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Hello biologists.social!
I just moved here, I am working on #sleep and #circadian rhythm using #Drosophila, hope to continue engaging with the drosophila researchers and wider community here!

Interactions among sleep, circadian clock, light and diseases

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The January cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Stanek et al., who investigated chromosome-specific size expansion by focusing on the Drosophila "dot chromosome”.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf304

#evobio #molbio #drosophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution | January 2026 issue

Drosophila photomosiac composed of genome browser screenshots and co-author names. More than one thousand undergraduate students, from diverse institutions across the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada, worked with their faculty mentors from the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP; thegep.org) to generate hundreds of high quality gene annotations as part of an effort to understand the massive size expansion of the Drosophila dot chromosome

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I am glad to say that the first manuscript from the lab is now available on BioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685496v1
We set out to answer a simple question:
If the fruit fly #Drosophila cannot see clearly, how would they #sleep ?
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An image of photoreceptor (magenta) innervating the Drosophila brain (green)

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