Buttitta Lab
Studying cell cycle regulation during development at the University of Michigan. also at buttitta@drosophila.social
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- Haha! Been there. Did not like.
- Thank you for featuring this work on #polyploidy and organ growth.
- Adult growth in the Drosophila ejaculatory duct is driven by an evolutionarily conserved Juvenile Hormone–endocycle–protein synthesis axis essential for male fertility by Navyashree Ramesh, Allison Box, Laura Buttitta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #DBfeature #Drosophila #ReproductiveBiology
- This 👇🏻
- FlyBase is that thing that weird little thing that props up all of modern health and genetics and ... oy xkcd.com/2347/
- Thank you for the highlight of our work! #drosophila #cancer model.
- Probing Prostate Cancer: Adult male fruit fly accessory gland-cancer as a model for studying human prostate cancer Image made with @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy 📷 S. Jaimian Church, @buttittalab.bsky.social et al @umich.edu in @dmmjournal.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
- As a “fly person” even I have to admit this is pretty cool! 😎
- This is how worm people cast their imaging molds. Consider me (i) jealous and (ii) full of questions #DevBio 🧪
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- Hi Erik, can we also be added to the feed? sites.lsa.umich.edu/buttitta-lab/
- Pleased to share and amplify our most recent paper. Looking at #oncogene effects in the #drosophila #prostate which is #postmitotic and #polyploid. 🧪
- The fruitfly prostate-like accessory gland is a postmitotic and polyploid tissue. S. Jaimian Church, @buttittalab.bsky.social & co show similarities between the oncogenic activity in the Drosophila accessory gland and in polyploid prostate cancer. doi.org/10.1242/dmm.... #prostatecancer #cancer
- We identified aging-associated changes in sexual strains of the extremely long-lived planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Following amputation and regeneration in older animals, aging-associated phenotypes were reversed to youthful states.
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- Wow! This is so cool!
- THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
- How does one little diploid nucleus contain all of the source for the massive amount of transcription that must take place in this cell!
- The “drosophila dress” at #dros25. (For the fly peeps - zoom in on the pattern at the neckline)
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- Hi Esther! Great idea! We’d like to be added please!
- Reposting as the deadline to submit draws near.
- 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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- Thank you for this thread. I was a graduate student at the Carnegie from 1998-2003. Don was the chair of my thesis committee (at that time the chair was not your direct PhD mentor). I often went to him for advice. I fully agree he was simultaneously intimidating and yet empowering.
- 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...
