Drosophila developmental biologist. Cell signaling. Proteomics. Professor at UMass Boston.
Alexey Veraksa
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Slightly diminish a book:
The Origin of Subspecies
“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.”
Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.
Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
NIH Definition of Foreign components. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
This exciting paper is now out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
If you thought Notch was always a receptor, think again! In this paper, Notch was found to function as a _ligand_ for Draper, a phagocytic receptor.
#Drosophila
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
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NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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I wrote an essay. It’s about gain-of-function mutations. And penguins. Also ion channels, chihuahuas, the film Alien, recycled cardboard, and the Apollonian mind. Oh, and muffins.
Thanks to the editors of #GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social for letting me take some stylistic liberties. 1/2
