Happening today! Come join us in Maryland A!

Seriously, Genetics Society of America never fails to bring out the overobsessed fly nerd that I am at #TAGC24 .

If you want to share in my enthusiasm for fly immunity & metabolism, come to my talk (PgrNm 368) @ 5PM during the Host-Pathogen Host-Commensal Session! It'll be super... 🪰

Excited to be in DC for #TAGC24 ! I'm giving a talk this Saturday 3/9 9AM/Comparative Genomics session. Come learn how flies co-opted novel anti-parasitoid effectors from phages! Should have a little something for everybody (evolution! endosymbiosis! immunity! fly genetics!)

Taste evolution in an herbivorous drosophilid biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

🚨new natural product alert 🚨 we’ve updated our preprint to include the structure of the first known metallophore for lanthanides, methylolanthanin! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Allegra Aron Zach Reitz Cecilia Martinez-Gomez Daumann Lab Sophie Gutenthaler-Tietze Functional Metabolomics Lab

fulfilling my civic duty (squashing every spotted lantern fly i see in pittsburgh pa)

Super excited to share my first publication from my postdoc with the amazing Noah Whiteman. The first paper from our CCGP funded project.
A draft reference genome assembly of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor hirsuta academic.oup.com/jhered/article…

I just realized that it has now been 30 years of the GAL4-UAS system for Drosophila! Andrea Brand and Perrimon Lab paper came out in June 1993! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/11…

Fritz, mid ear wiggle.

Fruit flies acquired a useful gift from bacteria, via horizontal gene transfer, some 21 million years ago: genes for two toxins used to defend against parasitoid wasps. In PNAS: ow.ly/TiVS50NGmPW

New paper out in PNAS about how the ability of vertebrates to see is in part due to a gene we acquired from bacteria.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Huge congratulations and thanks to authors Chinmay Kalluraya Alex Weitzel, and Brian Tsu! More below: 1/

have any drosophila people who follow me used flp-excisable markers before? i'm having some trouble designing a construct and would appreciate some insight 👀

one thing is i love genetics!

My book MOST DELICIOUS POISON Little, Brown Spark will be out in Oct '23! I explore where many chemicals we use come from and how the contours of my life and the last 500 years of history were shaped by an insatiable desire for nature's toxins. Pre-order here: tinyurl.com/m2b2bres