Kit D. Longden

Kit D. Longden

@theflyside.bsky.social

Neuroscience: flies, vision, and mitochondria. Drosophila Connectomics Group, Cambridge University & Visiting Scientist, Francis Crick Institute

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Kit D. Longden
@theflyside.bsky.social

Revised preprint on mitochondria in central brain of Drosophila now online: much new analysis + details of largest resource for analyzing neuronal mitochondria generated so far, with ~6M mitochondria, >20k neurons, >5k cell types. Much thanks to all coauthors, enjoy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

biorxiv.orgConnectomic Analysis of Mitochondria in the Central Brain of DrosophilaMitochondria are integral to the metabolism and cell biology of a neuron. Electron microscopy images of fly brain volumes, taken for connectomics, can be analyzed for mitochondria as well as the cells...

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Ivy Chan
@ivychanchiwai.bsky.social

Our paper on odour categorization in the Drosophila mushroom body is now out in Cell Reports! 🎉 We found that αβ and α′β′ Kenyon cells—but not γ KCs—distinguish food-related from non-food odours at the population level. Very happy to see this work published! 🪰🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Kit D. Longden
@theflyside.bsky.social

This is fascinating! Many congratulations!

Fumiaki Obata@obataf-lab.bsky.social

Our new study just out @nature.com Together with Koshi Imami @RIKEN IMS, Hina Kosakamoto found out the key molecule mediating lifespan extension by early life dietary restriction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comLsp2 links early-life diet to adult translation and lifespan in Drosophila - NatureIsotope tracing is used to determine the fate of larval dietary amino acids in adult flies, and identifies Lsp2 as a key regulator of translation and lifespan that forms the molecular basis of the eff...

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Adria LeBoeuf
@adriatica.bsky.social

Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com

cam.ac.ukResearch Associate (Fixed Term)A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro...

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Erika Dona
@erikadona.bsky.social

After about a year from the preprint, our scRNAseq atlas of the developing Drosophila nerve cord has been published in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comA global molecular code for birth order and neuronal identity in Drosophila - NatureA high-resolution developmental transcriptional atlas of the Drosophila melanogaster nerve cord identifies a shared transcriptional code that records neuronal birth order and organizes neuronal d...
Kit D. Longden
@theflyside.bsky.social

Virtual Fly Brain for the win: making LLM analysis of large-scale fly data much better, through model context protocols (MCPs), which act as guardrails and guidance, making the most of curation and annotations, including for connectome and sequencing data. VFB 🙌 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

biorxiv.orgVFB-MCP: Natural-Language Access to Drosophila Neuroscience Grounded by an Expert-Curated Ontology-Led KnowledgebaseBiological databases store curated knowledge that researchers traditionally access through web interfaces or APIs. To move beyond casual browsing requires domain-specific knowledge and expertise to fr...

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Cole
@ultraspiracle.bsky.social

My first paper is up on bioRxiv! We asked a simple question: why are fruit flies smaller when they grow up in a crowded vial? #Development #Plasticity #Drosophila

bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social

Room to breathe: Nutrition and developmental oxygen modulate the crowding effect on size in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.02.736161v1

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