Thank you to organisers Renata Basto @BastoRenata and Zuzana Storchova @ZStorchova and everyone who joined us for this week's Workshop on Decoding Whole Genome Doubling: Insights From Evolution, Development and Disease. https://t.co/EP4G6xzTus #BiologistsWorkshops

What prevents an enlarged heart? Check out our new preprint: "Organ-specific rewiring of mitochondrial integrity through COX7A dictates cellular ploidy." First author is K99/R00 fellow Archan Chakraborty- currently on the job market!!! https://t.co/0xUV3ZXlUk

The lab had a fantastic time at the @Duke_PCB retreat at Wrightsville Beach. Jane gave an awesome talk and was recognized for her recent first-author paper, and all other trainees gave posters (Archan won a prize for best poster).

Must be award season- congratulations to lab alum Dr Erez Cohen for winning the best postdoc at U Michigan! So proud of our lab’s alumni.

Before starting her own lab at U Memphis in 2026, lab alum Dr Heidi Bretscher wins the award for best postdoc at U Minnesota! The award is named for her mentor, Dr Mike O’Connor. Congrats Heidi!!!!!

Congrats to lab alum ⁦@Juliet_King14⁩ !

HUGE congrats to Fox lab postdoc Archan Chakraborty on his funded NIH K99/R00 pathway to independence award! He will be on the job market soon! Exciting work on polyploidy in the heart, using flies and human cells. https://t.co/BrcyMdpryd

New Fox lab paper- we did an unbiased genetic screen and found a new role in cell division for a protein linked to neural disease. Congrats to all, especially first author and MD/PhD student Jane Blackmer! Thanks to NIGMS and NASA for funding. https://t.co/13HyVPipMY

New article on line: Polyploidy promotes transformation of epithelial cells into nonprofessional phagocytes. https://t.co/cDUi6yrI1L #nonprofessionalphagocytes #Notchsignaling #polyploidcells #JNKsignaling #germlinecelldeath

Huge congratulations to Fox lab alum Dr Heidi Bretscher, who has accepted a faculty position at U Memphis! Her new lab will study metabolic signaling. She will be looking for grad students!

Thanks to @unccharlotte for putting on a great genome integrity symposium yesterday. And congrats to the lab's Erin Dickert on winning a poster prize!

@FlyBaseDotOrg We ask for everyone’s patience as we establish a parallel U.S. + other country fee system at Flybase IU

We have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We're asking our colleagues from labs in the US other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Early-career researchers - Apply by Friday 2 May for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding whole genome doubling: Insights from evolution, development and disease' organised by @BastoRenata and @ZStorchova. https://t.co/BcuBt9s1Zx #BiologistsWorkshops

Happy LDOC! ⁦@DUMBand⁩ ⁦@Duke_PCB⁩

Congrats to Fox lab PhD student Josh Silva on passing his prelim and on earning honorable mention on his NSF GFRP!

Great week for Fox lab PhD student Erin Dickert- she earned Honorable Mention in a very competitive NSF GRFP pool and just passed her prelim! Congrats Erin!

New lab preprint! How do cells cheat death to maintain a long-lived gut epithelium? Answer- meet Loofah, a newly named cell adhesion protein! Excellent work by @Pr0fJess and team! Thanks to the NIH for support. https://t.co/Uq6VH80lPM

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding whole genome doubling: Insights from evolution, development and disease' organised by @BastoRenata and @ZStorchova. https://t.co/BcuBt9s1Zx #BiologistsWorkshops

#DROS25 in the stem cell and regeneration session tomorrow (Saturday), 4-6PM, @Pr0fJess from our lab will present her work on an until-now uncharacterized gene that we name Loofah, and discuss its role in promoting long-lived, apoptosis-resistant cells in the intestine!