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Developmental cell biologist exploring epithelial morphogenesis, tube formation, tricellular junctions, and more. Views are my own. www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.IMZ/
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Not long left to submit your images to our image competition! Details 👇

FETCH enables fluorescent labeling of membrane proteins in vivo with spatiotemporal control in Drosophila Kevin D. Rostam, Nicholas C. Morano, Kaushiki P. Menon, Davys H. Lopez, Lawrence Shapiro, Kai Zinn, Siqian Feng, Richard S. Mann bioRxiv 2025.01.31.635819; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Recently completed your #PhD using #Drosophila in a European lab? Apply for the European Drosophila Society best thesis prize! 🏆🪰 Deadline: 28 Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025.bsky.social! Info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

Exciting IRTG 1348 Alumni talk with Katharina Ehring and Rafael Krämer about "What I do now, how did I get there and how does it maybe relate to what I did during my PhD" on February 25, 2025 at 11:45 am. Everyone is welcome!

Droso peeps, we enter the last 10 days for registering to the JEDI IRL meeting reboot flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202...

Save the date @dgz.bsky.social Workgroup "Cell adhesion and mechanobiology" lunch talks next Tuesday:

A new review from the lab- Single-cell migration in development – Lessons from germ cells copy-paste the link and enjoy- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The dynamics of tubulogenesis in development and disease In this Review, Adrian Romero, Rachel Miller & co. provide an overview of the mechanisms underlying the assembly of cells into functional tubes and how failures in these processes can lead to disease: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our new paper by @theajacobs.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social shows how relaxation of tension, rather than active actomyosin-based force, allows opening of cell #vertices to increase #epithelial permeability shorturl.at/Wnb2n @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de

Exciting project in a top lab with fantastic PI in vibrant city - apply now!

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Open position for W3 Professor "Genetics" in Osnabrueck, Germany. Check it out! www.uni-osnabrueck.de/stellenangebote

🌟 Join Institut Pasteur as a Junior Research Group Leader 🌟 Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health. 📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!) Apply now ⬇️

Job opportunity! The Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF) Münster is recruiting Junior Research Group Leaders in the fields of inflammation & infection; vascular system; neural system; cell differentiation, regeneration, and neoplasia. See www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/en/izkf/foer...

Want to lead a research group at a Max Planck Institute – with a #tenuretrack position & substantial resources? Apply for the Lise Meitner Excellence Program by @maxplanck.de. The program aims to promote exceptionally qualified #WomeninScience. Deadline: April 8, 2025 www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

Today's I'm celebrating Lincoln's birthday. He was President the last time our nation faced a Constitutional crisis. The difference: at that time the President was on the side of the Constitution

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

I made a little browser extension for Firefox that simplifies the sharing of preprints from @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social on Bluesky:

Please join my cell biology colleagues and CALL Congress. emails are not as impactful. Here is a simple sample script

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...

Am Dienstag, 11. Februar 2025 können Sie von 17 bis 19 Uhr Lichtprojektionen am Kunstwerk »Auf | Lösung« erleben. Darüber hinaus ist die Ausstellung ganzjährig in der Regel Montags bis Freitags von 10 bis 16 Uhr geöffnet. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch! www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Mot...

Lehrer und Schüler aufgepasst: Heute um 19:15 Uhr findet ein spannender Vortrag mit Prof. Dr. Hippler über "Photosynthese - Molekulare Einblicke in den Maschinenraum" bei uns im MIC statt. Alle Besucher sind herzlich eingeladen vorab die MIC-Ausstellung "inVisible" zu besuchen.

Don’t forget to apply! This is an amazing opportunity!

Join other European Drosophila early-career group leaders for a fantastic JEDI meeting June 3-5 2025! #Drosophila 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Despite challenging times delighted to see our preprint on how stem cell-specific sphingolipid metabolism controls fate trajectories in the hair follicle published🎉 congratulations Franziska &team and thank you @dfg.de @maxplanckpress.de and UniHelsinki for support! rupress.org/jcb/article/...

As we're entering the last month for registering the FlyJEDI meeting 2025 shorturl.at/8VO7A I am happy to share with you that the event is now sponsored by @fly-eds.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social Many thanks for supporting the community's reboot. Join us to build a strong research community!

Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

The emergence of E-Cadherin spot junctions between germline and somatic cells facilitates late stage oogenesis in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.27.635036v1

Next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #CellAdhesion and #Mechanobiology on Feb 25, organized by Andrew Clark and @adacavalcanti.bsky.social - see you there!

Explore biomedical art at the #Multiscale Imaging Center, home of @sfb1348.bsky.social - don´t miss the opening of the exhibition this Sunday, February 2nd!

thrilled to host Anne Classen @classenlab.bsky.social for an exciting seminar @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de this week!

Visit the exhibition “inVISIBLE” (opening Feb 02)! Scientists at the Multiscale Imaging Centre @uni-muenster.de present 24 images of cells, tissues and organisms. A 12-metre-high wall installation sheds light on biomedical imaging from an artistic perspective. www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Mot...

We have an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Arica Beisaw about "Investigating mechanisms of cardiomyocyte invasion during heart regeneration in zebrafish" on Thursday. Everyone is welcome! More: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i...

Temperature-sensitive cortical condensation modulates mechano-response at Tricellular Junctions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

We have an exciting line-up of speakers for our @sfb1348.bsky.social meeting "Cellular Interfaces across Scales: from Molecules to Tissue Dynamics" from May 7 - 9, 2025. Registration will start on February 1, 2025. More information: crc1348-conference.ycode.site

Do not miss! Great opportunity to acknowledge and pay tribute to an outstanding PhD Thesis in the area of genetics/epigenetics/molecular biology! The GfG awards again the prestigious Elisabeth-Gateff price (3,000 €). Deadline for application is June 30th, 2025. Please RT!

Institute Pasteur pasteurizes twitter (RIP)/X! Great decision, congrats!

Calling all Junior(-ish) Drosophila Investigators 📣📣📣 Join us in June for the JEDIs Resurection : flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... ✅presentations from participants, ✅panel on publishing (with fantastic guests) ✅plenty of time for socializing Register asap to help us with the first headcount

Relevant to this audience! @nature.com asks: “Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll”: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Exciting work from Tetsuhisa Otani‬ ‪@tetsuotani.bsky.social‬ on cell competition and epithelial barrier function. Love the approach of taking Drosophila-style genetic mosaics to the tissue culture dish!

Hallo Bluesky! Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

How did microtubules adapt to support life across 🐸 species at divergent thermal niches? 
 Now online & OA @currentbiology.bsky.social Thanks to Ella, Luca, @biswashere.bsky.social & Carolyn @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de @BirkbeckUoL
 🙌 Enjoy reading! 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Lehrer und Schüler aufgepasst: Heute um 19:15 Uhr findet ein spannender Vortrag mit Prof. Dr. Schulte-Merker und Dr. Stilling über "Tierversuche in der Forschung: Was, warum und wie?" statt. Weitere Informationen: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/p... Alle Interessierten sind herzlich Willkommen!