I had the opportunity to contribute to the March 2026 issue of the newsletter published by the JSPS San Francisco Office, which supports me as a JSPS Overseas Research Fellow 🇺🇸
It is freely accessible, so I would be grateful if you could take a look!
www.jspsusa-sf.org/newsletter/#...

Molecular evolution of CO2-sensing ab1C neurons underlies divergent sensory responses in the Drosophila suzukii species group Author summary Animals rely on their senses to locate food sources and identify suitable reproductive sites in their environment. Closely related species can evolve strikingly different preferences as...

Very excited to share the work by Alice Gadau. We found that D. suzukii (the invasive pest that loves ripe fruit) doesn’t hate CO₂, while classic lab flies avoid it. That tiny sensory shift helps explain a big ecological transition.
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Machine learning for evolutionary genetics and molecular evolution Over the past decade, the rapid expansion of large-scale data and advances in computational power have allowed machine learning (ML), especially deep …

We wrote a review on using machine learning to study evolutionary genetics and molecular evolution in Trends in Genetics. It is open access—please take a look if you are interested in this topic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social

A predicted structural interactome reveals binding interference from intrinsically disordered regions Author summary Understanding which proteins interact with each other and how they interact is essential for uncovering fundamental biology and for identifying new pathways involved in health and disea...

In our recent paper in PLoS Computational Biology, we used AlphaFold2 Multimer to predict the structural details of ~28,000 protein-protein interactions from high-confidence STRING pairs in Drosophila, and identified interesting patterns in disordered regions. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo
www.ign.com/articles/the...

I attended the New York Population Genetics Meeting today at the Simons Foundation! The talks were all really interesting, and I’m glad I had the chance to present a poster and receive helpful comments. It was a great experience!

Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

Are you at #Dros26? Come by the micropub booth!

Hello fly researchers! 🪰 I’ll be presenting a poster on March 5 at #Dros26 in Chicago!
📌323T: Population genomics of Drosophila subpulchrella and adaptive evolution of the suzukii species complex.
It’s my first on-site fly meeting, and my-first time sharing computational work!