Associate Professor at UC San Diego. Interested in how brains are built and evolve. Visual system development, gene regulation, and cell fate specification.
San Diego, CA
Joined April 2012
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1/ We built a fruit fly with butterfly eyes!
Then we found out its brain already knew what to do with them.
New paper out in Science Advances.
9/ What we have NOT shown: that the butterfly-fly sees better. We haven't tested its vision or its behavior.
The wiring is correct. Whether that adds up to an animal that has higher color resolution or sees color better is a great question!
10/ Credit to Ke Gao, who drove this, with Julia Ainsworth, Antoine Donati, Tim Zhao, Michelle Ragsac, Cara Genduso, Zoie Andre, and Andrew Tomlinson.
Paper: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aei75…
Story: today.ucsd.edu/story/the-sto…
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Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
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This is a huge deal.
“Indirect costs”, as they’re called, from NIH still pay for direct science — eg, funding science labs, lab upkeep — but also university administration. Cutting this line item by billions of dollars is going to threaten university jobs but also potentially cut into science lab funding.
There are absolutely controversies/concerns about wasteful indirect cost allocation. But it’s hard to imagine a cut this deep not affecting science labs directly.
This is just not where I’d start cutting billions. Universities (including those that don’t have $10b endowments) are gonna scream, and I’d guess we’re gonna hear about extremely worthy programs relying on labs being endangered.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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Excited to announce I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in July 2024! @cwru
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Absolutely honored to receive my K99/R00 award from @NatEyeInstitute today. Feeling very excited for the next step and the opportunity to transition to an independent faculty position in the near future! Lots of cool science to come! #K99Award #Gratitude #NextChapter
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We are looking for a research assistant to participate in using, adapting, and developing genetic and imaging tools in different insects.
If you are interested, please apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UM…
Else if you need more information, please DM or email me.
Else please retweet!
#JobOffer
💼Research assistant in neuronal development and evolution (M/F)
🗓️September, 1st 2024 / 12 months
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Konstantinides Lab (@nkonst4)
Apply before 15th July ➡️urlr.me/17DMr
Do you have a bunny and live in San Diego? My lab is interested in rearing Eristalis hoverflies, but it turns out the protocol requires rabbit poop. If you can help please let me know. For science!
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Great work on enhancer mutations from @EKFarley's lab, led by @granton_jindal. Great use of model organisms! cell.com/developmental-cell/…
