This meeting was amazing! I had the pleasure of chairing one of the sessions and loved the science!

Look at this view! And even better: every attendee gives a talk making this meeting extremely collaborative. This is THE meeting to be for #NewPI #Drosophila researchers - and those who want to connect to them!

Rust Lab Signaling pathway crosstalk during epithelial homeostasis and pathogenesis

We are now online! Visit our new lab website at:

www.rustresearchlab.com

Now see what happens if we overactivate Hedgehog signaling! The cells keep crossing over the midline and are unable to escape this #cellmigration.

Time to share some data that might get buried in the supplement of our recent paper here rdcu.be/e91Kj

Here you can see how cells intercalate in a coordinated fashion. They move from a double rowed organisation to a single row stalk. 🧵

Our paper is now available as early access at Nature Communications! Using the #Drosophila follicle epithelium as a model, we applied #scRNAseq, #LiveImaging, and cell biological tools to unravel functions of aberrant EGFR-Ras and Hedgehog signaling.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing! Looking forward to meeting great scientists!

A vial of Drosophila.

Came to give a talk in beautiful #Kassel at the lab of Arno Müller and leaving with lots of amazing ideas and gifts! These #Drosophila were just what we needed for our current revision. Thank you, Arno!

Poster of our fly room members!

Our two #Drosophila fly rooms have an ongoing debate which one has the better crew. This battle is currently reaching the next dimension. Judge for yourself!

Yay! 🎉

Join us to study developmental cell biology with a focus on cell migration and morphogenesis.

More info about our research:
www.bischofflab.com

Job posting and application details:
focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology...

#Science #CellBio #DevBio #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #PhDPosition #Drosophila

Pseudotime trajectory created with Monocle3 of WT and tumor follicle cells labeled by pseudotime.

Here is a tiny glimpse into our recent work: a #pseudotime analysis of wildtype and tumorigenic #Drosophila follicle epithelial cells using #Monocle3. Seeing a bioinformatic prediction that supports our in vivo findings is always my favorite part of the day!

The lab is growing! We welcomed Hannah as a new PhD student and Anna and Lina as Master's students in the lab. I am more than thankful to be working with such a motivated, fun group of researchers!

UMAP plot from a Monocle3 analysis resembling a dancing woman and a bird.

I give you "Woman dancing with a bird"! This is a monocle analysis of our tumor model which we are currently revising. #SingleCell #Drosophila

Very much looking forward to this!

Katja Rust and Mila Höhne (Bogdan Lab) in Heidelberg

We and @bogdanlab.bsky.social are visiting Heidelberg for the 50th anniversary #DGZ meeting! Any @fly-jedi.bsky.social here wanting to connect?

Hello everyone!
We decided to automate our sign-up process for the JEDI network. Please register using this link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1IdO...

Thanks to everyone who reached out! We are looking forward to building our community with you. Share and repost!!!
#Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

@katrin-domsch.bsky.social

Amazing group of people! Thank you for the nice evening!

True. Travelling buddies is more accurate!

Katrin Domsch and Katja Rust at the EDRC meeting at Alicante.

Met a new friend at the #EDRC meeting today who is also a @fly-jedi.bsky.social!

I'm there! Happy to (re-)connect!

Group photo of our research group

Welcome to the lab, Hannah!

UMAP plot in the peculiar shape of a seahorse

Revision work of our latest #singlecell analysis generates the most peculiar pictures. Well, hello there, little seahorse!

Probably the best meeting I ever attended :)

This would be an incredible disaster to the #Drosophila community. And it sets a frightening sign for the entire scientific community. 🧪 The fly labs from @unimarburg.bsky.social are trying to organize to tackle this together.

That is because those funds are frozen. If you are a member of EDS you should have received an invoice for contribution.

...or just follow the starter pack I just created :) go.bsky.app/PcTGEMc

Apparently we do not have a JEDI starter pack yet.
@fly-jedi.bsky.social
and everyone else: let me know which other Junior European #Drosophila Investigators are missing!

go.bsky.app/PcTGEMc

I’ll also tag some JEDI folks that are on Bluesky (maybe everyone can contribute to extent the list because I’ll forget people!)
@jcarnesecchi.bsky.social @drosostalis.bsky.social @pingkalai.bsky.social @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social @linneweberlab.bsky.social