Shyama Nandakumar
@shyama13.bsky.social
Drosophila biologist studying cell stress in growth and development. Will talk to you about polyploidy at all times. Microscope and camera nerd. Always willing to discuss science + philosophy + sports
www.shyamanandakumar.in
www.shyamanandakumar.in
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Shyama Nandakumar
@shyama13.bsky.social
· Jul 15
FEBS Press
Integrated stress response (ISR), an evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic stress-adaptive program in eukaryotes, has also been implicated in homeostatic functions. This review covers a broad body of l....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...!
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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If you are enthusiastic, this is an ideal position for you to hone your leadership skills. Many initiatives, like FlyCROSS mentor-match, were the brainchild of our trainee reps. If you want to know more or be considered, reach out to me, @iamshef.bsky.social, or @shyama13.bsky.social by Nov 17! 3/
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
If you are enthusiastic, this is an ideal position for you to hone your leadership skills. Many initiatives, like FlyCROSS mentor-match, were the brainchild of our trainee reps. If you want to know more or be considered, reach out to me, @iamshef.bsky.social, or @shyama13.bsky.social by Nov 17! 3/
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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November 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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You are embarrassing yourself by lauding this monster. Do you defend these views, which he held lifelong. Where is the "nuance in these words?" Shame!
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
You are embarrassing yourself by lauding this monster. Do you defend these views, which he held lifelong. Where is the "nuance in these words?" Shame!
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall afternoon at Cornell, she sat surrounded by papers, notes, and journals. The light came through the window in soft bands as she lifted a golden model of a fly and smiled.
explorers.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…
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The 2025-2026 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington Univ in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social of the Univ of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS #SDBPostdocSeminar
September 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The 2025-2026 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington Univ in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social of the Univ of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS #SDBPostdocSeminar
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Today we celebrate 1945 GSA President & Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock. Continue her legacy—nominate for the 2026 GSA Awards by Oct 1, 2025.
🔗 buff.ly/bIdKqcw
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September 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Today we celebrate 1945 GSA President & Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock. Continue her legacy—nominate for the 2026 GSA Awards by Oct 1, 2025.
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🔗 buff.ly/bIdKqcw
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The #Flyboard and #FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel @shyama13.bsky.social @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @frankmac.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social & Jonathan look forward to having you on board.
July 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The #Flyboard and #FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel @shyama13.bsky.social @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @frankmac.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social & Jonathan look forward to having you on board.
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new review alert❗️
thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones.
see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️
thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones.
see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️
Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...!
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
FEBS Press
Integrated stress response (ISR), an evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic stress-adaptive program in eukaryotes, has also been implicated in homeostatic functions. This review covers a broad body of l....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
new review alert❗️
thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones.
see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️
thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones.
see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️
Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...!
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
FEBS Press
Integrated stress response (ISR), an evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic stress-adaptive program in eukaryotes, has also been implicated in homeostatic functions. This review covers a broad body of l....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hello fellow scientists, I'm thrilled to share with you a state of the art review that @lydiagrmai.bsky.social , the bsky-less Deepika Vasudevan and I have been working on for >1 year! Keep reading...!
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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FlyBase needs your help!
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
FlyBase needs your help!
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
New paper alert.
The fat body in Drosophila larvae is comprised of pairs of adipocytes that are connected to one another throughout larval development! Ring canals here are v.v.small, allow selective organellar cargo transport, mediate stress tolerance and more....!
Full thread coming soon!
The fat body in Drosophila larvae is comprised of pairs of adipocytes that are connected to one another throughout larval development! Ring canals here are v.v.small, allow selective organellar cargo transport, mediate stress tolerance and more....!
Full thread coming soon!
Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.658881v1
June 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
New paper alert.
The fat body in Drosophila larvae is comprised of pairs of adipocytes that are connected to one another throughout larval development! Ring canals here are v.v.small, allow selective organellar cargo transport, mediate stress tolerance and more....!
Full thread coming soon!
The fat body in Drosophila larvae is comprised of pairs of adipocytes that are connected to one another throughout larval development! Ring canals here are v.v.small, allow selective organellar cargo transport, mediate stress tolerance and more....!
Full thread coming soon!
