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New article on line: Polyploidy promotes transformation of epithelial cells into nonprofessional phagocytes. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #nonprofessionalphagocytes #Notchsignaling #polyploidcells #JNKsignaling #germlinecelldeath

Huge congratulations to Fox lab alum Dr Heidi Bretscher, who has accepted a faculty position at U Memphis! Her new lab will study metabolic signaling. She will be looking for grad students!

Thanks to @unccharlotte for putting on a great genome integrity symposium yesterday. And congrats to the lab's Erin Dickert on winning a poster prize!

We ask for everyone’s patience as we establish a parallel U.S. + other country fee system at Flybase IU

We have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We're asking our colleagues from labs in the US other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Early-career researchers - Apply by Friday 2 May for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding whole genome doubling: Insights from evolution, development and disease' organised by @BastoRenata and @ZStorchova. biologists.com/workshops/deco… #BiologistsWorkshops

Happy LDOC! ⁦@DUMBand⁩ ⁦@Duke_PCB⁩

Congrats to Fox lab PhD student Josh Silva on passing his prelim and on earning honorable mention on his NSF GFRP!

Great week for Fox lab PhD student Erin Dickert- she earned Honorable Mention in a very competitive NSF GRFP pool and just passed her prelim! Congrats Erin!

New lab preprint! How do cells cheat death to maintain a long-lived gut epithelium? Answer- meet Loofah, a newly named cell adhesion protein! Excellent work by @Pr0fJess and team! Thanks to the NIH for support. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding whole genome doubling: Insights from evolution, development and disease' organised by @BastoRenata and @ZStorchova. biologists.com/workshops/deco… #BiologistsWorkshops

#DROS25 in the stem cell and regeneration session tomorrow (Saturday), 4-6PM, @Pr0fJess from our lab will present her work on an until-now uncharacterized gene that we name Loofah, and discuss its role in promoting long-lived, apoptosis-resistant cells in the intestine!

Two more Fox lab posters on Saturday from 1:30-3:30 at #DROS25 - both on DNA damage in mitosis! Satya Yalamanchi- 265S and Erin Dickert- 259S. Check them out!

#DROS25 did you miss Josh's talk on the genetic signature of polyploidy last night or have some follow-up questions? He will be presenting poster 249F today (Friday) from 2-4. Please stop by!

#Dros25 workshop alert! Today at 8pm, Pacific Ballroom C - Go Big or Go Home : Polyploidy on the Fly. Excited to host this with @gavinrrice.bsky.social! We have an exciting line up of speakers and will hopefully have an engaging conversation on standardizing nomenclature!

#DROS25 Tomorrow (Friday) from 2-4, check out Fox lab MD/PhD student Jane Blackmer's poster (242F). She'll tell you about a huge EMS screen and her finding that a gene previously studied in synaptic transmission plays a critical role in cell division with extra centrosomes.

#DROS25 Tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 8PM, there is an incredible workshop on polyploidy. Josh Silva from our group will present a genetic screen for polyploid-specific regulation, done in collaboration with @BrianCalvi 's group.

Fox lab will be in full force at #DROS25 ! At tonight's opening symposium, the Larry Sandler award will be presented. Congrats to award runner-up Jake Klemm, who did outstanding thesis work in @theHarrisLab

And also a Fox lab alum- awesome! Glad to see this recognition Temi!

New lab preprint- wondering where polyploid cells might be hiding in your tissue of interest? Presenting iSPy- a machine learning approach! Collaboration between our group, @RoederLab , and @PauFormosa 's lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…