I highly recommend everyone to apply for this meeting. It is such an amazing experience with amazing science, awesome people and at a gorgeous location!

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

Greetings from the JEDI members that were selected for this year's @embo.org #Drosophila Crete meeting. Congratulations for giving amazing talks! From left: Helene Knævelsrud @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social, Katja Rust @rustflylab.bsky.social and Julie Carnesecchi @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social

One more day left before leaving for the @embo.org Crete meeting for Molecular and Developmental Biology of #Drosophila! Very excited to meet everyone!

I loved the group discussion after my talk at the JEDI meeting! Thanks to everyone!

Last day of an amazing meeting from the @sfb1348.bsky.social in Münster! I learned so many interesting aspects of mechanosensing here and have loved to talk to all the outstanding scientists here.

I am very much looking forward to the upcoming SFB 1348 meeting! This will be exciting - see you in Münster!

SFB 1348@sfb1348.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The @sfb1348.bsky.social Meeting “Mechanochemical Signals at Cellular Interfaces” is just around the corner! We are excited to welcome an outstanding lineup of international speakers to #Münster for three days of inspiring scientific exchange and discussion. @uni-muenster.de

Wow! We are now supported by both the company of biologists and EMBO! I am so proud of our organising team!

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amazing news! The company of biologists @biologists.bsky.social has decided to support our upcoming meeting! We now only have a couple of spots left for the upcoming JEDI #Drosophila meeting. 📍Palmela, Portugal 📅 June 1st to 3rd Register: congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Extended registration deadline for our conference (June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal) to May 15th! Join if you are a Junior #Drosophila PI or senior #postdoc about to transition to independence. Spread the word! 🎬Venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P1n... 🔗Registration: fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...

Pousada de Palmela

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Our work got featured at ClearSkyScience. It's very exciting to see the breakdown of your own work written by someone else. I admit that I cannot fully endorse the figures but this was an interesting experience! www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1038/s...

This meeting was amazing! I had the pleasure of chairing one of the sessions and loved the science!

Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie e.V.@gfeev.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks to Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social) for reporting on our joint developmental biology meeting in Potsdam #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026. enjoy the read: thenode.biologists.com/meeting-repo... looking forward to seeing you and @the-node.bsky.social at #GfE2028

Look at this view! And even better: every attendee gives a talk making this meeting extremely collaborative. This is THE meeting to be for #NewPI #Drosophila researchers - and those who want to connect to them!

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Calling all #Drosophila #NewPI #researchers! A few spots remain for the upcoming JEDI Conference - and you won’t want to miss this! Every attendee gives a talk, making the exchange dynamic, personal, and highly interactive - all at a stunning venue that inspires collaboration and creativity.

We are now online! Visit our new lab website at: www.rustresearchlab.com

Rust Lab

Signaling pathway crosstalk during epithelial homeostasis and pathogenesis

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Time to share some data that might get buried in the supplement of our recent paper here rdcu.be/e91Kj Here you can see how cells intercalate in a coordinated fashion. They move from a double rowed organisation to a single row stalk. 🧵

Our paper is now available as early access at Nature Communications! Using the #Drosophila follicle epithelium as a model, we applied #scRNAseq, #LiveImaging, and cell biological tools to unravel functions of aberrant EGFR-Ras and Hedgehog signaling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing! Looking forward to meeting great scientists!

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The registration is open! Junior #Drosophila PIs, join us for inspiring scientific discussion, contribute a talk and listen to our keynote speaker, Eugenia Chiappe. We meet in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 3rd. Register soon as spots are limited! congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Came to give a talk in beautiful #Kassel at the lab of Arno Müller and leaving with lots of amazing ideas and gifts! These #Drosophila were just what we needed for our current revision. Thank you, Arno!

Our two #Drosophila fly rooms have an ongoing debate which one has the better crew. This battle is currently reaching the next dimension. Judge for yourself!

Yay! 🎉

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Dear #Drosophila researchers, the year starts with good news! The date and venue for our next meeting is confirmed: June 1st to 3rd at the beautiful Historic Hotel Castle De Palmela in Portugal! Mark the dates, registration will open soon!

Join us to study developmental cell biology with a focus on cell migration and morphogenesis. More info about our research: www.bischofflab.com Job posting and application details: focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology... #Science #CellBio #DevBio #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #PhDPosition #Drosophila

Here is a tiny glimpse into our recent work: a #pseudotime analysis of wildtype and tumorigenic #Drosophila follicle epithelial cells using #Monocle3. Seeing a bioinformatic prediction that supports our in vivo findings is always my favorite part of the day!

The lab is growing! We welcomed Hannah as a new PhD student and Anna and Lina as Master's students in the lab. I am more than thankful to be working with such a motivated, fun group of researchers!

I give you "Woman dancing with a bird"! This is a monocle analysis of our tumor model which we are currently revising. #SingleCell #Drosophila

Very much looking forward to this!

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

We and @bogdanlab.bsky.social are visiting Heidelberg for the 50th anniversary #DGZ meeting! Any @fly-jedi.bsky.social here wanting to connect?

Hello everyone! We decided to automate our sign-up process for the JEDI network. Please register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1IdO... Thanks to everyone who reached out! We are looking forward to building our community with you. Share and repost!!! #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Welcome to the JEDI Network!

Dear JEDI mates, This is the first step toward creating a complete list of the Junior European Drosophila Investigators (JEDI). We believe this is an important milestone - that will not only to improv...

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to katja.rust@uni-marburg.de to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Amazing group of people! Thank you for the nice evening!

Junior European Drosophila Investigators@fly-jedi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Update from #EDRC2025! Four days of amazing talks and poster sessions and JEDIs have reconnected across geographical boundaries. Dinner was fun and we are looking forward to everyone at the next #Drosophila conference!

Met a new friend at the #EDRC meeting today who is also a @fly-jedi.bsky.social!

Welcome to the lab, Hannah!

Revision work of our latest #singlecell analysis generates the most peculiar pictures. Well, hello there, little seahorse!

Probably the best meeting I ever attended :)

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

It is time to appreciate our sponsors for making the last #Drosophila JEDI meeting possible! Thank you! @fly-eds.bsky.social ‪ @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social

This would be an incredible disaster to the #Drosophila community. And it sets a frightening sign for the entire scientific community. 🧪 The fly labs from @unimarburg.bsky.social are trying to organize to tackle this together.

European Drosophila Society@fly-eds.bsky.social · last yr.

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!