Our International Developmental Mechanics Zoom Seminar Series returns this fall! Interested in sharing your research with an international community? Sign up to speak at an upcoming session: sites.google.com/view/devmech... #DevBio #Mechanobiology #Morphogenesis

Proud of Mokshit Konda and Huy Tran, two of my talented undergraduates, for presenting their summer research today at the LSU Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF)! 👏 Congratulations to both of them on a fantastic presentation and all their hard work this summer!

Fantastic plenary speaker lineup for #Dros27. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Philadelphia!

Genetics Society of America@genetics-gsa.bsky.social · last wk.

Meet three of our #Dros27 plenary speakers! 🧠 Vanessa Auld 🪰 @nabroderick.bsy.social 🧬 Don Fox From glial biology to host-microbe interactions to genome stability and regeneration, they'll bring exciting science to Philadelphia. 🔗https://buff.ly/7IBPyFM

Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids

Excited to welcome @perrimonlab.bsky.social as the keynote speaker for #DROS27! His pioneering work has transformed Drosophila genetics and continues to inspire discoveries across developmental biology and beyond. Looking forward to an outstanding meeting!

Genetics Society of America@genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Getting excited for #Dros27? Meet our keynote speaker, @perrimonlab.bsky.social! His pioneering work has transformed Drosophila genetics and advanced discoveries in development, physiology, and signal transduction. See the full lineup: buff.ly/FB1mYrf

So grateful for the new Kathy Matthews Endowment for the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. A wonderful tribute by Kathy's husband, Lawrence Washington, that will help preserve Kathy's legacy and support the fly community for years to come. biology.indiana.edu/news-events/...

Major gift to establish endowment for IU Drosophila Stock Center

IU Biology news: The IU Stock Center maintains thousands of documented, living genetic strains of Drosophila melanogaster, a small fruit fly that has served as one of science’s most powerful tools for...

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Congratulations to our exceptional undergraduate, Ben Almond, on graduating summa cum laude and being recognized as a Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher! I’ve truly enjoyed mentoring Ben on his honors thesis, and I’m excited to see him begin the next chapter at Einstein Medicine.

🪰 We asked what you’re looking forward to at #Dros27 — connection stood out! As organizer @seyeonchung.bsky.social shared, the fly community is welcoming & supportive. One of the best parts of this meeting is reconnecting with friends & meeting new faces. So, who are you excited to connect with? ⬇️

I’ve been attending fly meetings since grad school—nearly 20 times—and it’s one of my favorite conferences. Sharing our work, hearing exciting research, and connecting with a welcoming, supportive community makes it special. As a #Dros27 organizer, I’m excited to help make it another great meeting!

Genetics Society of America@genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re already thinking about #Dros27—and we’d love to hear from you. What are you looking forward to at next year’s meeting? Who are you hoping to connect with? Tell us below. 🔽

We´re hiring a #PhD student - if you´re interested in combining genetics, cell biology and state-of-the-art imaging to study #epithelial tissue dynamics in #Drosophila, apply to the CiM-IMPRS PhD program by May 1st (see below) Please RT @uni-muenster.de @sfb1348.bsky.social

SFB 1348@sfb1348.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Deadline approaching! The CiM-IMPRS #PhD program in #Münster is recruiting: 16 #PhD positions in Life & Natural Sciences. Great chance to do cutting-edge research in a vivid international environment—apply by May 1st: www.uni-muenster.de/CiM-IMPRS/ap... @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social

The final version of our new paper, "Fog signaling is dispensable for Drosophila tracheal invagination", @devbiol.bsky.social is now available online: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mx902mzTo...

SeYeon Chung@seyeonchung.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Paper alert! 📢 Our paper, “Fog signaling is dispensable for Drosophila trachea invagination,” has been accepted in @devbiol.bsky.social! Huge credit to first author @vvishakha.bsky.social (now a postdoc at the NIH). An uncorrected proof is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

Paper alert! 📢 Our paper, “Fog signaling is dispensable for Drosophila trachea invagination,” has been accepted in @devbiol.bsky.social! Huge credit to first author @vvishakha.bsky.social (now a postdoc at the NIH). An uncorrected proof is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

Huge congratulations to the talented student Ben Almond on his successful honors thesis defense! Excited to see him head to Albert Einstein Medical School—bright future ahead! @lsu-honors.bsky.social

Loved catching up with old friends and meeting new ones at #DROS26!

Fly Bayou group at #DROS26! It was great to see many of them in person after monthly virtual meetings.

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)

The best way to start a conference in Chicago: deep-dish pizza. 🍕 #DROS26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Lab lunch to celebrate a successful semester and year - good food, great people! Looking forward to an exciting new year ahead!

The version of record of our paper is out! 🎉 We show that sulfation is essential for organizing the apical ECM (aECM) during tubulogenesis in Drosophila, and identify ZP domain proteins as key components of the non-chitinous aECM of the salivary gland. 🧬 elifesciences.org/articles/108...

Sulfation affects apical extracellular matrix organization during development of the Drosophila embryonic salivary gland tube

Sulfation is required for organizing the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation.

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SeYeon Chung@seyeonchung.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our new paper, “Organization of the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation”, has been published in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Got the nicest email from a former student who took my Dev Bio class a few years ago and went on to med school. Moments like this remind me why teaching is so meaningful.

Our new paper, “Organization of the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation”, has been published in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

We held the 2nd Fly Bayou Symposium in New Orleans last week—so great to reconnect in person and hear exciting research! What began in 2020 as a small local network has grown to 36 labs across 14 states. Grateful to see this community thrive and support each other! 🪰

Excited about this new virtual seminar series on the apical ECM!

Pujol lab@pujol-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions If you are interested 👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97 @meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social

Up on biorxiv! The tour de force protein tagging atlas for the #Celegans cuticle #aECM - from Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social and Andrew Chisholm labs. So many beautiful images of cuticle collagen substructures !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Multiscale patterning of a model apical extracellular matrix revealed by systematic endogenous protein tagging

Barrier epithelia are shielded from the external environment by their apical extracellular matrices (aECMs). The molecular complexity of aECMs has challenged understanding of their organization in viv...

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Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Matthew @matthewjeffre.bsky.social! Jeffrey is one of the most talented, dedicated, and kindest people I've ever known. He will start his postdoctoral research in regeneration at the Rompolas lab at UPenn, and i have no doubt he will thrive. Geaux Jeffrey!

End of semester lab lunch. It feels like each semester goes by more quickly every year!

Huge congrats to talented undergraduate Cailyn Lee in the lab on her well-deserved award from the LSU BioSci department. She will start her masters in medical sciences at Tufts this fall and is applying for MD/PhD. So proud and excited for her!

Excellent presentations from our amazing undergraduate researchers, including my student Cailyn Lee, on their exciting research at #LSUDiscoverDay.