We are so looking forward to CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila 2026 🔬 🧠.

The new application deadline is April 13th. Come join us!
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Chronological but not functional aging of giant fiber (GF) descending neuron dendrite structure. Top left: Representative 3-D reconstruction of GF dendritic structure color-coded for the different dendritic domains that receive input from different modalities. The visual input dendrite is coded in red. Bottom left: Representative 3-D reconstruction of GF dendrites at the age of 3 (left) vs. 5 weeks (right). Right: Representative reconstruction of GF dendrites during chronological aging between weeks 7 and 11 from animals that show visually induced escape behavior (left column, responders) as compared to age-matched animas not showing visually induced escape behavior (right column, NRs).

Age-related decline is restricted to specific #neuron types & #brain regions. This study shows components of the #Drosophila escape motor circuit vary in susceptibility to #aging & stressors, with plastic components being vulnerable & hard-wired components robust @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45gobl9

We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in the biomedical research community: A database about the tiny fruit fly share.google/bpMhIF5ibwz0...

Starting a new project

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

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...

Juvenile hormone regulates the maturation of sexually dimorphic naive ethanol olfactory preference in Drosophila melanogaster | Royal Society Open Science The molecular mechanisms underlying the maturation of innate reward behaviours remain poorly understood. We have identified a sexually dimorphic innate reward behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster that varies depending on the age, sex and mating status in ...

Check out our new publication "Juvenile hormone regulates the maturation of sexually dimorphic naive ethanol olfactory preference in Drosophila melanogaster | Royal Society Open Science". Work mostly done by undergrads

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We use BioRender a lot to create figures for posters, papers, and grants #BioRenderForGrants

Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @martajhill.bsky.social for highlighting our work!

Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.

Drosophila research rocks!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdoc opportunity in UK, Wellcome funded, 3 years, to investigate neurogenetics underlying how the brain changes throught life: plasticity vs degeneration. Drosophila, imaging, behaviour. Candidates of all nationalities welcome.
Application deadline 19 March.
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Selfies With Celebrities Friday. Here are the Meyerhoff Scholars from UMBC at the @hhmi.bsky.social Science meeting with special guest Dr. Blanton Tolbert.