@flymuscles
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Joined November 2014
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Sharing good news from our lab at @DalhousieU Our mechanistic model of how filamin protects muscles from damage in #Drosophila is finally out @PLOSGenetics. @tiara_pie journals.plos.org/plosgeneti…

Filamin protects myofibrils from contractile damage through changes in its mechanosensory region

Author summary Muscles work by contracting and relaxing in response to signals from the nervous system. Muscles are made up of long, slender cells called muscle fibers. Inside these fibers are even...

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Study reveals that comb jellies can fuse into a single entity post-injury, synchronizing their muscle contractions and even merging digestive tracts. Read more in @CurrentBiology: cell.com/current-biology/ful… Kei Jokura (@Ctenophore18) & colleagues
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Loss of black color in Zelandoperla insects when deforestation is due to repeated selection on standing variation at an ebony allele science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… 1/

Human-driven evolution of color in a stonefly mimic

Rapid adaptation is thought to be critical for the survival of species under global change, but our understanding of human-induced evolution in the wild remains limited. We show that widespread...

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🚨🖥️🦠 OMG! #SReD is live and SHREDDING! Tap into the power of structural repetition to see new things! I'm clearly biased, but our method sure isn't! Let me show you what it can do 🧵👇doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.16.6… #opensource #microscopy #biology
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Latest from Bruno Hudry and lab, featuring tools to visualise endogenous TraF expression and genetically interrogate it nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Cellular sex throughout the organism underlies somatic sexual differentiation

Nature Communications - While hormonal signals derived from sex organs are seen as the main contributors to sex differences, the global role of cellular sex remains poorly understood. Here, the...

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Who else is in a typing frenzy?
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Check out my new work with @FrankNoeBerlin where we answer if the structure of different protein conformations really can be predicted. nature.com/articles/s41467-0… Also try the Colab to see if your protein has different conformations: colab.research.google.com/gi…
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That’s quite the headline. No mincing words.
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I don't think we should italicize "Drosophila". There, I said it. 🪰🪰🪰
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this is amazing. can we have one that flips the stocks?
Cheng Huang@ChengHuangThu23 Aug 2024
Will robots and AI replace scientists? No, our goal is to create robots and ML algorithm that free scientists from labor work to focus on more impactful tasks. The recent publication on the 2nd-gen fly robot from the Schnitzer lab demonstrates our vision. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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I am very excited to share the news that our study was just published today that reveals that thermal infrared is a new cue that mosquitoes use in combination with other cues to home in on people. The detection mechanism depends on TRPA1 and two opsins. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Thermal infrared directs host-seeking behaviour in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Nature - The mosquito Aedes aegypti can detect humans through infrared radiation for highly effective mid-range navigation.

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Particularly excited to share our latest work, where we visualize how myosin motor forces alter the structure of actin. We discovered a spiral form of the filament which can be recognized by force-sensitive actin binding proteins. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Force regulation of myogenesis by Tono, a BTB-Zn finger transcriptional regulator, which forms droplets after acute high pressure application. It responds in 1 minute :) - in yellow in the nuclei sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Congrats to Xu Zhang and @JrmAvellaneda #Drosophila #muscle
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It’s #EMmonday and we’re looking at moth flight muscle by TEM. @sarawilmsen and Edward Dzialowski find no major differences in morphometrics of flight muscle of M. sexta raised in hypoxia, normoxia or hyperoxia. 📖@J_Exp_Biol journals.biologists.com/jeb/… journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
TEM of M. sexta flight muscle showing no major difference between moths raised in hypoxic, control or hyperoxic conditions.

ALT TEM of M. sexta flight muscle showing no major difference between moths raised in hypoxic, control or hyperoxic conditions.

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BREAKING: This is not Gaza. This is the village of Jit in the occupied West Bank. Armed Israeli settlers are on a rampage burning Palestinian homes and cars, and terrorizing Palestinian families in the middle of the night. This is not self-defense. It’s terrorism.
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We (@AndrewGYork, @RunningPhoton, @microRussell and I) are still working on the manuscript describing our automatic parameter-free deconvolution approach, but we've made a Google Colab notebook where you can try it out without needing to install anything: beryl.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/rlgc…
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In case anyone is keeping score, Joe Biden is using his last few months as President to fast track MORE weapons of war for Israel’s genocide, instead of trying to end it. This is his priority, this is how he wants to be remembered.
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It’s the look on her face for me. The scolding, angry look. The look that says you’re being a child for not wanting to see any more children burned alive. The look that says “how naive of you to want a genocide to end.” So much for the empathy she tried to pass off as policy.
Kelsie Taggart
@kelsientaggart8 Aug 2024
Oh My Goodness. The head tilt and eyebrow raise.
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Our #TechnicalTuesday post highlights an improved whole-mount IF protocol for consistent & robust labelling of adult Drosophila melanogaster adipose tissue from Rachael Ott @rachaelottt, Isaiah Williams & Alissa Armstrong @ArmstrongFlyLab. 📖@BiologyOpen: journals.biologists.com/bio/…
Fluorescent labeling of lipid droplets in adult adipocytes

ALT Fluorescent labeling of lipid droplets in adult adipocytes

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