Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
@rodrigofg.bsky.social
Epithelial morphogenesis, microscopy and image analysis. Cytoskeleton and cell adhesion. Author of pyjamas.readthedocs.io and bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/junkie. Keeping a group of brilliant scientists entertained at www.quantmorph.ca. Also marathons and sushi.
This was a great honor! Thanks so much to my trainees @rothenberglab.bsky.social for the nomination and the @uiowabiology.bsky.social for the award.
University of Iowa Department of Biology @uiowabiology.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to Assistant Professor of Biology Katy Rothenberg (@krothphd.bsky.social) for receiving a 2026 Biology Exceptional Service Award! 👏 Learn more about the award here: biology.uiowa.edu/news/2026/05...
Our undergrad super-star @rafaelperezvicente.bsky.social, recently showed that there are no sexual dimorphisms in the cell behaviours driving heart tube formation in Drosophila: www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Thanks @micropub7n.bsky.social and Shaad Ahmad for fair and helpful reviews.
Thank you Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @dev-journal.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @utoronto.ca Read Rodrigo’s paper: tinyurl.com/2peknzn6 Is your institution participating too? bit.ly/3O7BxGi
🪰 #Dros26 has come and gone—and what a week it was. From a guitar-fueled opening to buzzing poster sessions, researchers shared advances in fly biology, behavior, and beyond. Thanks to all who joined us for another incredible year! Read a recap by @gnemeth.bsky.social on G2G: buff.ly/x31gZFt
It's going to be simple in November: how should we spending our money?: day care for kids to killing school kids in another nation
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoTrump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
JuNkIE-CLImax: exploring multidimensional images in notebooks and the terminal #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Drosophila #ImagingSoftware #ComputationalBiology #Software #Methodolog https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-002120
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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez@rodrigofg.bsky.social · 4mo agoInterested in visualizing multidimensional images in @jupyter.org notebooks or the terminal? Check out our two new image explorers, JuNkIE (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/junkie) and CLImax (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/climax), and the associated @micropub7n.bsky.social. micropublication.org/journals/bio...
Interested in visualizing multidimensional images in @jupyter.org notebooks or the terminal? Check out our two new image explorers, JuNkIE (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/junkie) and CLImax (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/climax), and the associated @micropub7n.bsky.social. micropublication.org/journals/bio...
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Science professors and educators all have a role in combating this eugenics resurgence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 5mo agoPresident Trump blames "the genetics" of the assailants in a string of recents attacks including an improvised explosive thrown outside Gracie Mansion in New York City and attacks at a university in Virginia and a synagogue in Michigan.
...and on the subject of debts... I am always grateful for the tireless efforts of Suzy Brown and the entire @genetics-gsa.bsky.social staff, who make our #Drosophila annual meetings, including #dros26, run so smoothly. Hip-hip... hooray! Hip-hip... hooray! Hip-hip... hooray!
That’s a wrap on #dros26! To the amazing organizers, students, postdocs, Fly Board, and all the attendees - @genetics-gsa.bsky.social is grateful for you! Check out some of the Fly origami.
feeling a lot of positive energy from #Dros26, it is so needed in these times. especially after sharing more broadly about how arts and music intersect with science, i had great convos with lots of people about this. check out this incredible tattoo! bonus points if you know what molecule it is... 🪰
Signing off as the #grad student rep for the Fly board ! And super excited to pass on the baton to Melissa Mychalczuk from the Wolfner Lab ! Can't wait to see all the amazing things she does for the #Drosophila community and #earlycareer trainees. #Dros26
@briod613.bsky.social will round things off on Saturday presenting on integrin heterodimer localization at poster 213.
Excited to share our work at #DROS26! I’ll be giving a talk today at 11 AM in the Patterning, Morphogenesis, and Organogenesis session. Also come check out posters from our lab: Elizabeth (F 2-4 pm), Debbie (S 1:30-3:30 pm)
A lot of exciting things have been happing in the @rothenberglab.bsky.social so we have been keeping really busy. A few of us are at #Dros26 to share our science. Come by one of our posters to say hi!
What happens if the germline goes on without (most of the) piRNAs for 45 generations? Come find out at my talk at the evolution session on Saturday at #dros26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🪰🔬🔎⁉️🤔
If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪
My first #DROS26 talk yesterday was so much more fun than I anticipated! I started the session terrified to present but left feeling inspired by everyone’s talks and questions I received about my project. So happy to find such a welcoming and supportive community here. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’ve had blue sky for a couple of years now, but it took #DROS26 to inspire me to debut my first post. If you see me around, say hi! I’d love to get to know more people in the community 🪰
If you are at #Dros26 and want to see what our lab has been up to, check out @rafaelperezvicente.bsky.social’s poster on sexual dimorphism during heart development (611, Fri 2-4pm) and @qeenyra.bsky.social’s talk on the effects of confinement on cardiac progenitor migration (Cell bio, Sat 8am). 🧪🪰
Fly 🪰 people are the best people! 🔬🥼🧬 having a blast in Chicago #Dros26 (but missing Dan who is serving as super dad at home) @mbustill.bsky.social @rodrigofg.bsky.social @krothphd.bsky.social
To learn more about the people behind the paper, we talked to the first author, Veronica Castle, and the co-corresponding authors @rodrigofg.bsky.social, Professor at the @utoronto.ca, and @goncaerdemci.bsky.social, Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Read the Research Article ‘Cell divisions both challenge and refine tissue boundaries in the Drosophila embryo’ here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Cell divisions test and shape boundaries in Drosophila embryos This Research Highlight showcases work from Veronica Castle, @rodrigofg.bsky.social and @goncaerdemci.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
So excited our paper is out now!! It was a very fun project where we combined vertex models and in vivo experiments, and we showed cell divisions play a dual role for the Drosophila ME boundary by increasing tissue fluidity!
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez@rodrigofg.bsky.social · 6mo agoCheck out our new publication @dev-journal.bsky.social! If you thought that cell divisions challenge tissue boundaries ... you got half of the story! Using in vivo quantitative microscopy and math. modelling we show that divisions fluidize tissues and facilitate boundary refinement. 🧪 #drosophila
And if you wanted proof ... @dev-journal.bsky.social
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez@rodrigofg.bsky.social · 6mo agoCheck out our new publication @dev-journal.bsky.social! If you thought that cell divisions challenge tissue boundaries ... you got half of the story! Using in vivo quantitative microscopy and math. modelling we show that divisions fluidize tissues and facilitate boundary refinement. 🧪 #drosophila
