flymuscles
@flymuscles.bsky.social
Assistant professor @Dalhousie University in Canada. We study # muscle function in #Drosophila. I bike to work.
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We desperately needed a cooling dry bath, but the typical brands are crazy expensive. So we got ourselves a
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We desperately needed a cooling dry bath, but the typical brands are crazy expensive. So we got ourselves a
I found an insect outside, and I thought it had nice red spots. Turns out they were parasitic mites. 🤮
September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I found an insect outside, and I thought it had nice red spots. Turns out they were parasitic mites. 🤮
Myofibrils have a second-harmonic-generation microscopy gradient. 👍
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Myofibrils have a second-harmonic-generation microscopy gradient. 👍
The lockout at Dal is over, and so is the summer weather.
September 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The lockout at Dal is over, and so is the summer weather.
Using MHC as a marker, they show that after muscles are damaged, hemocytes migrate towards the damaged muscle to direct tracheal outgrowth toward the injured muscle and supply key extracellular matrix components.
Look at the green hemocytes here
Look at the green hemocytes here
August 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Using MHC as a marker, they show that after muscles are damaged, hemocytes migrate towards the damaged muscle to direct tracheal outgrowth toward the injured muscle and supply key extracellular matrix components.
Look at the green hemocytes here
Look at the green hemocytes here
One highlight of the work imo is the discovery that damaged muscles express a shorter Myosin Heavy Chain splice variant, providing a marker for muscle damage in #Drosophila.
August 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One highlight of the work imo is the discovery that damaged muscles express a shorter Myosin Heavy Chain splice variant, providing a marker for muscle damage in #Drosophila.
at least it got a wing right
August 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
at least it got a wing right
Yesterday I learned that peroxisomes always split into more than two.
August 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Yesterday I learned that peroxisomes always split into more than two.
this is not what I had in mind when I asked chatgpt for a filamin cartoon
July 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this is not what I had in mind when I asked chatgpt for a filamin cartoon
I love that the #Drosophila feed is an equal mix of people who hate and people who love fruit flies
July 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I love that the #Drosophila feed is an equal mix of people who hate and people who love fruit flies
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know NCBI could do that! So many rearrangements, it is beautiful.
June 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know NCBI could do that! So many rearrangements, it is beautiful.
wow! That's new for me. Here it is with some ai retouching
June 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
wow! That's new for me. Here it is with some ai retouching
I think we have some muscle phenotypes
May 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I think we have some muscle phenotypes
We got a polarizing microscope to play with and looked at Drosophila legs. The muscles are nice to see, first they are blue, then yellow, then gone. what kind of magic is this
May 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We got a polarizing microscope to play with and looked at Drosophila legs. The muscles are nice to see, first they are blue, then yellow, then gone. what kind of magic is this
We tried it when teh preprint came out a few months ago with an old widefield microscope we have and it worked great. Congrats to the authors!
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We tried it when teh preprint came out a few months ago with an old widefield microscope we have and it worked great. Congrats to the authors!
We have Drosophila flies with a DsRed JNK reporter. Some of them are so red you can see them without a fluorescence microscope, but some others are not red at all. We don't know why.
May 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We have Drosophila flies with a DsRed JNK reporter. Some of them are so red you can see them without a fluorescence microscope, but some others are not red at all. We don't know why.
#MicroscopyMonday
We have #Drosophila flies that degrade their muscles prematurely. We looked at them with TEM and saw these membrane balls. Does anyone know what they are? Please, hivemind, help us out
We have #Drosophila flies that degrade their muscles prematurely. We looked at them with TEM and saw these membrane balls. Does anyone know what they are? Please, hivemind, help us out
May 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#MicroscopyMonday
We have #Drosophila flies that degrade their muscles prematurely. We looked at them with TEM and saw these membrane balls. Does anyone know what they are? Please, hivemind, help us out
We have #Drosophila flies that degrade their muscles prematurely. We looked at them with TEM and saw these membrane balls. Does anyone know what they are? Please, hivemind, help us out
April 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Turns out a great deal of the variation comes from the mounting media
April 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Turns out a great deal of the variation comes from the mounting media
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We want to do some experiments in Tribolium. How do we get stocks? Is there a stock center like for Drosophila?
March 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We want to do some experiments in Tribolium. How do we get stocks? Is there a stock center like for Drosophila?
best drosophila name ever
February 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
best drosophila name ever
Here is an electron #microscopy sarcomere picture from a #Drosophila leg muscle for #MicroscopymMonday
image credit to @tiara-pie.bsky.social
image credit to @tiara-pie.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here is an electron #microscopy sarcomere picture from a #Drosophila leg muscle for #MicroscopymMonday
image credit to @tiara-pie.bsky.social
image credit to @tiara-pie.bsky.social
the Nova Scotia storm approaches.
February 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the Nova Scotia storm approaches.