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Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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Just attended the JEDI Meeting @fly-jedi.bsky.social in Palmela, Portugal. Excellent event, great community, and lots of inspiring ideas 💡. #Drosophila #JEDI

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The amazing JEDI crowd 2026! Hurray for an inspiring #Drosophila meeting at a gorgeous location. Thank you to everyone who attended!

There’s more to light than meets the eye in Drosophila!!! Articles in @elife.bsky.social explain how an ancient photoreceptor that senses light outside of the retina can regulate how flies respond to a range of visual cues. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Our RH7 preprint was featured today in eLife’s Magazine Insight by @soeren-haefker.bsky.social. "Non-Visual Light Perception: Ancient photoreceptor shapes behavioural responses" doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @flyneuro.bsky.social @nils-reinhard.bsky.social @flyingclocks.bsky.social @v-kirsch.bsky.social

Non-Visual Light Perception: Ancient photoreceptor shapes behavioural responses

Experiments on Drosophila show that an evolutionarily conserved photoreceptor that senses light outside of the retina can regulate responses to direct visual cues.

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Our reviewed preprint in eLife is out now! We show that RH7, an ancient opsin in non-retinal structures, shapes how Drosophila responds to light-dark changes. Working on the revision :-). @flyneuro.bsky.social @v-kirsch.bsky.social @flyingclocks.bsky.social @nils-reinhard.bsky.social #Drosophila

Dirk Rieger@flyingclocks.eurosky.social · 6mo ago

In @elife.bsky.social: RHODOPSIN 7: An ancient non-retinal photoreceptor for contrast vision, darkness detection, and circadian regulation doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @v-kirsch.bsky.social @pingkalai.bsky.social @nils-reinhard.bsky.social

The registration for the NeuroDoWo 2026 will open on February 15th🧠 While you wait, you can check out our program on the website🔍 👉🏼Link in bio We hope to see you soon! Stay tuned for more details👀 Suported by @biologists.bsky.social, @neurowissg.bsky.social and @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social

My main postdoc work is now out :) In the group of @tomtom-auer.bsky.social with Justine Pascual, @bruzz-1.bsky.social , Noemi Sgammeglia , with crucial collaboration with @dahaniel.muench.bio and @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unlike other rhodopsins, fly Rh7 is expressed in many non-retinal neurons. This recent preprint shows why, and Bgee shows where 🤓 🪰 www.bgee.org/search/expre... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @pingkalai.bsky.social @v-kirsch.bsky.social

Delighted that my PhD student @v-kirsch.bsky.social received an award for her poster on RHODOPSIN 7 in the @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social section. Many thanks to the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for a wonderful and inspiring meeting! #DZG #Drosophila #Rhodopsin7

DZG Neurobiology@dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Next was @pingkalai.bsky.social of @uni-wuerzburg.de presenting work on Rhodopsin-7. More on this here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... :-) FIrst author Valentina Kirsch also had a poster at our poster session!

Our new paper is out now! We show the non-image forming role of #Rhodopsin7 in #Drosophila, expanding our understanding of #opsins beyond classical vision. This work highlights how #Rh7 contributes to extra-retinal light sensing and plays a role in behavioral light responses. @flyneuro.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

RHODOPSIN 7: An ancient non-retinal photoreceptor for contrast vision, darkness detection, and circadian regulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667052v1

MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f

Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter for your health.

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Many thanks to the JEDI organizers for such a fantastic meeting. I look forward to seeing you all again next time @fly-jedi.bsky.social

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · last yr.

We want to thank everyone who attended this year's #Drosophila JEDI meeting at Château du Feÿ! Three days of amazing talks, great ideas and chat at the camp fire. We are looking forward to meeting everyone again at the next meeting!

Two days left.... Abstract submission is opened until Sunday 15th June 2025 Clocks for Life - a life's journey in chronobiology Farewell symposium Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster #GermanClockClub #Drosophila #CircadianClock @uni-wuerzburg.de @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @flyneuro.bsky.social

Dies ist kein Fake. Es handelt sich um ein neues Plakat, das Frontex entworfen hat, um Kindern während einer Abschiebung zu erklären, was gerade geschieht und wie es weitergeht. Die eigene Abschiebung als Abenteuergeschichte. 🤯

Habe das hier gefunden. op.europa.eu/o/opportal-s...

First day of meeting going well and on schedule 😬

Lok at all that energy. Don't you want to become a JEDI?!

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/neurogenetic... #CharlotteFörster #CharlotteHelfrich-Förster #Chronobiology #Drosophila #CircadianClock

A life's journey in chronobiology Register here: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/neurogenetic... #Drosophila #CircadianClock #CharlotteFörster #Farewell #ClockClub2025 #Neurobiology #Genetics #Chronobiology #Biology #Würzburg @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Dirk Rieger@flyingclocks.eurosky.social · last yr.

#chronobiology #chronobiologie #CharlotteHelfrich-Förster #circadianclock #Drosophila #charlotteförster #Julius-Maximilians-Universität @uni-wuerzburg.de @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social

#CharlotteFörster #Farewell #Symposium #Chronobiology #GermanClockClub2025 #CircadianClock #Drosophila #Fruitfly #Würzburg #KatharinaBeer #RudolfoCosta #BambosKyriacou #OrieSchäfer #MonikaStengl #SheebaVasu #TaishiYoshii #CharlotteHelfrichFörster #Circadia_Clock @uni-wuerzburg.de

They will go after Wikipedia. They will go after libraries. They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports. They will go after archives. Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy. Thinking is the enemy.

Nice graphic of #Drosophila stock keeping.

Andreas Prokop@poppi62.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tired of having to explain this again and again, I made an info- graphic of #Drosophila stock keeping. Any comments? @bdsc.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social

#FörsterLab #ZandawalaLab #YoshiiLab #circadianClocks #connectome #Drosophila #chronobiology @nils-reinhard.bsky.social @zandawala.bsky.social

A little advertising for our special edition #A_Clock_for_all_sesasons. link.springer.com/collections/... #Chronobiology And many thanks to everyone who participated.