Hurd Lab

This work was a great effort by many in the lab, especially @jonathanpalozzi, Swathi Jeedigunta and Anastasia Minenkova, and we thank so many others in Toronto and elsewhere who have heard the story and provided great insight and suggestions! 9/9

Our work suggests the exciting idea that mtDNA selection and meiosis, which are required for maintaining mtDNA and nuclear DNA fitness respectively, are genetically and developmentally linked. 8/9

We are excited to share this new story from our lab! We report discovering a crucial piece of the long-standing mystery of how mitochondrial (mt) genomic integrity is maintained across generations. Summary follows: 🧵 1/9 tinyurl.com/y3dz9ca5

Really exciting to have such a vibrant community of Drosophila researchers here in Canada 🇨🇦!! Looking forward to future meetings!

Thanks to everyone for a successful #CanFly2019, especially the organizing committee: Julie Brill, Bruce Reed, @RFG_Lab, @tjsmerritt, @kramer_lab, @KimlabFlyroom, @IanDworkin, as well as all the PIs and trainees who shared their great science this past week!

this cool fly art is courtesy our neighbour Janine in Craig Smibert’s lab. You can find more of them @drosophiladiez on Instagram!

looks like we caught the playoffs bug! #WeTheNorh

@RusanLab @siekhauslab @nyuskirball @UofT @nih_nhlbi Could not agree more. Our work builds upon seminal research by both Hong Xu’s lab and Hansong Ma and Patrick O’Farrell nature.com/articles/ng.29…

@siekhauslab @hurd_lab @nyuskirball @UofT Very nice work that follows work from Hong Xu's lab from the @nih_nhlbi nature.com/articles/ng.29…

Great new paper from Thomas Hurd @hurd_lab on how mitochondrial selection works in the germline. Beautiful work started while he was a postdoc in the Lehmann lab @nyuskirball and finished in his own lab @UofT nature.com/articles/s4158…

We were able to escape the lab only to be trapped in an escape room - thankfully we made it out!

You can learn about one of the current projects in the lab, mtDNA purifying selection, in this review we published recently: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Since the lab recently turned one year old, we're celebrating by joining Twitter! Follow us to learn all about mitochondria and the germline in flies!

*bzz bzz* we tweet in peace 🦟🦟