Drosophilist join us in this wonderful meeting!!
We are happy to announce that registration for #DrosoSpain2026 is now open! Please register and submit your abstracts until the 20th of February at: drosospain.umh.es Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante soon!
January 14, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Drosophilist join us in this wonderful meeting!!
Please share: we have an open postdoc position!🪰🪰👾We are looking for a motivated Drosophilist to join our team and explore the role of hemocytes in interorgan signaling! Interested?😎send us your application or contact me! Looking forward to hear from you!
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/karriere/ste...
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/karriere/ste...
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) | Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Please share: we have an open postdoc position!🪰🪰👾We are looking for a motivated Drosophilist to join our team and explore the role of hemocytes in interorgan signaling! Interested?😎send us your application or contact me! Looking forward to hear from you!
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/karriere/ste...
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/karriere/ste...
would you say "drosophilist" or "drosophile"?
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
would you say "drosophilist" or "drosophile"?
Thought it would be fitting for my first post to be this little fly illustration I made. Because once a Drosophilist, always a Drosophilist 🪰
October 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Thought it would be fitting for my first post to be this little fly illustration I made. Because once a Drosophilist, always a Drosophilist 🪰
Clearly the flies have ‘red eye’. They’re likely drunk. Does that make me a Drosophilist now? (I recommend reading the Alt text).
Joking aside, can anyone help me identify the species.
Joking aside, can anyone help me identify the species.
August 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Clearly the flies have ‘red eye’. They’re likely drunk. Does that make me a Drosophilist now? (I recommend reading the Alt text).
Joking aside, can anyone help me identify the species.
Joking aside, can anyone help me identify the species.
#Drosophila #Space #ISS
The latest Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station was successfully completed this week. As some of you may know, this mission had a Drosophilist interest as well.
The latest Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station was successfully completed this week. As some of you may know, this mission had a Drosophilist interest as well.
July 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
#Drosophila #Space #ISS
The latest Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station was successfully completed this week. As some of you may know, this mission had a Drosophilist interest as well.
The latest Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station was successfully completed this week. As some of you may know, this mission had a Drosophilist interest as well.
Spoken like a true Drosophilist
This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)
Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Spoken like a true Drosophilist
Victoria, our super high schooler, veteran drosophilist Angelica, and new recruit Lexee in action.
July 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Victoria, our super high schooler, veteran drosophilist Angelica, and new recruit Lexee in action.
Hooray. Yesterday, my very first #Hydra paper was accepted! An exciting time for a career #Drosophilist. Big congratulations to @anaisbailles.bsky.social, who set up the Hydra system from scratch. Thanks Carl Modes for the liquid crystal theory. @mpi-cbg.de Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Anisotropic stretch biases the self-organization of actin fibers in multicellular Hydra aggregates
During development, groups of cells generate shape by coordinating their mechanical properties through an interplay of self-organization and pre-patterning. Hydra displays a striking planar pattern of...
www.biorxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hooray. Yesterday, my very first #Hydra paper was accepted! An exciting time for a career #Drosophilist. Big congratulations to @anaisbailles.bsky.social, who set up the Hydra system from scratch. Thanks Carl Modes for the liquid crystal theory. @mpi-cbg.de Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is important. Flybase is an instrumental resource to probably every Drosophilist. Time to give back.
The #Drosophila community can donate to the European side to save FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social at the following link:
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is important. Flybase is an instrumental resource to probably every Drosophilist. Time to give back.
Pull that off and you'll be an honorary drosophilist!
May 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Pull that off and you'll be an honorary drosophilist!
"Collecting virgins" became such a normal thing for me to say that I sometime forget that it sounds absolutely weird for every non-Drosophilist 😅
#drosophila
#drosophila
Some Friday morning virgin fly collecting! #DrosLife #Drosophila
May 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Collecting virgins" became such a normal thing for me to say that I sometime forget that it sounds absolutely weird for every non-Drosophilist 😅
#drosophila
#drosophila
Really enjoyed a day of diverse & fascinating scientific talks while pretending to still be a Drosophilist.
& really happy to see at the end of Bea Castejon Vega’s fantastic talk from the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
& really happy to see at the end of Bea Castejon Vega’s fantastic talk from the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
February 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Really enjoyed a day of diverse & fascinating scientific talks while pretending to still be a Drosophilist.
