Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center

bdsc.bsky.social

16 October 2026 08:14

40 years ago today, the BDSC made its 1st shipment. To celebrate, Trudy Kaufman, who packed the 1st shipment, boxed up the same kinds of flies for John Roote at Cambridge, who placed the 1st order. Watch for pics of the arrival next week. We’ve shipped 4,882,378 vials total. That’s a lot of flies!

Yasin Dagdas

plantophagy.bsky.social

10 October 2026 11:19

Today’ @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar speaker is Mary Gehring from MIT & @hhmi-science.bsky.social talking on the incredible biology of seeds, the plant organ that feeds the world

Nobel Prize

nobelprize.org

05 October 2026 10:15

This year’s medicine laureate Karl Deisseroth transformed the protein channelrhodopsin into a light-controlled switch for nerve cells. Deisseroth introduced the gene for channelrhodopsin into nerve cells from rats. By illuminating the cells with blue light, he was able to trigger a nerve signal.

Florent Waltz

florentwaltz.bsky.social

05 October 2026 10:14

Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏 His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨ Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬

Arjuna Rajakumar PhD

arjunarajakumar.bsky.social

19 September 2026 21:23

So proud of my lab mate @sagrill.bsky.social (whose on the job market 👀) for this magnum opus from @remlehmann.bsky.social lab @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social ScRNA-seq of 🪰 germ cells reveals new biology, answers age old questions, and proposes new paradigms! 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...