Dear Jedis- as some of us discussed at the last Jedi meeting we got involved in moving primary neural cell culture studies forward- if you’re interested check out our latest Nature protocols publication: http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v8/n5/full/nprot.2013.052.html Simon

JEDIs, my group just published a story on cytoophidia (cell snakes in Greek), a weird structure very abundant in fly ovaries (and human cells too). Hope you would find this article interesting (link).

Here is the link. The PDF is freely accessible from me upon request. Comments most welcomed. Cheers François

The first installment of our effort to understand the genomic diversity and biogeogrpahy of the D. melanogaster Wolbachia endosymbiont has just been published in PLOS Genetics along with three other companion papers describing aspects of genetic diversity in African populations of D. melanogaster. The Wolbachia genome sequences and alignments from...