Franck Pichaud
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Cell & Developmental Biologist
#cellbiology
#developmentalbiology
#imaging
#genetics
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Guillaume Charras
13 days ago
How does signalling control cortical tension? Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling. More here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and
@dianakhorom.bsky.social
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Robert Insall
13 days ago
Nice image from Anamul Hoque "tidied up" a bit by ChatGPT - won us the "best image" prize at UCL Life Sciences. Ernst Haeckel, eat your heart out.
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Matthew Freeman
15 days ago
Breaking... Very good news. A first step towards...?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme
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Denis Wirtz
18 days ago
Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here:
research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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It is the most luminous time of the year !
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European Research Council (ERC)
21 days ago
Six new members join the ERC Scientific Council: 🔸Michel Campillo 🔸Emmanuelle Charpentier 🔸Kateřina Králová 🔸Susana Narotzky 🔸Karin Roelofs 🔸Eleftheria Zeggini Read more:
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Six new members of the ERC Scientific Council
The European Commission has appointed six new members to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council. The term of one current member has also been renewed. In par...
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/six-new-members-erc-scientific-council-2025
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Itai Yanai
about 1 month ago
I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity. – Maria Leptin, ERC President
@marialep.bsky.social
(From the episode of the Night Science Podcast coming out next week
@nightsciencepod.bsky.social
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Marc Somssich
about 1 month ago
We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at
@kwsgroup.bsky.social
Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands.
jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening...
#PlantScience
#PlantSciJobs
#PlantScienceJobs
#PlantCellBiology
#PlantBreeding
#PlantSciJob
#PlantScienceJob
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Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
https://jobs.kws.com/job/Wageningen-Head-of-Cell-Biology-KWS-Vegetables-GE/1271269501/
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Mark A. Hanson
about 1 month ago
Paper for the
#Drosophila
community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩🎓🎉 Plus an
#infection
observation re: Diet x
#Microbiota
🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#EvolBiol
#AcademicSky
#SymbioSky
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Pedro Beltrao
2 months ago
Looks like OpenFold3 has been formally released in a public "preview". Not quite on parity with AlphaFold3 on a few benchmarks shown, in particular for antibody interactions. All info on the github link. I am sure we will hear more about this from the developers
github.com/aqlaboratory...
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GitHub - aqlaboratory/openfold-3: OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3
OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3 - aqlaboratory/openfold-3
https://github.com/aqlaboratory/openfold-3
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EMBL-EBI
2 months ago
For over 20 years, the mouse model organism has helped scientists uncover the biology behind human health and disease. But the mouse reference genomes still have missing pieces. The first collection of telomere-to-telomere mouse genomes are now available for two key mouse strains. 🧬💻
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03432-7
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Ian Weissman, DO
3 months ago
Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...
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How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment
Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/lego-mri-scanner-anxiety-sedation-children.html
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Drosophila Spain
3 months ago
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting
#DrosoSpain2026
will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026
#savethedate
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
3 months ago
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
3 months ago
Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line
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Barack Obama
3 months ago
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/10/world/nobel-peace-prize
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Buzz Baum
3 months ago
LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…
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European Drosophila Society
3 months ago
The
#EDS
has the pleasure to announce that, after
#EDRC2027
in Bonn, we will have
#EDRC2029
in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!
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Denis Wirtz
3 months ago
This work was done by an amazing team of PhD students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and wonderful colleagues at Hopkins, Yale (Rong Fan, Xiaoyu Qin, and Mei Zhong), UCSD (Lingyan Shi and Yajuan Li), the Max Planck Institute (David Zwicker), and U. Florida (Mark Atkinson and team).
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John Ngo
3 months ago
🚀 Our new paper is out
@natmethods.nature.com
! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬
www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
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Matthew Freeman
4 months ago
Another exciting opportunity
@dunnschool.bsky.social
! Come and be a colleague to a great group of scientists working on the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease, and how to transform health Please help us find great applicants
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Matthew Freeman
4 months ago
Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab
@dunnschool.bsky.social
by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on!
www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...
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Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School
Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?
https://www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us/career-development-fellowships/
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Daniel Durocher
4 months ago
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at
@sinaihealth.bsky.social
. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Katja Röper
4 months ago
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/...
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
4 months ago
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community,
@flybase.bsky.social
, is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
5 months ago
if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom,
@skypeascientist.bsky.social
brings scientists to your class. Sign up at:
www.skypeascientist.com
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Kevin Mitchell
5 months ago
Last chance to apply for this tenure track position in Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! Come join us!
