James, J., Winn, L. B., Mottram-Epson, P., & Köster, D. (2025). Paths to stability–actin regulation of adherens junction mechanics. Journal of Cell Science, #EpitheilalMechanicsReview doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Our next extraordinary biologist is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a Nobel Prize winner and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. #100biologists

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

Apply soon: Full professorship in Systems #Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de See shorturl.at/VczFp

As a biologist working on the cellular and molecular development of gills, I love seeing gill architecture inspire solutions like this plastic-filtering technology....truly inspiring 🦓🐟🔬

#Forschungsimpulse: Die DFG schreibt zum 4. Mal die Förderung koordinierter Forschungsvorhaben an besonders forschungsorientierten Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften und Fachhochschulen aus. Weitere Einzelheiten, Antragsverfahren und Fristen: sohub.io/2ppy

ICYMI, our #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest research using #microscopy to answer questions in #biology. As always, send us any recommendations for preprints that we've missed: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/m...

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏 Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin. Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1

Congratulations to Prof. Armido Studer @uni-muenster.de on winning the #LeibnizPreis from @dfg.de! 🎉👏

🎄 Great Nikolaus moment in the Windfelder Lab! Isabel surprised everyone with handmade gift bags — such a cool boost to our already amazing team spirit. 🙌 We’re growing! Interested in joining us for a Master’s project or PhD? 👉 windfelder-lab.com Happy Nikolaus & a great Advent season!

From #amoeba to humans: new paper @natcomms.nature.com by the Grashoff group @sfb1348.bsky.social reveals evolutionary origin of animal cell adhesion and force transmission. Talin protein plays central role. See rdcu.be/eTFJR @uni-muenster.de

From (slime) mold to man: #Talin plays a key role in animal cell adhesion and force transmission during locomotion. Check out exciting new paper by the Grashoff group @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/eTFJR @uni-muenster.de

I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh

For #FluorescenceFriday - RNAscope marking subfields of the hippocampus in a section of postmortem human 🧠 tissue. Image credit to the Imaging Development team @lieberinstitute.bsky.social 🔬🧪👩‍🔬

This distal gill tip is giving full branchial art vibes for #FluorescenceFriday 🦓🐟 — who knew oxygen exchange could be this pretty. 🔴 kdrl:mCherry highlights the vasculature ⚪ fgf10b:nEOS marks the pillar cells #Zebrafish #DevBio #SciArt

Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

Our November in #preprints list is now up on the Node! Check it out for the latest in #devbio and stem cell research ⤵️: thenode.biologists.com/november-in-...

All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!

Love the #SciArt gallery on @maikbischoff.bsky.social's lab website 😍 www.bischofflab.com/portfolio #microscopy #bioart #microscopymonday #cellfie #devbio #cellbio

Christmas season has officially begun: we made our first Christmas cookies with our 4-year-old (which explains the rather excessive use of sprinkles). 🌲🎅🍪 #ChristmasTime #MerryChristmas

1/2 A special #FluorescenceFriday for me! 🌈 Live muscle precursors on a pupal fly testis (Lifeact-eGFP, 🔥-depth-coded). It's special because this is on the poster for the @sfb1348.bsky.social Meeting in May — my first time being featured as a speaker on a poster! 😀 Feeling very grateful & excited!

1/2 A special #FluorescenceFriday for me! 🌈 Live muscle precursors on a pupal fly testis (Lifeact-eGFP, 🔥-depth-coded). It's special because this is on the poster for the @sfb1348.bsky.social Meeting in May — my first time being featured as a speaker on a poster! 😀 Feeling very grateful & excited!

