Drosophilists
A starter pack of researchers working with Drosophila. Please reach out to be added to the list or with suggestions.
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@jbateman01.bsky.social
@mccabelab.org
Research in our laboratory is directed towards understanding the biology of motor system circuits & synapses in tandem with exploiting these insights to ameliorate motor system neurodegenerative diseases including ALS, FTD & SMA https://mccabelab.org
@denisemontell.bsky.social
Scientist, teacher, mentor, mom, yogini, jogger, reader...we study how cells move, build, maintain, and repair tissues. Our fruit fly work has unexpectedly led us to an improved cancer immunotherapy we call RaceCAR-M.
@gaynorasmith.bsky.social
Neuroscience researcher - cell biologist - mitochondriac - fruit fly wrangler- studies neurodegenerative diseases. Senior Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) at Cardiff University.
@crezaval.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Birmingham University @fkne-scholars.bsky.social Our lab investigates how the brain resolves conflicts https://www.rezavallab.org
@huangchengwashu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Department of Neuroscience @WashU. Studying dopamine in learning and movement with long-term voltage imaging in flies. sites.wustl.edu/huanglab/
@maikekittelmann.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ Oxford Brookes University, love to explore morphology in all sorts of organisms with microscopy.
@moitalab.bsky.social
Behavioural neuroscience lab @ Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Defensive behaviours.
@hokuba.bsky.social
Insect neurobiologist who β€οΈ flies, fungi, fiber, and fbooks. Campaniform nut. Assistant prof @VTNeuro
@shropshirejd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences department at Lehigh University. I study host-microbe interactions with a focus on the relationship between Wolbachia endosymbionts and Drosophila fruit flies.
@rouvenziegler.bsky.social
Neuroscience | Drosophila | Electrophysiology | in vivo imaging | adaptive decision-making | sensory processing | neuronal circuits | riding waves
@fitz-james-lab.bsky.social
Molecular biology lab based at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Researching insect epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance. Actively recruiting!
@alessiovagnoni.bsky.social
Cell biologist. Interested in neurons, intracellular trafficking, ageing, and other things. Posting mainly about science. www.vagnonilab.com
@satlowe.bsky.social
Drosophilist at UCL IoN, mostly developmental movement disorders and critical periods
@jepsonlabucl.bsky.social
Drosophila laboratory at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK. Our work focuses on identifying patho-mechanisms and treatments for involuntary movement disorders (such as dystonia and dyskinesia) and neurodevelopmental disorders.
@kritigupta.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Scientist l Drosophila Ageing l University of Glasgow
@abenaakyaw.bsky.social
Science apprentice, @IGCiencia ,#Drosophila #infection, #immunity, and #evolution. Saturday is for football β½οΈ Still #MUFCβ€
@classenlab.bsky.social
Studying collective cell behaviour. Interested in regeneration, detection of aberrant cells and tissue mechanics. (run by the Classenlab collective)
@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social
Sarcastic geneticist & mentor, UNC Biology. I β€οΈ chromosomes. Card-carrying member of Genetics Society of America. Green Bay Packers owner.
@aalazar.bsky.social
Focus on the molecular architecture and functional logic of the Drosophila brain, building interactive computing tools for the Fruit Fly Brain Observatory, computing w/ fruit fly brain circuits, creating neuroinformation processing machines.
@lempradllab.bsky.social
The Lempradl Laboratory traces the impact of metabolic changes across generations to develop ways to predict and prevent disease. #Drosophila
@jungsukim77.bsky.social
Alzheimer, APOE, Actin, Txn factor, Immune, Tau, miR & lncRNA, Drug / Single cell & Spatial omics, Proteomics, QTL / CRISPR, ASO, AAV / π, iPSC, πͺ°, π§ , π / Microglia, Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/41977/kim-jungsu
@secombe-lab.bsky.social
We love all things related to KDM5, chromatin and transcription. Interested in understanding the basis of KDM5-induced neurodevelopmental disorders using Drosophila and human iPSC models. π¦πΊπΊπΈπ³οΈβπ | secombelab.org |
@ceazarnave.bsky.social
UCLA Postdoc- Drosophila Sleep/Chronobio π³οΈβππ¬β°πͺ°π¨βπ¨βπ§βπ¦π΅π
@valzanial.bsky.social
Research fellow in @leopoldlab.bsky.social πͺ° at @institutcurie.bsky.social. Interested in metabolism during development, cancer biology, and inter-organ communication. Former postdoc @universityofga.bsky.social π¦
@dgrc.bsky.social
https://dgrc.bio.indiana.edu/Home https://www.youtube.com/@drosophilagenomicsresource4461 Account managed by DGRC Associate Directors: Arthur Luhur and Daniel Mariyappa.
@geofffindlay.bsky.social
Drosophila evolutionary and reproductive geneticist at Holy Cross. Seattle sports fan. MD spouse, toddler dad, SCOTUS junkie.
@cahirokane.bsky.social
Genetics professor: axon ER & degeneration in Drosophila, spastic paraplegia. Rejoin EU. Not the GAA commentator. Speak only for myself. Gaeilge, Deutsch. Maghera (Co Derry), Cambridge (UK). https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/okane
@drosostalis.bsky.social
Team Leader at the Paris Brain Institute. Organ to organ nodes. Brain within a body.
@irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social
Eternally asking questions. Likes guts. Has guts. And a lab at the Francis Crick Institute @thecrick.bsky.social https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/irene-miguel-aliaga
@timesaunders.bsky.social
Professor at Warwick Medical School interested in how complex shape emerges during embryo development. Will work on anything that can be imaged live :)
@ericjoyce.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Epigenetics Institute 3D Genome structure and function https://ericjoycelab.com/
@gabrielaughey.bsky.social
Neurobiologist / fly-botherer and postdoc at UCL. Interested in genetics, development, behaviour, disease, chromatin etc...
@richardtuxworth.bsky.social
DNA damage in the nervous system, rare neurodegeneration syndromes. Drosophila. Birmingham, UK.
@sergiohidalgo.bsky.social
π¨π± Neurobiologist. Pew Postdoc Fellow, NINDS K99/R00 fellow. Postdoc in Joanna Chiu's lab at UC Davis. Incoming Assistant Professor at WSU. Seasonal Brain lab http://SeasonalBrain.com
@kyracampbelllab.bsky.social
Developmental-biologist, Drosophililst and Fly Cancer Modeller. Fascinated by cells polarising, moving, building tissues and breaking tissues..
@danjhayman.bsky.social
Using Drosophila to investigate the role of RNA splicing in ageing Vivensa Foundation ECR Fellow at the Unviersity of Sheffield, hosted in the Simons Lab. PhD in ncRNAs in ageing from the Young Lab at Newcastle University with CIMA.
@nehaghosh.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow-Treisman Lab NYU School of Medicine Drosophila | Epithelia | apicalECM | Tissue morphogenesis
@wilcocksonscott.bsky.social
Developmental biologist sciencing with Danio and Drosophila @TheCrick @devsiglab - Signalling dynamics and cell fate - anxious, queer. Opinions are the cats. he/him π³οΈβππͺπΊ
@kaurr.bsky.social
Cell & Molecular Biologist @PennState Studying Host-Symbiont-Virus Interactions in πͺ° and π¦ #Wolbachia #Symbiosis #ChromatinBiology #Epigenetics #Microscopy She/her
@eatingrifles.bsky.social
Fly pusher. Professional interest in mechansims of tissue regeneration. Personal interests in far-right monitoring, geopolitics, disinformation, and sports science.
@ejrideout.bsky.social
My lab studies sex differences in metabolism and metabolic disease in flies and mice. #sexdifferences #Drosophila #lipid #insulin #betacell
@araujolabub.bsky.social
We are the genetics of cell behaviour lab at the @geneticsUB.bsky.social Genetics section of the University of Barcelona. #Cell communication, migration and branching. Run by @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social
@salehlabparis.bsky.social
Immunity, insects, viruses, idealism and everything else. Institut Pasteur Paris
@mariadelapax.bsky.social
Neurobiologist Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Biology https://fernandez.lab.indiana.edu
@adjiane.bsky.social
Group Leader at IRCM (Montpellier, France) working on Epithelial Growth and Cancer A lot of Drosophila, a little bit of Mouse Growth, Cell signalling, Inter-organ communications
@mirresimons.bsky.social
Biologist studying why all life slowly deteriorates to eventually cause death #drosophila #science #aging https://simons-lab.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
@svenklumpe.bsky.social
CryoFIB Development and In situ structural biology. NPC and TE enthusiast. Drosophilist but ready to switch to wherever biology takes me
@silkesachse.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Professor @uni-wuerzburg.de, Chair of Neurobiology & Genetics, former GroupLeader @mpi-ce.bsky.social, studying the neural basis of olfaction π§ πͺ° Lab website: https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/neurogenetics/research/wg-sachse/
@beverly-piggott.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. at the U of Montana. Previously Jan Lab @ UCSF, U-Michigan. Fly neurobiologist. β€οΈ ion channels, brain development, the great outdoors. #newPI opinions are my own.
