Varsha Singh

Special thanks to Ahna Skop, Morris Maduro, and Curtis Loer for bringing so much joy to the meeting!
Also, big thanks to GSA and Anne Marie Mahoney for making #worm25 happen despite the challenging times. Thank you also to USDavis for hosting us and the delicious food.

We are looking forward to the Worm Meeting 2027 and thank
Suhong Xu(Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China),
Kavita Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), and
Erik Andersen (Johns Hopkins
University Baltimore, USA)
for organising. #worm25

Congrats to the winners of the #Worm25 poster competition!

Thanks to all students who entered (285) — such great research!

Thanks to all poster judge volunteers who judged presenters (220 postdocs and faculty!)

Given >1200 attendees, that’s a high % who participated in this competition!

Very cool talk from Ritika Siddiqui ( @varshasinghuk.bsky.social lab) on neuronal sensing of essential amino acids. #worm25

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

YouTube video by Kimberly K "Use More OP50" (2025)

Wanted to post a video we accidentally forgot to show at the Worm art show #worm25 from the Van Buskirk lab @cswormlab.bsky.social @baristursun.bsky.social

Hope you all enjoy!
youtu.be/7IMrOsmg5UY

Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay! 🦠

If you are a starter in this field, as I was until recently, here are some highly recommended articles from @natmicrobiol.nature.com that may help you understand, plan, and even improve your microbiome studies - A starter pack you might say! 😊🧵

#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky

This is fantastic. Congratulations Aakanksha and team.

How UK paternity leave compares to the rest of Europe Most dads in the UK get two weeks off work after their baby is born, but dads in many European countries get more.

All fathers need paid time off, to be with their newborn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The flags at our EU office in New Delhi fly at half-mast today in memory of the victims of this morning’s plane crash in Ahmedabad.

Europe mourns with India, the UK, Canada and Portugal.

This tragedy affects us all.

Thanks. I was hoping you would know the name. It looks like Olearia macrodonta or Newzealand holly.

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.

Solid phase transitions as a solution to the genome folding paradox - Nature In vitro reconstitution and in vivo live-cell imaging of LHX2–EBF1–LDB1 enhancer hubs in olfactory sensory neurons reveals that these transcription factors form condensates with solid, rathe...

How do olfactory sensory neurons manage to express only one odorant receptor?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa: ecology, evolution, pathogenesis and antimicrobial susceptibility - Nature Reviews Microbiology Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a functionally versatile bacterium, a leading opportunistic human pathogen and a model organism in microbiology. In this Review, Letizia, Diggle and Whiteley discuss P. aerug...

New review on the ecological and pathogenic versatility of P. aeruginosa:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Keith was a kind and thoughtful scientist. My memories of him as a student in the Harvard BBS program were that he was always thoughtful and even-keeled and cared about students

Fig. 2 Whole-body estimates of sea otter metabolism scaled to body mass. Estimated scaled whole-body metabolic rates include predicted [BMR; predicted on the basis of scaled rate for eutherian mammals], sea otter resting metabolic rate, and whole-body skeletal muscle leak capacity.

Several mammal species live in cold-water environments thanks to adaptations like blubber and large size. A notable exception is the sea otter—so how does it stay warm?

A 2021 Science study found an answer: skeletal muscle thermogenesis.

Learn more on #WorldOtterDay: scim.ag/4jjvMDL

Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

We are pleased to launch the KlebNET Genomic Epidemiology Consortium!

We aim to build a public metadata repository; systematic risk framework for global genomic surveillance; and genomic epi reviews for high-impact #Klebsiella clones.

Join us here:
klebnet.org/klebnet-gsp-...

#ABPHM25

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Small research grant 10000 GBP for social science and humanities www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Congratulations Alessio!

Worm Art Show - 25th International Worm Meeting Visit our website to learn more.

I hope you are attending Worm2025 in June. Please consider submitting to our awesome Worm Art Show. It is as good as the science.
Submissions accepted till June 27, 2025.

Started by Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social the event continues to enrich our community.
genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/wo...

Fungarium at Kew gardens.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

A dolphin's shadow beneath the waves at Greyhope Bay.

A dolphin leaps out of rough water at Greyhope Bay.

A dolphin's shadow beneath the waves at Greyhope Bay.

A dolphin's tail sticks out of rough water at Greyhope Bay.

Unexpectedly challenging conditions on Thursday, with the sun glaring, the water choppy and the dolphins non-committal, but I quite like this set of one above and below the waves at the harbour entrance.

Congratulations, Jordon and Andrew.

Thanks for the shout out @meera-sundaram.bsky.social ! This was such a fun project! 101 knock-ins and counting and they all had such cool and unique localization pattern and substructures!

Research Assistant/Associate at University of Glasgow Apply for the Research Assistant/Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Well here’s an exciting opportunity! Who wants to spend 5 years working on S-acylation as part of a fantastic multidisciplinary team? #acylation #cellbiology #glasgow
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB111/r...

Host interactions of bioactive molecules produced by Klebsiella spp Abstract Klebsiella spp. are early colonisers and commensals of human skin, oral, nasal, throat and gut microbiotas, but are also opportunistic pathogens. Much of our information on these bacteria is ...

Great to see the typeset version of this invited review out.

Covers pretty much everything we know about metabolites/peptides produced by Klebsiella spp. and how they interact with the host. #microsky #microbiomesky @microbiotaandhost.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1530/MAH-...

A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain Although topographical maps organize many peripheral sensory systems, it remains unclear whether olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) choose which of the ~1100 odor receptors (ORs) to express based upon t...

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

Colurful painted artwork with circular symbolic and significant symbols and motifs and lines against a multicoloured background

Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia, who founded an art centre for Indigenous artists #WomensArt