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Female membrane proteins regulate postmating ovulation in Drosophila melanogaster by ovulin-dependent and -independent pathways
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Thank you on this labor day!!

On my way to participate in #behaviour2025 in Kolkata this week 😁 Looking forward to meeting friends and connecting with new peeps 😁 Also, do attend my talk on the last day if you are interested in ejaculates and behaviour 😁 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Asymmetric development and function of paired sperm-storage organs in Drosophila melanogaster
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Investigation of the molecular-genetic basis for courtship differences between Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans and their hybrids
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The Oviposition Inhibitory Neuron is a potential hub of multi-circuit integration in the Drosophila brain
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I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

If you are an SMBE member and received the election email (it may have gone to your junk folder), I would be honored if you would consider voting for me for councilor. You may also choose to vote for other scientists, and I encourage you to participate in the election. Thank you!

A Role for Exaptation in Sculpting Sexually Dimorphic Brains from Shared Neural Lineages Sex differences in behaviours arise from variations in female and male nervous systems, yet the cellular and molecular bases of these differences remain poorly defined. Here, we take an unbiased, sing...

New preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.

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Drosophila Genetic Database The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Comparative single-cell analysis of transcriptional bursting reveals the role of genome organization in de novo transcript origination | PNAS Spermatogenesis is a key developmental process underlying the origination of newly evolved genes. However, rapid cell type–specific transcriptomic ...

I’m very glad to share our recent publication
@pnas.org
, led by UnJin Lee from our lab at
@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... In this work, he 1) developed a method to efficiently compare single-cell RNA-seq data from rapidly evolving tissues across multiple species, and

An orphan gene is essential for efficient sperm entry into eggs in Drosophila melanogaster Abstract. While spermatogenesis has been extensively characterized in the Drosophila melanogaster model system, very little is known about the genes requir

While it is a dark time for US science, I'm grateful to be able to celebrate some recent lab successes! A brief thread... 🧵 First, the final version of our article on the katherine johnson (kj) gene came out in GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social in March! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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Frontiers | Functions of Drosophila Toll/NF-κB signaling in imaginal tissue homeostasis and cancer

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