Looking forward to our next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #Mitosis & #Meiosis on Sept. 30 at noon, organized by simonereber.bsky.social & Thomas Mayer - join us!

… and we are very happy that our study on extrinsic control of melanocyte functions is published - kudos to @caroleluthold.bsky.social & co-authors! We found that distinct #ECM components impinge on #MITF, #melanocyte differentiation & #mechanosensation. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1038/s443...

The lab had several reasons to celebrate… Here is our newly minted PhD, Dr. Burkhart! Ann-Kathrin defended her thesis with flying colors and graduated with a well-deserved summa cum laude. Congratulations!

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/...

#PhDstudent position in our lab – come join us to study epithelial:non-epithelial cell-cell interactions in mammalian tissues. We provide thorough training & an awesome team! Apply by Sept. 16: shorturl.at/o9vzd #epithelia #cellbiology #nextgenerationPhD #cellcellcommunication @hetcci.bsky.social

Today we are happy to announce this year's Carl Zeiss Lecture, a prestigious award sponsored by @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social, and going to Julia Mahamid, EMBL. Julia will present at our International Meeting. There is still time until Sept. 15 to sign up for #DGZ50

Cell biology enthusiasts: We look forward to the #DGZ meeting in Heidelberg in October to celebrate 50 years of @dgz.bsky.social! 4 keynote speakers, 12 DGZ workgroups showcasing the latest in their fields & DGZ awardees 2025 will present. Register by Sept 15. www.zellbiologie.de/dgz-internat...

Past week Dr. Sybille Jung & team organized the #UniCamp2025 for schoolgirls interested in MINT @uni-saarland.de. They also visited @martinasester.bsky.social and myself to learn more about our jobs and career decisions - was a lot of fun! www.uni-saarland.de/verwaltung/g...

Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...

Due date for applying to the German Cell Biology Society awards: July 31, 2025 -Walther Flemming Award 2025 - Nikon Young Scientist Award 2025 - DGZ Master Thesis Awards 2025 - Innovation Prize 2025 www.zellbiologie.de/current-awar...

Join us for the next DGZ Focus Workshop on Cellular & Organismal #Proteostasis, organized by Jörg Höhfeld & Thorsten Hoppe, July 29 via Zoom 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬✨ 🔬

Check out professorship openings @uni-saarland.de, junior & senior level: W3 Professorship Physiology, Homburg: shorturl.at/PjXLk W3 Endowed Professorship in Neuroimmunology, Homburg: shorturl.at/5jVDz W1 Junior Professorship (W3 TT position) in Microbiology, Saarbruecken: shorturl.at/dXQzo

A few more days to apply for the #postdoc position on direct #cell-cell interactions in #epithelia in our lab - learn about our new consortium here: www.uni-saarland.de/hetcci

Upcoming interdisciplinary meeting: Cell Physics 2025 When? October 7-9, 2025 Where? Saarbruecken, Germany Relevant dates? Early-bird deadline: June 30, regular registration by August 31 Several opportunities for short-talks selected from abstracts More info at: cell-physics.uni-saarland.de

We are very grateful to our sponsors: Ibidi GmbH @ibidicells.bsky.social (Walther Flemming Award) and #Nikon Germany (Nikon Young Scientist Award @healthcare.nikon.com)!

Summertime = award time? 🏆Apply for our DGZ Awards targeting cell biologists at different career stages (Master students up to group leaders), deadline July 31, 2025, more info: www.zellbiologie.de/current-awar... 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

The Carl Zeiss Lecture 2025, sponsored by ZEISS Microscopy @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social, will be delivered on October 26th in Heidelberg at the International DGZ Meeting 2025: www.zellbiologie.de/dgz-internat... - more information soon… still time to sign up for the meeting!

Join us for the next #DGZ Focus Workshop on a topic you MUST be interested in: #Imaging in Cell Biology, organized by @pfeffercryolab.bsky.social and @ewerslab.bsky.social - Tuesday, June 24, noon, Zoom 🔬👀✨

#Job alert: #Postdoc position in the Iden lab within the new #DFG #SPP2493 consortium #HetCCI @hetcci.bsky.social ci.bsky.social‬. Please share, or apply if you want to dissect epithelial:non-epithelial cell-cell interactions: https://shorturl.at/W3M5#CellCellCommunicationo#epitheliai#cellbiologygy

W2 TT W3 professorship in the Dynamics of Biological Systems at @uni-saarland.de - only a few days left to apply! (June 13) www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...

We are hiring #postdocs and #phd students in the areas of #devbio #cellbio #Bioinformatics #mathematics #modeling. This is the full add with details: euraxess.de/jobs/346670 This our lab homepage: www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en....

