News
03/29/2013 New paper on the role of Hox genes in fly motoneuron development in press: Baek et al.
01/14/2013 Congratulations to Vikram Ranade, who successfully defended his thesis today. See also posts on our Facebook page.
01/08/2013 The lab’s first paper on fly walking is now published in eLife:
http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/2/e00231
See http://biooptics.markalab.org/FlyWalker/ for information about the FlyWalker software.

A single frame of a video processed by our Flywalker software, where each of the three legs in a tripod stance are automatically labelled. Click on the link below (“WT_fly_processed”) to see a live video:
WT_fly_processed
12/04/2012 New baby!
Congratulations, Cesar!
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11/30/2012 New papers:
A Survey of 6,300 Genomic Fragments for cis-Regulatory Activity in the Imaginal Discs of Drosophila melanogaster.
Jory A, Estella C, Giorgianni MW, Slattery M, Laverty TR, Rubin GM, Mann RS.
Cell Rep. 2012 Oct 25;2(4):1014-24.
Disentangling the many layers of eukaryotic transcriptional regulation.
Lelli KM, Slattery M, Mann RS.
Annu Rev Genet. 2012 Dec 15;46:43-68. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155437.
Control of mitochondrial structure and function by the Yorkie/YAP oncogenic pathway.
Nagaraj R, Gururaja-Rao S, Jones KT, Slattery M, Negre N, Braas D, Christofk H, White KP, Mann R, Banerjee U.
Genes Dev. 2012 Sep 15;26(18):2027-37.
09/14/2012 Suzie Tozier, from the Biological Sciences Department, joins the lab!
09/01/2012 The Fly Light Gal4 resource is now live: http://flweb.janelia.org/cgi-bin/flew.cgi
Fly Light represents the work of three labs: Gerry Rubin’s (generated all the lines and analyzed their patterns in adult CNS), Chris Doe’s (analyzed their patterns in the embryonic CNS) and our lab (analyzed the patterns in imaginal discs). Papers to be published soon!
07/05/2012 Another baby! Congratulations to Matt and Angie on the arrival of their daughter Edie!
07/02/2012 New postdoc, Siqian Feng, joins the lab. Siqian comes from the University of Maryland, where he worked on Drosophila polyhomeotic in Jian Wang’s lab.
06/22/2012 Congratulations to Namiko and Ken, who welcomed their daughter Ayumi into the world today!
06/12/2012 New Website!
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05/01/2012 Congratulations to Katie Lelli, who defended her thesis! Katie now starts a postdoc at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, in Danwei Huangfu’s lab.
04/15/2012 Check out our newest paper in Cell Reports:
PDF: PIIS2211124712000745
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247%2812%2900074-5





