Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦
@simmondlab.bsky.social
A #CellBio laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at @ualberta.bluesky.social We use #Drosophila (fruit flies) to understand human diseases. #peroxisomes #neurodev #devbio #scSeq #development #lipiddroplets
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Saving the bellicose #bumblebee! 🐝 Brazil’s endemic Bombus bellicosus faces habitat loss & #ClimateChange. Sequencing its #genome shows it’s genetically diverse enough to survive, thanks in part to #CitizenScientists who helped locate populations.
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The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of the bellicose bumblebee (Bombus bellicosus, Hymenoptera: Apidae), a threatened pollinator in a changing South American landscape
We present the first genome of a Brazilian bumblebee species, the bellicose bumblebee (Bombus bellicosus). This is an endemic species in southern South America facing local extinction due to habitat…
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Saving the bellicose #bumblebee! 🐝 Brazil’s endemic Bombus bellicosus faces habitat loss & #ClimateChange. Sequencing its #genome shows it’s genetically diverse enough to survive, thanks in part to #CitizenScientists who helped locate populations.
🔗 doi.org/10.1139/gen-...
🔗 doi.org/10.1139/gen-...
Northern lights are bright in Edmonton tonight.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Northern lights are bright in Edmonton tonight.
I baked 💩 cupcakes for our lab meeting today.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I baked 💩 cupcakes for our lab meeting today.
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Calling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience.
Submit by June 30, 2026▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch
Submit by June 30, 2026▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Calling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience.
Submit by June 30, 2026▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch
Submit by June 30, 2026▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch
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This #CanFly collection highlights research presented at the 2025 Canadian Drosophila Research Conference. Submit your work and be part of this showcase of innovation in Drosophila science.
Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025
Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025
October 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This #CanFly collection highlights research presented at the 2025 Canadian Drosophila Research Conference. Submit your work and be part of this showcase of innovation in Drosophila science.
Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025
Details ▶️ buff.ly/NyAG4mI
#DrosophilaResearch #CanFly2025
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#ASD diagnosis could get a precision upgrade! 🧬 Long-read sequencing reveals complex structural variants missed by short-read methods, helping to clarify #genetic contributions to #autism #PrecisionMedicine buff.ly/nm5kd7q
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#ASD diagnosis could get a precision upgrade! 🧬 Long-read sequencing reveals complex structural variants missed by short-read methods, helping to clarify #genetic contributions to #autism #PrecisionMedicine buff.ly/nm5kd7q
Seen walking in London tonight. Inspired to change the name of my lab?
September 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Seen walking in London tonight. Inspired to change the name of my lab?
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Can’t wait to join the Riboclub 2025 Annual Meeting! See you there to talk RNA and share ideas! @rnacanada.bsky.social #BiologyConference #RNABiology
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Can’t wait to join the Riboclub 2025 Annual Meeting! See you there to talk RNA and share ideas! @rnacanada.bsky.social #BiologyConference #RNABiology
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Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle. New review from Mike Henne (@hennelab.bsky.social), Emma Reynolds, and William: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets
#Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle. New review from Mike Henne (@hennelab.bsky.social), Emma Reynolds, and William: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets
#Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets
I just realized you can use Chat GPT to rewrite emails into any style you wish.
September 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I just realized you can use Chat GPT to rewrite emails into any style you wish.
JCB has rounded up a good collection of papers outlining best practices regarding reproducability in Cell Biology experiments, especially microscopy. Worth a read, and passing along to your trainees.
Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#Reproducibility
#Reproducibility
September 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
JCB has rounded up a good collection of papers outlining best practices regarding reproducability in Cell Biology experiments, especially microscopy. Worth a read, and passing along to your trainees.
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FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
Donated! Without Flybase our reserach would be impossible.
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Donated! Without Flybase our reserach would be impossible.
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#Cytogenomics: Exploring #Chromosome Structure and Function is still open for submissions in @genomejournal.bsky.social!
Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m
#CallForPapers #Genomics
Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m
#CallForPapers #Genomics
August 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
#Cytogenomics: Exploring #Chromosome Structure and Function is still open for submissions in @genomejournal.bsky.social!
Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m
#CallForPapers #Genomics
Find the full list of topics here ▶️ buff.ly/9ACNj1m
#CallForPapers #Genomics
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Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway
Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway
WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S.President Donald Trump has announced that Canada’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood will “make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them, which I had no inten...
www.thebeaverton.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway
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Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up:
#Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome!
www.bcell.org
#Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome!
www.bcell.org
July 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up:
#Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome!
www.bcell.org
#Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome!
www.bcell.org
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🐝 #CanFly2023 Throwback!
Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠
ow.ly/XUvC50WqbAx
🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025?
Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝
#ModelOrganisms
Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠
ow.ly/XUvC50WqbAx
🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025?
Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝
#ModelOrganisms
ow.ly
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🐝 #CanFly2023 Throwback!
Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠
ow.ly/XUvC50WqbAx
🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025?
Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝
#ModelOrganisms
Explore top-tier Canadian #Drosophila research in our #CanFly2023 collection—genetics, neuro, evo, development & more! 🧬🧠
ow.ly/XUvC50WqbAx
🗨️ Came to #CanFly2025?
Submit to the new collection—NO #OA FEES! 📝
#ModelOrganisms
Advice to new PIs.
Running an academic laboratory,
- is like running a small business,
- wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university)
- that is owned by the government.
The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.
Running an academic laboratory,
- is like running a small business,
- wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university)
- that is owned by the government.
The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.
June 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Advice to new PIs.
Running an academic laboratory,
- is like running a small business,
- wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university)
- that is owned by the government.
The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.
Running an academic laboratory,
- is like running a small business,
- wrapped inside a large dysfunctional mega-corporation (university)
- that is owned by the government.
The ultimate organizaitonal Matryoska.
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Bluesky is dying?!
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Bluesky is dying
Bluesky was invented to create a nicer space than Twitter. The problem is that too few people have joined and most are smug and boring.
www.spectator.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Bluesky is dying?!
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Simmonds lab and Dept. of #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social alumni Matt Anderson-Baron reaches a new milestone with their #YEG biotech - Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors share.google/RJvHTcdh4ugS...
Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors
Company emerges as key player creating exotic and difficult-to-express proteins (DTEPs) as a biomanufacturing partner for protein AI companies and a vendor to the four trillion dollar syn-bio industry
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June 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Simmonds lab and Dept. of #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social alumni Matt Anderson-Baron reaches a new milestone with their #YEG biotech - Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors share.google/RJvHTcdh4ugS...
One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology
@ualberta.bsky.social
is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute
@wchriuofa.bsky.social
See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025
ar.wchri.org
@ualberta.bsky.social
is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute
@wchriuofa.bsky.social
See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025
ar.wchri.org
Lighting the Way | 2024-2025 Annual Report
Research not only saves lives, it ignites hope. While true transformation requires both patience and vision, each breakthrough brings us closer to our goal.
ar.wchri.org
June 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology
@ualberta.bsky.social
is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute
@wchriuofa.bsky.social
See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025
ar.wchri.org
@ualberta.bsky.social
is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute
@wchriuofa.bsky.social
See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025
ar.wchri.org
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Publish your next breakthrough in Genome with no fees. Corresponding authors with @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social can submit unlimited OA manuscripts and benefit from unlimited read access. Discover how 🍁▶️ buff.ly/oUyzd2x
🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome
🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Publish your next breakthrough in Genome with no fees. Corresponding authors with @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social can submit unlimited OA manuscripts and benefit from unlimited read access. Discover how 🍁▶️ buff.ly/oUyzd2x
🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome
🧬🔄 #genomics #chromatin #nucleosome #regulatorynetwork #generegulation #epigenome
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🍎🪰 Only ONE WEEK until #CanFly2025! The fruit fly frenzy is almost upon us — can’t wait to connect with the amazing Drosophila research community. Wings up, let’s fly! ✈️🧬 #Drosophila #FruitFlyScience
buff.ly/5IE09fh
buff.ly/5IE09fh
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🍎🪰 Only ONE WEEK until #CanFly2025! The fruit fly frenzy is almost upon us — can’t wait to connect with the amazing Drosophila research community. Wings up, let’s fly! ✈️🧬 #Drosophila #FruitFlyScience
buff.ly/5IE09fh
buff.ly/5IE09fh
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FlyBase needs your help!
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
FlyBase needs your help!
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org
Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org