To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪.

shorturl.at/xNRKn

Rapamycin ... not so good for your wounds 🧪 #drosophila #devbio

... and Ji created a computer model of the wound healing response with molecular resolution.

There are a few fun technical developments here: Ana Maria set up a technique to quantify actin rigidity in living embryos using a spinning disk confocal:

Happy New Year!!

To celebrate 2025, here is our new pre-print showing a key role for cofilin and actin turnover in embryonic wound healing ... by modulating actin rigidity!! Work led by @anamcarmo.bsky.social, with key contributions by Ji Hong Sayo. 🪰🧪

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are declaring today #ReSCU-NetThursday!!!

@ray-hawkins.bsky.social
@negberry.bsky.social
@krothphd.bsky.social

🧪 #Drosophila

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What is cooler than neural networks? Recurrent neural networks!!! Take a look at our pre-print describing #ReSCU-Nets, a recurrent nn architecture to segment and track biological structures from microscopy movies. Work led by the great @ray-hawkins.bsky.social ... 🧪🪰

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last, but not least, we are also interested in the collective cell behaviours that contribute to the internalization of the mesectoderm, a group of neuronal and glial progenitors that form the ventral midline.

We also investigate how cardiac progenitors move collectively to form the heart tube. #Drosophila 🧪