@deepthavasu
Ph.D.: Spinal cord regeneration in 🐟, Dorsky lab, UofUtah. Postdoc: Regional specialization of nerve cord circuits in 🪰, Moore Foundation Postdoc Fellow, Heckscher lab, UChicago. She/her. Outdoor enthusiast🏔️ and triathlete. 🏊♀️🚴🏾♀️🏃🏽♀️ On the faculty job market!
APPLICATIONS OPEN!
Apply to Comparative Developmental Biology by July 26. This intensive 2-week lab course is designed for graduate students in their second or later year of Ph.D studies and post-docs.
🔗Info: go.mbl.edu/CDB
Congratulations on this tour de force, Nikos!
0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
This is hands down my favourite #SolarFlare in recent years, an event from September 2024. The flare persisted for several hours, giving us a jaw-dropping view of ‘coronal rain’ (seen in the yellow structure) and ‘supra-arcade downflows’ (seen in the cyan structure). A beauty!
As a solar astrophysicist, I spent a lot of time looking at solar flares this year. Out of them all, this X1.9-class #SolarFlare from December 1st was my favourite! The plasma motions are simply mesmerising.
Congrats to you both! 🎉
A new issue of CSH Protocols is out!
The cover image highlights the work by Marshall et al., who describe a detailed protocol for performing multicolor flip-out (MCFO) in Drosophila larvae.
⬇️Links below
Ph.D. Openings — Fall 2026!
If you are passionate about neuroscience, developmental biology, & working with fruit flies, our research group might be the perfect home for you.
You can apply using this link: forms.gle/Abt8gX7JhJaE...
See poster for more details.
Thanks
Happy birthday to the one and the only @blockintheback.bsky.social! 🎉Hope you have a day as wonderful as you are, Kristen!
Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are looking for a new technician to join our lab and gain some hands on #zebrafish and molecular biology experience. Interested parties should apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... Happy to answer any and all questions about the lab! #STEMJobs
New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists.
Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵
Thomas Hunt Morgan, born 159 years ago #OTD in 1866.
Happy 1.59 centiMorgans.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.
Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠
#preprint thread ⬇️1/8
✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟
The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday
Same, Julie— we’re so excited!
We will be updating the GRS website and announcing our exciting keynote speaker in the coming weeks!
image of web page for Neural Development GRC - go to https://www.grc.org/neural-development-conference/2026/
Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social!
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Ohmygosh congrats, Kristen! 🎉 This is so well-deserved and I’m so thrilled for you! As one of the many trainees whose lives you’ve touched, I am so grateful for all that you do! ♥️
Ohmygosh congratulations! 🎉
Congrats, and so well-deserved, Tim! 🎉
The #Drosophila community can donate to the European side to save FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social at the following link:
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Love this solidarity. Yes, calling on the beloved zebrafish community to walk (swim?) so we can fly! 🐟🪰
🤣 I’m intrigued and have many follow-up questions that I will be DM-ing you.
Thank you for this!
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social Has anyone in the zebrafish community looked at the expression of temporal transcription factors (TTFs) in the developing spinal cord? If so, which ones? Asking as an ex-zf, now fly person reading mouse spinal cord TTF papers & currently doing an exciting fish experiment!
We've launched the Armamentarium, a new toolkit for targeted gene delivery to the brain and spinal cord.
This #OpenScience resource was made possible thanks to support from the NIH BRAIN Initiative and teamwork with our collaborators.
🧠📈 www.nih.gov/news-events/...
Wanna grow organoids to understand human retinal development as a research assistant?
Wanna help run the lab as a lab manager?
The Johnston lab is hiring a research assistant/lab manager.
If you are interested, please apply (also please share!):
jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...
Once more with feeling!
Hey!
Are you using a script to scrape FlyBase?
Just stop.
NOW.
You're crashing the site for everyone.
Yes, we mean YOU.
