Professor of Neurogenetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford. Genetic dissection of Sexual Behaviour.☘️ Drosophila neuroscience, genetics, genomics, sexual behaviour http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/goodwin-group-1https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3mgximyqhnc2mProud to share that our team made the local news. A big congratulations to Erin, Megan, and everyone on the team who made it happen.Thanks to Ben Hopkins and Artyom Kopp for the Preview piece. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03-12-new-research-reveals-how-development-and-sex-shape-brain13 Mar 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgximyqhnc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3mcaqo4ueus26Our follow up paper on Sex: Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain: Cell Genomics https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X%2825%2900381-712 Jan 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcaqo4ueus26https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3magceynl6c2bA high-resolution atlas of the brain predicts lineage and birth order underlying neuronal identity: Cell Genomics https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X%2825%2900359-3 Follow-up paper on sex, online in the New year20 Dec 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3magceynl6c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3m2ht67m7ik2ihttps://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem/male-cns-connectome05 Oct 2025 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ht67m7ik2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3lzxm2xqpls26Boom, congratulations Joel https://eeb.utoronto.ca/2025/09/professor-joel-levine-elected-fellow-of-the-royal-society-of-canada/29 Sep 2025 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzxm2xqpls26https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3lr6heiab3c2zNew preprint from lab: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657833v1 Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.09 Jun 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6heiab3c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3lr6h675a6k2zNew preprint from the lab https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657818v1 A molecular atlas of the Drosophila central brain links transcriptional identity to development, anatomy, and behaviour, revealing stable transcription factor codes and a temporal cascade marking birth order.09 Jun 2025 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6h675a6k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social/post/3lnijqauhr22hWTF [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:4nhoh2ofo7g44i632igig6j5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnijqauhr22h