@michaelrera.bsky.social
researching on ageing & death PI UTELife lab, fly wrangler cofounder/gravedigger @publisciences @publifactory https://michaelrera.github.io/
@eileen-furlong.bsky.social
Head of Genome Biology Dept @EMBL, Scientist, Principal investigator, Professor Exploring genome regulation during development, and everything to do with enhancers. 3D genome, chromatin topology, cell_fate, embryonic Development, Single Cell genomics
@marcusstensmyr.bsky.social
Science, drosophilids, mosquitoes, and cats. Currently clean on OPSEC. Lund university, Sweden. πΊπ¦πΈπͺ
@stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social
Professor of Neurogenetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Genetic dissection of Sexual Behaviour.βοΈ Drosophila neuroscience, genetics, genomics, sexual behaviour http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-group-1
@dornan.bsky.social
π¬Deputy Lead - Cellular Analysis Facility - Shared Research Facilities MVLS, University of Glasgow. Fly Geneticist that liked Microscopy - now a Microscopist that likes Genetics. All views - generally - my own. (He/Him) π¨π¦π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ ORCID: 0000-0002-5228-2893
@debivort.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy
Professor at #Harvard University in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology #OEB and the Center for Brain Science #CBS. We study the #behavior of individual [β¦] [bridged from https://drosophila.social/@debivort on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@dpromislow.bsky.social
I study systems biology of aging at Tufts University. Co-founder of https://dogagingproject.org and dogaginginstitute.org. Longer, healthier lives. Together.
@lmescu.bsky.social
Seville University. #DevBio #Drosophila #CompBio #scutoid https://lmescudero.blogspot.com/ Onomaturgo aficionado. #TurraEscutoide y #GeomNatura, porque sacamos un libro muy guay: Β«PapΓ‘, ΒΏcΓ³mo se enroscan las caracolas?Β» ORCID: 0000-0001-8030-1820
@tuthill.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at UW studying proprioception and motor control. Promoting the people and work in my lab (www.tuthill.casa). Also pursuing a snow fly side habit (www.snowflyproject.org).
@benforward3.bsky.social
City Councilor, Somerville MA - Ward 3. Affordable housing, safe streets, good jobs, public transit, fighting climate change (also, biologist at Harvard Med School)
@lesleynweaver.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Biology | Interested in inter-organ signaling on stem cell lineages | (she,her)
@nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social
Piwi and piRNA and pugs enthusiast. Tennis on occasions. http://laulab.bu.edu
@flyscinelson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University studying repetitive DNA maintenance in germ cell immortality. Sports fan, cat lover, and dad. Nelson Lab: nelsonflylab.org
@lucievleeuwen.bsky.social
Postdoc in @aniekj.bsky.social lab (UMC Utrecht) studying chromatin dynamics and redox signalling in ageing fruit flies πͺ°π¬
@hammedbadmos.bsky.social
PhD. AFHEA. CSO Fellow. Postdoc in @RossCagan lab @CRUK_SI @UofGlasgow #cellbiology #cancerbiology #drosophila #drug #screening #Microscopy #organoids #Python #chemistry
@nehaagrawal.bsky.social
Group Leader, University of Edinburgh Metabolic organ development and dysfunction, Inter-organ signalling, Hormones, Obesity, #Drosophila, #DevBio, #CellBio, #Genetics https://biology.ed.ac.uk/agrawal
@bdsc.bsky.social
The Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center collects, curates, maintains and distributes Drosophila melanogaster strains for research and education. https://bdsc.indiana.edu/
@bobbyjeyeguy.bsky.social
Studies human retinal organoids and fly eyes to understand how neuronal diversity is generated. https://www.johnstonlabjhu.com/
@natsansor.bsky.social
Drosophilist, Cell biologist, neuroscientist, cytoskeleton, development and ageing University of Liverpool
@westwingslab.bsky.social
Drosophilist, DIY enthusiast, group leader, senior fellow & Dementia Research Leader Fellow based in SITraN, Sheffield, UK. Working on #FTD, #ALS and #MND Find us here: sites.google.com/view/the-west-lab-sheffield
@fly-jedi.bsky.social
gathering researchers using Drosophila as model organism across disciplines and geographical limits https://flies-jedi.github.io/
@mcgambetta.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Center for Integrative Genomics (University of Lausanne)
@hunterhill.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Cooper lab, MT PhD in Drosophila genetics, currently interested in complex genome interactions and mechanisms of mitotic failure. Drosophila, heterochromatin, Wolbachia, endosymbiosis, embryogenesis, chromosomes, Mitosis, Meiosis, histones
@rustflylab.bsky.social
#Drosophila research group with a heart for #scRNA seq on the search for why cells do what they do when they do it. Weβre doing #DevBio #CellBio #Cancer research led by one of the #WomenInSTEM and a #NewPI.
