VonhoffLab @ UMBC
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Neuroscience Research Lab using Drosophila
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We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Prieto Godino Lab | Cellular and molecular bases of neural circuit and behavioural evolution
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October 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in the biomedical research community: A database about the tiny fruit fly share.google/bpMhIF5ibwz0...
Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly
This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in the biomedical research community: A database about the tiny fruit fly share.google/bpMhIF5ibwz0...
Starting a new project
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Starting a new project
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Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research
Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research
Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research | News | The Harvard Crimson
FlyBase lost a multimillion dollar grant when the Trump administration cut off Harvard’s federal funding in May. Now the repository is laying off staff — and researchers worldwide are worried.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research
Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research
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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...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
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August 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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...
Check out our new publication "Juvenile hormone regulates the maturation of sexually dimorphic naive ethanol olfactory preference in Drosophila melanogaster | Royal Society Open Science". Work mostly done by undergrads
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Juvenile hormone regulates the maturation of sexually dimorphic naive ethanol olfactory preference in Drosophila melanogaster | Royal Society Open Science
The molecular mechanisms underlying the maturation of innate reward behaviours remain poorly understood. We have identified a sexually dimorphic innate reward behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster that varies depending on the age, sex and mating status in ...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Check out our new publication "Juvenile hormone regulates the maturation of sexually dimorphic naive ethanol olfactory preference in Drosophila melanogaster | Royal Society Open Science". Work mostly done by undergrads
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
We use BioRender a lot to create figures for posters, papers, and grants #BioRenderForGrants
August 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We use BioRender a lot to create figures for posters, papers, and grants #BioRenderForGrants
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Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @martajhill.bsky.social for highlighting our work!
Some parts of the Drosophila olfactory circuit have evolved more than others, according to a new comparison of two fruit fly species’ connectomes.
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#neuroskyence
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By @martajhill.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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Cross-species connectome comparison shows uneven olfactory circuit evolution in flies
The findings start to reveal evolutionary changes that may have helped two species develop different olfactory preferences and adapt to their particular environments.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @martajhill.bsky.social for highlighting our work!
Drosophila research rocks!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible
Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Drosophila research rocks!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Postdoc opportunity in UK, Wellcome funded, 3 years, to investigate neurogenetics underlying how the brain changes throught life: plasticity vs degeneration. Drosophila, imaging, behaviour. Candidates of all nationalities welcome.
Application deadline 19 March.
Pls repost.
#Drosophila
#postdoc
#job
Application deadline 19 March.
Pls repost.
#Drosophila
#postdoc
#job
March 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Postdoc opportunity in UK, Wellcome funded, 3 years, to investigate neurogenetics underlying how the brain changes throught life: plasticity vs degeneration. Drosophila, imaging, behaviour. Candidates of all nationalities welcome.
Application deadline 19 March.
Pls repost.
#Drosophila
#postdoc
#job
Application deadline 19 March.
Pls repost.
#Drosophila
#postdoc
#job
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Selfies With Celebrities Friday. Here are the Meyerhoff Scholars from UMBC at the @hhmi.bsky.social Science meeting with special guest Dr. Blanton Tolbert.
February 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Selfies With Celebrities Friday. Here are the Meyerhoff Scholars from UMBC at the @hhmi.bsky.social Science meeting with special guest Dr. Blanton Tolbert.