This is what I call a #bicycle lane @stadt-muenster.de @uni-muenster.de

Cell and developmental biologists; This is well worth a read: Maik and Roberto synthesize work over decades to propose a provocative model of who mesenchymal cells migrate and shape tissues 🧪 Go for the cool Figures, stay for the deep insights

Being a parent in science can be challenging – we are here to help! @sfb1348.bsky.social works with pme Familienservice to offer free, flexible childcare during our seminars. Just let us know when you need care, and we will take care of the rest! www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i...

Excited to announce our @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with @georgiarapti.bsky.social @embl.org on September 25! She will speak about "Glia-neuron intertwined mechanisms sculpt brain circuit architecture across lifespan: insights from C. elegan". Find more details here: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en

“This programme really has an impact on people!” Here are some insights into the MOMENTUM Women’s Leadership Journey programme run by the Faculty of Medicine Münster, which supports female medical professionals & scientists in developing their personal #leadership style. #empowerment uni.ms/0woa3

New preprint from the Lecaudey lab by first authors Anna Mertens and Nicola Moratscheck, with the help of other former members including @chaitanyadingare.bsky.social uncovering the role of integrin-laminin interactions during epithelial collective cell migration!

Approximately 14,000 visitors attended the “Lange Nacht der Universitätsmedizin Münster”, which marked the highlight of the anniversary year celebrating 100 years of the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital. www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Mot... @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Looking forward to an exciting @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Stefanie Schirmeier @tudresden.bsky.social on September 18. She will speak about "Metabolic flexibility of the nervous system". More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en Everyone's welcome!

Exciting new paper by the group of Carsten Grashoff @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de shows conformational change in alpha-Catenin during maturation of #epithelial junctions www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

New article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung @faznet.bsky.social about the precarious state of funding for @flybase.bsky.social, a crucial resource under threat from the US government: www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss... #Drosophila #FlyBase

Wegen den Einschnitten der US-Regierung fürchten sich Wissenschaftler, dass die Flybase, eine zentrale wissenschaftliche Datenbank für die Forschung an der Fruchtfliege Drosophila melanogaster, verloren gehen könnte. Mein Text dazu in der heutigen F.A.Z.

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Super cool work from our institute!

Besuchen Sie uns zur „Langen Nacht der Unimedizin Münster“ am 12. September 2025! Zahlreiche Forschungsgruppen aus der Zell-Dynamik- und Imaging-Community der @uni-muenster.de und @sfb1348.bsky.social öffnen ihre Labore für die Öffentlichkeit! lange-nacht-muenster.de

Biologie-Lehrkräfte & Schüler*innen aufgepasst: Spannender Vortrag mit Prof. Mario Schelhaas am 15.09.2025 über „Eine Lernkurve von der #Impfung gegen Pocken bis zu Krebs: Was wir über Effizienz, Chancen und Risiken gelernt haben“ Infos: shorturl.at/Umhb6 @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de

Read about how female muscles grow larger than male ones! and hearts too!

Come visit us during the "Lange Nacht der Unimedizin Münster" on 12th September 2025. Numerous research groups from the cell dynamics and imaging community at @uni-muenster.de will be opening their labs for the public! #CellsInMotion @sfb1348.bsky.social lange-nacht-muenster.de

Looking forward to an exciting seminar with Leo Kurian @kurianlab.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social on Sept 11. He will speak about #RNA regulatory principles of engineering fate in living systems More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en Everyone's welcome! @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de

Amazing opportunities in Toronto 👇

Vote for your favourite image from the MBL Embryology course thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

A new paper from the lab is out- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A great collaboration between our lab in Muenster (Led by Dennis Hoffmann), Nir Gov (Weizmann/University of Cambridge), Ben Simons (University of Cambridge) and Tal Agranov (University of Cambridge).

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

wow.... opto-myosin mini-filaments that can switch speed or direction upon illumination! cool new work from Zev Bryant and colleagues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to host Dr. Donggen Luo from IDG McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University @pku1898.bsky.social for our @sfb1348.bsky.social Seminar. He will speak about "Neural Mechanisms Underlying Multiscale Timekeeping". More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en Everyone's welcome!

Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭 Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social Please PM if you got questions. stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

The 19th International CiM-IMPRS Graduate School Meeting "Biology in Motion - Advances Across Scales and Systems" will take place at @mpi-muenster.bsky.social in #Münster on Oct 8-10, 2025! Register now and don't miss out! ‪@cim-imprs-gsm.bsky.social‬ gsm2025.de #BiologyInMotion #LifeSciences

So proud of this work that @katemiro.bsky.social started with us @helsinki.fi and now completed in her own lab together with the amazing Fabien Bertillot 🤩 @mpi-muenster.bsky.social Check out the preprint and 🧵 on the surprising links between #colorectalcancer architechtures and #stemcell states 👇

Cell biology enthusiasts: We look forward to the #DGZ meeting in Heidelberg in October to celebrate 50 years of @dgz.bsky.social! 4 keynote speakers, 12 DGZ workgroups showcasing the latest in their fields & DGZ awardees 2025 will present. Register by Sept 15. www.zellbiologie.de/dgz-internat...

Check out this exciting meeting and register! Fantastic line-up of speakers on cell biology of the nucleus and a great venue 🔥

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper in @narjournal.bsky.social! We uncover how the Hox TF Ultrabithorax controls alternative splicing to shape muscle patterning and homeotic identity 🧬 @igmm-montpel.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

💡 Always a good time to be reminded: "if you fuse your protein of interest to GFP or EGFP to study the protein's behavior ... you are using a tag with a serious drawback." Same goes for anything that doesn't have 'm' in its name (looking at you, dTomato and StayGold)

Opening for a professorship in multimodal imaging in the context of our cluster of excellence #3DMM2O. Here is the full advertisement with all details: tinyurl.com/2ksy2b2s

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

Neurobiologist Bente Winkler @b-wink.bsky.social investigates how the brain reacts to #neuroinflammation. For this, she is using genetically modified #Drosophila flies that enable an artificial activation of the immune system. Read more: uni.ms/48q7k

📢Call for speakers We are looking for ECRs to speak in our mini-symposium run together with the popular membrane trafficking webinar series organised by ‪@franbottanelli.bsky.social @felixmendu.bsky.social & @ishier.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/14/f... Apply by 24 August

It’s #FluorescenceFriday again! @maikbischoff.bsky.social encouraged me to post more beautiful images, so I hope you enjoy this image of Ajuba at Tricellular Junctions in #Drosophila 🪰 want to know more? Click here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC. Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan... Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!

SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🤩Thanks for sharing the featured 🔬image with us and putting up this beauty, so we can appreciate the full morphology of the hydei testis.🤩

Explore the fascinating microscopy work by @maikbischoff.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social - stunning images across a wide range of scales #FluorescenceFriday

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards – Why does #OpenScience matter? #2: Jens Wendt “With opening your data up to the public and up to your colleagues, you enable synergies that you might not even think about.”, says Jens Wendt. The @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social data stewards will help you make your data accessible.

#Scicomm pilot project successfully completed. Congratulations on your fabulous pieces, @theajacobs.bsky.social, @b-wink.bsky.social, @mariebaldenius.bsky.social, Marit Praetz, and thanks to my coaching colleagues Alice Büsch, Maike Stelter + A. Esch-van Kan. www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Mot...

The Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships provides journalists with placements at #research institutions. Photographed is science journalist Maria Bolevich @mariabolevich89.bsky.social during her placement in Brussels. Apply now: www.embo.org/funding/fell... #ScienceCommunication 🧪

Are you in Germany in September (25th-27th) and ready to present your science? no further hesitation and register for the 15th GfE School on "Lineages: Revealing how Cells make Embryos and Tissues" at Schloss Reisensburg: www.vbio.de/gfe-entwickl... all #devbio enthusiasts and interested welcome!

Biologie-Lehrkräfte & Schüler*innen aufgepasst: Der @sfb1348.bsky.social öffnet euch wieder die Türen für: - das beliebte Genetikpraktikum (16.03.-27.03.26). Jetzt bewerben - Plätze begrenzt! - spannende Vorträge von Professor*innen ab dem 15.09.25 Weitere Infos: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/p...

New paper: Multi-omic mapping of Drosophila protein secretomes reveals tissue-specific origins and inter-organ trafficking Bosch et al. doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Using a simple model – #FruitFly eggs – biologist @theajacobs.bsky.social is investigating how cells build connections, and thus form tissues that only allow certain substances or cells to pass through. Here, she provides insight into her day-to-day research. @sfb1348.bsky.social uni.ms/d3ry0