Dr. Sarah Signor

The TE workshop at #dros26 last night was fantastic! Great networking and talks. Thanks @levine-lab.bsky.social @mobilepurin.bsky.social and Chris Ellison

Looking forward to Carolus Chan speaking this morning on transposon silencing in the nasuta group ##dros26

2 Clicks from #Chicago —
The Signor Lab Science Gang ( #DROS26 Edition)

So grateful for the chance to share my research on the horizontal transfer of TEs at #dros26

Slamming coffee and gummy worms to stay awake for this incredible TE workshop #dros26

Hear ye! Hear ye! Fresh findings from the halls of science! — I am at the poster session, presenting my work! #DROS26 #GSA #Chicago

What happens if the germline goes on without (most of the) piRNAs for 45 generations?

Come find out at my talk at the evolution session on Saturday at #dros26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

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Say hello to Dr. Pritam, the first student to defend in the Signor lab! @shashankpritam.bsky.social

Raymond Huey is giving an incredible rundown on the effect of elevation on human physiology for Darwin day @ndsu-biosci.bsky.social

Birthdays, tenure, manuscripts, graduations. It's a good time in the Signor lab!

You can call me Dr. Associate Professor (tenure)

It was my daughter's 7th birthday yesterday and LOOK AT THIS CAKE

@5calls.org just do anything do something just call

Welcome

Rapid evolution and comparative analysis of piRNA clusters in D.simulans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700409v1

There's so much variation! That's stable over generations!

If you need a little distraction from the world @prakashnarayanan.bsky.social first paper is out investigating the evolution of piRNA clusters in Drosophila simulans! Also with @kerogens101.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolution of Plasticity in Response to Ethanol Between Recently Separated Populations of D. melanogaster With Different Ecological Histories We identified: (1) differences in gene expression among each locale; (2) changes in gene expression in response to treatment; (3) genotype-specific changes in gene expression in response to treatment

So often you can find a story to tell in RNAseq data, but how real is it really? Here we independently replicated evolution by genetic accommodation in D. melanogaster!!! Congrats George!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

Genesee didn't have fly socks at the last Drosophila conference and honestly it's a tragedy

Watch this tiny robot somersault through the air like an insect Device weighing less than a paperclip is faster and more agile than its predecessors

Drosophila.
- "To accurately replicate insect flight, during which the robot must instantly respond to slight changes in airflow and friction, the team designed a controller that was enhanced by a neural network that mimics the central nervous system of a FRUT FLY".

www.science.org/content/arti...

Caturday

The autoclave is next to my office and it beeps when it's done until you go open it 😅

When I was a grad student the government paid me to go to Taiwan and try to start collaborating.

Last night in North Dakota

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Machine learning, genomics. He's very good with Rust

Best conference for a computational guy looking for an industry job? I can only think of PAG

Hydei?

Mystery flies