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Excited to share that I’ve been selected as the International Branch Representative on ESA’s Education and Outreach Committee! Looking forward to collaborating on initiatives that inspire and educate entomologists worldwide.

#Ribosome #mRNADecay #RNA

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

On this day 5 years ago #HHMIJanelia and Google released the "hemibrain", a map of neural connections in much of the #Drosophila fly brain. At the time it was the largest such #connectome ever created. Here's a video from the release (polished a bit), showing the interesting shapes of the neurons.

A new resource for researchers using #Drosophila to study neural circuits in the form of a collection of split-Gal4 lines with an online search engine. #neuroscience
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/98405?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

🦟The image does appear in the paper but seems to be meant to show the concept, rather than the result of the work. Still, it might have been better to go with a different figure.

Zhang, J., Tang, T., Zhang, R., Wen, L., Deng, X., Xu, X., Yang, W., Jin, F., Cao, Y., Lu, Y., Yu, X. Q. (2024). Maintaining Toll signaling in #Drosophila brain is required to sustain autophagy for dopamine neuron survival. iScience, 27(2):108795 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...