Great spotlight by @katjaroeper.bsky.social on very interesting work by the Franz lab on epithelial-like polarity in nonepithelial fat body cells in #Drosophila

Cellular Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on „Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces" in Münster from May 27–29, 2026. Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w @uni-muenster.de

We are excited to host an @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Andrea Ravasio on February 12, 2026. He will present his talk titled “Collective rigidity sensing governs epithelial cell migration.” More information: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i... Everyone is welcome!

Heute ist der Internationale Tag der Frauen und Mädchen in der Wissenschaft und dazu passend ist aktuell eine Bewerbung für das Programm "Freiraum für Forschung" möglich. Das Stipendium richtet sich an fortgeschrittene weibliche Postdocs. Detaillierte Infos: www.uni-muenster.de/.../Freiraum...

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🔬Join our #ReproductionMS seminar with Dr. @maikbischoff.bsky.social on "Coiling a Duct: How Mesenchymal Cells Sculpt Male Reproductive Organ Architecture" this Wednesday, 11 February 12pm CET. DM for Zoom details.

New paper by Kay Grobe and Seraphine Wegner @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de shows that the soluble factor Scube recruits proteases, protease inhibitors, and lipoproteins to the cell surface, where they release the #Sonic #Hedgehog morphogen www.nature.com/articles/s42... @commsbio.nature.com

Fun, interesting, great for a dose of humility...

📢Job alert📢 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.

👩🔬On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Matter to Life Lecture Series will highlight the work of our Fellow Seraphine Wegner from @uni-muenster.de. Join us for her talk on “Spatiotemporal control in synthetic and living cells using light”. 11 Feb at 3 PM CET: bit.ly/3ZKkf99

@sfb1348.bsky.social Vortrag für Biologie-Lehrkräfte & Schüler*innen am 09.02.26 mit Prof. Dr. Carsten Grashoff: Mechanobiologie in der modernen Zellbiologie und Biomedizin. Jeder ist herzlich willkommen!

A very cool bug fact I just learned: the first published description of the process later defined as “clathrin-mediated endocytosis” – lets cells uptake large molecules; exploited by viruses – was yolk precursor internalization by maturing Aedes aegypti oocytes! 🦟 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14126875/

After 15 years as Editor-in-chief (EiC), Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social will be stepping down at the end of 2026 & we are seeking feedback from the cell biology community as part of the consultation process for appointing a new EiC. We'd love to hear from you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZCC9F9

Brilliant

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Peter Dedecker (KU Leuven) on February 5, 2026. He will speak about "Smart probes and instruments for multidimensional 3D imaging". More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i... Everyone's welcome!

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

JOB ALERT! Come work with us as a PhD student for 4 years if you are interested in biodiversity monitoring, technology development, insects and agriculture.

Dirty little secret about #Drosophila transgenes: pUAST transgenes are downregulated by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Deleting the pUAST 3'-UTR can boost expression ~10x. Shown by @markmetzstein.bsky.social doi.org/10.1534/gene... For #NMD-resistant pUAST derivatives, see doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026. biologists.com/grants/trave...

Clever new method for assembling DNA oligos into larger sequences without the need for unique overlap sequences. Can't wait for those 'this sequence is too complex' rejection messages from DNA suppliers to become a thing of the past. 🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How can structures at the vertex of 3 cells have effects at the tissue level? Join me, @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social, to explore how tricellular junctions (TCJs) act as local tension sensors and regulators of global tissue organization. 🧵⤵️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#Zebrafish 🐟 meeting klaxon🧨 The registration period for the 1st German Zebrafish Meeting (16-18 Sept) is open www.germanfishmeeting.org with Sessions on Development, Pharma, Behavior, Omics, and more. Deadline for Abstracts at the end of April. Hope to see y'all there! 🧪 (1/n)

Interested in cell-cell communication and microscopy? We are searching for a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join Münster! Please Apply! @uni-muenster.de

🎉 The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series is back! 🗓️ Thurs, Jan 22 🎙️ Opening talks: 🧬Guy Tanentzapf (UBC) — How cell adhesion molecules wire into the cytoskeleton 🌀Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff (EMBL) @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social — Mapping tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy

Apply now! Deadline extended until January 31st. Exciting #PhD project in a vibrant research environment and with outstanding PI!

