„Forschung ist kein Selbstzweck. Forschung muss zu Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland und in Europa führen“, so der @bundeskanzler. Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit, wie sie Art. 5 Abs. 3 GG und das Bundesverfassungsgericht verstehen, setzt einen anderen Maßstab. 🧵 1/n

To any #Drosophila scientist: Did you know the famous S2 cells may be a useful hematopoiesis model? Just published our efforts towards transdifferentiating plasmatocyte-like S2 cells into lamellocyte-like cells. Great collaboration with @bogdanlab.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Targeted degradation of Drosophila FOG homolog U-shaped mimics macrophage transdifferentiation in S2 cells

The highly plastic cellular component of the Drosophila immune system consists of three main blood cell types - plasmatocytes, crystal cells and lamel…

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😍 Our research was featured in German radio yesterday by @quarkswdr.bsky.social !! Listen here (starts at 1h07min): www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au... @unimarburg.bsky.social

WDR 5 Quarks - Wissenschaft und mehr

Aktuell, verständlich, kritisch - und unterhaltsam. So spannend kann Wissenschaft sein. Von Astronomie über Gesundheit, Psychologie, Umwelt, Tiere bis Digitales:  "WDR 5 Quarks - Wissenschaft und mehr...

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Jonathan Lenz@geneticjonathan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Paper Alert🚨 We found a novel transcription factor function of the zinc finger protein “Hangover” in the regulation of Drosophila gene expression🪰🧬: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #chromatin #transcription #hangover #histone modification #NSL complex A thread:

Also check out our press note (Pressemitteilung) in case you understand German🙂. www.uni-marburg.de/de/aktuelles... @unimarburg.bsky.social

Jonathan Lenz@geneticjonathan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Paper Alert🚨 We found a novel transcription factor function of the zinc finger protein “Hangover” in the regulation of Drosophila gene expression🪰🧬: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #chromatin #transcription #hangover #histone modification #NSL complex A thread:

🚨Paper Alert🚨 We found a novel transcription factor function of the zinc finger protein “Hangover” in the regulation of Drosophila gene expression🪰🧬: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #chromatin #transcription #hangover #histone modification #NSL complex A thread:

Hangover regulates gene expression by limiting NSL-mediated H4K16 acetylation

Abstract. The RNA-binding protein Hangover (Hang) is essential for several stress responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we discover a novel function

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Many thanks to all attendees of the GfG Sympsoium "Epigenetics & Chromatin" for making this conference such a great success! Go to www.gfgenetik.de for more information and fotos. Become a GfG member!

This was truly an amazing meeting😍! Rarely have I had such fruitful exchanges with exceptional scientists. Thanks so much to @gfgenetik.bsky.social and especially @hake-chromatin.bsky.social and team for providing this opportunity🙏. I’m feeling the post-conference motivation high🤩.

Gesellschaft für Genetik@gfgenetik.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Women-Power at the last day of the ‘Epigenetics & Chromatin’ symposium. Inspiring talks by, among others, S. Schick, @epign.bsky.social, C. Cardoso. Elisabeth Gateff awarded her prize to A. Kalita. Best poster prize to @geneticjonathan.bsky.social & best short talk to L. Paasche. Congratulations!

Amazing 2. day at the GfG ‘Epigenetics & Chromatin’ symposium. Fantastic flash talks, a great first poster session and many memorable talks: among others @erhardtlab.bsky.social, @rodvilla.bsky.social, @thebraunlab.bsky.social, @flurylab.bsky.social, Ehrenhofer-Murray, Liefke, Heun, Imhof & Brehm.

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly

This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.

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🎉 Join us at the upcoming GfG Symposium "Epigenetics & Chromatin" in Giessen, Sept 24–26, 2025! Amazing speakers, low registration fee, € 300 prizes for best poster & short talk, + free GfG membership for non-members. Please RT! express.converia.de/frontend/ind...

“As you can appreciate in this heatmap:”

Paul Klee@paul-klee.bsky.social · last yr.

Fire evening https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/fire-evening-1929

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

FlyBase@flybase.bsky.social · last yr.

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

There's a commentary on FlyBase with an update on FlyBase’s uptime and IP blocks :http://flybase.org/commentaries/2025_01/IPbans.html (long thread incoming) FlyBase’s servers have been experiencing an unprecedented amount of traffic recently, which has been causing the site to crash.

The GfG is delighted to reconnect with everyone here on Bluesky! We're excited to announce our upcoming symposium, "Epigenetics & Chromatin", taking place September 24–26 in Giessen, Germany. Stay tuned for more details! (... and become a member of the GfG...!)

60 Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen verlassen diesen Freitag die Plattform X/Twitter. idw-online.de/de/news845520 Die Uni Marburg ist auch dabei: uni-marburg.de/RMonrG #eXit #ByeByeX #QuitX Illustration: HHU/Paul Schwaderer

Finally joined Bluesky and I'm so happy to find many #chromatin people on here! Let's go. 🧬🪰