Just realized my comment didn’t really make sense because Scott also loved diet Coke, I guess my brain hadn’t started up yet when I initially replied 😂😂😂

Thank you!

Thank you! Oh, he absolutely would have! I would say I had one yesterday but I do prefer diet Coke to Coke anyways, so that’s nothing out of the ordinary for me either 😂

#meiosis4eva #meiosis

My Behind the paper story on @the-node.bsky.social gives a digestible overview of our key findings but it is also my personal story of working on this paper and seeing it get accepted after Scott passed away thenode.biologists.com/a-bitterswee...

Damn now I want goth plates

Congrats, Amruta!

Oh no I didn’t! Gotta check it out, thanks! Haha I take it I wasn’t able to provide any new names though which is sad. I’ll have to ask my wife, she has a lot more time for reading than me

Tamsyn Muir would be quite something different (unless you already read her books of course haha), I also really liked Malka Older’s “The mimicking of known successes” plus sequel

Would love to hear any thoughts!

Drosophila melanogaster SC gene with that of a close relative. The data suggests that Corolla is directly involved in crossover formation. Extra fun: There is a temperature sensitive phenotype and we find very cool polycomplexes (aberrant structures consisting of SC proteins).

In short: There is evidence that in many organisms the synaptonemal complex (SC) has a role in crossover formation during meiosis. Unfortunately, studying this role has been difficult because most SC mutants we have are null alleles. Here we made a partial-loss-of-function mutation by replacing the

The diet Coke is a given