Ella Preger 🎗️
@ella-pbn.bsky.social
Developmental Biology, Transcriptional Regulation, Evolution.
1/🧵 Can transcription factor condensate formation be explained without phase separation? Our new preprint introduces SPARK, a simulation tool that reproduces condensate behavior (clustering, fusion, FRAP) from diffusion & binding kinetics alone. Movie: 60 sec FRAP sim www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Happy to share this work is now in Science Advances! Congratulations to the outstanding Areej Said-Ahmad for leading the work, and to the rest of the team! Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution
Robust regulatory systems yield to evolutionary change via distinct mechanisms of enhancer elimination.
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Ella Preger 🎗️@ella-pbn.bsky.social · 9mo agoCheck out our new preprint on the evolution of enhancer loss. Turns out there are 50 ways to lose a function. We found four of them. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our new preprint on the evolution of enhancer loss. Turns out there are 50 ways to lose a function. We found four of them. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution
The evolutionary loss of morphological traits is often driven by changes in gene regulation. Many developmental genes are controlled by multiple, redundant enhancers, raising the question of how robus...
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@poppi62.bsky.social opens the #EMBO Drosophila Genetics & Genomics course at #EMBL - off to a fantastic start! Looking forward to an exciting and inspiring week!
Just one more week left to apply for the EMBO Drosophila Genetics and Genomics Course! Don't miss the chance to join an exciting program of cutting-edge research and hands-on training!
EMBL Events@events.embl.org · last yr.🚨 The application deadline for the #EMBODrosophila practical course is fast approaching 🚨 ⏰ Apply by 4 May and join us for a week of immersive learning with lectures from world-renowned experts and hands-on practical sessions 👉 https://s.embl.org/drg25-01-bl 🗓️ 3 – 8 August 📍 EMBL Heidelberg
It was a pleasure to host the awesome @yehumoran.bsky.social in our Developmental Genetics Club and learn about toxins and their role in modulating complex predation interactions!
We are excited to announce the opening of registrations for the upcoming #EDRC2025 conference (25th-28th September 2025) in Alicante to showcase the latest advances in #Drosophila biology and technology edrc2025alicante.com
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Apply to "Drosophila genetics and genomics": experienced experts will teach you hands-on in classical strategies and cutting-edge experimental techniques to enhance your use of this powerful model organism for research, whilst connecting to scientists in your field. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Drosophila genetics and genomics
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Join us this summer at EMBL for the Drosophila Genetics and Genomics Practical Course! Applications are now open—don’t miss this chance to expand your Drosophila toolkit. #Drosophila #Genetics #Genomics
Andreas Prokop@poppi62.bsky.social · 2y agoApply to "Drosophila genetics and genomics": experienced experts will teach you hands-on in classical strategies and cutting-edge experimental techniques to enhance your use of this powerful model organism for research, whilst connecting to scientists in your field. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Are you interested in studying enhancer biology/3D genome organization in my lab at the University of Tokyo? This Biohub Network program would be a great opportunity for you! Feel free to reach out if you're interested!! www.czbiohub.org/program-ssfc...
Now official: our next @embl.org course on #Drosophila Genetics & Genomics will be held 3-8 Aug '25. Send in your applications! @bsdb.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @virtualflybrain.bsky.social
EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 2y agoHi Bluesky community! 👋 Are you looking forward to 2025 as much as we are? 👀 We just updated our 2025 Annual Poster to include even more events for you to join, so go and have a look! ➡️ s.embl.org/poster-bl #EMBLEvents #molecularbiology #lifesciencetraining
My colleague Dani Nunes and I are advertising a PhD position at Oxford Brookes. If you're interested in the molecular basis of evolution, gene regulation, sc-seq, CRISPR, and (yes) genital morphology (in flies), check it out: tinyurl.com/2zutha8c #STEMjobs 🧪
Nigel Groome Studentship: Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution at Oxford Brookes University
Discover a PhD Studentship: Nigel Groome Studentship: Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!
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We are seeking a motivated postdoc to join our lab! Our research focuses on live-cell imaging/analysis to reveal how chromatin behaves in living cells and how its behavior contributes to cellular functions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Interested? Please DM me!
Fellow Genetics professors - rejoice! This is pedagogy heaven: the paradigmatic epiallele in calico cats … is built on a cis-regulatory deletion, not a coding mutation! We can teach it all off 1 paper! 1. Woo 2. Hoooo!!! H/t @lianafaye.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Molecular and genetic characterization of sex-linked orange coat color in the domestic cat
The Sex-linked orange mutation in domestic cats causes variegated patches of reddish/yellow hair and is a defining signature of random X-inactivation in female tortoiseshell and calico cats. Unlike th...
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New review on the evolution of insect male terminalia I wrote with Daniela Nunes: www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Developmental evolution in fast-forward: insect male genital diversification
Insect male genitalia are among the fastest evolving structures of animals. Studying these changes among closely related species represents a powerful approach to dissect developmental processes and g...
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Only close to 10 months to go until #EDRC2025 ! Here are the plenary speakers who look forward to welcoming you! #Drosophila #EDRC
It's my great pleasure to present the next big preprint from SheqLab! An exciting application of our O-MAP platform that I hope will transform the study of nuclear architecture. If you've ever wanted to dissect the subnuclear "neighborhood" around an individual locus, read on! (1/30)
Would love to know who I'm missing here. Only have 42/150 filled. For insect molecular folks, and I know there are lots of us, here's a Starter Pack! Also see my Insect Genetics and Mol Bio #Feed. I think I've found a nice set of hashtags now :) #SymbioSky #Drosophiila #Insect go.bsky.app/4EuqSbc
Recommendations for who to include in this starter pack (including yourself!) are welcome! go.bsky.app/31tXVEC
I've been away from science twitter for so long, I forgot how fun it is, and now with science bluesky it's even better!
@devdynamics.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky Developmental Dynamics, added to the Developmental Biology starter pack II. You can also patch in to more #DevBio folks by checking out the first Developmental Biology start pack here: go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn
