📣 #JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a position as Head of the Life Imaging Center (LIC) – the core facility for light microscopy. ❗ Application Deadline: 6 September, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/2126 #Biology #LightMicroscopy #Imaging

Interested in using #Drosophila genetics & advanced imaging combined with modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? We’re hiring a #PhD student @uni-muenster.de, based at the Multiscale Imaging Center and @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Apply here tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d

Amazing work and a great thread on this fantastic paper about how flies control breathing during flight.

Yichen Luo 骆奕辰@camellyc.bsky.social · 2d ago

2/8 Insects breathe through spiracles: tiny valves in the cuticle that open to take in oxygen and close to prevent water loss. Drosophila have 18 spiracles. I filmed them in flying flies and found their opening tracks flight power moment to moment and shrinks when the fly gets dehydrated.

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

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Twisting embryos and multiple #attachment sites in #Drosophila - now both available as #preprints. Proud of @giuliaserafini.bsky.social & @cuencam15.bsky.social, who worked together & established theory collaborations with @lepuslapis.bsky.social & @carldmodes.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de at its best

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David Grimm@david-grimm.bsky.social · 5d ago

Orcas are ramming sunfish so hard they explode. Check out the stunning video at the link. Nice story by @annieroth.bsky.social for @science.org

Different lab, different continent, different species — same curiosity 🇯🇵 The extensive PDH-ir arborization pattern of a male Sieboldius albardae dragonfly 🐉🪰. The projections are color coded from anterior (blue) to posterior (yellow). Drosophila brain for scale. #FluorescenceFriday Detail images 👇

This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

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PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Biologie-Lehrkräfte & Schüler*innen aufgepasst: Der @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de öffnet euch wieder die Türen für: - das beliebte Genetikpraktikum (08.03.-19.03.27) - spannende Vorträge von Professor*innen ab dem 14.09.26 Weitere Infos: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/p...

Friday afternoon = Fix Your Bike time. 🚲 Behind FixYourBike is a group of colleagues who invite the whole campus to their repair sessions. The motto: bring your bike, learn to fix it yourself. And now there’s a bike repair station on campus too! 🔧 Thanks for keeping our bikes rolling!

Maternal patterning in early Drosophila embryos: how much information can single maternal gradients supply? #Drosophila

Very happy that our workshop on developmental robustness is happening! Thank you to @biologists.bsky.social for making it possible and to all the speakers for accepting the invitation. Join us! Applications for funded positions are now open.

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 2w ago

Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop on Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027, organised by Mauricio Rocha Martins and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ap...

I love biology--after decades of study, we're still learning new and surprising things about one of the best studied reproductive systems, that of the female fruit fly pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42489076/

In their Cell Science at a Glance article & poster, Pascal Höhne, Marie Hugenroth & Maria Bohnert @bohnertlab.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de highlight the multifunctionality & metabolic plasticity of the NVJ & its integration into the contact site network. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Saiduddin, @remlehmann.bsky.social et al. @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu show that membrane lipid composition establishes the soma-germline boundary in the fly embryo. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Drosophila #CellSignaling #StemCells

Closing session of @vgzt2021.bsky.social today with the always awesome speaker Cassandra Extavour! Don’t miss this!!

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks@vgzt2021.bsky.social · 2w ago

Final VGZT seminar of the season! 🎉 We're delighted to welcome Cassandra Extavour for our rescheduled keynote lecture: "One, two, three: evolution of developmental counting mechanisms" 🗓️ Thursday, July 23rd
 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST We look forward to seeing you there! 👋

PAK4 promotes vertex remodeling to maintain epithelial integrity and barrier function rupress.org/jcb/article-...

PAK4 promotes vertex remodeling to maintain epithelial integrity and barrier function

Adhikary et al. show that PAK4 drives dynamic vertex remodeling in cells and embryos through spatiotemporal regulation of myosin II. Inhibition of PAK4 dis

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This video shows wave patterns in the cell's cortex, the layer just below the outer membrane where so much signaling occurs. These waves are a self-organizing pattern that prepares an oocyte for polar body emission & cytokinesis during meiosis, using simple rules that produce complexity from chaos.

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 2w ago

Michaud, @andrewgoryachev.bsky.social, von Dassow, @xenresearchcenter.bsky.social et al. identify a versatile cortical pattern-forming circuit based on #Rho, F-#actin, Ect2, & RGA-3/4 rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

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.

Tomorrow next lunch seminar of the @dgz.bsky.social : Topic this time: Physics of the cell. Be there!

Excited to see this collaboration now in print. Dye chemistry meets AI-designed proteins. Three small, orthogonal tags; lifetime modulation; split versions. Request the free dyes at dyes.janelia.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

De novo design of orthogonal far-red, orange, and green fluorophore-binding proteins for multiplexed imaging

Fluorescent proteins and small-molecule dyes offer complementary advantages for biological imaging: proteins are amenable to genetic tagging, whereas dyes provide superior brightness and photostabilit...

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💡New manuscript: We are pleased to share our latest work on UapA, the purine transporter from Aspergillus nidulans! #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #MembraneTransport www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join an exciting research project led by an exceptional PI. Apply now! @uni-muenster.de

Diana Khoromskaia@dianakhorom.bsky.social · 3w ago

Two days left to apply for a PhD position in our group, see below!

Save the Date!🗓️ The CiM IMPRS Graduate School Meeting returns for its 20th edition! Follow us as more details will be announced soon 🚨

The EMBO Lab Leadership for #Postdocs online course running 08–10 September still has places open. Three days on the people side of running research: - interpersonal skills - tools for your development - clearer communication Sign up here: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol...  #EMBOLabLead

📣 #JobAlert The Faculty of Biology of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics. ❗ Application Deadline: 15 August, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/roi8 #Biology #Bioinformatics #MolecularGenetics

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de seminar with Christopher Thomas (Marseille Developmental Biology Institute) on July 16, 2026. He will speak about “Revealing the Secrets of Ovulation”. Everyone's welcome! More: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i...

📣 📣 📣 📣 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