✨ Kicking off #SWS2025 at @cosheidelberg.bsky.social with an inspiring opening talk by my PhD supervisor, Barbara Ann Halkier! Excited for the days ahead 🚀🌱

Meet this year’s team 🌟 After booking speakers, funding acquisition, poster design, ordering merch, and more, we’re excited to launch a brand new season of Life of P.I. talks!

Welcome to day 4 of #EMBOBioImage 🖥️ 👉Happening right now: practical session 5, spatial statistics and omics integration, led by @brittavelten.bsky.social, assisted by Anna Klemm.

Life of P.I.: an initiative of Heidelberg life science students focusing on career and life in research. Please check! www.lifepi-hd.com @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social

Today’s speaker @cosheidelberg.bsky.social is Asa Strand on #Chloroplast development-a tale of two genomes

The group of former COS PI Steffen Lemke reveals mechanisms of mechanical stress management during fly gastrulation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ERC vergibt vier Starting Grants an die Universität Heidelberg – Europäischer Forschungsrat fördert richtungsweisende Projekte von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in frühen Karrierestufen www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #förderung #ERCStG

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome "Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out. Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964 @eLife @biology […]

Please spread - COS is searching for a new IT engineer (full time, permanent) to support our central IT infrastructure and data management: adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last Friday we held a Mini-Symposium to wrap up the SPARK@COS Summer Practical 🎉 Our students shared what they worked on and learned during the practical – well done and great presentations! A big thank you to everyone who helped make it happen and to all who came to support the talks!

New preprint of the Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social group on the role of P-body proteins in autophagy of Marchantia polymorpha.

I am so happy to announce that our Drosophila testis multiome paper is now published in Nature Communications !!! I am very happy and proud of all who contributed, in particular Patrick and Pallavi who did an amazing job! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First preprint of the @josephinebageritz.bsky.social group! The group discovered a spatially distinct muscle progenitor population in Drosophila that stays in a less committed state thanks to graded Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Congratulations! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to be involved in UNICIL, our new Wellcome Trust Discovery project coordinated by @micromotility.bsky.social We will study ciliary dynamics across scales and organisms. A long-term #postdoc position will be available at Heidelberg University […] [Original post on biologists.social]

A new paper from the Storelli group @cosheidelberg.bsky.social on how microbial signals modulate nutrition and metabolism in animals: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The new excellence cluster GreenRobust is recognized by the local RNZ newspaper:

Wonderful presentation from @lsaunders.bsky.social and Gilles Storelli about their work in fish development and Drosopohila gut biome www.youtube.com/watch?v=2arR...

The GreenRobust cluster of Excellence is now live on Bluesky @greenrobust.de Follow to be informed of the great things coming up 🌱

New COS faculty members making a [email protected]

Wonderful time in Heidelberg w/ @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy + our HFSP team (Thomas Kiørboe & Alastair Simpson) discussing the origins of eukaryotes and their excitable behaviours! can you feel the ⚡⚡⚡in the room?? (funded by @uniheidelberg.bsky.social International Guest Professorship)

Great achievement! The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence with a strong contribution of COS groups is funded! Excellent!

Kurzvorträge und Diskussion: Mikrobiomforschung trifft Entwicklungsgenetik – In der Reihe „Bio(R)evolution – Neue Köpfe, neue Ideen, neue Horizonte“ sprechen Gilles Storelli und Lauren Saunders www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #biowissenschaften #vortrag

Die schönsten Momente für mich mit Besuchenden unserer zoologischen Sammlung zu #Museumstag gestern: * Ein Lehrer erzählt, dass er mein Zentrifugenvideo im Unterricht verwendet * Mir wird gesagt, man merke, dass ich eigene Kinder habe, weil ich so gut mit Kindern kann 😉 * Ein Mittelstüfler hat die >

Wonderful collaboration with the Wolf, Greb and Prevedel labs!

Our study on the effect of strigolactone signaling on vessel formation and water usage is now peer reviewed: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great achievement of Jiao Zhao, Dongbo Shi, Kiara Kaeufer, and everybody involved!

Fantastic to see that @pascalhunziker.bsky.social, postdoc in the lab, is on his way to initiate his own research line with the help of the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de: Exploring the potential of mashua as a sustainable staple food crop. www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-...

Last few months have been of change. I finished my postdoc at @cosheidelberg.bsky.social and moved to Belgium to begin my research group at @iribhm.bsky.social. I will reflect here my thoughts about the last years experience.

Another COS scientist moving to a professorship position. Congratulations!

We just hosted our first Heidelberg University Postdoc Network meeting at @cosheidelberg.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social 🍻 + 🍕+ 🧪 follow and join us here 👉🏻 @heidelbergpostdoc.bsky.social

SPARK@COS Lecture - Countdown läuft! am 3. und 4. April begrüßen wir Alba Diz-Muñoz (EMBL) am COS Heidelberg. Kommt vorbei - für spannende Einblicke in die Welt der Mechanobiologie und einen interessanten Austausch bei Kaffee und Kuchen! Anmeldungen: [email protected] Infos: spark-cos.de

The revised version of our #Platynereis #connectome paper is now out: https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/97964 Cell-type-level annotation of the whole organisms, including synaptic and desmosomal connectomes. Can be explored with CATMAID here […] [Original post on biologists.social]

We are excited to welcome Gilles Storelli as a new full professor at COS. Gilles' topic is physiology and symbiosis targeting the role of the microbiome of the fly gut in shaping organismal physiology.

Really cool story from the @acebronsp.bsky.social lab @cosheidelberg.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Make sure to check out the videos!!!

Last speaker of the symposium: Gilles Storelli on the role of the gut microbiome in Drosophila.

Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social elaborates on integrating complex and diverse large-scale datasets (and on unicorns).

Next: Lazaro Centanin on adult stem cells in fish.

Afternoon session with Josephine Bageritz on muscle stem cells in fly.

... and Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social on evolutionary cell biology.

Followed by Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy on evolutionary neurobiology

Lauren Saunders @lsaunders.bsky.social presenting her work on single cell genomics in fish on our COS-SAB symposium!

@thomasgreb.bsky.social is opening the @cosheidelberg.bsky.social Scientific Advisory Board Meeting.

We published a new preprint on the biophysics of ciliary metachronal waves in the Platynereis larva. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.10.637311v2 In collaboration with @micromotility.bsky.social and Rebecca Poon #cilia #biology #biophysics #platynereis 1/6

My first post here on BlueSky to share our recent work with Claudia Feng and @leopoldparts.bsky.social - a large-scale single cell CRISPR screen to chart out gene regulation and the role of genomic background in iPSCs. Check out the data here: www.sanger.ac.uk/tool/crispri...

As the time comes to bid farewell to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social our lab is organising The Last Supper Social Hour this friday. Come along if you are around...

More than deserved student award for excellent teaching by our teaching coordinator Roland Gromes. Congratulations!

NEW #Preprint on #ATG8 specialization in #autophagy in #plants: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience A short 🧵

We just completed our cluster interview at @dfgpublic.bsky.social. Exceptional team spirit and a fantastic joint achievement by everybody involved! The GreenRobust initiative in full swing.

We are very happy to welcome Yasin Dagas soon starting as a Heisenberg professor at COS. Yasin's topic is evolutionary cell biology focusing on autophagy in plants and beyond. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research... @dfgpublic.bsky.social