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

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 · 3d 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.

Patterning in motion: Cell interfaces guide mesenchymal collective migration and #morphogenesis. A perspective from @maikbischoff.bsky.social and @mayorlab.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

Sarah Clark spent two years with us. Early on she worked with postdoc @maikbischoff.bsky.social, co-authoring 2 papers & she then led & trained a team of postbacs who carried out a genetic screen defining subsets of cell junction proteins in action in mesenchymal cells, now in press at MBoC 2/n

It's always a bittersweet moment to send lab members off to the next step in their careers. It's time to formally say goodbye to four amazing postbacs in our lab, all off to PhD programs this Fall. 1/n

Shroom3-dependent pillar cell constriction establishes a mechanical threshold for respiratory lamellar stability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.739096v1

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔥🧪🔬 A blaze of neural crest cells migrates through a developing quail embryo on one of embryonic development's most epic journeys. Beautifully captured by @vanderspuy.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🐣 #Devbio

Despite its nebula-like qualities, this image is from the microscopic rather than astrophysical scale. This adherent cell was labeled for focal adhesions (blue structures) and actin (orange fibers). It is one of the many samples the team is hard at work preparing for #IALSJanelia 2026!

Fluorescence Friday 🔬 By Julia Orio 👏 #FluorescenceFriday #Cells #Microscopy #CellBiology #Cytoskeleton @crg.eu @prbb.org

I feel honored that my Perspective article with @mayorlab.bsky.social on collective cell migration has been featured in this special collection. Many thanks to the curators, @wumin-lab.bsky.social and Gabriele Stephan, as well as @jcb.org rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 3w ago

This collection explores emergent phenomena in #CellBiology incl. how cellular events are rapidly coordinated by waves of chemical & electrical signals, how tissue patterning is governed at the cellular level & how cellular interfaces guide cellular migration & morphology rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

New favorite way to color code microscopy data: this is a real 3D confocal image of an unidentified larvae stained for actin (muscles fibers here). Looks like a watercolor painting! #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday

I feel honored that my Perspective article with @mayorlab.bsky.social on collective cell migration has been featured in this special collection. Many thanks to the curators, @wumin-lab.bsky.social and Gabriele Stephan, as well as @jcb.org rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 3w ago

This collection explores emergent phenomena in #CellBiology incl. how cellular events are rapidly coordinated by waves of chemical & electrical signals, how tissue patterning is governed at the cellular level & how cellular interfaces guide cellular migration & morphology rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

This collection explores emergent phenomena in #CellBiology incl. how cellular events are rapidly coordinated by waves of chemical & electrical signals, how tissue patterning is governed at the cellular level & how cellular interfaces guide cellular migration & morphology rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

Lots of fun and new ideas from our joint lab retreat near Saint-Jurs with @guignardlab.bsky.social, @axonreg2lab.bsky.social, and @raphclement.bsky.social 🙌🏼☀️🛶

Awesome group, fantastic environment! If you're interested in theoretical biophysics, send your application! #cellbio #science #physics

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

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

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

Diana Khoromskaia@dianakhorom.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨Job Alert: PhD in Theoretical Biophysics 🚨 we are looking for a PhD student to join our group at Uni Münster to work on models of multi-layered active materials @uni-muenster.de More details here: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6... Please share and contact me if interested!

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

Meeting legends at #EZM2026 @mads100tist.bsky.social Dreams come true 😘

Another #FluorescenceFriday. When the world is going crazy, I find some peace watching at these myeloid cells (🔴) going about their day. They exist in tissue surrounded by other cells (🔵), and you can see them popping up and down, going in and out of plane as they explore their surrounding.

Even more zebrafish😍 #EZM2026

Mathieu Preußner@mathpreu.bsky.social · 4w ago

Already spotted some #zebrafish in Vienna #EZM2026

I am attending the Vienna Zebrafish meeting next week. Who from y'all am I going to see? #EZM2026 🧪🐟

No better way to head to #EZM2026 than with a freshly published success! Our eLife paper is now out: elifesciences.org/articles/107.... We show optimised prime editing in zebrafish for precise DNA substitutions and insertions. Huge thanks to the fantastic team #Zebrafish #GenomeEditing #eLife

Optimised genome editing for precise DNA insertion and substitution using prime editors in zebrafish

Nickase and nuclease Prime Editors offer complementary routes for precise zebrafish genome editing, balancing accuracy for substitutions with efficiency for short insertions.

elifesciences.org

Already spotted some #zebrafish in Vienna #EZM2026

🌳Like a glowing tree in the making ✨ The embryonic mouse kidney is already building an intricate network of tubules 🩵 while interstitial cells 🟡 help shape the surrounding landscape 🔬💧Proof that even future plumbing can be beautiful 📷 Image by Ewa Langner #FluorescenceFriday

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Eye of a zebrafish embryo🐟

Our July issue is here! rupress.org/jcb/issue/22... The cover shows an immunofluorescence image of a TNFα-inflamed mouse cremaster muscle acquired w/ a Nikon A1 confocal microscope. Green, cortactin; magenta, CD31 (vessels); cyan, MRP-14 (neutrophils). Guerrero-Fonseca et al. doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

With help from @negberry.bsky.social (now a postdoc at @princeton.edu), and generous funding from #NSERC, @innovation.ca, @trogersresearch.bsky.social, and @bme-uoft.bsky.social @engineering.utoronto.ca @utoronto.ca.

microPublication Biology@micropub7n.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Quantitative image analysis reveals no sexual dimorphism in the cellular dynamics of Drosophila heart tube formation #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Drosophila #ComputationalBiology https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-002132

My image "The phases of gastrulation" made it to the top 10 in this year #YEN2026 image competition! I took this video of a gastrulating 🐸 embryo while testing a new microscope in the lab. One of the rare #devbio theme videos I got. Check out the others here: thenode.biologists.com/results-of-t...

Great scientist, even better person 💕

Universität Münster@uni-muenster.de · last mo.

Biologist Angelica Coculla is researching the internal circadian clock of fruit flies. A recent paper published in the journal Science shows that the insects can reset their internal clock through their behaviour. With the molecular rhythm, the sleep-wake cycle returned. #Biology