Great to see my @UclaMcdb colleague Pavak Shah sitting in the front row! Hope you enjoyed Vienna!

Insects build specialised muscles in one animal? Flight muscle sarcomeres oscillating at 200Hz with gigantic A-bands vs regular larval sarcomeres. How? Solution: 1. I-band titin isoforms 2. Mechanical feedback from I- to A-band. Took 10 years to figure out biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Drosophila colleagues: Nominate yourself or others for positions on the North American FlyBoard, Trainee Reps, ADRC Plenary/Keynote Speakers, Platform Chairs. Find the GSA email from 9/30 with subject "Share your interest in volunteering with FlyBoard". Pls retweet #Drosophila 🪰

Our latest out today nature! We revisit a century-old theory and show that metabolic gradients work hand-in-hand with genetic&signalling instructions to shape the embryo. Glucose isn't just an energy source, it acts as a major conductor of the body plan🍬 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our former post doc is starting her lab at Sloan Kettering. She's brilliant, kind, creative, and works at the interface of biophysics, cell biology, imaging and immunology, studying tissue infiltration. Very exciting projects. Apply to work with her!

preach!!! worms are badass, says gary ruvkun. (almost as much as flies). 🪰🪱 nytimes.com/2024/10/17/sci…

My department at K-State is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Integrative Molecular, Cell, or Developmental Biology! Manhattan, KS is a great college town. Please share widely with your network. I'm happy to answer questions.

🚨 We're Hiring! 🚨 At EMBL Barcelona we build tissues to understand them, and we are looking for a Group Leader in Tissue Biology & Disease Modelling! 🔬 Lead independent research on 3D tissue dynamics & engineering 📅 Apply by 24 Nov 2024 More info: embl.org/jobs/position/…

What I love about EMBL Barcelona is the big open lab space that connects all 7 groups and the supportive atmostphere. Even if you're an introvert like me, you'll still end up naturally interacting with other groups and feeling part of a big friendly group. So go ahead and apply!

If you have different chirality you will not be degraded, good for you! but how can you be synthesized?? Shubham answers your question:

Our body🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️ is 60% water 🌊and we often forget that a big chunk of this water is OUTSIDE of cells... Check out our review on how extracellular water sculpt our body during development Discover the beautiful drawings from Louise Dagher and the connections with Bruce Lee's teachings

Come to sunny San Diego in March to learn the latest about work in the fly and tell everyone about your great results. Abstract submission deadline this Thursday! genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-202…

The European Drosophila Society Fly-EDS has just launched a #prize to the best #PhD thesis using #Drosophila. 🏆🪰 Deadline is Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante EDRC2025! More info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd-t…

Winter sunsets are the best. Did I mention that the ChampalimaudResearch PhD program just opened for applications and that the lab has an open postdoc position in metabolism?

I am very excited to share our most recent work on how ‘Cell heterogeneity and fate bistability drive tissue patterning during intestinal regeneration’ ☺️ Thanks a lot to Silvia Barbiero David Brückner @prisca Edouard Hannezo and all the co-authors!

Los Angeles fires meant Daria and the undergrads evacuated from UCLA to Bay Area, so we had a get together in Daria's fathers house

Nominate your European Drosophila PhD student for the best thesis prize, sponsored by the European Drosophila Society. More info at: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd-t… Submit by Feb 28th to [email protected].