Nicolas Svetec

The paper compares immune responses across five Drosophilidae species to bacterial infection, finding that clearance, not tolerance, drives differences in survival rates and identifying new antimicrobial peptides.

The paper investigates how genetic changes in CO2-sensing neurons drive divergent oviposition preferences in Drosophila species.

The paper identifies key transcription factors regulating de novo genes using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic tools in Drosophila.

The paper identifies a core gene set for cross-species cell type classification in Drosophila and shows genome organization influences transcriptional bursting and de novo gene origination during spermatogenesis.

This study investigates the evolutionary origin of sex peptide (SP) and sex peptide receptor (SPR) interactions using ancestral sequence reconstruction, AlphaFold2, and molecular dynamics simulations.

This study uses deep neural networks to analyze chromatin accessibility in Drosophila, showing sequence determinants are conserved and accessibility is mutationally robust yet malleable under selection.