Floris BOSVELD
@florisbosveld.bsky.social
Drosophila researcher at Institut Curie, dedicated to the pursuit of the scientific way of life.
Our International Developmental Mechanics Zoom Seminar Series returns this fall! Interested in sharing your research with an international community? Sign up to speak at an upcoming session: sites.google.com/view/devmech... #DevBio #Mechanobiology #Morphogenesis
Doing a Master or PhD and interested in Developmental Biology? Join the free Institut Curie developmental biology course in beautiful Paris this fall! Great speaker lineup, check: training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve... Registration deadline Sept. 18 2026.
We have an open postdoc position to study phase transitions in embryos and/or biological time, broadly understood. We are looking for experimental physicists/biologists (or similar fields). If you are interested, please email or DM me. Join us! 😀
Nice short and clear SPOTLIGHT from @luschnig.bsky.social lab on our recent work related to tissue cell number regulation. Spindle errors: A stress test for epithelial robustness: Trends in Cell Biology www.cell.com/trends/cell-...
Spindle errors: A stress test for epithelial robustness
Bosveld et al. uncover how epithelial tissue buffers mitotic spindle errors. In the Drosophila notum, cells displaced by spindle misorientation either reintegrate via cell-autonomous and nonautonomous...
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Week-end reading? Check out our new review on development and regeneration of glandular epithelia! With two fantastic co-authors: @robinjournot.bsky.social and @candice-merle.bsky.social ! 🤗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Shared molecular and cellular programs during regeneration of glandular epithelia
An emerging concept across multiple adult tissues implies that regeneration involves the transient reactivation of developmental programs, rather than…
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#Agenda 'Developmental Biology' (From Stemcell to Morphogenesis) An int.course on Oct. 19 - 28, 2026 in Paris/France. by @institutcurie.bsky.social & @sorbonne-universite.fr Application are open Jul. 19 & Sept. 18 @maitrejl.bsky.social @florisbosveld.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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📢 #ECE2026Tours news: the “Programme At-a-Glance” is now live! Keynotes, talks, posters, networking events… start planning your week in Tours! www.ece2026.org/programme-at... @irbi-tours.bsky.social @ece2026tours.bsky.social #Entomology#Behaviour#Genetics#Biodiversity #Ecology#Evolution
Programme at-a-glance
Programme at-a-glance The detailed programme will be made available during the first week of May. Download the PDF file
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Interdisciplinary course on Artificial Cells next fall in Paris. Registrations are open : www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art... For masters, PhD students and postdocs. Every wednesday, 5 to 7 PM, @espciparispsl.bsky.social from September to December. See below for the list of great teachers!
✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_...
Dear network, I am co-organizing this very cool symposium on plant and algea biology on June 18th. Check out the program below. Registration is free but mandatory. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Nice artwork on the poster
Roland Le Borgne@leborgne.bsky.social · 4mo agoDear colleagues, The 36th French Drosophila Meeting (Trégastel, Oct 5–8, 2026) website is now online! drosofrance26.sciencesconf.org We look forward to welcoming you in Brittany! Best wishes, The Organizing Committee Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet, Roland Le Borgne
Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.
We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...
Join IGH as Group Leader - IGH
The Institute of Human Genetics invites applications for a Principal Investigator position in its main research areas. Read more...
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Less than a week left for abstract submission for #EESMechanobiology - join us in this long-standing meeting on the mechanics of life.
EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 5mo agoSubmit your abstract for #EESMechanobiology and share your research with an international audience, contributing to an integrative understanding of mechanobiology across kingdoms. The submission deadline is 3 March: https://s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl 🗓️ 9 – 12 June 2026 📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual
Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :) cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...
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It was a pleasure to work on this graphical abstract. Very interesting work from @florisbosveld.bsky.social et al, as always. A thorough look on how tissues deal with asymmetric cell divisions. Find and read the full work here : www.cell.com/developmenta...
How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers? Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social Congratulations to all authors. Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social (lalealpar.com) www.cell.com/developmenta...
Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation
Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...
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The threefold way an epithelium copes with cell misplacement: pulling them up, killing them less, and removing the unwanted. Ruoheng Li discusses a #preprint from @florisbosveld.bsky.social & colleagues @ybellaichelab.bsky.social Check out the #preLight ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...
Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation - preLights
The threefold way an epithelium copes with cell misplacement: pulling them up, killing them less, and removing the unwanted.
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🎄✨ Early Christmas gift! The abstract submission deadline for #ECE2026Tours has been extended to 31 January 2026 🎁🐜 For more information about the XIII European Congress of Entomology ➡️ www.ece2026.org @irbi-tours.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social
ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
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Don't forget to register for #ECE2026! Early bird registration until December 15th 2025. Great opportunity to learn about insect biology. In wonderful setting (Tours, FR) and great speaker lineup. Keynote Speaker: Insect development Yohanns Bellaiche @ybellaichelab.bsky.social www.ece2026.org
ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
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Interested in insects? Every topic will be covered in the upcoming ECE2026 meeting. In beautiful Tours (France) during early summer. June 29th – July 3rd 2026 Abstract submission & early bird registration until December 15th 2025 www.ece2026.org
ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
ece2026.org
How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss? Check it out our new preprint! THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation.
Multicellular organisms possess conserved safeguard mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of tissue integrity. Exploring these mechanisms has proven instrumental in understanding how tissues robustly...
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FlyBase needs help. Similar article last week in Science www.science.org/content/arti...
Harvard victory leaves scientists feeling vindicated but uncertain
Trump administration vows to appeal ruling that it illegally cut $2.2 billion in research funding
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FlyBase@flybase.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The importance of delivering Recherche d'Avenir – research for the future
In recent years, several European countries, including France, have reduced their investment in scientific research, with biomedical research taking a significant hit. The primary casualty is basic re...
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📢 Submissions are now open for the CellMap Segmentation Challenge. Build the best method for segmenting cellular organelles in vEM using our 289 annotated volumes, 40 organelle classes, and 22 diverse cell and tissue types. 🔗 hhmi.news/410evJQ
First official post! A new paper out about #cytokinesis in #epithelia www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Explore our journey as we uncover how regulators of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions modulate cytokinesis efficiency, while revealing new roles for the Dystrophin-Dystroglycan complex.
To kick start the New Year, I'm delighted to share the lab's first preprint - now online: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... See below for a couple of highlights👇 Any feedback is welcome! "TEsky" HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! 🥂
An endogenous retroviral element co-opts an upstream regulatory sequence to achieve somatic expression and mobility
Retrotransposons, multi-copy sequences that propagate via copy-and-paste mechanisms involving an RNA intermediate, occupy large portions of all eukaryotic genomes. A great majority of their manifold c...
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