Prospective PhD students if you are looking to work on some exciting Developmental Biology questions combining some state-of-the-art microscopy, please consider joining the talented @maikbischoff.bsky.social

Folks looking for PhD positions - this is an opportunity to work with an amazing mentor, do wonderful science and learn mind-blowingly phenomenal #microscopy ! 🔬 Check out Maik's lab website and the #SciArt gallery 🤩 #Drosophila #cellbio #devbio #phdlife

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

Super proud to be part of SFB1348 — and excited to share that I now officially have my own lab in Münster! 🎉🪰 We’ll study #cellbio & #morphogenesis, focusing on organ sculpting and #chirality in #Drosophila. I’ll soon hire my first #PhD student — feel free to reach out! #juniorPI #Science #devbio

Happy to share our new protocol on modelling acute kidney injury in vitro using organoids: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to one of the most talented folks with whom I have ever worked. Follow Maik as he pursues new insights into morphogenesis using highly innovative multi-disciplinary tools! 🧪

A warm welcome to @maikbischoff.bsky.social to @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de ! Can´t wait to see your work on tissue morphogenesis and chirality in #Drosophila. Keeping an eye out for the PhD opening — excited to see the lab take off! 🙌🪰 #cellbio #morphogenesis

📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

Sequestration of Ena/VASP proteins impedes in vivo Wnt activation driving Xenopus embryonic development. Our results suggest Mena as a crucial mediator of Wnt signalosome endocytosis thus promoting canonical Wnt signalling. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Endocytosis of Wnt-receptors is required for signalling, yet uptake mechanisms remain poorly understood. We resolve a longstanding controversy by showing that Wnt3a triggers rapid Clathrin-Mediated and Fast Endophilin-Mediated LRP6 endocytosis at low concentrations sufficient for Wnt activation.

Super proud to be part of SFB1348 — and excited to share that I now officially have my own lab in Münster! 🎉🪰 We’ll study #cellbio & #morphogenesis, focusing on organ sculpting and #chirality in #Drosophila. I’ll soon hire my first #PhD student — feel free to reach out! #juniorPI #Science #devbio

Big news 🎊 @dfg.de announced today the funding of our CRC @reproductionms.bsky.social Our dedicated mission: Unravelling the molecular pathways of male infertility and drive smarter treatment for couples. We're ready, excited and can't wait to get started 🚀

congratulations, Stefan (!) and colleagues. Huge achievement; looking forward to your next 4 years!

Die #DFG fördert zur weiteren Stärkung der #Spitzenforschung an den Hochschulen 9 neue #Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB). Die Themen reichen von pilzbasierten Baumaterialien über Autoimmunkrankheiten bis zu molekularer Bor-Chemie. Einzelheiten 👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

Dynamic cellular interfaces reloaded!🎉 Happy and excited to receive extended funding @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and to push our collaborative science forward in the next 4 years! Big thanks @dfg.de, reviewers, and everyone else involved for the continued support!

Große Freude! Die @dfg.de richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert den etablierten Verbund @sfb1348.bsky.social. Insgesamt fließen rund 24 Millionen Euro an die Universität Münster.

Hi folks, Check out our updated website! Details on next year's conference will be posted there soon! fly-jedi.org

Dear #Neuroscience researchers, I am Guest Editing an issue in @devdynamics.bsky.social on NEURAL MIGRATION. Due date: March 31, 2026. Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio Please reskeet 🙏 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...

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!​

Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

1/5: New preprint: Cytokines control the physical state of immune tissue. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Unlike structured organs (heart, liver), immune tissue can shapeshift to form functional structures like germinal centers (GCs), tertiary lymphoid organs, granulomas, etc.

Exciting opportunity! Young Drosophila researchers do not wait to apply. Fly facilities at the Institute in Münster are outstanding! @fly-eds.bsky.social

A student-run radio show covered my Nikon Small World honorable mention & I even got to give a radio interview! A totally new experience for me 😀 Huge thanks to Andrew! Also featuring @peiferlabunc.bsky.social & @nat-prunet.bsky.social #NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceCommunication #SciArt

Somehow I couldn’t reach the #Dipteran #Evolution community with my question… so maybe I need something controversial 😄 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐲𝐳𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜! #Phylogeny #TreeOfLife #Drosophila #Diptera (… 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸)

Hey #Drosophila evolution people, quick phylogeny question! Is this simplified tree reasonable? I integrated multiple papers & added some polytomies, so that there is nothing too speculative in there. Does it look right to you? 🪰 It's just for a presentation 😉 #Evolution #Phylogeny