Desplan Lab

This week at the CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila conference🧬🪰 our Grad Student Raghu shares his work on stochasticity and determinism in the developing visual system! Plus don’t miss posters by Asif Bakshi (#77), Ben Choi (#101), and Sromana Mukherjee (#216) #CSHLdros

Incredibly proud of our undergrad researchers at #CURB2025! Congratulations to Hannah for winning Best Academic Poster and Sophia for Best Poster Aesthetic Design! Huge thank you to the department for organizing this opportunity to showcase undergraduate research excellence.

Another great student seminar! Thanks to one of our PhD scholars Raghu for a great talk on stochastic neurogenesis. 🪰🧬

Great seminar by 3rd year PhD student Yuwei Zhong on the mechanism of neural diversification in the mushroom body 👏🏼🐜🧠

Commentary on transcriptomes and cell types, by myself and @DesplanLab rdcu.be/d9BL6

We are excited to share our preprint, identifying the spatial origin of medulla neurons and correlating spatial/temporal/Notch patterning of progenitors with terminal selector expression in neurons: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

We are pleased to announce the publication of our manuscript “Morphological and functional convergence of visual projection neurons from diverse neurogenic origins in Drosophila” in @NatureComms! #FlyLab #NYUAD rdcu.be/d6QRC

It was great hosting my mentor @DesplanLab at Stowers last week!

Today we decontaminated our Ethidium Bromide gel station using the Lunn and Sansone method and have made the switch to Midori Green! #gelelectrophoresis #PPE

Thrilled to see my advisor’s @DesplanLab opening keynote at #SCDB24. Having both his postdoc advisor (Pat O’Ferrell) and myself in the audience is a truly incredible experience—showing the power of mentorship and inspiration across generations. Grateful to be part of this legacy!

The inaugural chapter of @SoapboxScience in NYC is upon us! Join the top female and nonbinary scientists as they take science to the streets. Show your support tomorrow from 4-7 in Central Park @SoapboxSciNYC 👩‍🔬🥼

@DesplanLab and alumni reunion at @NeuralDevGRC in Tuscany!

Press release: eurekalert.org/news-releases/… (3/3)

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (2/3)

Former and current lab members Bogdan, Olena, Jakub, and Shadi collaborated with the Yan Lab at UF to show how a protein essential for the insect sense of smell appears important for the survival of smell-sensing neurons in ants. (1/3)

Wow, what an exciting way to end the semester! Postdoc @YCDavidChen received the NYU 2024 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award! Congratulations on this outstanding recognition🌟#NYUCAS #TeachingExcellence

Recent work from our postdoc Jennifer tackling how making the right number of different neuronal types is baked into development is now in press in Developmental Cell! Congrats! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are happy to announce our new manuscript in @biorxivpreprint that explores the diverse origins of visual projection neurons in Drosophila! #DesplanLab #FlyLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This years Drosophila service award goes to the yeoman efforts over many decades by the leadership and staff of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center; no fly lab exists that does not owe them a huge debt of gratitude 🙏 congrats all!