Now the #EDB @flybase.bsky.social representative Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social is presenting #Flybase future plans

We are loving the @edrc2025.bsky.social !! Please come find us at the poster sessions and coffee breaks!

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer. Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions. Please repost! More details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

Supracellular actomyosin assemblies: master coordinators of development In this Review, Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social discusses supracellular actomyosin structures, tissues where they function, their known roles as well as potential properties journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

2 post-doc positions open in the lab to do research on inter-organ signalling in regeneration and cancer in flies and mice.

Fantastic opportunity for mid-career researchers who would like to relocate their lab to the UK Faraday Discovery fellowships royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Montes-Labrador, P., Campbell, K., and Casali, A. (2025) Drosophila as a model for metastasis. Adv Exp Med Biol. 1482:135-154. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-97035-1_8. PMID: 40745140

Very happy and proud to share the latest work from our lab. Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

Looking foward to the Northern(ish) Developmental Biology Meeting 2025 next week @sheffielduni.bsky.social! Thanks to the organisers @shaneherbert.bsky.social Raman Das @tsakiridis.bsky.social @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social

Delighted to share our latest work on the mechanisms of epithelial curvature and 3D morphogenesis ! Amazing work from newly graduated Dr @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social 🎉 @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘These cracks, they let the developing cells in: A chronicle of trabeculation in the developing zebrafish heart’ 🎵 Theodora Stougiannou highlights recent work from @rashmi-priya.bsky.social & team. #preprint Check out the #preLight ⬇️ 👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...

This one is close to my scientific heart 💜: An excellent read shining the light on an aspect of RNA biology that is way too often overlooked. #RNAsky #RNAlocalization

A reminder in these hard times. #sciencestrong

Very happy to share our latest lab publication! The hard work of @bboumard.bsky.social, Gwenn Le Meur and collaborators! Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila: Developmental Cell authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFi_Yv6z...

European Fly PIs: please respond to the email we sent out yesterday and help save FlyBase!

The current fundraising link is for EU labs to support FlyBase UK group. Still setting up to collect fees from U.S. and all other labs. Stay tuned. Divided because of recent international firewalls.

We are highlighting Pleasantine Mill, 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert Medal winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week. Pleasantine is also coordinating a @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue and co-organised the 2024 @dmmjournal.bsky.social‬ Journal Meeting. #100biologists @cilialab.bsky.social

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request 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 donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab! 👉 deadline 20/06 👇 check it out www.godinholab.com

Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

UK universities are in the top 3 in global reputation. But they are losing money, cutting programmes, and laying off staff. International students are the safety net—and it’s being pulled away.

If you’re a postdoc at Harvard and are a skilled molecular biologist or genomics researcher who would like to help build a dna sequencing based metabolomics platform (see www.nature.com/articles/s41... ) or understand how aptamers see their targets PLEASE get in touch. Fully funded.

Do you have some cool results to present to the #Drosophila community at #EDRC2025 ? Please do not forget that abstract submissions are opened until the 28th of May edrc2025alicante.com/abstracts/

An interview with Helen Skaer Helen was awarded the @bsdb.bsky.social‬ Waddington Medal, which recognises outstanding individuals who have made major contributions to UK Developmental Biology. Find out more about her research and what this award means to her: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Calling all fly researchers! Submit your abstracts before 28 May! Looking forward to seeing all the great #drosophila research going on at #EDRC2025 in Spain @edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

We have an exciting 2 year postdoc position available in our department in the lab of Marisa Merino - please see advert attached! Please contact Marisa for more details! Repost and share as you wish!

How are specific cargos targeted to apical & basolateral domains within #EpithelialCells? This study uses a novel #vesicle tracking software "MSP-tracker" to show that the secretory pathway in #Drosophila follicle cells is unexpectedly spatially organized @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3EfJsBp

yes, this 👇 a crazy way to go multicellular "under pressure" 👀, but we love it. and, its from Archaea, so no surprise 😉 #ArchaeaSky #Archaea #MicroSky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring! A postdoc position is available in the lab studying gene expression dynamics in Drosophila embryos, as part of a larger research effort in collaboration with @mrattray.bsky.social 🧬🔬🪰 Full details are in the ad: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Our very own Andrew!! 🙌

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving scientist/mentor! ❤️

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Waddington Medal is Helen Skaer! bsdb.org/2025/03/25/2...

Hi Fly, Mouse, Rat, Zebrafish, Worm, and Yeast communities- Looking for the latest numbers on gene conservation between your favorite species and humans (like I was!)? Please see this excellent review (Table 2) by S Yamamoto, @okanca.bsky.social, M Wrangler, and H Bellen rdcu.be/efiXa

Please do- I am biased but it is really a fantastic role. Do reach out online if you have questions or, even better, come chat to @lebektamina.bsky.social and I at #Biologists100 in Liverpool!

Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I was worried I wouldn’t be able to follow the Barkley Marathons after leaving X but the great Keith Dunn is now reporting on Bluesky 🎉

Continuing years of work in the lab (linked below), we just achieved 86% gene conversion in female mice. That means a desired allele is transmitted to ~93% of offspring. Working hard to finish this, in the flurry of chaos, so we can tell you all about it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have voted and so can you!!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

New paper from the lab! We study how gene expression is controlled post-transcriptionally to determine stem cell fate. plos.io/3Dw1W07 a 🧵:

A role for translational control in stem & differentiating cells. @amoyellab.bsky.social &co show that signals from the #StemCell niche induce changes in translational rates (via eIF3d1 phosphorylation) to control stem cell fate in #Drosophila testis 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Dw1W07

A warm welcome to DRN research fellow Katherine Wood @woodlab.bsky.social, who has joined us from Maria Geffen's lab @geffenlab.bsky.social @upenn.bsky.social. Katherine works on the neural basis of auditory perception and how this is affected by ageing and dementia @hearingshef.bsky.social

Anyone looking for a PhD: the second deadline of the Yorkshire DTP closes this Friday, the 14th. Get in touch asap if you are interested in working with me on condensin complexes! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A warm welcome to Stanley Strawbridge @stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social, who joins us as a #PhysicsOfLife & #QuantitativeBiology Fellow from @scicambridge.bsky.social. His work explores early human embryo form and function. #AdvancedImaging #AppliedMathematics #Bioengineering #stemcells #development

I am grateful to @cancerresearchuk.org for choosing to support our work aiming to understand the links between distorted embryonic development and neuroblastoma initiation using our human pluripotent stem cell differentiation model: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

A warm welcome to DRN Research Fellow Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social Rory is an evolutionary developmental biologist investigating biological pattern formation of skin appendages in diverse vertebrate models, including sharks, chickens, and crocodiles. www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...