighborhood to the far reaches of the universe, Hubble has opened our eyes to breathtaking new views of the cosmos [video: buff.ly/2VgxhLJ]

We've developed smartphone fluorescence microscopes, aka Glowscopes. A few simple and inexpensive components convert your smartphone into a basic fluorescence microscope. 1/n

Pre-print Alert!!New pre-print from Mohit Prasad Lab. Main theme of the work is How TOR pathway mediates cuboidal-to-squamous transition non canonically. To know How TOR-FasII and Par-1 are interconnected to each other genetically, Read this article. Sudipta Halder

😀 It's nice to see my anti-LacZ staining of Drosophila egg chambers doing the rounds on DSHB! PS: snapped during my time in Prof. Mohit Prasad's lab IISER Kolkata

It is good to see this interesting piece of work seeing the light of the day! Give it a read folks! we work out how Ecdysone pathway aids in the transormation of cuboidal cells into squamous cells using the Drosophila follicular epithelium as a model!

Congratulations and all the best Swastik Kar and team in revealing the secrets of the Balbiani body!!

🚨📢New paper alert! We elucidate the role of Ecdysone Signaling in orchestrating the removal of nurse cells by transforming the epithelial follicle cells to phagocytic fate during late oogenesis. Congrats to all the Authors!!! rupress.org/jcb/article/22…

Train your epithelial cells to become a monster to clean excess Germline cells known as Nurse cell Morphogenesis Lab_IISERK

Thrilled to announce my first-author paper is out in Development! We found the TOR/REPTOR/DIAP1 axis is key for collective cell migration using the border cell model. Huge thanks to the lovely collaborators at Morphogenesis Lab_IISERK, IISER Kolkata, Rohan Khadilkar, & ACTREC-TMC.

So happy to see this out now in The EMBO Journal A fruitful and fun collaboration with Santosh Chauhan lab at CSIR-CCMB Congratulations to the entire team!! This is like the phoenix bird...back to life!! Cancer Research Institute - ACTREC ACTREC-TMC