Katja Röper
@katjaroeper.bsky.social
Cell and developmental biologist, Drosophilist, renal organoids & kidney development, cytoskeleton, cell shape, supracellular coordination in morphogenesis, Cambridge, Berlin, Heidelberg, Alto, mum, views are my own… she/her
Brilliant programme!
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · 3w agoMore than 600 students from across Cambridge, Peterborough & Bedfordshire took part in this year's Microscopes 4 Schools Competition submitting images of bugs, flowers & more! 🔬 📸 2026 Winners Read more about this year’s competition here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews #PublicEngagement
Great opportunity to get involved and shape what is happening at the next EDRC in Bonn in 2027!
European Drosophila Society@fly-eds.bsky.social · 3w ago📣 📣 📣 📣 To all Drosophilists: the call for Workshop proposals at the 2027 European Drosophila Research Conference in Bonn (20-23 September 2027) is OPEN! Go to link below for instructions. Closing date: 30 September 2026. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 tinyurl.com/45y8trzd
So grateful for the new Kathy Matthews Endowment for the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. A wonderful tribute by Kathy's husband, Lawrence Washington, that will help preserve Kathy's legacy and support the fly community for years to come. biology.indiana.edu/news-events/...
Major gift to establish endowment for IU Drosophila Stock Center
IU Biology news: The IU Stock Center maintains thousands of documented, living genetic strains of Drosophila melanogaster, a small fruit fly that has served as one of science’s most powerful tools for...
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An extra treat at the EMBO Crete Drosophila meeting provided by Eric Lai and Cassandra Extravour, what a week! 🪰☀️🌊
eric lai@lucksmith.bsky.social · last mo.Crete Fly 2026 is a wrap! brain overflowing with info, and heart full with joy, after a week of stimulating talks, discussions, and catching up with old and new friends spanning 30 years of my life. also rocked the OAC with Cassandra Extavour for the first time, the fly community is the BEST!! 🪰🇬🇷
Save the date! The 2027 BSDB Spring Meeting will take place on 19 - 22 April in Edinburgh. An exciting programme with a fantastic lineup of speakers showcasing developmental biology across scales! More details soon!
Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
Fantastic science in Münster, great opportunity!
Stefan Luschnig@luschnig.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe CiM-IMPRS PhD program in #Münster is offering 16 #PhD positions in Life and Natural Sciences! Perform cutting-edge resesearch in a vibrant international setting and lively city! Apply by May 1st, 2026 - see www.uni-muenster.de/CiM-IMPRS/ap... @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social
On my way! I will talk in and chair the first session Thai afternoon, make sure to be there! #gfe2026
Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie e.V.@gfeev.bsky.social · 5mo agoit’s already … tomorrow?! Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio
Reminder: Brian Calvi's FlyBase talk is TOMORROW, March 7, at 7:30-7:45 pm in Room Sheraton/Chicago 4-7 #DROS26
FlyBase@flybase.bsky.social · 5mo ago#DROS26 starts tomorrow! Sadly, most of FlyBase will not be there this year. Brian Calvi, our Indiana University PI, will be speaking on "FlyBase: Past, Present, and Future" during the Techniques and Technology workshop (Sat. 3/7 7:70-7:45, Room Sheraton/Chicago 4-7). @briancalvi.bsky.social
An amazing story by @mariapalcolea.bsky.social and colleagues!
Maria Alcolea@mariapalcolea.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨 New paper from our lab just published in Nature🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Discover how 🌱 tumour formation is shaped by tissue context from the very beginning. Cancer is not driven by genetics alone ✨Fantastic team led by Greta Skrupskelyte, Eduardo Rojo, @hariajith.bsky.social
So cool! Where would you like to take this mobile lab?
Gautam Dey@gautamdey.bsky.social · 5mo ago@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb... #WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky 🦠🌍🧪
Happy to share this work from Carlos Camacho de la Maccora that reveals how rates of posterior progenitor addition and anterior vacuolation are balanced across the notochord. With Alberto Ceccarelli and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social we present a model of long-range communication to provide robustness.
Join for our exciting meeting in Spain! Deadline for abstracts today!
Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe abstract submission deadline for our upcoming 'Imaging Cell Dynamics' meeting is this Friday. We still have a few places remaining so apply now to secure your spot! Find out more at: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs... #imaging #microscopy #cellbiology
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Our take on a really interesting new study by the Franz lab at UCL, a version of epithelial polarity where you would not expect it! Read our Spotlight and the original paper!
Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 6mo agoSpotlight: Ball and Röper @pdncambridge.bsky.social discuss recent findings by Almasoud, Franz et al. (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) describing how apical–basal polarity regulates cell–cell adhesion in the #Drosophila fat body. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Adhesion #Cytoskeleton #Development
Very cool story!
Physics of Life Dresden@poldresden.bsky.social · 6mo ago⚡👩🔬Electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth, a new study! Out now in Science Advances, from the Mateus group @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL and @mpi-cbg.de along with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social Read the news here: tud.link/7jzptz Video:©️ Mateus group
Check out the tour de force by @jalehtimaki.bsky.social in its final form: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . An elegant combination of transcriptomics, F0 screens and high end imaging unravels the cues that guide cells (here retinal horizontal cells) in an increasingly crowded tissue. #proudPI
Spatiotemporal coordination of Slit-Robo repulsion and neurturin-Gfrα attraction guides multipolar migration during retinal lamination
Multipolar migration is a conserved neuronal migration mode in the developing brain, enabling emerging neurons to navigate in crowded environments and…
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Cool new paper from the Munro lab!
Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 7mo agoThe small #GTPase Rab1 is a master regulator of #Golgi traffic and #autophagy. van Vliet, Munro et al. @mrclmb.bsky.social performed a proteomic screen to identify novel Rab1 effectors, including a #dynein motor adaptor and cargo receptors for autophagy. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Trafficking
So cool! How any of these processes can happen with such precision and speed in a madly dense cytoplasm never stops amazing me!
David Drubin@drubin.bsky.social · 8mo agoToday, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
An amazing day, I was 17 and lived about 5 min away from Checkpoint Charlie!
German Embassy London@uk.diplo.de · 9mo agoThe Berlin Wall, which divided Berlin and Europe for 28 years, fell on 9 November 1989.
Amazing, Emma, congrats! One to read!
Emma Rawlins@labrawlins.bsky.social · 10mo agoDelighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Very sad news indeed…
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · 10mo agoJohn Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died. Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology. More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-... #LMBNews
Lovely summary of how the advent of confocal microscopy changed our research and ability to understand biology
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 10mo agoNew Online! The advent of confocal laser scanning microscopy in biological research
Brilliant postdocs in my lab! Here they are, plus an undercover MPhil student, for Postdoc Appreciation Week! #LovePostdocs #NPAW2025
If you love cytoskeleton and tissue morphogenesis, have a read!
Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 11mo agoSupracellular actomyosin assemblies: master coordinators of development In this Review, Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social discusses supracellular actomyosin structures, tissues where they function, their known roles as well as potential properties journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
