⚡👩‍🔬Electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth, a new study! Out now in Science Advances, from the Mateus group @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL and @mpi-cbg.de along with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social Read the news here: tud.link/7jzptz Video:©️ Mateus group

Read the Research Report ‘Ecdysone-mediated intestinal growth contributes to microbiota-driven developmental plasticity under malnutrition’ here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

To learn more about how this paper developed and the people behind it, we talked to first author Longwei Bai and corresponding author François Leulier, Director and Group Leader at Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (@igflyon.bsky.social) in France. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

A new way to tackle liver and bowel cancers has been discovered @cruk-si.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

While the lunatic-in-chief deviates the world’s attention, the 70+ years apartheid and genocide by the occupation forces continue at full speed apple.news/Abbh-m89ES6m...

Now that is cool!

We are hiring! Professor of Epithelial Stem Cell Biology & Cancer (Ref 189213) - Closing Date 7th Jan 2026 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/professo... 🔬

I am proud to present my latest research at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. Register to hear my presentation! #ISSCR2026 invt.io/1bxbzdbzjfq @isscr.org

Human gut M cells resemble dendritic cells and present gluten antigen @nature.com @hansclevers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh and check out the "behind the paper" from @neurogut.bsky.social !!!!

A JAK/STAT-Pdk1-S6K axis bypasses systemic growth restrictions to promote regeneration #Drosophila

📣 New paper alert 📣 Neurons need fuelling up to work, but how? Beauty of a work piece by our GutSense postdoc @neurogut.bsky.social before he joined us! Congrats to the Preat and Plaçais team @espciparispsl.bsky.social!

A 4-year fully funded international PhD project in the lab in collaboration with Johan Vande Voorde. Apply if you are interested in working on an exciting project on CRC and interorgan communication in flies and mice. www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/cruk-si-educ...

Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

We’re back with the Metabolism in Development & Physiology online seminar series 🎉 Thu 11 Dec 2025, 16:00 CET Speakers: Heather Christofk (Professor, UCLA) Yuanlingzi Tian (PostDoc, University of Glasgow)

The second November issue is online. -> www.embopress.org/toc/14693178... The cover features work by Tina Mukherjee and co-workers showing that #macrophage metabolic #reprogramming during dietary stress influences adult body size in #Drosophila. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

The new paper from SPECIFICANCER, published in @natureportfolio.nature.com reveals that it’s not just the mutation that matters — it’s where in the liver that mutation appears. Congratulations to the team (co-funded by @themarkfdn.bsky.social). 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eTVh9YY6

Our lab is actively looking for posdocs and there is NOW an Open Call for Postdoc contracts (3 years) here: www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets www.cell.com/current-biol...

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

Really happy to see this beautiful story out! Looking forward to more collaborations like this @cristinapujades.bsky.social lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you so much, Dafni😀😀

The 2nd edition of Comprehensive Molecular #Insect Science is out. As section editor for #Immunity and #Symbiosis, I had the privilege to work with outstanding contributors. Other sections cover #genomics, #physiology, #neurobiology, and #ecology 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor... #SymbioSky

So looking forward to this. Please sign up!!

Join us for a new zoom series on metabolism and development. This will be a monthly feature with PIs and trainees presenting. Sign up here (forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...) to get the Zoom link and join the mailing list.

Deadline approaching for the EMBO meeting "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026. Both new and established PIs welcome. Apply by Nov 3rd! meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...

Beautiful "fundamental physiology" paper in a glamour journal - there is still some hope! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First ad for a position in my new lab at the University of Bristol! If you are looking for a fully funded PhD in cutting edge science that will be based in a supportive environment, and in a great city, check out the link below! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come work with us!!

A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1

💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth. bit.ly/4gX6njF

Passionate about doing a PhD on metabolism in neural stem cells and their niche? The call just opened for applications for a PhD position in our lab @crick.ac.uk in London. Please repost. tinyurl.com/ysnkdrmw

Excited to share our collaborative PhD project with Adam Dobson ([email protected]) on interorgan signalling in the ageing gut. Please contact Adam If you are a highly motivated student wanted to work on a super exciting Fly project.

Finally out! A longstanding project to explore the mechanism behind ectopic crypt formation in polyps when GREM1 is aberrantly expressed in HMPS patients. Turns out it is all to do with stromal remodelling and epithelial-mesenchymal interdependence! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking forward to seeing you at the @edrc2025.bsky.social You can find us - On Thursday 25th at the workshop: INTERORGAN COMMUNICATION IN THE ERA OF OMICS, - On Saturday morning 27th @alphyjohn.bsky.social will give a talk in the session stem cells and regeneration - On poster sessions

I have gotten a bit behind at sharing the lab’s latest work - this paper is now published - check it out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... Long story short: insulin is the major determinant of female fat storage, with a relatively minor effect on males.

🧬 Glasgow researcher Dr Alexander Raven has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance understanding of how liver cancer develops, with the aim of improving detection and treatment 📍 University of Glasgow 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/glasgow-canc...

📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities? Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader! 👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou... 📅Closing date: 10 October 2025

We are hiring! The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Cell and Developmental Biology is hiring a faculty member in the area of Aging, broadly defined. Come join us! Deadline is soon! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

A though provocative idea potentially connecting cell metabolic state and sensitivity to mechanical stress (and thus potentially relevant for cell competition)

Epithelial crowding drives membrane depolarisation by ENaC/Na+ entry which triggers rapid volume loss, piezo activation and live cell extrusion. Importantly, low intracellular ATP primes cells for live extrusion by preventing the restoring of mb polarisation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sex-biased expression of enteroendocrine cell-derived hormones contributes to higher fat storage in Drosophila females https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675263v1

📢 We are looking for a sandwich student to join the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social at the @crick.ac.uk for a 12-month placement starting July 2025! Interested in how the 🐁 gut changes during pregnancy? Check the project and eligibility criteria here: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

UK undergrads, apply to this programme for your chance to work with the one and only Dr ‪Amélie Joly‬!

We are highlighting Owen Sansom, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @osansom.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social

The first September issue is live. www.embopress.org/toc/14693178... The cover features work by Cassie Clarke @cassiejclarke.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social and co-workers showing that UPP1 supports #metastasis by altering #immune and ECM landscapes. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

New publication from our lab, in Science Advances: Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don't miss our next webinar by Zoi Diamantopoulou on "Timing the perfect strike: Using circadian rhythms to target metastasis" - September 22, 2025 - more details and register here: metastasis-research.org/2025/09/11/z...