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...

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The talin protein plays a central and evolutionarily conserved role in cell adhesion. This was demonstrated by a team led by Prof Carsten Grashoff and doctoral student Srishti Rangarajan from the Institute of Integrative Cell #Biology and #Physiology.

We're hiring! We are looking for an Associate or Senior Editor to join our cell and developmental biology team Apply here: https://bit.ly/3KEeCFN

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Congratulations to Prof. Armido Studer @uni-muenster.de on winning the #LeibnizPreis from @dfg.de! 🎉👏

One review. Many journals. Less redundancy. Check out this conversation with our head Dr. Thomas Lemberger on the vision behind @reviewcommons.org and what it means for authors and journals alike @embopress.org @embo.org www.embo.org/people/revie...

Join us for our annual christmas lecture on December 16th at 5 pm in the lecture hall C1. This year, Uwe Karst and Michael Holtkamp explore the fascination of light under the topic "Let there be light!". How do we perceive it? How can we make colorful light? And how does chemistry come into play?

Research Specialist in Microscopy and Spatial Transcriptomics (80-100%) www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #biozentrum #biozentrumbasel #universityofbasel #researchjobs #sciencejobs #basel #job #hiring #recruiting #carreers #research #specialist #microscopy

Regulation of cell dynamics by rapid #integrin transport through the biosynthetic pathway. New study from Martina Lerche, Mathilde Mathieu, Johanna Ivaska @johannaivaska.bsky.social @ivaskalab.bsky.social @turkubioscience.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Adhesion #Cancer

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

In their Review, John James, Darius Köster and colleagues consider E-cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion, focusing on recent advances in our understanding how actin cortex dynamics affect adherens junction stability. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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

From (slime) mold to man: #Talin plays a key role in animal cell adhesion and force transmission during locomotion. Check out exciting new paper by the Grashoff group @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/eTFJR @uni-muenster.de

From #amoeba to humans: new paper @natcomms.nature.com by the Grashoff group @sfb1348.bsky.social reveals evolutionary origin of animal cell adhesion and force transmission. Talin protein plays central role. See rdcu.be/eTFJR @uni-muenster.de

We are excited to welcome Julien Prudent @mrc-mbu.bsky.social to #Münster next Thursday. He will give a talk in our @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar about "Golgi-derived vesicles and phosphoinositides orchestrate mitochondrial morphology”. Everyone is welcome. More: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i...

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

Vorträge zu Tierversuchen an Schulen: Warum gibt es sie, was zählt dazu und wem nützen sie? Unser 45-minütiger Vortrag richtet sich an Schüler*innen bietet einen verständlichen Überblick und Raum für Fragen. Biologielehrkräfte können uns für einen Schulbesuch kontaktieren.

Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Maria Rodriguez Colman @umcutrecht.bsky.social on December 4, 2025. She will speak about "Seeing is Believing: Metabolic Regulation of Stemness and Genome Stability". More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i... Everyone's welcome!

Prospective PhD students if you are looking to work on some exciting Developmental Biology questions combining some state-of-the-art microscopy, please consider joining the talented @maikbischoff.bsky.social

2/2 If you’re into #cellbio, cellular interfaces, #mechanobiology, #membranes, anything related, come to Münster, Germany, May 27–29! www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i... Please spread the word. It’s a fantastic (and FREE!) meeting. And while you’re here, explore Münster… it’s worth it. #Science

Excited to host Giorgos Pyrowolakis @uni-freiburg.de for his seminar @sfb1348.bsky.social today!

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

Honouring 30 years of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard’s Nobel Prize with a symposium full of science, stories, and reunions. As Germany’s first and only female Nobel laureate in the sciences, her work continues to shape developmental genetics today: 🔗 tinyurl.com/5cvmu74e #NobelPrize #maxplanck

Congrats to one of the most talented folks with whom I have ever worked. Follow Maik as he pursues new insights into morphogenesis using highly innovative multi-disciplinary tools! 🧪

A warm welcome to @maikbischoff.bsky.social to @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de ! Can´t wait to see your work on tissue morphogenesis and chirality in #Drosophila. Keeping an eye out for the PhD opening — excited to see the lab take off! 🙌🪰 #cellbio #morphogenesis

Check out our Spotlight article, which outlines the metabolic states during early development, focusing on embryonic diapause. 🐁 doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #Cilia & #Centrosomes will take place November 25 (end of October is our DGZ meeting in HD). Join us for a great speaker line-up, and big thanks to David Mick @mick-lab.bsky.social & Dagmar Wachten @wachtenlab.bsky.social for organizing!

And here is the link to access the whole pdf. Enjoy! I strongly believe that focusing on information & computation during Development provides an important framework, that encapsulates the genetic, chemistry & mechanics, but focusses on organisation, dynamics & logic. PDF: tinyurl.com/4hn34t8w

Interesting study showing that lack of follicular #patency may suppress vitellogenesis in ovaries of ant workers, restricting reproductive potential of this caste rdcu.be/ePNP8

☕🍰Interested in reading more about the study? Here is the N&Vs article written by Sebastian Rumpf & Neeraja Sanal. 👉https://rdcu.be/eJqMg bit.ly/4o1TNSD

Please share widely! This is an amazing opportunity. Beautiful new building, great colleagues, cool science, fantastic city. There are not that many opportunities like this!! Apply, if you can! Feel free to DM me if you have questions, I am on the search committee.

Große Freude! Die @dfg.de richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert den etablierten Verbund @sfb1348.bsky.social. Insgesamt fließen rund 24 Millionen Euro an die Universität Münster.

Dynamic cellular interfaces reloaded!🎉 Happy and excited to receive extended funding @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and to push our collaborative science forward in the next 4 years! Big thanks @dfg.de, reviewers, and everyone else involved for the continued support!

We are excited to welcome Giorgos Pyrowolakis to #Münster next Thursday. He will give a talk in our @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar entitled “From Patterning Signals to ECM Remodeling in Epithelial Morphogenesis.” Everyone is welcome. More info: shorturl.at/qWdEQ @uni-muenster.de

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

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

We are excited to welcome Roland Le Borgne to Münster! He will speak at our @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar on “Interplay between adhesion and actin-based force generation during epithelial cell cytokinesis”. Everyone is welcome. More: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i...