pretty sure they found some retired hitman and said yo try this real quick

Opinion piece: For too long, animal studies have overlooked #TimeOfDay as a critical biological variable. That needs to change. In PNAS Front Matter: ow.ly/9Vah50SOgYi #CircadianRhythms #SleepWakeCycle #chronobiology

Fluorescence Friday!

The NoA for my R24 grant with Stuart Newfeld is here! We are generating reagents for the Drosophila 4th chromosome including CRISPR mutants, RNAi lines, and over-expression constructs of both fly genes and human orthologs. Below is a 1944 drawing of the 4th by B.M. Slizynski.

Why are so many inherited traits not explained by genome sequence variation? In my PhD work with @wbderry we describe a new mechanism of inheritance in animals that may account for this ‘missing heritability' 🧵nature.com/articles/s4155…

My PhD paper is out! We imaged gut neuron activity in living, eating flies (first time in history!), and found a Gut-Brain-Gut neural circuit loop that allows fruit flies to adjust their ingestion bouts based on the sucrose concentration of the food! (1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nerves throughout the body may be bathed in cerebrospinal fluid. bit.ly/4ecc22Y

Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first go.nature.com/3N2FOf2

Mitochondrial Dynamics and mRNA Translation: A Local Synaptic Tale mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/9…

Dear Drosophilists, Can someone help me to identify sp balancer in sp/Cyo; Dr/TM3 line? Truly appreciate your help!

A 50-year-long study of twins finds exercise may not be as important for longevity as we think A thread...🧵

If you wake up after 4-5 hours of sleep & find it hard to go back to sleep, it’s likely you offset your primary sleep drive (due to adenosine buildup etc). The next 2-3hrs of would-be sleep is when learning associated brain changes occur. 3 things help in this scenario. (Thread)

🧠 Depression is linked to rewired food cravings. People with depression crave carbs more and find less reward in fats & proteins. Could the gut-brain axis explain this? 🧵1/14

“It’s a paradigm shift to know that the silent X doesn’t stay asleep,” says Dena Dubal, a neuroscientist and neurologist at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, who led the study. go.nature.com/4hWBYlj

My first Drosophila conference #DROS25 #Dros25

🪰By infusing a virtual fruit fly with #AI, Janelia & Google DeepMind scientists created a computerized insect that can walk & fly just like the real thing➡️ hhmi.news/3Rwop0w 🤖Read more about this work, first published in a #preprint in 2024➡️ hhmi.news/4cGAVUW

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Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. doi.org/10.1101/2025.1…

Unlike the heart attack of getting a “Decision” email, it’s such a good feeling to get a “Your review is ready” email from qed :)