🎓 I successfully defended my thesis titled "Multimodal investigation of cell death and clearance in Drosophila melanogaster"

🗞 New publication! Chasse AY, Bandyadka S, Wertheimer MC, Serizier SB, McCall K. Professional phagocytes are recruited for the clearance of obsolete nonprofessional phagocytes in the Drosophila ovary. Front Immunol. 2024;15. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2024.1389674 Using fly genetics and computational image analysis we show that circulating phagocytes are recruited for the clearance of ovarian follicle cells during starvation-induced cell death in the egg chamber!

🗞 New publication! Liu G, Bandyadka S, McCall K. Protocol to analyze 3D neurodegenerative vacuoles in Drosophila melanogaster. STAR Protoc. 2024;5: 103017. doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103017 We demonstrate how to efficiently and reproducibly annotate and perform vacuole volumetry on neurodegenerative brains!

🗞 New preprint! Bandyadka, S., Lebo, D.P.V., Mondragon, A., Serizier, S.B., Kwan, J., Peterson, J.S., Chasse, A.Y., Jenkins, V., Calikyan, A., Ortega, A., et al. (2024). Multi-modal comparison of molecular programs driving nurse cell death and clearance in Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis. bioRxiv, 2024.03.12.584558. 10.1101/2024.03.12.584558. We compared apoptotic and non-apoptotic germline death in the fly egg chamber across multiple levels of gene regulation and identified serveral new candidates that uniquely affect oogenesis!

🗞 New publication! Elguero, J. E., Liu, G., Tiemeyer, K., Bandyadka, S., Gandevia, H., Duro, L., Yan, Z., & McCall, K. (2023). Defective phagocytosis leads to neurodegeneration through systemic increased innate immune signaling. iScience, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108052

🎤 Invited to give a talk at ASCB Cell Bio 2023 - (December 2023). My talk will be part of the special interest subgroup "Cell Death 2.0: Novel and Diverse Killing Modalities Across Systems"

Started a summer internship at ArsenalBio

🏆 My mentee Simran Kaur (Boston University BME freshman) awarded her first UROP! She will be investigating the role of microtubules in the membrane-trafficking of V-ATPases.

👩‍🏫 Teaching assitant for CAS BI 552 : Molecular Biology with Dr. Ed Loechler

🎤 Invited to give a talk at the Boston Area Drosophila meeting - "Alternative Splicing Of Vha100-2 Exon 2 Promotes Non-Cell Autonomous Clearance Of Nurse cells In Drosophila melanogaster Oogenesis"

🪑 Chaired the organizing committee for the Boston University Bioinformatics Program Student-Organized Symposium

Presented 2 posters at the 63rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego

📜 Bandyadka S , Lebo DPV, Fiszbein A, McCall K, “Characterizing the landscape of alternative splicing events regulating the clearance of nurse cells by non-professional phagocytes in Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis”

📜 Chasse A, Wertheimer M, Bandyadka S, McCall K, “The role of professional phagocytes during cell death in the ovary of Drosophila melanogaster”

🗞 New publication! - Hong R, Koga Y, Bandyadka S, Leshchyk A, Wang Y, Akavoor V, et al. Comprehensive generation, visualization, and reporting of quality control metrics for single-cell RNA sequencing data. Nat Commun. 2022;13: 1–9. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29212-9

🗞 New publication! - Klanderman BJ, Koch C, Machini K, Parpattedar SS, Bandyadka S, Lin C-F, et al. Automated Pharmacogenomic Reports for Clinical Genome Sequencing. J Mol Diagn. 2022. doi:10.1016/j.jmoldx.2021.12.001

👩‍💻 Attended the Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole