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📢 latest from the PowerLab🚨

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Step by step guide on Construction of Constant-Load (Isotonic) and Constant-Velocity (Isokinetic) Torque-Velocity-Power Profiles In vivo for the Rat Plantar Flexors

Video to follow!

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

My entry for today’s #FluorescenceFriday: a pupal #Drosophila testis with muscles expressing
🔵 lifeact &
🔴 RFP-nls

Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨

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#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceArt

Jane Goodall, Who Forever Changed How We See Animals, Dies at 91 The famed primatologist's research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human.

What it meant to be human ? Not the "Transcendency" - we don't transcend - !

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Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Issue 17 is complete!

On the cover: Image of three Hydra specimens. A wild-type Hydra (centre) and two transformants showing switch of foot (pink) to tentacle (yellow) (right) and tentacles to feet (left).

See Research Article by Ferenc et al.

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Most of us: there’s no way we can get any stupider

Narrator: they were incorrect

very promising👇

Cell type specific allometry controls sex-differences in Drosophila body size Species and sex-specific differences in organ size are fundamental features of animal biology, yet the mechanisms that drive these differences remain debated. Adult female Drosophila are larger than m...

Very proud of Celena Cherian in the lab, who contributed data to www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Briefly, Celena showed female fat body cells have higher ribosomal protein expression and more protein synthesis than males. This difference persists even after cell size is accounted for!

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis.
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis
#SystemsBiology

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PM Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social, your 15% proposed cuts to Tri-council funding will run counter to your election promise to accelerate Canadian innovation. Canadian scientists are among the lowest funded of the top 10 world economies. More funding of discovery science is a priority.

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
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Blurred crowd of people walking near green trees and glass buildings with a call for Co-Editor-in-Chief applications by FACETS.

@facetsjournal.bsky.social publishes across the sciences, integrating social sciences and diverse ways of knowing. We’re recruiting a new Co-Editor-in-Chief to guide its next phase.

Apply today ▶️ buff.ly/VqyMsd0

#InterdisciplinaryResearch #AcademicJobs #EditorInChief

Scientists crafted glow-in-the-dark #succulents that recharge in sunlight. Injected with light-emitting phosphor, the plants can shine as bright as a small night light. cell.com/matter/fullt...

@cp-matter.bsky.social
#SCAU Shuting Liu & colleagues

I found an insect outside, and I thought it had nice red spots. Turns out they were parasitic mites. 🤮

Myofibrils have a second-harmonic-generation microscopy gradient. 👍

One nice thing about working with muscles and myofibrils is that biophysicists love them, and so we collaborate with them. Here, Danielle Tokarz's group at @smuhalifax.bsky.social used polarization second-harmonic generation microscopy in single fibrils opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext...

The lockout at Dal is over, and so is the summer weather.

congratulations!

Another new paper from our lab!

🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg?

We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments.

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426

In 2019, Anna Jost & @jencwaters.bsky.social reviewed best practices for validating quantitative #microscopy methods & discuss strategies to avoid unconscious bias in imaging experiments rupress.org/jcb/article/...

📕 In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

The image shows one straight magenta line and, close to it, another wavy green line.

This might be one of the simplest images I captured, but very fascinating nonetheless, as it shows how tight the cytoplasm in a plant cell is. The cytosol and all other organelles are squished between the plasma membrane (magenta) and the central vacuole (its membrane is green)
#MicroscopyMonday

Ant reproduction is getting weirder and weirder. Here’s the latest: queens of a Mediterranean harvester ant mate with males from a different species and then lay eggs that clonally inherit those males’ genome. I.e., they lay eggs that develop into a different species. 🤯

Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

Thank you, r/HalifaxArsenal, for explaining it so well.

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From our colleague in Law, this is a brilliant dissection of the Board’s doubling down on unfair bargaining tactics in presenting their tepid "offer"

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#keepdalstrong

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Did Dal really make up a fake offer letter to try to convince the public that they are willing to negotiate and undermine the union? Yes, they did!

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Today I should be starting our ~350 student 2nd year cell biology course, instead I'm locked out.