My brand new colleague @JosephCampanale presenting follower cells doing rear wheel drive in collective cell migration at my favorite fly meeting workshop Development Mechanics organized by Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @MartinLabMIT@TanentzapfLab
Fly Bayou groups at #Dros25@GeneticsGSA! Great to see many people in person. From a small, local joint lab meeting, we've grown to >30 labs in 11 states. Amazing fly community!
Weng lab members are presenting one talk and four posters at #DROS25. Come to see our new research from ventral furrow mechanics, to anterior midgut, to polarity protein Baz, to energid compartment. If you donโt know what โenergidโ is, come to Chaseโ talk Friday 9AM Ballroom A/B.
Tenure was never the goal. Doing interesting science and raising future scientists are always the goals. Still, receiving a beautiful cake and sharing it with the lab during our energetic lab meeting, is a sweet feeling๐ Thank you everyone who believed in me.
Itโs a great opportunity! Iโve been to DU for a seminar and was thoroughly impressed by the great scientists, interesting science, motivated students, and supportive environment. Donโt miss out!
Had the most hilarious holiday gift exchange thanks to the diverse choices of gifts. After some chaos and crisis, everything, from bathroom wire organizer to resurrection plant, seems to find its rightful owner. Pleasant surprise after crisis is what we scientists strive for๐.
From MBoC
@WengFlyLab demonstrates that not only the presence but the level of adherens junctions is critical for apical constriction, and establishing specific patterns of junction levels promotes proper shape and boundary of epithelial folding.
https://t.co/1O0ydwXGJy
Brought my younger students Chase, Durlin and Yasong to SCDB to see the โbigger worldโ. Thank you @scdb2024 for the travel awards and of course the fantastic meeting! So much to learn no matter which stage of career you are in!
Very proud of this work. Many lab members worked on it including undergrads and postbac technicians, and postdoc Kun @gu_lingkun2024 brought it to a new direction and the eventual publication.
Published: our study on a new Drosophila gene Moat shows strong polarity-based junctions allow weak myosin to promote productive apical constriction, leading to ectopic folding of ectodermal anterior midgut (ectoAMG). The ectopic folding requires Baz/Par3.
https://t.co/yeg1e1Jzu2
It took a long time to get the award notice: our lab has received the NSF CAREER award! I thank those who provided guidance and more than anything I thank my lab for providing all the data. It may seem that the PI supports the lab but itโs the lab that supports the PI with data.
Humbled, thrilled, anxious and overjoyed to share that the Campanale Lab will open @unlv in January 2025 where we will investigate the cellular mechanisms of how cells build tissues collectively. #newPI#prideinSTEM#Daretodream