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Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.658881v1
June 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.658881v1
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Thank you for the highlight of our work! #drosophila #cancer model.
Probing Prostate Cancer: Adult male fruit fly accessory gland-cancer as a model for studying human prostate cancer
Image made with @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social
microscopy
📷 S. Jaimian Church, @buttittalab.bsky.social et al
@umich.edu in @dmmjournal.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
Image made with @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social
microscopy
📷 S. Jaimian Church, @buttittalab.bsky.social et al
@umich.edu in @dmmjournal.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
June 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Thank you for the highlight of our work! #drosophila #cancer model.
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Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !
Summer 2025 Survey For Mentors : FlyCROSS Mentor Mentee Matching Program
We appreciate you taking the time and volunteering to be a mentor! Add [email protected] to your email address book or safe sender list, so that you can receive our emails. To be a participating me...
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June 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !
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Drosophila folks at the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Fly meeting please take some time to thank the amazing organizers who put in a lot of hard work:
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...
Special thanks to GSA folks especially the tireless Suzy Brown (who appears to run entirely on diet Mountain Dew)
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...
Special thanks to GSA folks especially the tireless Suzy Brown (who appears to run entirely on diet Mountain Dew)
Organizers - 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
March 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Drosophila folks at the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Fly meeting please take some time to thank the amazing organizers who put in a lot of hard work:
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...
Special thanks to GSA folks especially the tireless Suzy Brown (who appears to run entirely on diet Mountain Dew)
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...
Special thanks to GSA folks especially the tireless Suzy Brown (who appears to run entirely on diet Mountain Dew)
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Really looking forward to this workshop!
#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
Today at 8pm, Pacific Ballroom C - Go Big or Go Home : Polyploidy on the Fly.
Excited to host this with @gavinrrice.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Really looking forward to this workshop!
#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
Today at 8pm, Pacific Ballroom C - Go Big or Go Home : Polyploidy on the Fly.
Excited to host this with @gavinrrice.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#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
Today at 8pm, Pacific Ballroom C - Go Big or Go Home : Polyploidy on the Fly.
Excited to host this with @gavinrrice.bsky.social
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The committee has unanimously voted to have the next cycle in summer/early fall - so early career scientists, keep an eye out for announcements !!! 👀
If you have suggestions/ideas for the future cycles, please feel free to reach out !!
If you have suggestions/ideas for the future cycles, please feel free to reach out !!
March 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The committee has unanimously voted to have the next cycle in summer/early fall - so early career scientists, keep an eye out for announcements !!! 👀
If you have suggestions/ideas for the future cycles, please feel free to reach out !!
If you have suggestions/ideas for the future cycles, please feel free to reach out !!
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#Drosophila community update: As the #First cycle of FlyCROSS is coming to completion, time for celebrations! We matched 37 mentees to their preferred mentors 🎉🥳
This year we had 90 mentor volunteers from across the world. Distributions of mentor demographics and types of support are shown here:
This year we had 90 mentor volunteers from across the world. Distributions of mentor demographics and types of support are shown here:
March 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
#Drosophila folks, anyone looking for a roommate (Female) at fly meeting? I know someone who would appreciate a roommate. Comment/DM for details
February 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#Drosophila folks, anyone looking for a roommate (Female) at fly meeting? I know someone who would appreciate a roommate. Comment/DM for details
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Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!
February 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!
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Bringing in some joy -
FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel Raftery, @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social , Frank Macabenta and Jonathan Andrews have completed the #Drosophila mentor-mentee matching process ! Emails will start rolling out in mid-Feb.
FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel Raftery, @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social , Frank Macabenta and Jonathan Andrews have completed the #Drosophila mentor-mentee matching process ! Emails will start rolling out in mid-Feb.
January 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Bringing in some joy -
FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel Raftery, @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social , Frank Macabenta and Jonathan Andrews have completed the #Drosophila mentor-mentee matching process ! Emails will start rolling out in mid-Feb.
FlyCROSS committee including me, Laurel Raftery, @jocmcdonald.bsky.social @armstrongflylab.bsky.social @shyama13.bsky.social , Frank Macabenta and Jonathan Andrews have completed the #Drosophila mentor-mentee matching process ! Emails will start rolling out in mid-Feb.