Maria P. Fernandez
@mariadelapax
Neurobiologist I Neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila Biology Department, Indiana University Bloomington @IUBiology Bluesky: @mariadelapax.bsky.social
Our latest manuscript, published today in #PLOSGenetics: The Drosophila circadian clock gene cycle controls the development of clock neurons dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…
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Opinion piece: For too long, animal studies have overlooked #TimeOfDay as a critical biological variable. That needs to change. In PNAS Front Matter: ow.ly/9Vah50SOgYi #CircadianRhythms #SleepWakeCycle #chronobiology
So many great resources here, including neuropeptide/neuropeptide receptor (hello, PdfR) expression mapping and splitGal4 lines.
Finally, its out on biorxiv. Our labs collaboration with Rubin lab@Janelia building CX specific cell types, determining their neurochemical identities and screening them for sleep phenotypes. 7 years in making and hopefully a great resource for the community.
How important circadian rhythm is for promoting our health: a study of ~89,000 @UK_biobank participants with 13 million hours of light sensors pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10… @PNASNews @circadian247 "Minimizing night light, maximizing day light, and keeping regular light–dark patterns…
Happy end of Daylight Saving Time. For health, safety, and economics let’s keep Permanent Standard Time. @SRBR_Outreach @SaveStandard @ResearchSleep
Our new preprint is out! 🪰 ⬇️ 📍The oviposition inhibitory neuron (oviIN) is a hub in the oviposition circuit receiving inputs from various cell types across the brain 🧭 We identified distinct modules within its inputs based on their connectivity biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Turn down the pain, turn up the gain: Our new paper on peripheral pain targets is out @GeneticsGSA. Work by Zina Hamoudi and others @CPC_usyd @Sydney_Science doi.org/10.1093/g3jour… We tested 100s of potential targets and identified 23 new pain genes. Please RT
The FlyBoard is happy to announce the call for nominations for the Drosophila Community Service Award. Please submit your nomination by 01/17/2025 by email to: [email protected]. Please repost. 🧵1/4
The Fly Board introduced a new Mentor-Mentee program, which aims to foster the development of early-career scientists by connecting them with mentors beyond their immediate circles. Fill out a brief survey to volunteer to be a mentor docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/absol… @SAN_neuroAr @RAICYT_Ar @UNS_oficial @AndreaRomeroBhi
El desmantelamiento de la Agencia, corazón de la ciencia en Argentina, sigue avanzando. A la falta de nombramiento del directorio y la parálisis del financiamiento, se suman despidos de personal clave. Los responsables de este cientificidio: Genua, Nairñak, Avendaño, y Salamone.
Otro viernes de despidos en la Agencia. Mi reconocimiento a los profesionales que, en algunos casos durante más de 10 años, estuvieron a cargo de direcciones y coordinaciones técnicas. Con esmero, este gobierno desmembró hasta la raíz a un equipo que supo funcionar muy bien.
In @eLife: The ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate ameliorates neurodevelopmental deficits in the GABAergic system of daf-18/PTEN Caenorhabditis elegans mutants doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… @CONICETDialoga @UNS_oficial @MGendrel
New opportunity for you to “pay it forward” - don’t miss it!!! #mentoring #Drosophila #share_ur_wisdom
Attention #Drosophila folks ! The flyboard is launching FlyCROSS mentor-mentee matching program to pair early career #Drosophila scientists with experienced mentors. Mentor sign up is open NOW for postdocs and faculty - check your inbox for an invite from @GeneticsGSA
Neuropeptide-dependent spike time precision and plasticity in circadian output neurons biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
Listen to this incredible story of Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster. She made a huge circadian rhythm discovery when she was an unpaid lab volunteer. Lately her sheer curiosity led to discovering ~28days rhythms in humans. youtube.com/watch?v=pkzLFh…