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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our third preprint of the summer is up now! We use our piezoelectric crush method of head-specific traumatic brain injury (TBI) to identify which glial subtypes activate AP-1 after TBI and how glial subtype AP-1 activation affects survival. 🧪 🪰 #wewouldhurtafly doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Keisuke Fukumura @keisukefukumura.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Now our paper is out on bioRxiv🎉 Huge thanks to my PI @annikabarber.bsky.social for her guidance throughout this project, to Deniz and Peter for invaluable advice on implementing LABL, and to my amazing co-authors and the whole Barber lab for their support! Comments and feedback are welcome!

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Work from a talented postdoc in my neighboring lab! Bipin and the whole Irvine lab are great neighbors and helpful colleges. 🪰 🧪

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Got an obnoxious little finding you'd otherwise shelve? We did our first @micropub7n.bsky.social and it was a 10/10 experience! Find out why you should use caution if deploying Repo-GeneSwitch-Gal4 for investigating fly sleep. Led by @seakelly5.bsky.social & @keisukefukumura.bsky.social

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Drosophila core circadian clock neurons peptidergically regulate activity of insulin-producing cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Do not doubt that my lab would try this. I joked once that they could either do short talks or an interpretive dance about the fly brain circadian clock circuit. And they picked dance. There were props. One actor played the sun. 🧪😂🧠⏰💃

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I survived the most dangerous place in Tokyo. Not the Shibuya crossing - the 12 floor Itoya store! 💸

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

We didn’t win the institute snow globe contest, but we had fun doing arts and crafts! And paying tribute to the cobra chickens of campus.

A paper poster snow globe entitled “Busch Geese.” My dog goose and three Canada geese are making a snowman. Snowflakes fall with faces of lab members inside.

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Neuro Latine @neurolatine.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The Neuro Latine community invites you! Sunday, November 16 7–9 p.m. Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina – Grand Blrm 5 #NeuroLatine #SfN2025

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#medalmonday for the three of us in the lab who ran the Princeton Half Marathon! A successful first half marathon for @keisukefukumura.bsky.social and grad student Sergio! 🏃‍♀️ 🏃 🏃‍♂️

3 Barber lab members with their orange race finisher medals - at left in green is grad student Sergio, center in purple is Annika and right in blue is postdoc Keisuke

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Lab once again slayed with the Halloween group costume for the institute party.

Barber lab poses in Mario costumes outside their building

Mario, Luigi, Waluigi, and Wario (three doctoral students and a postdoc) prance around the Barber lab.

Annika and Goose the dog as Princess Rosalina and her Luma from Mario

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Barber Lab representing at #CSHLDros! 🪰 4/5 of us have posters tonight.

Five people stand on the grass in front of a sunset. They somehow are all in shades of blue. They also are all in the Barber lab.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It’s time for the fly party with my fly friends! #CSHLDros

A cartoon from smbc captioned “the life of a scientist sounds way more fun if you describe it like you’re a 6 year old.” The scientist in the cartoon is wearing glasses and a teal polo. Their speech bubble says “I like flies and me and my friends look at flies all the time and sometimes the flies are neat and we tell our other friends about it and our friends also like flies and sometimes we have fly parties and so no we know a lot about flies.” The original cartoon said rocks, Annika photoshopped in flies.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Proud of my postdoc and his undergrad mentee for winning poster awards in their respective categories at the Waksman retreat! 🤩 A wonderful day of great science and great company.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Although @keisukefukumura.bsky.social already bought the CHONKIEST stir bar I’ve seen in my life for stirring our high fat food while it simmers, I’m hoping this might be an even easier way to get a good emulsion going for our special diets! Worst case, we try making soy milk. 😂

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Organize your own! Book a room, order some food, and send some emails to your favorite science people to get calling. Copy and modify my NJ-specific slides here: docs.google.com/presentation... Copy and modify my handout here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Rutgers Life Sciences Legislative Telethon 1 Script and info link

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Neuro Latine @neurolatine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dear Neuro Latine Community, We are writing to acknowledge the uncertainty of watching in real time the disruption of NIH communications, including abrupt endings to study sections that could fund important neuroscience research.

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

New #GeneGroups subset: Metabolic Pathways! These manually curated reports aim to facilitate metabolic research in Drosophila by providing high-quality gene lists and visual representations of fly metabolic pathways, integrated with the other rich data in FlyBase.

FlyBase Metabolic Pathways report for CHITIN BIOSYNTHESIS.

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Keisuke Fukumura @keisukefukumura.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I came here to look for a blue bird…

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