Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

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!​

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

On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us. #FlyBase #Drosophila

We close the day at #25EngLife with an inspiring talk by @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Titin rules!

Read about how female muscles grow larger than male ones! and hearts too!

Females are larger than males. How? Here is one solution- they have MORE nuclei in their flight muscles and grow LARGER heart and fat body cells with MORE ribosomal mRNAs. Fun collaboration of @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social with @soumitrakp.bsky.social & Brian Oliver www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Visualising where different genes are switched on throughout a fly 📷 @jasperjanssens.bsky.social et al @steinaerts.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social @frankschnorrer.bsky.social @centuri-ls.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/5/14 with @DrJohnAnkers

The amazing tour de force of the great @lcferme.bsky.social is now out in its final form in @ScienceAdvances (not on Bluesky???). It was hard work and all the conceptual advance was her doing. Check it out: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

😀 looking forward to continuing our collaboration

Great Dispatch article by @tarafinegan.bsky.social on our new paper by @theajacobs.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social - thanks for condensing our findings so clearly and nicely! Epithelial biology: Holding the corners together: shorturl.at/cMziC @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de

Fly group leaders in Eastern Europe, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland/Austria, please step forward. The European Fly community needs your help. #Drosophila #EDRC

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Spatial transcriptomics in fly brain and body. Wonderful collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social led by @jasperjanssens.bsky.social @pierremangeol.bsky.social Nikolai Hecker & Gabriele Partel - look at mRNA patterns in muscles and brains spatialfly.aertslab.org elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Interested in the cell biology of the nucleus? Join us for this unique exciting meeting that covers everything from nuclear biophysics and mechanics to signaling and evolution😍 amazing speaker list and more will be selected from abstracts 🤩

Super - congrats Thomas! Very proud to have you as colleague at IBDM 😀

Together with other JEDIs @michaelrera.bsky.social @drosostalis.bsky.social @ksiudeja.bsky.social @felsenberg.bsky.social and Gerit Linneweber, we are trying to restart this awesome initiative that was unfortunately silenced during COVID. More information here: flies-jedi.github.io Please repost!

We are excited to announce the opening of registrations for the upcoming #EDRC2025 conference (25th-28th September 2025) in Alicante to showcase the latest advances in #Drosophila biology and technology edrc2025alicante.com

Interesting study showing that Bicoid clusters in fly embryos preserve nuclear concentration info, guiding gene expression despite non-linear LLPS models. These clusters also act as high-fidelity sensors, key for fast, precise transcriptional regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics? Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼

mitoXplorer goes single cell data - how similar are mitochondria between individual cells? Test it in your data.

Muscles growth by sarcomere divisions - how your muscles add new sarcomeres during developmental growth: they divide! Cool collaboration @friedrich-group.bsky.social @raunser-lab.bsky.social @Dirk Görlich @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.bsky.social sciencecast.org/casts/aspy9l... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am delighted to share our new preprint in which we reveal the crucial role for mechanical forces in myoblast fusion. Great work from Yoann, Sushil and Aleksandra and great collaboration with Christophe Marcelle and Amin Doostmohammadi! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣Exciting meeting ahead! Join us at Shaping Life 3 in beautiful Cassis next June! www.atoutcom.com/shaping-life/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social @guignardlab.bsky.social @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social @laghalab.bsky.social @sfbd.bsky.social

Want to contribute shaping the French🇫🇷 Dev Bio community? Join us @sfbd.bsky.social ! Apply by november 27th

Happy to work under blue sky every day at our beautiful campus in Marseille Luminy AND to be finally joining BlueSky. Looking forward to reconnect to you all.