Delighted to host Mariana Wolfner, doyenne of reproductive biology, for seminar @mskcancercenter.bsky.social. wanted to share her Perspective on Dave Hogness in @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. Supplement includes her unpublished thesis on ecdysone inducible genes! 🪰🧬 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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This week we just had a lab retreat where we connect over fun activities, discussion about lab values, and hiking (with some mushroom and soil sample collection). I’m so grateful to be part of the lab and make all this happen with a group of supportive colleagues!

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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!

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Happy ‘My grant is getting discussed/not discussed today’ Day to all those who celebrate

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Now published in Nature Communications! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Subtelomeric heterochromatin is organized into distinct subdomains with different epigenetic stability and recovery properties. And there's quite a bit of new data since the preprint! New experiments show that.... (1/3)

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