We are excited to host an @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Viktorija Glembockyte (MPI Heidelberg) on January 22, 2026. She will present her talk titled “Engineering Optical Nanoscale Tools with DNA.” More information: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i... Everyone is welcome!

#ECR save the dates! 🗓️ In der Reihe #PROSPECTS informiert unser Team #Karriereförderung auch 2026 regelmäßig über die Fördermöglichkeiten bei der DFG. Hier haben wir die Infotalks für die erste Jahreshälfte. Teilnahme ohne vorherige Registrierung möglich, Link erscheint hier. 👉 sohub.io/bvv0

Biomedical imaging techniques reveal what normally remains hidden from view. Experience beautiful images and light projections in the exhibition "inVISIBLE" in the Multiscale Imaging Center @uni-muenster.de Open Mondays to Fridays 10:00 am to 5:00 pm www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Mot...

Sign up date coming quickly! Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮. If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... #Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging @turkubioscience.bsky.social

This will be an outstanding meeting - register soon!

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Tineke Lenstra (NKI) on January 15, 2026. She will speak about "Understanding transcription: one molecule at a time". More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i... Everyone's welcome!

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb. More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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

🙌 The Image Data Community Days are back! Join us for 5 online days packed with lectures, hands-on workshops & networking sessions from 🗓️ April 13-17. ✅ Mark your calendars ✅ Fill in our “Collection of Interest” form Learn more 🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/our-events/i...

@sfb1348.bsky.social Vortrag für Biologie-Lehrkräfte & Schüler*innen am 12.01.26 mit Prof. Dr. Christian Klämbt: Wie sehen wir? Die Retina verarbeitet Farbe, Kontrast und Bewegung in parallelen Kanälen. Ein kurzer Überblick über Bauplan und neuronale Verschaltung. Jeder ist herzlich willkommen!

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Lucia Baldauf @ucl.ac.uk on January 8, 2026. She will speak about "Illuminating Forces in Living Tissues". More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i... Everyone's welcome!

New paper out! We show how mechanosensitive adherens junction proteins link actomyosin contractility to actin assembly using in vitro reconstitution. Huge congrats to Aurélie Favarin, Rayan Said, & all authors! In Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #actin #myosin #mechanobiology

Still time to apply until January, 19th!

Last couple of days to vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025 ❤️🔬! focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...

We've got some fantastic 'Featured image' posts lined up for 2026, but we'd love to have recommendations (which can be self-nominations!) for more. focalplane.biologists.com/tag/featured...

Apply soon: Full professorship in Systems #Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de See shorturl.at/VczFp

Morphogenesis & Organogenesis! Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇 Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!) Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks 🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱

Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics directly from images -- New method paper by labmates @bgraedel.bsky.social & @macdobry.bsky.social ! Python package & @napari.org plugin, all the good stuff: Paper: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... Code: github.com/pertzlab/arc... Plugin: github.com/pertzlab/arc...

In parallel, we'll be publishing a special issue on Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics - you can find out more at: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im... Submission deadline: 1 April 2026 #imaging #microscopy #cellbiology

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

📣 #Job alert! Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo? The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research. Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

The next deadline for Travelling Fellowship applications is 6 February 2026 (for travel after 23 March 2026*). Find out more and apply: www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

The Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowships programme: a commitment to support the next generation of scientists Our Reviews Editor Saanjbati Adhikari surveys 35 years of @biologists.bsky.social's Travelling Fellowships programme for #biologists100: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

ICYMI, our #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest research using #microscopy to answer questions in #biology. As always, send us any recommendations for preprints that we've missed: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/m...