✨This week at the DB unit seminar @embl.org, Noa Ottilie Borst, a PhD student in the Crocker group @justinmcrocker.bsky.social presented her work on cell-type-specific interallelic interactions, and how they simultaneously allow for robustness and evolutionary innovation.

Hey y'all, grant-pending, I may be unemployed starting from October. If you have any leads on biotech / postdoc positions in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, I'd greatly appreciate a message. I'm great with Data Analysis, Molecular Biology, and Teaching. (Plz RT!)

More at timothyfuqua.com

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request 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 donate!

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Leaving synthetic pesticides behind | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nice write-up on our work from @embl.org, along with possible solutions.

Quantifying distribution of intensity can be very helpful in many biological systems. For example, in D. melanogaster data, we extract a peak for the level of embryonic patterning in development. 🪰
In collaboration with
@ottilie.bsky.social, @timothyfuqua.bsky.social, @justinmcrocker.bsky.social

Now out in PLOS CB: Spherical Texture extraction! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This method quantifies the intensity distribution in microscopy objects, and is implemented parameter-free in @ilastik-team.bsky.social object classification!

We show applications in cells, C. elegans and Drosophila! 😁

Nice write-up about our work from Philip Batterham. Agrochemicals: Insect declines in a warming world: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...