Very honored to receive this award from GSA! I have immense gratitude for my advisor @nkwhiteman.bsky.social, labmates, collaborators, mentees, and the fly community, who in many ways potentiated my graduate research.
Looking forward to sharing my work at my favorite meeting in my favorite city!
20.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Time-calibrated phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae showing major species groups, surrounded by representative adult flies that highlight the remarkable morphological diversity of this model insect group. The composite image was created using Microsoft PowerPoint. Fly photographs were taken by Darren J. Obbard and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License with permission.
The #fly community aims to achieve a comprehensive genomic study of the Drosophilidae family. @pankajd.bsky.social @bernardkim.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @darrenobbard.bsky.social present a comparative gene annotation for 301 #Drosophilidae species @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c3pyrI
19.02.2026 13:55 — 👍 51 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a Drosophila researcher & member of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social (at any level of training)?
Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa...
Pl repost.
13.02.2026 19:26 — 👍 33 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 1
YouTube video by The New Yorker
“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrL...
03.02.2026 05:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, pollination occurs via a synchronized rhythm of floral sex timing between two hermaphroditic flowering types. A-type plants present female-phase flo...
Did you know there are 2 types of avocado varieties? A-types switch from female to male, B-types male to female, within a single day. This reciprocal sex alternation promotes cross-pollination and has a simple genetic basis. Read more in this recent preprint from the final chapter of my PhD thesis 🥑
29.12.2025 19:13 — 👍 105 🔁 49 💬 4 📌 2
Looks like he left you new vials too 👀
30.11.2025 04:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congrats Sung-Ya! Great to see this story out!
29.11.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
08.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 345 🔁 278 💬 6 📌 18
woohoo! go @kdc509.bsky.social!!
22.08.2025 22:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
15.08.2025 12:45 — 👍 130 🔁 159 💬 3 📌 26
Woohoo! Congrats Danielle!!
08.08.2025 00:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social undergrads, there is still space in this course on the cellular, genetic, and developmental basis of evolution taught by Professor Nicole King and me this Fall. Find out why, as Dobzhansky, said "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
28.07.2025 23:32 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, Deadline: September 15, 5:00 PM Eastern.
Applications now open for the SSE GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 to expand your dissertation work. Submit your proposal by September 15!
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
15.07.2025 21:16 — 👍 36 🔁 47 💬 0 📌 1
woohoo! congrats phoebe!! excited to see the exciting science your lab will do!
10.07.2025 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Odorant receptors mediating avoidance of toxic mustard oils in Drosophila melanogaster are expanded in herbivorous relatives
Abstract. Plants release defense volatile compounds that can deter herbivores. Among them are electrophilic toxins, such as isothiocyanates from mustard pl
Pleased this paper led by Teru Matsunaga at University of Tokyo (former postdoc) and in collaboration with many colleagues is out @official-smbe.bsky.social Molecular Biology & Evolution: doi.org/10.1093/molb.... Palp-expressed Or42a is an isothiocyanate sensor and can drive aversion to ITCs…
05.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Congrats!
19.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats Ben! Gotta grab tacos oscar before you move!
19.06.2025 00:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
congrats shyama! looking forward to reading!!
11.06.2025 23:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats Sunnyjoy!
05.06.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
03.06.2025 21:17 — 👍 82 🔁 115 💬 0 📌 12
yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21.05.2025 21:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yayay go Drs. Zytnick and Govindaraju!!!
21.05.2025 04:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wolbachia uses ankyrin repeats to target specific fly proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654400v1
17.05.2025 14:16 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
gotta knock on the rabbi’s door 3 times before he’ll let you into his lab 😌 thanks for letting me work on this crazy project and for your mentorship!
15.05.2025 00:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow! Congrats!!
18.04.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Comparative gene annotation of 304 species of Drosophilidae
I know you like #Drosophila and I know you like #Genomes - but do you also like #Genes? Coding DNA annotation of 304 species of Drosophilidae! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
16.04.2025 06:21 — 👍 35 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
Using Drosophila melanogaster to study inter-organ communication in nutritional responses. Posts by Alissa Armstrong. She/her
PhD Candidate in the Levine Lab at the University of Pennsylvania | UMich Alum
Microbe lover 🦠 | Microbiology PhD | Postdoc at University of Minnesota in the lab of Julia Willett | First-gen | she/her
Head of Genome Biology Dept @EMBL,
Scientist, Principal investigator, Professor
Exploring genome regulation during development,
and everything to do with enhancers.
3D genome, chromatin topology,
cell_fate, embryonic Development,
Single Cell genomics
PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley studying Bacterial Methylotrophic Metabolism and Interactions
Postdoctoral Researcher in Zanders Lab in KC, MO | Stowers Institute | studying meiosis/spores in fission yeast | views are my own | she/her
PhD student in plant and microbiology 🌿🔬 Lover of interesting endophytes 🌾 Barcoding bacteria to see how they colonize roots
Evolution, agroecology, genetics, epigenetics, and history buff. Interested in how people have shaped the success of insects in agriculture. #cropdomestication #sustainableagriculture
https://blog.uvm.edu/yfanslow/
Associate Professor of Microbiology UMN Twin Cities. Fungal pathogen research on genome instability, aneuploidy, polyploidy, and drug resistance. Dog mom. Fiddle player. T1D. First gen.
Assistant Professor @UCSF
Chemical Biology, Mass Spec, and Innate Immunity
Assistant Professor at @UCSF_BTS | @HHMINEWS HGF | | Loving membrane proteins every day https://www.wcoyotelab.com
Associate Prof. @UCSF Dept. of Anatomy & Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center | My lab studies lysosomes, autophagy, metabolism and pancreatic cancer
visit us at : rushikapereralab.com
Chromatin biologist. new PI at the University of Kansas. Embryogenesis, evolution, frogs
https://www.coralzhoulab.com
Associate Professor | Dad, Husband |Studying the dynamic epigenome with Chromatin Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Single Cell Biology | fission yeast and murine cells | UCSF Microbiology & Immunology | Parnassus
Drosophila germline with JR Huynh and choanoflagellates bridges with T Brunet.
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern studying the evolutionary diversification of cytoskeletal proteins
Evolutionary systems/cell biologist. EMBO and SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Dmitri Petrov and Dan Jarosz at Stanford. PhD with Andreas Wagner at the University of Zurich. Studying how molecular and cellular systems shape, and are shaped by, evolution.
