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Studying cell cycle regulation during development at the University of Michigan. also at buttitta@drosophila.social

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AAMC @aamc.org · 20/08/2026
NIH funding equates to $138 per American per year. And the return on investment is millions of lives saved. Read more about the extraordinary medical progress NIH funding supports: bit.ly/4i1ewX9
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How Biomedical Research Moves From a Lab Into Patient Care
Physicians work on both the research side and at the patient bedside, translating questions raised in clinical practice into rigorous scientific investigations and bringing those discoveries back to p...
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wow. Can’t wait to share this story with my next undergrad Cancer Bio class. (We also cover the other 3 examples).
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The abstract deadline has been extended to June 15th!! 💥
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Check out this amazing lineup for the FASEB Cell Cycle conference this July. Abstract deadline is rapidly approaching on June 1st!
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I was truly impressed with the breadth of topics, quality and numbers of undergrad research posters yesterday at the UM UROP and UM Program in Biology&Neuroscience poster sessions. A great reminder of the impact of hands-on research experience in education! @umich.edu
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Reminder of a fantastic meeting coming up in July - FASEB Cell Cycle Regulation in Health and Disease. Note this meeting is also co-located with the FASEB Yeast Chromosome Biology Yeast Conference w/ shared poster session and joint talks. Please share! events.faseb.org/event/cell-c...
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Cell Cycle Regulation in Health and Disease.
Explore breakthroughs in cell cycle regulation and its impact on disease and therapies at this new multidisciplinary scientific meeting.
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Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his) @mattschabathphd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🧪🧪 Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, who discovered molecular 'scissors' to cut DNA, dies at 94 -- Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionized the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/04/n...
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Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, who discovered molecular 'scissors' to cut DNA, dies at 94
Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumnus and professor emeritus
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
PREACH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology
As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly
This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
New cell cycle meeting starts next summer! events.faseb.org/event/c40174...
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Cell Cycle Regulation in Health and Disease.
Explore breakthroughs in cell cycle regulation and its impact on disease and therapies at this new multidisciplinary scientific meeting.
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Friday, September 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Sarah Colijn (Washington University in St. Louis)
Novel roles for centriolar protein WDR90 in endothelial cells and cardiac tissue
Shyama Nandakumar (University of Pittsburgh)
Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New in #GENETICS: From a genetic screen, Yi-Ting Huang and Brian Calvi identified the Src42A-Shark-Slpr pathway as an upstream regulator of JNK in induced endocycling cells in #Drosophila wing disc. buff.ly/wJmn8lp
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
'The ship is going down and we are powerless'- The Impact of Federal Funding Changes on Researchers Training the Next Generation of Scientists www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Thank you for featuring this work on #polyploidy and organ growth.
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Highly frequent undesired insertional mutagenesis during Drosophila genome editing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This 👇🏻
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Congrats to Kristen Verhey ‪@kjverhey1.bsky.social‬, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's Sandra Masur Senior Leadership Award. She combines remarkable scientific insight into molecular motors with leadership and mentoring in cell biology 🧪 www.ascb.org/society-news...
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Sandra Masur Senior Leadership Award

Presented to a scientist at a later career stage (generally full professor or equivalent) whose outstanding scientific achievements are coupled with a record of active leadership in mentoring women and individuals from underrepresented groups in their scientific careers.
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A window of cell cycle plasticity enables imperfect regeneration of an adult postmitotic organ in Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Evidence for Transcriptomic Conservation Between the Main Cells of the Drosophila Prostate-Like Accessory Gland and Basal Cells of the Mammalian Prostate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thank you for the highlight of our work! #drosophila #cancer model.
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thank you for the highlight of our work! #drosophila #cancer model.
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
As a “fly person” even I have to admit this is pretty cool! 😎
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Pleased to share and amplify our most recent paper. Looking at #oncogene effects in the #drosophila #prostate which is #postmitotic and #polyploid. 🧪
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Junior West @jr2255.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Love seeing the cancer cell biology collection @jcb.org! The image they went with for the cover is also pretty great 😜. rupress.org/collection/6...
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Cancer Cell Biology 2025 | Rockefeller University Press
This collection comprises mechanisms underlying cancer cell invasion, including analyses of lipogenesis, lysosomal phosphoinositide homeostasis, and the la
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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Why Publish in Developmental Biology? 1/8 Reason #1 - DB is strongly committed to supporting trainees and junior scientists. Publish your first paper with us! DB is the official journal of the SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social Learn more here elsevier.com/locate/ydbio
Developmental Biology, the official journal of the SDB, publishes original research on mechanisms of development, differentiation, growth, homeostasis and regeneration in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, genetic and evolutionary levels.
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Developmental biology research leads to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. 12/12 RNA Interference. Fire et al., 1998 PMID: 9486653 Worm image by Tokiko Furuta @socdevbio.bsky.social @rrbehringer.bsky.social
Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 1998
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The “drosophila dress” at #dros25. (For the fly peeps - zoom in on the pattern at the neckline)
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Developmental biology research leads to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. 5/12 In Situ Hybridization Gall & Pardue, 1969. PMID: 4895535 Frog image by Brandy Walker (Rachel Miller Lab) @socdevbio.bsky.social @rrbehringer.bsky.social
Formation and detection of RNA-DNA hybrid molecules in cytological preparations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1969
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Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Before it is all taken down, a good reminder that the NIH has (or maybe had) an expansive definition of what constitutes diversity. So this means less participation by #womeninSTEM, #URMinSTEM, #disabledinSTEM, plus those that grew up rural, #firstgen, unhoused, or low-income. #academicSky 🧪👩‍🔬 2/n
Underrepresented Populations in the U.S. Biomedical, Clinical, Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Enterprise
Individuals from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown by the National Science Foundation to be underrepresented in health-related sciences on a national basis 
Individuals with disabilities, who are defined as those with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, as described in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended. See NSF data at, https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/nsf17310/static/data/tab7-5.pdf.

Individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, defined as those who meet two or more of the following criteria:
Were or currently are homeless, as defined by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Definition: https://nche.ed.gov/mckinney-vento/);
Were or currently are in the foster care system, as defined by the Administration for Children and Families (Definition: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/focus-areas/foster-care);
Were eligible for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program for two or more years (Definition: https://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/income-eligibility-guidelines);
Have/had no parents or legal guardians who completed a bachelor’s degree (see https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018009.pdf);
Were or currently are eligible for Federal Pell grants (Definition: https://www2.ed.gov/programs/fpg/eligibility.html);
Received support from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as a parent or child (Definition: https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wic-eligibility-requirements).
Grew up in one of the following areas: a) a U.S. rural area, as designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer (https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/rural-health), or b) a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-designated Low-Income and Health Professional Shortage Areas (qualifying zipcodes are included in the file
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Reposting as the deadline to submit draws near.
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Shyama Nandakumar @shyama13.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Drosophila folks, new workshop alert for #dros25: @gavinrrice.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on Polyploidy, please consider submitting an abstract by 15 January to shyama.n@pitt.edu #polyploidy #drosophila
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Buttitta Lab @buttittalab.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Finally made it here! Delighted to share our newest paper in #DevBio on #Drosophila. We reveal interesting cell cycle regulation in the #drosophila male reproductive system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Post-eclosion growth in the Drosophila ejaculatory duct is driven by Juvenile hormone signaling and is essential for male fertility
The Drosophila Ejaculatory duct (ED) is a secretory tissue of the somatic male reproductive system. The ED is involved in the secretion of seminal flu…
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