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...

A tiny neural network is sufficient to control the daily rhythm of the fruit fly: New paper out in @pnas.org s.org by @nils-reinhard.bsky.social and @flyingclocks.bsky.social ingclocks.bsky.social. Only four specialized nerve cells drive the animals' endogenous clock. go.uniwue.de/circadianclock

On my last day at @flyneuro.bsky.social I am happy to share my latest paper about the DN1a clock neurons and their central role within the clock network. :) I am grateful for the nice time I had here in Würzburg and looking forward to new adventures in Okayama and Münster in the next years!

Hello #neuroscience mastodon, we have a BBSRC funded #phd position open! A cool project utilise #drosophila transcriptome and connectome to map out the novel #sleep controlling visual pathway! see details here: https://www.kofanchenlab.net/come-join-us please boost and spread the words!

The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

WE ARE HIRING! Please spread widely! #Postdoc in #Evolutionary #Genomics -> www.mpg.de/25524526/ #Postdoc in #Molecular #Biology & #Cell #Signalling -> www.mpg.de/25524509/ @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de #ScienceJobs #EvoBio #MolBio #Ecology #Chronobiology #Marine #EntoSky #Biodiversity

The female menstrual cycle was probably originally synchronized with the lunar cycle. This has changed significantly due to artificial light and smartphones, as a new study now published in the Journal Science Advances shows. go.uniwue.de/moon

🎉🏅We congratulate 🌟Nils Reinhard 🌟 (University of Würzburg, Germany), winner of a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the European Biological Rhythms Society meeting #EBRS2025 in Lübeck, Germany! 🎉👏👏👏 @nils-reinhard.bsky.social

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Our new paper is out now! We show the non-image forming role of #Rhodopsin7 in #Drosophila, expanding our understanding of #opsins beyond classical vision. This work highlights how #Rh7 contributes to extra-retinal light sensing and plays a role in behavioral light responses. @flyneuro.bsky.social

When you work with insects that play a role in pollination, you sometimes get some nice surprises, like this dandelion (Taraxacum) pollen grain. Interestingly, it was stained by Hoechst, although it contains no DNA in the exine. #didn'tMakeItIntoThePaper-TooPrettyNotToBeShown #FluorescenceFriday

Two days left.... Abstract submission is opened until Sunday 15th June 2025 Clocks for Life - a life's journey in chronobiology Farewell symposium Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster #GermanClockClub #Drosophila #CircadianClock @uni-wuerzburg.de @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @flyneuro.bsky.social

Today's pictures are closely related to last week's picture of the onion leaf miner. I was quite surprised when, instead of flies, this pretty parasitic wasp eclosed from the pupa. Unfortunately, I was unable to identify the species. If you know the species, please let me know. 1/2

The second picture is of the onion leaf miner Phytomyza gymnostoma. Thanks to the infested leek plants of #CharlotteHelfrich-Förster, we had the opportunity to look at the nervous system and the PDH-ir cells of this pest fly. #didn’tMakeItIntoThePaper-TooPrettyNotToBeShown #FluorescenceFriday

Since my time as a PhD student is slowly coming to an end, I would like to take the opportunity to post a few pictures here that I took during my PhD and that fall into the #didn’tMakeItIntoThePaper-TooPrettyNotToBeShown category. #FluorescenceFriday

Wir begrüßen Professorin @silkesachse.bsky.social‬ als neue Leiterin des Lehrstuhls für #Neurobiologie und #Genetik! Sie kommt aus Jena zu uns (@mpi-ce.bsky.social) und erforscht den Geruchssinn von #Insekten. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/neurogenetic... #CharlotteFörster #CharlotteHelfrich-Förster #Chronobiology #Drosophila #CircadianClock

#chronobiology #chronobiologie #CharlotteHelfrich-Förster #circadianclock #Drosophila #charlotteförster #Julius-Maximilians-Universität @uni-wuerzburg.de @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social

New paper out in @elife.bsky.social! Antarctic krill not only reacts to external environmental influences such as light or food. It also uses its internal clock to adapt to the conditions of the polar environment. @lhueppe.bsky.social @awi.de @hifmb.de ➡️ go.uniwue.de/antarctic-kr... 📷 Lukas Hüppe

Very interesting career perspective from Charlotte Helfrich-Förster. A lot of very good advices for young scientists rdcu.be/ekQat

New paper out in @elife.bsky.social! Antarctic krill use their clock to control daily rhythms of swimming activity across a wide range of photoperiods, which helps them adapt to their high-latitude habitat🌊🦐🕖☀️ Great collaboration between @uni-wuerzburg.de, @awi.de, @hifmb.de! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

"Tatsächlich fragen sich viele, ob man eine Partei, die derzeit so viel Zuspruch erfährt, überhaupt verbieten kann. Doch diese Frage geht verfassungsrechtlich am Kern dessen vorbei, was ein Parteienverbot in der Demokratie bedeutet. [...] Die Demokratie und ihre Institutionen [zu] schützen."

It‘s finally official! I am thrilled to start at the Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics at the @uni-wuerzburg.de on April 1st! I am very grateful to all my mentors, group members, collaborators and friends without whom I could not have achieved this. Please come & visit beautiful Wuerzburg soon!

A few months ago, Yao Cai and I had the opportunity to interview the amazing Dr. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster. We asked questions about her career and life experiences. An example of scientific resilience and success. Out now in the Journal of Biological Rhythms. t.co/v2UxlEFZme

@nils-reinhard.bsky.social Look what nature, a microscope and an amazing young scientist can do.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

We are pleased to report publication of the Drosophila circadian clock connectome in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Check out the final version for additional analyses not present in the preprint. @unrcabnr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🪰The Never Given 2022 Pittendrigh/Aschoff Lecture: The Clock Network in the Brain—Insights From Insects - Charlotte Helfrich-Förster, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

bpod.org.uk/archive/2024... Thank you #BPoD rdcu.be/d2vJg for all of you who are intressted its open access. Enjoy

#FörsterLab #ZandawalaLab #YoshiiLab #circadianClocks #connectome #Drosophila #chronobiology @nils-reinhard.bsky.social @zandawala.bsky.social

rdcu.be/d2vIj Synaptic connectome of the Drosophila circadian clock

A little advertising for our special edition #A_Clock_for_all_sesasons. link.springer.com/collections/... #Chronobiology And many thanks to everyone who participated.