Members of the RFG lab wearing a "MicroPoint maintenance crew" T-shirt. Over the years, they have had to learn how to troubleshoot this wonderful piece of equipment.

Hey @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social, we know from experience that you have outstanding field engineers ... who are also a bit overworked, so if you ever need to hire, we have a few people in the lab who think they are ready ... :D. @willowp.bsky.social @qeenyra.bsky.social @anamcarmo.bsky.social

Two cross-stitched fruit flies, male and female, with three-dimensional wings (one of them is Curly!!).

Congrats to Dr. @negberry.bsky.social , who successfully defended her PhD in @bme-uoft.bsky.social @utoronto.ca last week!! Negar and I had our annual career one-on-one today, and she showed up with this totally AMAZING present. If you don’t yet, you should follow her: she is onto great things!!

Paper published!!! Tremendous work by Gordana Scepanovic, with key contributions by @negberry.bsky.social and @krothphd.bsky.social. We ask why is mTor signalling necessary for rapid wound repair. 🧪 #drosophila #devbio

Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...

New horoscope dropped! What's your fruit fly-sona?
🪰 #Drosophila

I'm Xasta and tubby with scarlet eyes, so cute!

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Ok white deformed eyes and dumpy wings… actually cuter than it sounds 🧚🏻‍♀️

Ray has certainly ReSCued me from hours of annotations 😌 check out ReSCU-Nets paper on biorxiv now 🤩

We also investigate how cardiac progenitors move collectively to form the heart tube. #Drosophila 🧪

. @negberry.bsky.social, Lady of the (cytoskeletal) Waves, wrote a beautiful short review on dynamic actomyosin networks in development. Take a look!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Myosin waves and a mechanical asymmetry guide the oscillatory migration of Drosophila cardiac progen... Heart development begins with the formation of a tube as cardiac progenitors migrate from opposite sides of the embryo. Abnormal cardiac progenitor mo…

My colleague Negar Balaghi @negberry.bsky.social has joined bluesky! If you haven't seen it, her recent paper is soooo cool!!! 🧪 #devbio