Studying retinal morphogenesis in the developing eye of fruit flies, researchers in Science identified spontaneous calcium waves originating from non-neuronal cells responsible for orchestrating tissue architecture in the developing nervous system. https://scim.ag/44r2Jtg

Retinal calcium waves coordinate uniform tissue patterning of the Drosophila eye

Optimal neural processing relies on precise tissue patterning across diverse cell types. Here, we show that spontaneous calcium waves arise among non-neuronal support cells in the developing Drosophil...

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Heaps of great flash talks at #asb2025 - looking forward to learning more from their posters today and tomorrow. It's always challenging to summarise your project in 2 minutes, but an awesome effort by all!

Last night the Bob Robertson award was presented by Adelle Coster (UNSW), a beautiful talk integrating mathematics and biology. Well deserved! And very special to be joined by her dad Hans Coster, a legend in the Australian biophysics community! @lisannes.bsky.social @francesbiophys.bsky.social

The Wollongong crew have arrived in the gold coast for the #ASB2025 meeting! Just missing @lisannes.bsky.social who had presidential matters to attend to. Looking forward to the week of great science and catching up with the biophysics community in Aus!

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...