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Maik Bischoff
@maikbischoff.bsky.social
Junior Group Leader in Münster, Germany.
Morphogenesis, collective cell migration, cytoskeleton, cell-adhesion and self-organization/emergent behavior in #Drosophila.
Animal photos: 📷 instagram.com/maikscritters 🐸🐍
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Super proud to be part of SFB1348 — and excited to share that I now officially have my own lab in Münster! 🎉🪰

We’ll study #cellbio & #morphogenesis, focusing on organ sculpting and #chirality in #Drosophila.

I’ll soon hire my first #PhD student — feel free to reach out!

#juniorPI #Science #devbio
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📢 Paper alert 📢

Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
Sequestration of Ena/VASP proteins impedes in vivo Wnt activation driving Xenopus embryonic development. Our results suggest Mena as a crucial mediator of Wnt signalosome endocytosis thus promoting canonical Wnt signalling.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Actin regulator Mena promotes Wnt signalosome endocytosis and Wnt signalling.
Wnt signaling controls embryonic development and tissue maintenance. Endocytosis of Wnt-receptors is required for signalling, yet uptake mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify the acti...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
Endocytosis of Wnt-receptors is required for signalling, yet uptake mechanisms remain poorly understood. We resolve a longstanding controversy by showing that Wnt3a triggers rapid Clathrin-Mediated and Fast Endophilin-Mediated LRP6 endocytosis at low concentrations sufficient for Wnt activation.
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Super proud to be part of SFB1348 — and excited to share that I now officially have my own lab in Münster! 🎉🪰

We’ll study #cellbio & #morphogenesis, focusing on organ sculpting and #chirality in #Drosophila.

I’ll soon hire my first #PhD student — feel free to reach out!

#juniorPI #Science #devbio
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
Big news 🎊 @dfg.de announced today the funding of our CRC @reproductionms.bsky.social
Our dedicated mission: Unravelling the molecular pathways of male infertility and drive smarter treatment for couples.
We're ready, excited and can't wait to get started 🚀
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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congratulations, Stefan (!) and colleagues. Huge achievement; looking forward to your next 4 years!
Dynamic cellular interfaces reloaded!🎉 Happy and excited to receive extended funding @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and to push our collaborative science forward in the next 4 years! Big thanks @dfg.de, reviewers, and everyone else involved for the continued support!
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Die #DFG fördert zur weiteren Stärkung der #Spitzenforschung an den Hochschulen 9 neue #Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB). Die Themen reichen von pilzbasierten Baumaterialien über Autoimmunkrankheiten bis zu molekularer Bor-Chemie. Einzelheiten 👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Dynamic cellular interfaces reloaded!🎉 Happy and excited to receive extended funding @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social and to push our collaborative science forward in the next 4 years! Big thanks @dfg.de, reviewers, and everyone else involved for the continued support!
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Große Freude! Die @dfg.de richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert den etablierten Verbund @sfb1348.bsky.social. Insgesamt fließen rund 24 Millionen Euro an die Universität Münster.
24 Millionen Euro für zwei Sonderforschungsbereiche
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert einen etablierten Verbund zu zellulären Grenzflächen. Insgesamt fließe...
www.uni-muenster.de
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Hi folks,

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

fly-jedi.org
Junior European Drosophila Investigators | Home
A simple website based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
fly-jedi.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Dear #Neuroscience researchers, I am Guest Editing an issue in @devdynamics.bsky.social on NEURAL MIGRATION.
Due date: March 31, 2026.

Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio

Please reskeet 🙏

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...
Developmental Dynamics
<em>Developmental Dynamics</em> is a developmental biology journal publishing novel discoveries that advance our understanding in development, morphology, evolution, and disease.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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1/5: New preprint: Cytokines control the physical state of immune tissue. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unlike structured organs (heart, liver), immune tissue can shapeshift to form functional structures like germinal centers (GCs), tertiary lymphoid organs, granulomas, etc.
Cytokines control the physical state of immune tissue
Unlike most solid-like tissues, immune tissue is protean and reconfigurable—its component cells can patrol vast territories, find rare cellular partners, and dynamically self-organize into functional ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Exciting opportunity! Young Drosophila researchers do not wait to apply. Fly facilities at the Institute in Münster are outstanding! @fly-eds.bsky.social
Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A student-run radio show covered my Nikon Small World honorable mention & I even got to give a radio interview!
A totally new experience for me 😀

Huge thanks to Andrew!

Also featuring @peiferlabunc.bsky.social & @nat-prunet.bsky.social

#NikonSmallWorld #Microscopy #ScienceCommunication #SciArt
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Somehow I couldn’t reach the #Dipteran #Evolution community with my question… so maybe I need something controversial 😄

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐲𝐳𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜!

#Phylogeny #TreeOfLife #Drosophila #Diptera

(… 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸)
Hey #Drosophila evolution people, quick phylogeny question! Is this simplified tree reasonable? I integrated multiple papers & added some polytomies, so that there is nothing too speculative in there. Does it look right to you? 🪰 It's just for a presentation 😉

#Evolution #Phylogeny
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Hey #Drosophila evolution people, quick phylogeny question! Is this simplified tree reasonable? I integrated multiple papers & added some polytomies, so that there is nothing too speculative in there. Does it look right to you? 🪰 It's just for a presentation 😉

#Evolution #Phylogeny
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
#FluorescenceFriday – Kidney Edition!

Giving the gills a day off 😉
Cryosection of 5dpf old 🦓🐟 larvae showing:
🟡podocytes
🟢VitaminD-binding protein-GFP
⚪Phalloidin
Notice how there’s no GFP signal in the pronephric duct — proof that filtration barrier is working perfectly

#Zebrafish #DevBio
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
Amazing job and a superb university. Full Professorship (W3) "Systems Neuroscience" at the University of Münster!
Deadline: 01/05/26
Join a community of remarkable scientists in a lovely, walkable, bikeable city
RT
Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reposted by Maik Bischoff
📣 Paper alert!

I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📢 Vacant full Professorship (W3) "Sytstems Neuroscience" at the University of Münster!

Deadline: 01/05/26

#AcademicSky #AcademicJobs #NeuroScience #NeuroJobs #FacultyJob #STEM #hiring

Please like and share to spread the word 😊
Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM