The central nervous system forms by 'folding in' part of the outer layer of the embryo. Kerstin Feistel studies the cytoskeleton and tissue stiffness to understand how cells change shape to orchestrate tissue folding in frogs. #gfe2026 Video from @dev-journal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

If you poke a hole in a tissue layer, how is the gap sealed? Jérôme Solon investigates wound healing in fly larvae to understand how tissues sense mechanics across scales to close wounds of different sizes #gfe2026 Jérôme has recently co-authored a post on @focalplane.bsky.social – you can too

Complementing @ckirchhelle.bsky.social 's engaging and mechanistic #mechanobiology presentation at @gfeev.bsky.social #gfe2026, check out their @natplants.nature.com work on a cell-wall-sensing module at the edges of cells and their role for directional growth doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Alba Diz-Muñoz explains how biological composites – tissues made from layers or components with different mechanical properties – direct shape & form. Alba shows that mechanics is also coupled to cell identity, with stem cell membrane flexibility influencing pluripotency state. #gfe2026

Good morning from #gfe2026. @sebioldev.bsky.social keynote speaker, Isabel Fariñas, studies adult brain stem cells, which are in different states of "relative" dormancy. Isabel studies the stem cell niche - the supporting cells, signals and extracellular matrix that regulate stem cell activity.

day 2 of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #GfE2026 just started with the president of the SEBD Eloísa Herrera (@eloisaherrera.bsky.social) introducing the 2nd keynote lecture given by Isabel Fariñas (University of Valencia)

At #GfE2026, Thomas Bosch from Kiel University (CAU) challenges the host gene-centric view of biology, demonstrating in beautiful work how microbes change #development, #StemCell differentiation, and even #behaviour. Check out doi.org/10.1073/pnas... doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Salim Seyfried opens the @gfeev.bsky.social #GfE2026 meeting highlighting the history and highlights of the @unipotsdam.bsky.social area, including the Studio Babelsberg. Looking forward to entertaining and thrilling science...

Nice theory-inspired work on spontaneous directionality of polymers in an „Entropic Tug of War“ by our @univie.ac.at colleagues from soft-matter #physics, bridging #materials science and biology concepts. published in Physical Review X, 2026 doi.org/10.1103/rkms...

Only a few days left to apply to E-STEEM fellowships (call closing this weekend)... submit a 3-page application to maintain your chance for securing 4 years of #PostDoc funding at @univie.ac.at! #WomeninScience #WomenInSTEM who obtained their #PhD degree in 2022 or later -- please consider!

#WomenInScience day alert: Our labs participate in the E-STEEM initiative of @univie.ac.at: >= 20 funded postdoc positions for female applicants! Interested in pursuing original projects in #stemcells, #regeneration, #biomaterials, #chronobiology at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social? Please get in touch!

Happy to have contributed to this multi-organism/lab study by Kathrin @ktgarschall.bsky.social @malinkjosavik.bsky.social Patrick @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social et al. @msarscentre.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social. #Platynereis work by @leonieadelmann.bsky.social. Check it out here: rdcu.be/e2v4j

So proud and happy to see Ava Abdi conclude a highly productive Master's project today with a wonderful presentation and thesis defence! Thanks to the many attendees from @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social and @antsinthecarpet.bsky.social labs @sfb-f78.bsky.social and co-examiner Daniela Pollak!

Cool event at the @wien.gv.at mayor's hall on Saturday: @sciball.bsky.social merged great research landscape (@oeaw.bsky.social #ISTAustria #WPI @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & more) w/ Vienna's unique ball tradition. Fittingly, opened by 2nd movement of Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique.

For many years, Peer Bork organised Bio-IT retreats to bring together the bioinformaticians across EMBL, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and later Feldberg. Days out on the mountain followed by forward-looking and meta-science oriented sessions in the hut that fueled many projects and careers.

So shocked to learn that Peer Bork @borklab.bsky.social @embo.org has passed away yesterday. His pioneering, forward-looking spirit was inspiring for so many of us. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and his extended scientific family. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Impressive characterization of the visual system of the Bogong moth, a nocturnal long-distance migrant navigating by integrating magnetic and visual cues.

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

🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...

How do animals with lifelong growth modulate cell #proliferation? @eudaldpascual.bsky.social @ktgarschall.bsky.social @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social show that starvation induces G1/G0 #CellCycle arrest in Vasa2+/Piwi1+ #SeaAnemone cells; cycle re-entry is TOR-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48J2o6P

Very thought-inspiring presentation at @univie.ac.at @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social today by Ron Jenner from @nhm-london.bsky.social on rethinking the concept of venoms, sap-sucking and blood-sucking animals. Also see the recent piece in Trends in Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Same same, but different: A microscopy-based reference brain from @danielkronauer.bsky.social for the queen-less clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi, revealing interindividual variability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/

+ in this #TansleyInsight (which is also my first paper as corresponding author!) we ask ourselves: if bacteria can anticipate the seasons, how does that change the way we think about the evolution of photoperiodic responses? bsky.app/profile/newp...

Wonderful opportunity to do research on worm brain-gut signalling with ‪@marinvmet.bsky.social and @alexdcorbett.bsky.social!

Freshly out at @natcomms.nature.com ! Our @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @ercgrantees.bsky.social research into neurogenic plasticity of adult worm brains, and similarities in stem cells supporting growth of camera-type eyes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]

Wonderful preprint from Wallace Marshall‘s @wallaceucsf.bsky.social group on the intriguing intracellular patterns of Stentor. Amazing biology and great imaging.

"These findings demonstrate that spatial control of waste is crucial for supporting group living by reducing exposure to faecal hazards, particularly for immobile life stages such as eggs."... wonderfully serious #IgNobel work in royalsocietypublishing-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/doi/epdf/10....

Nice work linking transcription, cell cycle regulation, and a transition in symmetry during reproductive organ development.

The Beyond EPICA project begins the fifth and final drilling campaign in Antarctica. AWI researchers are part of the international research team that will drill into the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet – at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level and temperatures around -35°C.

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Excellent talk by Audrey Matt @maxperutzlabs.ac.at at the UBB @univie.ac.at introducing us into the exciting field of deep sea research and circadian and tidal rhythms!

In her wonderful podcast "Where the wild thoughts are", Jo Marchant has recently hosted Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social to discuss how the moon impacts biology. Full episode at shows.acast.com/where-the-wi...

Congratulations to Magnus Nordborg @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with two colleagues in Cambridge to study the transposable element landscape of eukaryotic genomes!

Congratulations to both Sascha Martens @univie.ac.at and former colleague Claudine @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de on jointly securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with @jimhurley.bsky.social at UC Berkeley!

Adhesion without glue: Clemens Schaber @uni-kiel.de talks at the LifeSci Faculty @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today, showing how chitinous hairs of spiders can adhere to surfaces, inspiring biotechnological applications. More at doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social presenting at @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today on the remarkable world of eye muscles in dipteran flies. Check out the original description of fruitfly eye movements here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A day of Neurosciences & Developmental Biology today at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social kicked off by "spider-man" Friedrich Barth @oeaw.bsky.social, emeritus professor and founder of the original Neurobiology Dept at @univie.ac.at

Timing matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams. on.orf.at/video/142925... Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Excited to share that senior postdoc Sören Häfker @awi.de just secured one of the highly competitive @erc.europa.eu ‬ @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERCStG grants to pioneer work decoding the molecular clockwork driving rhythmicity of krill in the #marine #foodweb! More on BICLOPS here: bit.ly/4lYpBq0

Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...

Exciting news - Elly Tanaka, director of @imbavienna.bsky.social , received the #Wittgenstein award of the @fwf-at.bsky.social today, Austria's top research award. Congratulations to Elly, and thanks so much for being not only a great scientist, but also a wonderful role model!

Excited to welcome @mariacocurullo.bsky.social to the Tessmar-Raible lab, who secured a prestigious #MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship to explore how monthly timing shapes brain #plasticity in Platynereis dumerilii — and how light pollution at night may disrupt it. #BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN

Interested to join our Vienna lab for #Postdoc research into regenerative plasticity or biological 3D printing? The Raible group bit.ly/RaibleUniVie invites expressions of interests for Marie-Skłodowska-Curie #MSCA postdoc fellowships - an excellent opportunity for mobility to and within Europe!

🚨We’re proud that The Genetics Society @gensocuk.bsky.social supports the upcoming UK EvoDevo meeting. Register for only £5 and submit your abstracts before June 1st! Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...

🚀 We are proud to launch the new "Ambassadors for the ERC" initiative, together with @ercgrantees.bsky.social ! We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7 🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved! #Amb4ERC

Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social will serve as one of the Ambassadors for the ERC @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social. #Amb4ERC aim to advocate for the importance of fundamental research across Europe. See bit.ly/4jOulOq and aerg.eu/ambassadors

Thanks to Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social from @uniofgalway.bsky.social for giving a great talk at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @univie.ac.at today, introducing the remarkable reproductive system of #Hydractinia and fascinating research into sex determination; more at doi.org/10.1126/scia...

At the end of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, the organizing committee gave out the presentation awards to six happy winners. Many thanks to @gfeev.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes and the subsequent networking meeting!