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Anna Hobbiss

@annahobbiss.bsky.social

Drosophila Neuroscientist in Lisbon. I watch fly muscles do surprising things.

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The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.

www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

11.12.2024 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 465    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 24
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Fly art The idea behind this page is to provide a platform where to collate any arty imagery, sculptures or poetry inspired by Drosophila or flies in the wider sense. This will hopefully bring some joy as …

Are you aware of our #Drosophila #art gallery?
droso4public.wordpress.com/fly-art/

11.12.2024 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!! The DJ/VJ project is still ongoing πŸ˜„

09.12.2024 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It might be! Are they twitches of the tarsi correlated in all the legs? If so then yes, the leg heart will be what's causing it (check out figure 2 of the Biorxiv where we describe twitches caused by the heart pumping).

04.12.2024 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Dr Hobbiss πŸ˜„

02.12.2024 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! The synchronisation is indeed a really striking and interesting feature πŸ™‚

02.12.2024 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So happy that this long and winding story I've been chasing as part of two great teams, the @moitalab.bsky.social and @cmendeslab.bsky.social, is out now in BioRXiv! Take a look to see what surprising things fly muscles do when they're standing still.

02.12.2024 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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