Greetings from the JEDI members that were selected for this year's @embo.org #Drosophila Crete meeting. Congratulations for giving amazing talks! From left: Helene Knævelsrud @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social, Katja Rust @rustflylab.bsky.social and Julie Carnesecchi @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social

We are recruiting a Junior PI to join CRC 1664 @snp2prot.bsky.social, funded through the FEM POWER programme supporting women in STEM. own budget, a funded PhD position, outstanding infrastructure + supportive colleagues. More information: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/2026/06/05/j...

A big "THANK YOU" to the sponsors who significantly contributed to making this year's JEDI meeting a success: the EDS: @fly-eds.bsky.social , the EMBO society: @embo.org and The Company of Biologists: @biologists.bsky.social!

The amazing JEDI crowd 2026! Hurray for an inspiring #Drosophila meeting at a gorgeous location. Thank you to everyone who attended!

Amazing news! The company of biologists @biologists.bsky.social has decided to support our upcoming meeting! We now only have a couple of spots left for the upcoming JEDI #Drosophila meeting. 📍Palmela, Portugal 📅 June 1st to 3rd Register: congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Wow! We are now supported by both the company of biologists and EMBO! I am so proud of our organising team!

Extended registration deadline for our conference (June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal) to May 15th! Join if you are a Junior #Drosophila PI or senior #postdoc about to transition to independence. Spread the word! 🎬Venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P1n... 🔗Registration: fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...

Thanks to Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social) for reporting on our joint developmental biology meeting in Potsdam #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026. enjoy the read: thenode.biologists.com/meeting-repo... looking forward to seeing you and @the-node.bsky.social at #GfE2028

An analysis of published papers on eight widely studied “model” organisms suggests work on them is fading, but not everyone is worried. https://scim.ag/3PaOvIs

Andreas Wodarz warmheartedly introduces Elisabeth Knust, the winner of the Klaus Sander Award of #GfE2026 for her lifetime achievements in devbio. Her groundbreaking scientific research contributed to elucidating molecular & cellular mechanisms underlying development of epithelial cell polarity.

That's it: #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026 is over. Thanks for the science, talks, posters, chairing, discussions, helpers in back & front. See you latest at #GfE2028 for more #DevBio & oidsks for all the fish, plants, mice, worm, flies, frogs, squids, brown algae, human, -oids, whatnots and you.

New paper from @uwe689.bsky.social ! Muscle and #ECM remodeling during fly metamorphosis is still poorly understood. Why? Pupae are really hard to work with. Uwe took on the challenge and explored how Mmp2 contributes to this amazing morphogenetic process. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cellbio

The Hilde Mangold Prize of the German Society for Developmental Biology is awarded to Maik Bischoff (@maikbischoff.bsky.social) at #GfE2026 for his research on "Mesenchymal sculpting as a driver of chiral organ development" in Drosophila.

And now: Poster flash talks at #gfe2026 by Jorge Mañes-García (from @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social), Benjamin Knüppel (from @bogdanlab.bsky.social), Isabel Pérez-Ferrer (from @eloisaherrera.bsky.social), Payel Banerjee (from @unipotsdam.bsky.social), and Katrin Domsch (@katrin-domsch.bsky.social)

it’s already … tomorrow?! Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio

🚨 University Marburg (Germany) is recruiting a W2 Professor of Mol. Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine. Focus areas: Epithelial adaptation in #inflammation, #regeneration, and/or #cancer stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/0... #AcademicJobs #Pharmacology #FacultyPosition #cellbio

The registration is open! Junior #Drosophila PIs, join us for inspiring scientific discussion, contribute a talk and listen to our keynote speaker, Eugenia Chiappe. We meet in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 3rd. Register soon as spots are limited! congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? I’ve got an open PhD position www.photobodies.com/about-6 in the framework of the AGILE Marie Curie Doctoral Network cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026. #phd #job

Make your gene knockouts more efficient with multiplexed Cas12a sgRNAs. Our new paper is out now, with tools available from @addgene.bsky.social , www.plasmids.eu and @vdrc-flies.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR #geneediting #Drosophila 🧪🧬✂️🔬🪰 Summary 🧵 below.

Great news! The next JEDI #Drosophila conference is now officially @embo.org funded! We are more than grateful for the support!

🚨 The deadline has been extended until January 31st!🚨

New preprint from the @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social. The group developed an "infinity pool" setup to test visual acuity and swimming behavior in medaka. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm thrilled to announce damidBind, our new R/Bioconductor package for analysing differential binding in DamID datasets, and its accompanying preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... marshall-lab.org/damidBind/

Yay! 🎉

Here is a tiny glimpse into our recent work: a #pseudotime analysis of wildtype and tumorigenic #Drosophila follicle epithelial cells using #Monocle3. Seeing a bioinformatic prediction that supports our in vivo findings is always my favorite part of the day!

Join us to study developmental cell biology with a focus on cell migration and morphogenesis. More info about our research: www.bischofflab.com Job posting and application details: focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology... #Science #CellBio #DevBio #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #PhDPosition #Drosophila

There is still over a week left to apply. Please send your documents to [email protected]

Are you ready for the 17th edition of 'Transcription and chromatin'? Our conference remains a must-attend event for anyone engaged in the forefront of transcription research and we hope you can join us! 🧬 25 – 28 August 2026 Submit your abstract by 25 May: s.embl.org/trm26-01-bl #EMBLTranscript

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

Super proud to be part of SFB1348 — and excited to share that I now officially have my own lab in Münster! 🎉🪰 We’ll study #cellbio & #morphogenesis, focusing on organ sculpting and #chirality in #Drosophila. I’ll soon hire my first #PhD student — feel free to reach out! #juniorPI #Science #devbio

Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp

Hi folks, Check out our updated website! Details on next year's conference will be posted there soon! fly-jedi.org

Unsere Heidelberger Studierendenzeitung Ruprecht mit einem wichtigen Artikel zu rechtsextremen Influencern an deutschen Universitäten und hier vor Ort www.ruprecht.de/2025/10/28/p...

High levels of Cas9 are toxic in sensory neurons. Reducing Cas9 levels with uORFs avoids toxicity and is compatible with efficient editing. From @thompsonpeerlab.bsky.social. Fly lines @vdrc-flies.bsky.social #CRISPR #Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

The #EDS has the pleasure to announce that, after #EDRC2027 in Bonn, we will have #EDRC2029 in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!

That’s a wrap! We are done with #EDRC2025 and we look forward to seeing everyone again in 2027 for #EDRC2027 in Bonn!

3, 2, 1 and we are on!!! #EDRC2025 is starting! Welcome to our more than 740 participants from more than 40 countries! Thank you to all our sponsors!

#edrc2025 European #drosophila Society meeting announces the 2029 meeting location : see you all in Szeged (and Bonn in 2027 of course)!

Met a new friend at the #EDRC meeting today who is also a @fly-jedi.bsky.social!