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Denis Wirtz
5 months ago
Download our database of POSTDOC fellowships for cancer research/oncology in the US. We found 46 different fellowships. For each entry, we provide link, description, deadline, amount, eligibility criteria. Good luck! Here:
research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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5 months ago
🔎 Spotted in
@natcomms.nature.com
! Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology used 7 of DSHB's mAbs in a study on how younger gut cells can slow intestinal aging and extend lifespan in fruit flies.
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The Transmitter
5 months ago
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By
@claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/harvard-university-lays-off-fly-database-team/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250813-harvard-lays-offs-fly-database
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Today’s hike: deadman’s bay path. Beautiful but very technical!
5 months ago
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Cape spear to Maddox cove, and back - Amazing- challenging, but worth it !
#Newfoundland
5 months ago
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen
5 months ago
Beautiful and inspiring work from Gero Miesenböck and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature
Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09261-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202507
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Mill_lab
5 months ago
Peak
#SummerFun
- our amazing line-up for our 52nd
@bscb-official.bsky.social
@gensocuk.bsky.social
@ukcilianetwork.bsky.social
e-symposium 19/08/2025 15:00-17:45 is now live! Join us for all things
#cilia
&
#centrosomes
- free & open to all. Register for here-
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220921258...
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BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/122092125835?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Manuel Thery
5 months ago
EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Head of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organisation, and one of the world’s leading research institutions. An intergovernmental organisation of 29 Member S...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/job/Heidelberg/Head-of-the-Cell-Biology-and-Biophysics-Unit_JR2042
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One of my favourite run - beautiful Newfoundland
#bowringpark
#StJohn’s
🎉
5 months ago
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
5 months ago
Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
https://ki.se/en/about-ki/jobs-at-ki/join-a-global-community-of-excellence
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Mark Miodownik
6 months ago
If you bought sports gear from Decathlon they will now buy it back if you are no longer using it - Buy Back | Decathlon
share.google/dBOTY3kAydzG...
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Buy Back | Decathlon
Save money and trade in your old gear with buy back.
https://share.google/dBOTY3kAydzG0ZyWc
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Kevin Mitchell
6 months ago
Single-cell spatial transcriptomic atlas of the whole mouse brain 🐭🧠
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
- incredible resource! At both adult and developing stages! 👏
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Single-cell spatial transcriptomic atlas of the whole mouse brain
Han et al. used snRNA-seq and Stereo-seq to generate a detailed mouse brain atlas with over 4 million spatially resolved cells and 29,655 genes. Their findings include region- enriched cell clusters a...
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(25)00133-3
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Kevin Mitchell
6 months ago
This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)
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Genetics Society of America
6 months ago
🚨 The future of U.S. science is at risk. Join the Day of Action on July 21 to tell Congress to protect science and American innovation. 🔗 Learn more:
protectscienceandinnovation.org
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Protect Science and Innovation
Cancer treatments. The smartphone. The moon landing.
https://protectscienceandinnovation.org
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Allez PSG!
6 months ago
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@rhianfw.bsky.social
had a solo tonite @ St Vedast alias Foster 🎶🎼🎵
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A great evening with Mohini Dey - Bass guitar and more 🎉
@ronniescotts.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️🌈
6 months ago
OMG, this is such a cool paper from Patrick Caswell's lab. They express Rab25-mCherry-GFP-nanobody in cells, microinject GFP-magnetic particles, then use a magnet to pull Rab25 to the plasma membrane to show that it can trigger actin protrusions! I want this system.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Live-cell magnetic manipulation of recycling endosomes reveals their direct effect on actin protrusions to promote invasive migration
Repositioning of Rab25 vesicles containing formin and integrin cargos to the cell periphery promotes protrusion formation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6361
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Crystal Rogers, PhD
6 months ago
Are you interested in signaling? Imaging? Development and differentiation? Please us Friday for our virtual seminar series and a talk by
@siegenthalerlab.bsky.social
from
@cuanschutz.bsky.social
! It will be fantastic! 11:30 AM PDT/1:30 PM CDT/2:30PM EDT. Register:
scisoc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The Royal Society
6 months ago
The
#SummerScience
Exhibition is in full swing! Join us today to experience the Quantum Jungle, hear talks on inclusive spaceflight and fighting superbugs, and explore our 13 fascinating flagship exhibits:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Heavy security for Rhian’s service (choir) today, at St George’s chapel @Windsor castle
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