Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 @NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! https://t.co/p1bD1kxO7H

Our new @CurrentBiology paper provides a rare glimpse into a morphological novelty in Drosophila eugracilis In it, @gavinrrice and colleagues, infer and reproduce the likely initial steps of a novelty's formation https://t.co/wM62RIZ6lT

Always a blast to teach the @FIRbees the magic of Drosophila reproduction! and a great reunion with @WolfnerLab 🪰💓🪰

🧵Excited to share my first author preprint detailing much of my dissertation work! Here we used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila: https://t.co/KRKvzCIewb /1

NEW Publication: The promise and pitfalls of synteny in phylogenomics in @PLOSBiology!!😄 Synteny—conserved genetic collinearity—is a (re)emerging marker for reconstructing the tree of life. Here, we outline the promise and potential pitfalls of synteny for phylogenetic inference

NEW preprint: #PhyKIT is a command-line tool for analyzing multiple sequence alignments and phylogenies. Here, we detail #protocols for using PhyKIT to build #phylogenomic supermatrices, quantifying biases/#errors therein, identifying putative radiations & so much more.

Can seminal fluid proteins be honest signals of sperm availability? https://t.co/v5mIwNMrPI #biorxiv_evobio

Sun, M., Ma, M., Deng, B., Li, N., Peng, Q., Pan, Y. (2023). A neural pathway underlying hunger modulation of sexual receptivity in #Drosophila females. Cell Rep, 42(10):113243

Congratulations to Professors Peng Chen, @CornellChem, and Mariana Wolfner '74, @CornellMBG! They have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences @americanacad

Female fruit flies can interrogate the pheromones of their mates to decide how long they will store sperm after mating and when it’s worth re-mating. https://t.co/6BFGw1ifIY

I'm very glad to share our new work on the evolution of sex peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor interactions! Congratulations to Junhui @rujpeng , Nicolas, and our collaborator from the Rockefeller Proteomics Core, Henrik. https://t.co/D9ti8Kdhh0

Evolution of tissue-specific expression of ancestral genes across vertebrates and insects https://t.co/1PEtxfvB3S

💥Our new preprint! Transposon ADDICTION in development! Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development Study led heroically by @sylviaandbu & @JN_Wells This work has transformed my view of transposons, no less! 🧵1/n https://t.co/d1yNgFbBSb

Five Findlay Lab undergraduates (and their PI) are on the way to #TAGC24, but you’ll have to wait til Saturday night for our posters (876 and 878). We’re looking forward to sharing data on cross-species fertility rescue experiments and regulatory evolution of novel genes!

#TAGC24 ! Have you ever wondered how stem cells give their daughters everything they need to replace their mothers - but keep them from doing so until necessary? Come by my talk during Friday afternoon’s Dev Genetics session to chat all about it.

Highlighting the runner-ups from this year’s Drosophila Art Commission Contest. This piece titled "FRUIT FLY” was created by Lillie Ferreira from the Whitehead Institute @MIT, Cambridge, MA. #TAGC24

Calling all #Drosophila graduate students and postdocs attending #TAGC24: come meet your #Flyboard representatives @iam_shef (grad student rep) and me (postdoc rep) on Thursday , March 7th 8-9pm in the Price Georges Exhibition hall!