Drosophila border cells are beautiful to watch… but far from easy to image. Kudos to the brave and skilled @vitoryang.bsky.social, who took on the challenge of establishing border cell migration imaging in the lab! His movies are astonishing, and now our first-ever study on #cell #migration is out!

Join IGH as Group Leader - IGH The Institute of Human Genetics invites applications for a Principal Investigator position in its main research areas. Read more...

We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...

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Like #hemocytes? I'm advertising a 3 year, BBSRC #postdoc position, in #Edinburgh, using #Drosophila & human cells to understand sex differences in the regulation of #macrophage function, an exciting collaboration with the Bénézech and Wood labs. Please share! 🪰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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I absolutely loved my visit to the @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @doctoremmerson.bsky.social was such a great host -great people and great science

It was so nice to welcome @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social to Edinburgh and @edinuni-irr.bsky.social as our external seminar speaker yesterday. Thank you for a wonderful talk, great chat & cathartic moaning about funding challenges over dinner!

Our take on a really interesting new study by the Franz lab at UCL, a version of epithelial polarity where you would not expect it! Read our Spotlight and the original paper!

Kinesin-1 is highly flexible and adopts an open conformation in the absence of cargo Kinesin-1 is an essential anterograde microtubule motor protein. The core kinesin motor is a homodimer of two heavy chains; N-terminal motor domains hydrolyse ATP and walk along microtubules, whilst a...

I'm a bit late with this, but awesome to see it out in the wild! A real tour de force from @dozenoaks.bsky.social @timcraggs.bsky.social An amazing example of why we need to think more about flexibility in our biological questions! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..

A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...

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🧠 Are you passionate about EM, neurons, ageing, neurodegeneration? Then you might be interested in a funded 4-year BBSRC NWD PhD project using vCLEM techniquesat Liverpool with @ianprior.bsky.social, @natsansor.bsky.social and @aliemliv.bsky.social

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Hi folks,

Check out our updated website!
Details on next year's conference will be posted there soon!

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Lots of exciting PhD projects on offer at the LMB, including in our group 😊

I’ll be speaking about the mechanical development of crocodile and tortoise head scales next Wednesday at 4pm for the @tlmcambridge.bsky.social seminar series. Subscribe to the mailing list to hear more about my work, and that of @maltemederacke.bsky.social!

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What a fabulous line up of speakers - really looking forward to this!!!

I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!

Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!

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March 23-26, 2026 - UK

Free course in Developmental Biology starting tomorrow in Paris 🇫🇷, held at @sorbonne-universite.fr! 🧪 #science #biology

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

Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Interested in cell migration and developmental biology-check out this PhD opportunity!

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🔬 Sabies que…?

🧬 La Drosophila melanogaster, coneguda com a mosca de la fruita, és un insecte àmpliament utilitzat com a organisme model en biologia i genètica. 1/3

We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Very sad to hear that Sir John Gurdon, former Master of Magdalene College, has passed away at the age of 92. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Here is a powerful reminder that you should never give up on your dreams.

Sad to hear of the death of John Gurdon this morning, aged 92.

Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila Boumard et al. demonstrate gap-junction-dependent tissue-scale nucleotide sharing, which impacts cellular sensitivity to perturbation of nucleotide homeostasis and replication stress. Drosophila wing ...

The PhD work of @bboumard.bsky.social officially out in print! Happy to share this issue with our downstairs colleagues in the BDD @frelab.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social

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Beautiful work! Congrats Allison and to the rest of the team!

Guttastic! ❤️

We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

Thank you for hosting me! It was a lovely visit.

Absolutely beautiful work - really great to see this out!! Big big congrats to the whole team

Now the #EDB @flybase.bsky.social representative Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social is presenting #Flybase future plans

We are loving the
@edrc2025.bsky.social !!

Please come find us at the poster sessions and coffee breaks!