@steinaerts.bsky.social
Computational biologist interested in deciphering the genomic regulatory code at vib.ai
@raduzabet.bsky.social
Group Leader - Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Professor) at Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London. #GeneRegulation, #Chromatin, #Epigenetics, #generegulation, #AI, #bioinformatics https://www.qmul.ac.uk/blizard/all-staff/profiles/radu-zabet.html
@bdelloid.bsky.social
Evolution, Genomics, Genetics, Epigenetics, Transposons, Small RNAs, Politics, Music, Kansas. Also, a wee bit of meiosis. Freaked out ribosome and DNA truther doing my own research. Good chance I am wrong. Oh, and... DROSOPHILA!
@nathanwoodling.bsky.social
PI and Lecturer, University of Glasgow #Drosophila dad | #neuroscience and #ageing | he/him, views my own https://woodlinglab.weebly.com/ π¬π§ πͺ°πΊπΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπͺπΊπ³οΈβπ
@levayerr.bsky.social
Epithelial cell death, cell extrusion, self-organisation, mechanotransduction and many other things
@cathyslack.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Warwick asking why do we age and can we slow it down.
@wolfhuette.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Northumbria U, looking at Droso learning, memory, neuropeptides, play.
@colombani-lab.bsky.social
Drosophila geneticists at the Department of Biology, Copenhagen University. We study intestinal stem cell, inter-organ communication and cancer biology. #Drosophila
@vincentcroset.bsky.social
Neurogeneticist - Assistant Professor, Durham University, UK
@estherverheyen.bsky.social
Drosophila development and models of human disease focussed on kinases, metabolism and cell signaling. Prof at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Grew up in Baltimore, MD. Lab website: verheyenlab.weebly.com
@brhopkins92.bsky.social
π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ @HFSP Long-Term Fellow @ucdavis | evolution of organs and cell typesπͺ° | PhD @OxZooDept
@alisonpischedda.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at #PUI Evolution | Behavior | Genetics | Flies | Coffee. #FirstGen, she/her, π¨π¦πΊπΈ. Opinions my own. pischeddalab.com
@mshahandeh.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Hofstra University. #neurobiology, #evolution, and #genetics of #behavior; #fly guy; #newPI #PUI shahandehlab.weebly.com/ Sourdough baker π₯ Cat dad πΈ Peloton mom π΄ π³οΈβπ he/they Posts do not reflect my employer
@flyscientist.bsky.social
Genetics Team Lead at Future Fields. Former PostDoc with @BrunoLemaitre Alumni @MasarykUni @SouthAsianUni @UnivofDelhi
@melnattur.bsky.social
Asst Prof at Ashoka Univ | ex: Staff Scientist at WUSTL neuroscience | sleep scientist | lover of things that love dew melnatturlab.weebly.com
@armstrongflylab.bsky.social
Using Drosophila melanogaster to study inter-organ communication in nutritional responses. Posts by Alissa Armstrong. She/her
@bonweasner.bsky.social
Developmental Biologist in Kumar Lab at Indiana University; Science, Biology, Drosophila and eye development enthusiast; Hopes to be an ornamental lawn hermit one day.