Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

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Der Baum steht, aber ... mich würde mal interessieren, was ist eure nerdigste Weihnachtskugel? Bitte mit Bild! 🤓
Gern boosten für einen schönen Retro-Katalog 🥰 🎄 #retrogaming

So while I was out gathering the Christmas dinner, my husband messed around with some leftover gingerbread dough.

New #GeneGroups subset: Metabolic Pathways!

These manually curated reports aim to facilitate metabolic research in Drosophila by providing high-quality gene lists and visual representations of fly metabolic pathways, integrated with the other rich data in FlyBase. For example, see CHITIN BIOSYNTHESIS http://flybase.org/reports/FBgg0002045.htm

You can access Metabolic Pathways by searching via the Pathways QuickSearch tab, or by browsing the Metabolic Pathways list http://flybase.org/lists/FBgg/metabolicpathways

Metabolic Pathway reports include a curated list of genes that have been experimentally shown or are predicted to act within a pathway.

Two visual representations of the pathway are provided: a “text-book” representation (Pathway Thumbnail) manually drawn by FlyBase curators,

As with GAL4 drivers, the lexA driver expression patterns represented on this resource are not the entire expression pattern, but are limited to the pattern subsets used by the community as research tools.

#politics

It's a Christmas miracle because I burnt my tortilla and the face of Skeletor magically appeared!

Please boost for visibility so the news outlets will pick up on this great story.

Hey are you a recent PhD with interests in #rstats and #psychology? Fancy joining the amazing stats teaching team in Psychology at Edinburgh University? Closing date for applications: 27 January https://edin.ac/3OVNTTE

How does nano-scale plasma membrane structure underpin tissue development?
Let’s find out!

First opportunity to do a PhD with me, co-supervised by @ActinDomain (Darius Koester), at Warwick
Fully funded studentship by #MIBTP and University of Warwick

More info here:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/plasma-membrane-organisation-in-tissue-formation-and-patterning/?p179488

Happy #FossilFriday, check out these beautiful semionotid fossils! These particular individuals would have made their home in a massive lake that covered most of southwestern North America 200 million years ago, and they may have found themselves as prey of theropod dinosaurs. (1/3)
#paleontology

Excited to share our last preprint describing how intestinal stem cell migration promotes gut regeneration!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.02.609652v1

Tissues across the scales: Figure 9.1 from "Molecular Biology of the Cell", 7th edition (2022).
#CellBiology #molecules #cells

‼️3 postdoc positions open‼️

We are building a quantitative imaging team at Warwick @Warwick_CMCB

Join an interdisciplinary endeavor with Mishima, Balasubramanian, and Mayor labs on a Wellcome Trust funded project to push probe and microscopy development!

warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

First opportunity to join my brand-new lab at Warwick. You'll be working closely between the four labs on cutting-edge imaging and spectroscopy approaches.

Apply by January 9th.

✨🔬🐟

Fruit flies are covered in a waxy coating, but no one had checked whether this coat was genuinely waterproof.

Now Kamar Nayal & co have confirmed that this coat of wax is waterproof, protecting the insects from dehydration

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/23/jeb249866/363254

Read the full research at https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/23/jeb247752/363249

Here is a rare and fantastic opportunity to come and work with us if you're an outstanding Earth system scientist!
(Pass it on if you know someone who might be interested.)
➡️ https://www.academics.de/jobs/full-professorship-w-3-earth-system-dynamics-universitaet-potsdam-potsdam-1094226#SPCoLCxFYXJ0aCBTeXN0ZW0gRHluYW1pY3M=