Drosophila SPARC Collagen IV chaperone-like activity essential for development is unique to the fat body www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Macrophage invasion into the Drosophila brain requires JAK/STAT-dependent MMP activation in the blood–brain barrier journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...

Remodeling of extracellular matrix collagen IV by MIG-6/papilin regulates neuronal architecture www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dear Droso peeps, we re-announce the upcoming JEDI meeting that will take place at Château du Feÿ from June 3rd to 5th in 2025. You'll find a prelim program flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... We're hoping to gather about 45 of more or less young droso PI to reboot the community. -> Register Now!

A great initiative to spread the use of non-mammalian models in cancer research!!!!

We are recruiting one postdoc and one PhD student to join our lab on #Drosophila #innate immunity in Lausanne (Switzerland). More info: www.epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...

"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mechanical stresses govern myoblast fusion and myotube growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On-demand delivery of fibulin-1 enables repeated basement membrane stretching www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🪰 🧬 Do you want to enhance your knowledge of Drosophila as a model organism? Then 'Drosophila genetics and genomics' might be the right course for you! Apply now and join us in Heidelberg for lectures and practical sessions delivered by renowned experts 👉 s.embl.org/drg25-01-bl #EMBODrosophila

Welcome to Development's Bluesky account 🧪 Development is a leading primary research journal in developmental and stem cell biology, published by The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social, a not-for-profit organisation, and edited by expert researchers in the #DevBio field.

The Company of Biologists publishes multiple non-profit journals run by and for scientists across many fields, and also supports the community through meeting and travel grants and other innovations. Follow them all!

ICYMI: The October FocalPlane features… webinar included talks from @helenajambor.bsky.social (‘How not to lie with image data’) and Kota Miura ('Reproducible bioimage analysis for ensuring #scientificintegrity'). Watch the recording at bit.ly/4fyB2SU #PublicationIntegrityWeek #COPE

Since I have so many new friends 😄, I thought I'd advertise this. Together with @pritiagarwal.bsky.social and Lance Davidson, we run a Developmental Mechanics seminar series on Zoom (originally started by Ronen Zaidel-Bar). This coming Thursday, we have our last session for 2024. Join us!!

Even though there are great #devbio and #biophysics starter packs, I felt #morphogenesis & #organogenesis was missing as a subfield :D Far from complete or full. Tell me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PB6s8PQ

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Developmental processes don't just occur in the embryo! Development's (@biologists.bsky.social) next Special Issue - Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues. Papers: 15 May 2025. #devbio #regeneration #stemcells journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...