#BI499 student Emily did a great job presenting her honours thesis work at today’s FURC poster show! #DrosLife

Panorama photo of the entrance hallway to the Long lab, where the walls are covered with headshots of everyone that has “pushed flies” since the lab opened in 2010

The lab’s #Flylumni / #Alumfly wall turns another corner (literally) today as I add more photos to the hall of fame! #DrosLife

More fun times in the lab! #Drosophila #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts

Another day of fly-watching! #DrosLife #Drosophila #ScienceDoughnuts

Busy day in the #DrosLife lab with behavioural assays of Emily’s dusted flies, lots of #Drosophila culturing a pouring vials/test-tubes! #ScienceDoughnuts

Campus may be closed due to yesterday’s storm, but made it in (with #ScienceDoughnuts) to help set up #BI499 thesis student Emily’s #Drosophila mating assays (with help from Owen)! #DrosLife

First fly-pushing day of 2026! #DrosLife #FlyMas

Last fly-pushing day of 2025! #DrosLife #FlyMas

Celebrating #FlyMas 2025 with another year-in-review of the best #DrosLife lab's #ScienceDoughnuts! #SweetMemories

A #FlyMas gift: the #DrosLife lab's new preprint: Social plasticity in reproduction in female #Drosophila melanogaster! by #Alumfly/#FlyLumni Simran, Sanduni & Emily, who examine the (varied, and unpredictable) effects of the pre-mating environment on female mating!
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Finishing up a busy semester with a final presentation by BI495 Directed Studies student Rimsha on the (somewhat unexpected) relationships between body size, fecundity and egg-provisioning in #Drosophila! #DrosLife #FlyMas

Counting #Drosophila offspring as part of Owen’s final fitness assays (with help from Haleigh, Alicia & #ScienceDoughnuts) #Dietmorphism #FlyMas #DrosLife

A group of amazing fruit fly biologists posing behind a table as they wait for their lunches!

Had a great end-of-semester lab lunch with the hard-working #DrosLife gang! #Drosophila @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Two weeks later, Emily is counting and phenotyping the fruit flies that eclosed from her mating assay! #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts @timhortonsofficial.bsky.social

Emily labelling fruit fly vials in the lab

Six doughnuts, assorted

Starting off a busy assay week for #BI499 honours thesis student Emily with help from #ScienceDoughnuts! #DrosLife

Very proud of #BI499 honours thesis students Emily, Ahmed and Harsukhman on some excellent presentations of their #DrosLife research projects!

Just picked up the bound copy of Laura’s MSc thesis for the #DrosLife lab library!

Busy morning in the #DrosLife lab with the first of #Bi499 Honours Thesis Student Harsukman’s mating assays (with extra help from fellow BI499 students Emily and Ahmed + grad student Haleigh) #Drosophila

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Two days later counting/measuring egg production(despite ⛈️) for Rimsha’s flies (with help from Emily & Sarah [+Owen and Haleigh]) #DrosLife

A super-busy Monday in the #DrosLife lab, with the start of mating assays for directed studies student Rimsha (with help from Haleigh and Owen), plus culturing and a fly food cook!! Fortunately there are #ScienceDoughnuts! #Drosophila

With the start of a new academic year, a new calendar of experiments starts to fill up. This year in the #DrosLife lab there are 2 grad students, 3 honours thesis students and 1+ directed studies students, so it’s going to be a very busy year!

Going over final batch of thesis revisions with @laurierbiology.bsky.social grad student Laura (who has already started optomety school in Michigan) under the watchful eye of this incredible crocheted #Drosophila (handmade by Laura)! #DrosLife #SciArt

Picture of Tristan wearing a blue shirt and a black tie

Panorama photo of three students in a large room with Petri dishes containing flies line the benches

Four members of the lab sitting outside around a table discussing a recent journal article and enjoying beverages

Three students looking up from their microscopes in the lab

Hello! I’m Tristan! Along with my incredible students, I study evolution via sexual selection. Here @laurierbiology.bsky.social we are exploring the causes & consequences of individual variation in behaviour for evolutionary change #DrosLife #Drosophila

Finally remembered to get Matt’s shutdown-era thesis printed and bound too! Of course there would be a typo! #DrosLife #MarcoNotMacro #BreakTheChain

Final (5th) round of behavioural assays with Owen of the summer! #DrosLife #Dietmorphism

Big congratulations to @laurierbiology.bsky.social grad student Laura Hampel who successfully defended her #LaurierBiology MSc thesis on the physiological and behavioural consequences of prolonged blue light exposure! #DrosLife #DrosLight #ScienceDoughnuts

When it’s a long weekend, but there are flies to culture…. #DrosLife #LifeOfPI

Mondrian inspired painting consisting of blue, red, white and black rectangles and squares. Silhouettes of fruit flies, vials and eggs are painted over some of the coloured shapes

With #LaurierBiology grad student Laura defending her MSc next week, painting (by request) a design inspired by Mondrian and her thesis research! #DrosLife #DrosLight #Drosophila #SciArt

A freshly scrubbed and re-organized incubator! #DrosLife