I am delighted to share that Caroline Dillard has been appointed as a permanent INSERM Researcher in my team to develop her research program on how innate immunity contributes to carcinogenesis. Congratulations, Caroline! We are thrilled to welcome you and look forward to the discoveries ahead.

he early bird registration deadline for DrosoFrance 2026 has been extended until July 6th. Registration remains open until September 15th, but only a limited number of places are left. So if you're planning to join us for the french Fly meeting (Trégastel), don't wait too long!

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Dear 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

🔬 Utiliser la lumière pour contrôler le comportement des cellules : c’est le principe de l’optogénétique, outil central aux recherches de Léo Valon, médaille de bronze du @cnrs.fr. 👋 @pasteur.fr 👉 Son portrait : buff.ly/fPylR8q

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We´re hiring a #PhD student - if you´re interested in combining genetics, cell biology and state-of-the-art imaging to study #epithelial tissue dynamics in #Drosophila, apply to the CiM-IMPRS PhD program by May 1st (see below) Please RT @uni-muenster.de @sfb1348.bsky.social

SFB 1348@sfb1348.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Deadline approaching! The CiM-IMPRS #PhD program in #Münster is recruiting: 16 #PhD positions in Life & Natural Sciences. Great chance to do cutting-edge research in a vivid international environment—apply by May 1st: www.uni-muenster.de/CiM-IMPRS/ap... @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social

Dear 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

Twenty years ago, thanks to the CNRS’ ATIP programme (www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/atip-avenir), I had the opportunity to embark on this wonderful human and scientific adventure. Thank you to all my colleagues and to the funding agencies for making this possible.

Save the date Excellent meeting coming up in May in Münster, Germany Timely topics and exceptional speaker line-up

Save the date or Register now! Excellent SFB 1348 meeting coming up in May in Münster, Germany Timely topic and exceptional speaker line-up!

Wondering what to study for the next three years? Applications for the PhD programme are now open! igdr.univ-rennes.fr/en/applicati... Our team is offering two projects, one on tumour-innate immune system dialogue and the other on collective cell migration and organogenesis.

Wondering what to study for the next three years? Applications for the PhD programme are now open! igdr.univ-rennes.fr/concours-doc... Our team is offering two projects, one on tumour-innate immune system dialogue and the other on collective cell migration and organogenesis.

Happy New Year 2026! This year, Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet and I are delighted to be organising the 36th French Droso Meeting in Brittany, from 5 to 8 October. A great line-up of speakers Mark the date in your diaries ! The meeting website containing all the details will be opening very soon.

Après l’adoption de la loi Duplomb, cette femme souffrant d’un cancer crie sa colère à l’Assemblée

Après l’adoption de la loi Duplomb, cette femme souffrant d’un cancer crie sa colère à l’Assemblée

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If you're a fan of epithelial morphogenesis and still don't know what to do at the end of October... Organized by Maria Dolores Martin-Bermudo and Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, Here's the worskhop just for you!

How premalignant cells can exploit Toll-NF-κB signaling, in concert with oncogenic Ras, to enable unchecked growth? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Congratulations on your superb work Caroline & Co see also, from Basler Lab journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... & journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We are delighted to share our latest study (www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....), where we identify and characterize a Greatwall-like pathway in C. elegans. Thanks to our sponsors @agencerecherche.bsky.social y.social, La Ligue Contre le Cancer, @ijmonod.bsky.social, @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

The MAST kinase KIN-4 carries out mitotic entry functions of Greatwall in C. elegans | The EMBO Journal

imageimageGreatwall, a conserved MAST-like kinase with crucial mitotic entry functions, is curiously absent in worms. Here, the single canonical MAST kinase family member KIN-4 is shown to fulfill thi...

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May The (right) Force Be With You ! If you want to know how to open and close a vertex, read this superb article from Stefan Luschnig's Lab! PMID: 39965573 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.043

To accompany the Biologists @ 100 conference, we're launching an image competition together with @focalplane.bsky.social! Enter your best biological research images 🧪🔬 Shortlisted images will be presented at the #Biologists100 conference in March. Details: thenode.biologists.com/enter-the-no...

We are hiring! If you are curious to understand how the mechanical integrity of epithelia is maintained without the tissue tearing, apply now! Phd and post-doctoral funding available

How do mechanical constraints influence renal morphogenesis? Excellent laboratory and fascinating question emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

How do epithelial tissues respond to loss of barrier function in vivo? Find out more in the latest article by Thomas Esmangart de Bournonville. Thank you to @FRM_officiel, @AgenceRecherche and @FondationARC for their invaluable support. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @eLife

The third edition of the IGDR PhD Programme has been launched ! Find out more about this year's profiles here igdr.univ-rennes.fr/en/application

PhD proposal in Delphine Delacour's laboratory at IBDM, Marseille, France an innovative mechanobiology project in an excellent multidisciplinary environment. The link to apply:  centuri-livingsystems.org/phd2024-05/

PhD proposal in Delphine Delacour's laboratory at IBDM, Marseille, France an innovative mechanobiology project in an excellent multidisciplinary environment It's time to apply!

We´re hiring! 2-year postdoc position opening in my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Center, University of Münster, to work on membrane trafficking and epithelial tissue dynamics in Drosophila. For details, please see shorturl.at/auBW4 and apply by Feb 29th.

Ready to go on a post-doc? You don't know where yet, or on which topic? Here's an advert for a top subject in a top team! Do not hesitate to apply.