Megan C. Neville

The paper creates a high-resolution single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the Drosophila brain, showing that neuronal identity is determined by lineage and birth order.

The paper uses single-cell transcriptomics to show sex differences in Drosophila brains arise from fine-tuning shared developmental templates rather than large-scale reprogramming.

The paper shows that low-level H3K27me3 enrichment by FruC fine-tunes stemness gene transcription in fly neural stem cells, with conserved mechanisms in humans.

The paper creates a single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult Drosophila ventral nerve cord, identifying over 100 transcriptionally distinct cell types.

This study shows that fruitless (fru) is regulated by doublesex (dsx) in the gonad stem cell niche, promoting sexual dimorphism independently of Transformer-mediated alternative splicing.