Join us for an exciting cell biology meeting #DGZ ✨, and submit your abstracts. Early-bird deadline 15th of June 🧬

The next #DGZ Focus Workshop on Functional organization of the #nucleus will take place on May 27, at noon CEST, organized by Zuzana Storchová & Cristina Cardoso. Join us! 🧬🔬

Open call for a W2 TT W3 professorship in Dynamics of Biological Systems at the Biology Department in Saarbruecken and our Center for Human and Molecular Biology (ZHMB)! Details below.

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53 days till the meeting and its filling fast. Sign up now as we'll be selecting talks from the abstracts soon!

Our paper on the regulation of the tight junction leak pathway by Arhgap12/N-Wasp is out ! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

The next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #CellBiology of the #ImmuneSystem will take place on April 29, organized by @pjsaez.bsky.social & Evi Kiermaier – join us! 🧑‍🔬🧑‍🔬🧬

This promises to be an exciting cell biology meeting, October 26-29 in Heidelberg. Join us there! #DGZ50

Join us next week Tuesday for the #DGZ Focus Workshop on #membrane organization and #contactsites, at noon via zoom, organized by Katja Zieske and @buttnerlab.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🧬

The apical-basal polarity status of multipotent endocrine progenitors identified as a critical epithelial feature that determines their fate into the alpha or beta cell lineages #islets www.cell.com/developmenta...

🎉 bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review. ℹ️ openrxiv.org/introducing-...

Dear #LipidDroplet friends, we are so much looking forward to the 2nd edition of our #EMBOLipidDroplets Workshop. Join us 21-26 September 2025 at beautiful Costa Brava! Abstract submission deadline is 10 June 2025. @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social meetings.embo.org/event/25-lip...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

For all of you who cannot access pubmed, here is a good alternative: europepmc.org

Important DIE ZEIT article by Prof. Wolfgang Wick, Chair of the German Science and Humanities Council (#Wissenschaftsrat, @wissrat.bsky.social), encouraging us to stand up for science in Europe and welcoming scientists from the US (text in German) #Wissenschaftsfreiheit #standupforscience

I'm looking for a talented+motivated person to join my team at the #MechanobiologyInstitute @NUS for a #postdoc. If you're interested in investigating collective cell behavior during 3D tissue #morphogenesis with me, please apply here or PM for Qs. Please RT! careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

Save the date @dgz.bsky.social Workgroup "Cell adhesion and mechanobiology" lunch talks next Tuesday:

We are looking for a new Executive Editor on the journal, with @katherine-brown.bsky.social taking on a new role at @biologists.bsky.social. If you're an experienced editor with a love of developmental biology and its community, this could be the job for you. Full details in the link below.

🚨Postdoc vacancy alert! Interested to work on apoptosis/inflammation? Have some experience in biosensor-imaging and quantitative analysis of dynamic systems? 2 positions available for 2 years with potential of extension Apply now! 👉 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Below a job advertisement for a full-time lab technician 🧑‍🔬🧬in our group. Candidates with a BSc or MSc degree in biological sciences are also encouraged to apply if you wish to support our research projects. Deadline Feb 28. For questions feel free to contact me. www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...

today at noon! #CellPolarity, #CellMigration, #DGZ, #CellBiology

Delighted that our review on modeling of #endothelial and #epithelial #cell monolayer #biomechanics is now published in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.tc...! Thanks to all contributors and to DFG, Universität Tübingen, @cmfi.bsky.social for the support!

The study of @hundsdorfer.bsky.social et al. on ERK waves coordinating the #biomechanical competition between #epithelial #cells resulting in infected cell extrusion is out: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce.... Thanks to all contributors, DFG, @cmfi.bsky.social & @Serge for #Shigella & #zebrafish experiments!

We have an exciting line-up of speakers for our @sfb1348.bsky.social meeting "Cellular Interfaces across Scales: from Molecules to Tissue Dynamics" from May 7 - 9, 2025. Registration will start on February 1, 2025. More information: crc1348-conference.ycode.site

Only few more days left to apply! We have several #PhD #positions in the field of #immunology #development #cellbiology #macrophages! #FOR5775 is hiring!! Find details here: macrophagenetwork.com/news-2/ Pls repost👇 #immunosky

Great to see this important work out! Congratulations Tommy, David, whole Mick lab, Kerstin & Co.!

We will have upcoming vacancies in the Iden lab at Saarland University (PhD student, postdoc, technician). If you wish to join an international research team working on cell-cell communication in mammalian epithelia, contact me (please provide CV, motivation letter, contacts of 2-3 references).

Happy to share our preprint on #Arp2/3 function for #Langerhanscell networks in the epidermis. Great work by Ann-Kathrin and Graciela and more collaborators of the Lennon lab!