Katja Rust

@rustflylab.bsky.social

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#Drosophila research group with a heart for #scRNA seq on the search for why cells do what they do when they do it. We’re doing #DevBio #CellBio #Cancer research led by one of the #WomenInSTEM and a #NewPI.

Presenting at this year's #Drosophila JEDI meeting
A vial of Drosophila.
Poster of our fly room members!
Pseudotime trajectory created with Monocle3 of WT and tumor follicle cells labeled by pseudotime.
UMAP plot from a Monocle3 analysis resembling a dancing woman and a bird.
Katja Rust and Mila Höhne (Bogdan Lab) in Heidelberg
Katrin Domsch and Katja Rust at the EDRC meeting at Alicante.
Group photo of our research group
UMAP plot in the peculiar shape of a seahorse
A microscopy picture of a #Drosophila follicle cell in anaphase.
Picture of the Rust lab. #Drosophila #lablife #science
Questionnaire for students in first or second semester.
AI generated image of a Drosophila ovary that looks like a fly with completely wrong legend.
Bright blue fluorescent duck figure
Picture of Vanessa and Katja.
Picture of a green duck figure with a little hat.
Picture of a rotator with two mini rubber ducks.
Drawing of a #Drosophila dressed as a mermaid
Adult female Drosophila. Left: healthy fly, right: fly with cancer cachexia.
Imaris spot analysis of a #Drosophila ovariole gone wrong - random pattern.
A clean CO2 pad
Collage of immunostaining microscopy pictures of #Drosophila ovarioles.
Drawing of an adult female fruit fly
A tumorigenic Drosophila ovariole stained for tubulin and pH3 in the shape of a Christmas tree.
Adult Drosophila ovations stained for DAPI.
Picture of the Elisabeth church in Marburg.
Fluorescence microscopy image of an adult Drosophila ovariole. This ovariole shows strong morphological defects.
Group photo of the Bogdan and Rust labs
Screenshot of an inkscape file with a Figure for a publication and with many pages.
Egg chamber expressing upd::HA stained for Fas3 to mark polar cells and HA. upd is apically enriched in polar cells.
Confocal microscopy picture of the anterior portion of a Stage 10b Drosophila egg chamber. Nuclei are stained in blue and cell surroundings are marked in green.
Confocal microscopy pictures of Drosophila ovaries. Top: wildtype phenotype, mid: ovary with mild morphological phenotype, bottom: ovary with a strong morphological phenotype.
Top: Wildtype Drosophila adult ovariole Bottom: Adult Drosophila ovariole with overactivation of Hh signaling in follicle cells