The UI Department of Biology is seeking a bi-weekly parttime employee to work in the Drosophila Culture Media Lab (Fly Kitchen). This position helps support the department’s research and teaching labs.
For more information about the position, please visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/content/temp...
Many of us are doing it for the 'kids', working hard to create micro environments on our campuses and in our labs where younger scientists can learn, train and be successful. I am buoyed by my like minded colleagues - I celebrate them, nominate them for awards and thank them every chance I get.
#Dros26 Day 3
Did you know DSHB houses over 1600 Drosophila antibodies?
Browse the collection and more: dshb.biology.uiowa.edu
📸 Drosophila germarium labeled with DSHB anti-Vasa (green) and anti-hts (magenta)
🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/anti-vasa
🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/1B1
Fly 🪰 people are the best people! 🔬🥼🧬 having a blast in Chicago #Dros26 (but missing Dan who is serving as super dad at home) @mbustill.bsky.social @rodrigofg.bsky.social @krothphd.bsky.social
The fly meeting is always a great time, and I’m excited to share the experience with trainees for the first time!
@briod613.bsky.social will round things off on Saturday presenting on integrin heterodimer localization at poster 213.
Tomorrow, @jiarui219.bsky.social will be at poster 193 talking about her work on Rapgap1 and Aiza will be at poster 205 presenting her work on Viking (Collagen IV)
Today I’ll be presenting our work on the Rap1 GEF Dizzy (PDZ-GEF) at poster 175.
A lot of exciting things have been happing in the @rothenberglab.bsky.social so we have been keeping really busy. A few of us are at #Dros26 to share our science. Come by one of our posters to say hi!
The @rothenberglab.bsky.social had a great time at #cellbio25! This meeting always feels like a friends and colleagues reunion for me. Unfortunately there’s never enough time to see everyone! My trainees also enjoyed presenting their posters, making new connections, and seeing new science!
I’ve been coming to this meeting since I was a graduate student, so it’s a real pleasure being here with members of my own lab @rothenberglab.bsky.social
I’m so excited to be at #CellBio2025 with my trainees! Elizabeth (#259) and Olivia (#251) have posters in Sunday’s session. Please stop by to hear about the work we are starting up in the lab looking at Rap1 GTPase signaling in epithelial migration in human carcinoma cells and in Drosophila embryos.
I’m helping to organize the 2026 edition, so please reach out with ideas, suggestions, or interest in helping out!
I’m so sad to have missed the Midwest Drosophila Conference due a nasty cold. But some of my students made the journey and had a great time! @jiarui219.bsky.social gave a talk to open up the conference, @briod613.bsky.social gave a very successful poster, and Aiza joined for her first conference!
It happens, it sucks, and we are allowed to express that we are upset about it.
It’s true that reading, planning, and writing are never a waste of time and the material can be repurposed. But it is time consuming to tailor the writing to a particular agency/mechanism. The students are not going to be able to reuse their ideas for broader impacts and outreach in an F31.
This is really unfortunate and I hope it’s reconsidered. My second year PhD students were busy doing rotations at this time last year and didn’t know what lab they were going to join. They have been working so hard on their applications for this cycle only to find out it could be for nothing.
Likewise!!
I’ve been really enjoying the #MWSDB25 meeting so far! Great people and science. I can’t wait to give my talk this afternoon and hopefully come away with new ideas and collaborators. I’m so grateful to the organizers for the invitation!
While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Here’s one I made a few years back that I think is very cute! I can’t take credit for the pattern, unfortunately. I’ll have to track it down on ravelry.
It seems like it would be easy to make an unquestionably cute fly plush! But maybe I just have picky taste.
We have a fantastic seminar lineup this semester! Join us in Kollros Auditorium (BBE 101) almost every Friday at 3:30pm to learn from prominent researchers from across the country.
All of these seminars are open to the public to attend, so we hope to see you there!
To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪.
shorturl.at/xNRKn
Photo of a crayfish climbing a filter in an aquarium
Our lab mascot, Samwise, is always encouraging us to keep reaching higher!
Love this idea and execution! I might have to implement it myself!
@briod613.bsky.social from our lab is at #bobiac2025 learning from the best all about Python-based image analysis!
The Martin Lab in the Department of Biology is seeking a full-time Associate Research Scientist to conduct research in neurobiology, with a focus on electrical and chemical synapse formation.
For more information and to apply, please visit: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc...
We are very proud to be featured throughout this newsletter among all of the excellent departmental achievements. Congrats to all of our lab members for doing great things!
Lab is for getting research done and having a little bit of fun!
