Came to give a talk in beautiful #Kassel at the lab of Arno Müller and leaving with lots of amazing ideas and gifts! These #Drosophila were just what we needed for our current revision. Thank you, Arno!

Our two #Drosophila fly rooms have an ongoing debate which one has the better crew. This battle is currently reaching the next dimension. Judge for yourself!

Yay! 🎉

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

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!

The lab is growing! We welcomed Hannah as a new PhD student and Anna and Lina as Master's students in the lab. I am more than thankful to be working with such a motivated, fun group of researchers!

I give you "Woman dancing with a bird"! This is a monocle analysis of our tumor model which we are currently revising. #SingleCell #Drosophila

Very much looking forward to this!

We and @bogdanlab.bsky.social are visiting Heidelberg for the 50th anniversary #DGZ meeting! Any @fly-jedi.bsky.social here wanting to connect?

Hello everyone! We decided to automate our sign-up process for the JEDI network. Please register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1IdO... Thanks to everyone who reached out! We are looking forward to building our community with you. Share and repost!!! #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Amazing group of people! Thank you for the nice evening!

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

Welcome to the lab, Hannah!

Revision work of our latest #singlecell analysis generates the most peculiar pictures. Well, hello there, little seahorse!

Probably the best meeting I ever attended :)

This would be an incredible disaster to the #Drosophila community. And it sets a frightening sign for the entire scientific community. 🧪 The fly labs from @unimarburg.bsky.social are trying to organize to tackle this together.

Apparently we do not have a JEDI starter pack yet. @fly-jedi.bsky.social and everyone else: let me know which other Junior European #Drosophila Investigators are missing! go.bsky.app/PcTGEMc

Greetings from the @fly-jedi.bsky.social conference in France at beautiful Chateau du Fey! Lots of amazing #Drosophila folks here!

I’m here too and you’re currently rocking your talk! Good job! #Drosophila #autophagy

It's official: we're #hiring another #PhD student! If you are interested in combining #SingleCell technology, #microscopy and #Drosophila genetics to investigate how cells become #cancerous contact me or apply directly under the following link: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/6...

I wanted to share this beautiful picture of an anaphase cell. I just love #microscopy! Hats off to Sari for taking such a beautiful image in her second week here.

Today is the deadline for the early bird registration of the European #Drosophila meeting @edrc2025.bsky.social in Alicante. Anyone joining me there?

Welcome to the group, Sari!

Any first or second semester students from @unimarburg.bsky.social? Then this survey is for you! Per participant the local pet shelter receives a 1€ donation. www.soscisurvey.de/wegeinsstudi...

I am not using #AI to generate my figures but if I ever do you will know... This is Canva trying to draw a #Drosophila ovary.

The last round of #lab ducks was fluorescent!!!

Congrats, Dr Vanessa to an amazing defense! Finally finished the #PhD and we’re so proud of you!

Player two had entered the game and the duck I found has a little hat! Everyone is still duck hunting. If you want to add some fun to your #lab day, I highly recommend this!

Someone has been hiding these mini rubber ducks all over the #lab in the last few days. The entire group is on duck hunt!

Where are my #MolBio friends working with #Drosophila who are always asked about what species an insect is? Stun your granny the next time she asks! Now excuse me while I look for something similar for plants...

Good job @unimarburg.bsky.social! I wished there was an english version of this but the picture already pretty much says it all! www.uni-marburg.de/de/aktuelles...

For my German speaking crowd: I needed more virgins and that’s what the student interpreted. For English speakers: more virgins sounds like mermaid in German (:

Again a great example of me hoping for an edit function… it’s #cachexia…!

Did you know you can study #cachexie in #Drosophila? This is how a fruit fly with #cancer cachexia looks like in comparison to its healthy mate. They degrade fat and muscle tissue and retain liquid resulting in a bloated abdomen - similar to human patients.

Last day to vote for you favorite #microscopy picture!

I voted but did you? focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v... Look at these gorgeous images! @maikbischoff.bsky.social is also competing!

Dear Bluesky, we would love an edit function. The number of typos I found in my posts is too high! @bsky.app Anyone agreeing?

When you accidentally hit the wrong button in #Imaris...

I am thrilled to announce our latest #SingleCell manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We show that overactivation of Hh #signaling induces an EMT-like hybrid state in #Drosophila follicle cells. However, when we simultaneously overactivate EGFR/RAS signaling the cells form a lethal #cancer!

The definition of joy (for #Drosophila researchers): a clean CO2 pad!

Today's #microscopy session inspired me to do some art. These ovarioles look like trees, don't you think? If you want to learn what made them this way, stay tuned for our #SingleCell analysis of these - preprint coming soon!

Great news! If you forget your morning coffee you have iced coffee in the evening! Running on caffeine while wrestling the manuscript submission forms... new #SingleCell manuscript coming soon!

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As a European researcher I’m watching in horror. I left the US at the end of the last Trump period and man, have things changed!

On of our students just casually drew this #Drosophila!

Is it Christmas yet? Lana found a Christmas tree! #FluorescenceFriday

Our student Lana found a smile in her sample! Can you see it too? #MicroscopyMonday

Hello BlueSky! Follow us to stay up to date on the inspiring science published in our journals and more. To get started, check out our #starterpack to meet all the Cell Press journals currently on the platform, with more to come🧪🔬🤖🧬🌳🪲 go.bsky.app/TdKYuS7

There's a commentary on FlyBase with an update on FlyBase’s uptime and IP blocks :http://flybase.org/commentaries/2025_01/IPbans.html (long thread incoming) FlyBase’s servers have been experiencing an unprecedented amount of traffic recently, which has been causing the site to crash.

It took me a minute but I finally deleted the lab‘s twitter account 🎉🎉🎉