Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center

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20 October 2026 07:12

The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas

ergabiodiv.bsky.social

16 October 2026 07:34

🧬 New ERGA-BGE genome of the white crowberry Corema album, a key resource for the conservation of Iberian coastal dune ecosystems 🔗 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/6-366 @biogeneurope.bsky.social

Iain Cheeseman

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15 October 2026 04:27

Our lab is obsessed by hidden biology - protein products central to understanding how our cells function, but missing from standard genome annotations. Introducing new work from post-doc Eric Smith on alternative translational isoforms for heterochromatin protein 1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Rob Waterhouse

rmwaterhouse.bsky.social

12 October 2026 21:30

Reference #genome assemblies are foundational resources across the biological sciences, the fundamental building blocks of each species & the molecular toolkits vital for adaptation & survival. arxiv.org/abs/2610.03075 @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics

Mark Peifer (He, him)

peiferlabunc.bsky.social

12 October 2026 21:27

Centromeres are key to mitotic spindle attachment and high fidelity chromosome segregation but change rapidly during evolution. Check out these novel insights into the relative role of particular DNA sequences, using powerful chromosome manipulation tools in Drosophila! 🧪