I'm pleased to release some truly incredible work from my lab. Presenting ADAPTERS: Ancestral DNA Across Phylogenetic Tree Evolutionary Reference Sequences drive.google.com/file/d/1NNJO...
Daryl Gohl
@darylgohl.bsky.social
Group Leader, University of Minnesota Genomics Center Innovation Lab. Founder, Objective Biotechnology
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Time flies like an arrow… fruit flies like a banana 🍌🪰For 100+ years, Drosophila has powered biomedical discovery—~85% of human disease genes have fly homologs.See our Autoinjector at @genetics-gsa.bsky.social in Chicago—and bring your best fly joke 😄 #Dros26
🪰 folks! Despite Harvard lawsuit outcome, FlyBase NIH grant was not released. FlyBase now runs on the public, like NPR, PBS etc. If we don't step up, it can go away! Donations site on flybase.org homepage. Note: it links to IU stock center, but its for FlyBase, see instructions. pls give+share! 2/2
FlyBase Homepage
FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
flybase.org
FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
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Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!
Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center@bdsc.bsky.social · 12mo agoFlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
Really excited to share this milestone! It has been so fun to see this instrument evolve from the initial prototype in my and @suhasabk.bsky.social's labs to a commercial product. Congrats to the @objectivebio.bsky.social team!
Objective Biotechnology@objectivebio.bsky.social · 12mo ago🚚On Friday, Objective Biotechnology shipped its first commercial Autoinjector to San Francisco! After 8 iterations at 9 top U.S. research sites and 10K+ hours of engineering, we’ve built something truly special for the future of lab automation. Huge kudos to the team!👏 #biotech #robotics #innovation
Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:
Devastating indeed. A vital resource, currently clinging to life by crowdfunding
MassLive@masslive.bsky.social · last yr.Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard
Introducing the Autoinjector by Objective Biotechnology — an affordable, bench-top instrument that automates microinjection for gene editing research. 🔬Book your demo today: objectivebiotechnology.com/autoinjector #Autoinjector #CRISPR #GeneEditing #ObjectiveBiotechnology
157 House of Representatives members signed an amicus brief calling on the First Circuit to uphold a block on the NIH's planned cap on indirect cost reimbursements. Did your representative sign? In MN, only Angie Craig, Betty McCollum, and Kelly Morrison signed. endpoints.news/wp-content/u...
Members of Congress oppose NIH's payment cut plan, urge appeals court to maintain block
A group of lawmakers opposes NIH's indirect cost reimbursement cap in appeals court, supporting states and universities against the Trump administration's 15% rate limit plan.
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Go right now, don't wait, and read Harvard's response to the government's demands. Everyone needs to fight. Remember Columbia caving got them absolutely nothing back. You can see the gov demands from a link inside Harvard's response. view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...
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"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
nature.com
A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80. What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people. Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one. Wake up.
STAT@statnews.com · last yr.#Breaking: HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
>1900 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine issued a statement supporting science for the benefit of all citizens, and ... 1/2 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
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Maybe it's a good time to remind everyone that 40% of US Nobel Prize winners are immigrants. America benefits when we welcome global talent. When we block international scientists, we diminish our own future www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Immigrant Nobel Prize Winners Continue To Impress
Immigrants now have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000.
forbes.com
The NIH Scientific Integrity Policy has just been rescinded: how is that not incredibly concerning for the future of science and medicine in the US?!.... Excellent 🧵 by @carlbergstrom.com
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social
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Trying to make sense of the current situation, I put together some thoughts in an op-ed for @elife.bsky.social on what we, as scientists, can do – and what institutions MUST do – to protect science right now elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond
Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.
elifesciences.org
Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25
Excited to launch the Autoinjector instrument at the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Drosophila Research Conference #Dros25! This device automates microinjection into embryos for gene editing and other genetic manipulations. Learn more here: www.objectivebiotechnology.com
Philly is out in full force to Stand Up for Science!!
Today's the day! Minnesota, let's show up and make our voices heard to support science!
Daryl Gohl@darylgohl.bsky.social · last yr.I'm attending the Stand Up for Science rally at the Minnesota State Capitol this Friday, March 7th. Please join me in advocating for science funding and protesting the arbitrary and highly disruptive cuts to our nations' scientific agencies and research universities. standupforscience2025.org
I'm attending the Stand Up for Science rally at the Minnesota State Capitol this Friday, March 7th. Please join me in advocating for science funding and protesting the arbitrary and highly disruptive cuts to our nations' scientific agencies and research universities. standupforscience2025.org