Editorial overview: Networks, phase transitions, sociality, and reproduction: Inter-insect interactions that change molecular physiological state
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Acknowledgements
We thank all the authors for their contributions to this issue, and Laura Sirot for comments on this editorial. MFW thanks the N.I.H. (grants R01-HD038921, HD059060, and AI095491) for support, and the NSF-funded Sociogenomics Research Collaboration Network (W. Wilczynski, PI) for useful discussions. YH thanks ISF (grant 2041/17) and MOST (grant 53641) for support.
Yael Heifetz heads the Reproductive Biology and Aging Laboratory at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yael’s team seeks to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate female fertility and reproductive aging. Her team uses Drosophila and human reproductive in-vitro systems as models to study fertility and aging, with an emphasis on factors that affect life-span and modulate how fast the system ages.
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Yael Heifetz heads the Reproductive Biology and Aging Laboratory at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yael’s team seeks to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate female fertility and reproductive aging. Her team uses Drosophila and human reproductive in-vitro systems as models to study fertility and aging, with an emphasis on factors that affect life-span and modulate how fast the system ages.
Mariana Federica Wolfner is Cornell University’s Goldwin Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Her laboratory, with their collaborators, studies the actions and evolution of the molecules, genes, and physiology that underlie fertility; specifically how males, via their seminal proteins, modulate the physiology and behavior of mated female Diptera and (separately) the molecular mechanisms that ‘activate’ Drosophila eggs to initiate embryogenesis.