& really happy to see at the end of Bea Castejon Vega’s fantastic talk from the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
& really happy to see at the end of Bea Castejon Vega’s fantastic talk from the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
Had a great time yesterday listening to a diverse range of talks & pretending to still be a Drosophilist.
Plus at the end of a fantastic talk by Bea Castejon Vega of the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social - really happy to see that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
Plus at the end of a fantastic talk by Bea Castejon Vega of the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social - really happy to see that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
February 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Had a great time yesterday listening to a diverse range of talks & pretending to still be a Drosophilist.
Plus at the end of a fantastic talk by Bea Castejon Vega of the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social - really happy to see that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
Plus at the end of a fantastic talk by Bea Castejon Vega of the Sanz Lab, SMB @uofgmvls.bsky.social - really happy to see that the Facility got an acknowledgment.
fellow Drosophilist here, too
January 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
fellow Drosophilist here, too
Hi Erik, Please add me to the Science feed. I started as a drosophilist and now work on tools for biology, here's one paper I'm a co-author on www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
DNA Sequencing by Electron Microscopy | Microscopy and Microanalysis | Cambridge Core
DNA Sequencing by Electron Microscopy - Volume 17 Issue S2
www.cambridge.org
December 1, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Hi Erik, Please add me to the Science feed. I started as a drosophilist and now work on tools for biology, here's one paper I'm a co-author on www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Funnily enough, our new departmental technician is a former drosophilist.
Not a joke, he actually is.
Not a joke, he actually is.
November 23, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Funnily enough, our new departmental technician is a former drosophilist.
Not a joke, he actually is.
Not a joke, he actually is.
Is anyone creating a Drosophilist starter pack?
November 17, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Is anyone creating a Drosophilist starter pack?
A famous drosophilist challenged me once after a talk saying that flies have DNMT1 and 5mC. I really hope they sequence their WGBS 5000x to find those modified bases and can finally join the party.
November 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM
A famous drosophilist challenged me once after a talk saying that flies have DNMT1 and 5mC. I really hope they sequence their WGBS 5000x to find those modified bases and can finally join the party.
As a drosophilist I'm not always aware of the equipment used in the laboratories for other fields. Can any of my human biology colleagues shed light on how this apparatus is utilised in your field?
November 14, 2024 at 7:51 AM
As a drosophilist I'm not always aware of the equipment used in the laboratories for other fields. Can any of my human biology colleagues shed light on how this apparatus is utilised in your field?
This is the mark of a true Drosophilist 😂
"I had significant results, and then I realized my tools weren't what they said they were."
BUT: in #Drosophila, we have the power to realize and correct for it 💪🪰🧬
"I had significant results, and then I realized my tools weren't what they said they were."
BUT: in #Drosophila, we have the power to realize and correct for it 💪🪰🧬
November 3, 2024 at 11:20 AM
This is the mark of a true Drosophilist 😂
"I had significant results, and then I realized my tools weren't what they said they were."
BUT: in #Drosophila, we have the power to realize and correct for it 💪🪰🧬
"I had significant results, and then I realized my tools weren't what they said they were."
BUT: in #Drosophila, we have the power to realize and correct for it 💪🪰🧬
As a Drosophilist I must confess that C. elgans in probably MUCH cheaper, so the per-dollar discovery rate is probably way higher 😅
October 22, 2024 at 1:41 AM
As a Drosophilist I must confess that C. elgans in probably MUCH cheaper, so the per-dollar discovery rate is probably way higher 😅
My friend the Drosophilist says the smell of alchohol attracts them. That doesn't explain the coffee thing but the denture wash is something else.
July 6, 2024 at 7:41 PM
My friend the Drosophilist says the smell of alchohol attracts them. That doesn't explain the coffee thing but the denture wash is something else.
I was excited for a moment that Janelia now has Plant Research on campus. But I see it's more plant-adjacent research. 😉
But maybe David will make the complete switch to Plants one day. He certainly wouldn't be the first Drosophilist to do so. 🙂
But maybe David will make the complete switch to Plants one day. He certainly wouldn't be the first Drosophilist to do so. 🙂
December 2, 2023 at 3:54 PM
I was excited for a moment that Janelia now has Plant Research on campus. But I see it's more plant-adjacent research. 😉
But maybe David will make the complete switch to Plants one day. He certainly wouldn't be the first Drosophilist to do so. 🙂
But maybe David will make the complete switch to Plants one day. He certainly wouldn't be the first Drosophilist to do so. 🙂