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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7d

A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1

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Bardin Lab @bardinlab.bsky.social · 1d

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

www.cell.com/developmenta...

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 ...

www.cell.com

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Drosophilosopher @hammedbadmos.bsky.social · 12d

EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 13d

Three fantastic keynote lectures to kick off #EDRC2025 Lucia Prieto-Godiño @crick.ac.uk the @embo.org sponsored lecture, Romain Levayer @pasteur.fr and Marta Llimargas @ibmb-csic.bsky.social

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Nisha Veits @nveits.bsky.social · 16d

How is developmental speed regulated ? 🪰

Happy to share my PhD story from Schweisguth Lab @devstempasteur.bsky.social. Here we show that cellular NAD+ availability and redox constrain developmental speed in the fly eye.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A big thanks to everyone involved!

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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · 13d

You’ve heard of ubiquitination, meet deazaguanylation: Doug Wassarman in our lab discovered phage defense pathways have co-opted Q nucleobase biosynthetic enzymes to catalyze a new form of protein conjugation chemistry @science.org

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Drosophilosopher @hammedbadmos.bsky.social · 13d

Lucas Waltzer @lucaswaltzer.bsky.social · 14d

#drosophila swarming Alicante beach to celebrate Bruno's birthday #edrc !

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 19d

📣 New preprint: Mechanochemical feedback, tissue geometry & rigid-body dynamics initiate rotational migration in Drosophila via spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. A mechanism generalizable to closed epithelia.
@sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 14d

The @fly-eds.bsky.social is having its general assembly this saturday at 13:30 at #EDRC2025 , please join us to discuss our society and to find out more about @flybase.bsky.social and the current funding crisis

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Rohan Khadilkar @rohankhadilkar.bsky.social · 14d

Super excited for the European Drosophila Research Conference 2025 in Alicante, Spain. Going to be 4 days of exciting science and lots of fun! My PhD student, Ujjayita will be giving a talk and I have a poster. Pls do drop by! 😊
#Drosophila #EDRC2025

EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 25d

Abstract submission is now closed but you can still register to #EDRC2025 until the meeting starts! Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante!

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Julien Colombani & Ditte Andersen lab @colombani-lab.bsky.social · 16d

We are looking forward to seeing you at the @edrc2025.bsky.social
You can find us
- On Thursday 25th at the workshop: INTERORGAN COMMUNICATION IN THE ERA OF OMICS,
- On Saturday morning 27th @alphyjohn.bsky.social will give a talk in the session stem cells and regeneration
- On poster sessions

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Vasso Theodorou @vassotheodorou.bsky.social · 15d

@edrc2025.bsky.social almost there! Very much looking forward to meet up and listen to amazing #Drosophila research. Come by my poster (will have the jedi pin on it)

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 15d

Cell and developmental biologists; This is well worth a read: Maik and Roberto synthesize work over decades to propose a provocative model of who mesenchymal cells migrate and shape tissues 🧪 Go for the cool Figures, stay for the deep insights

Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org · 15d

New perspective in @jcb.org by @maikbischoff.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social about how mesenchymal cells use contact-dependent rules to generate swarm-like behaviors, patterns & organ forms. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#CellBio #CellMigration #Morphogenesis #Development #Science

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Elizabeth Rideout @ejrideout.bsky.social · 18d

I have gotten a bit behind at sharing the lab’s latest work - this paper is now published - check it out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... Long story short: insulin is the major determinant of female fat storage, with a relatively minor effect on males.

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Drosophilosopher @hammedbadmos.bsky.social · 17d

Help us build a much-needed school for the community of North-Central Nigeria.

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Donate to School Development Project, organized by Hammed Badmos

I am fundraising to build a new school in North-Central Nigeria, a project that is of pressin… Hammed Badmos needs your support for School Development Project

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Daniel Alber @danielalber.bsky.social · 20d

A ring of cells deforms into a triangular keyhole in just 15 minutes. Meet the hindgut, a model for boundary-driven morphogenesis!

Out now in @pnas.org at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alex Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman, @lepuslapis.bsky.social (1/8)

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 19d

We only had a very minor contribution to this story with Alexis, but definitly worth a reading for those interested by patterning, precision and refinment. Nice combining of quantitative live imaging, modeling and optogenetics to dissect vein patterning dynamics
www.cell.com/developmenta...

Signaling-dependent refinement of cell fate choice during tissue remodeling in Drosophila pupal wings

Herszterg et al. show that during morphogenesis of the Drosophila pupal wing, a wave of Notch signaling activity updates cell fates to ensure robust and precise patterning of wing veins.

www.cell.com

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 20d

#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025

Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract.

#genetics #devbio
@flybase.bsky.social

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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 23d

📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities?

Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader!

👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou...

📅Closing date: 10 October 2025

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 23d

This paper nicely supports our microtubule-curling-based model in neurons! See an easy read here: doi.org/10.1177/1755... (OA: tinyurl.com/5dysx3d3)

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Hilary Ashe @hilaryashe.bsky.social · 24d

Our work on germline stem cell cytonemes and BMP signalling is finally published! A great team effort from the Ashe lab, @wilcocksonscott.bsky.social and @shukryjhabib.bsky.social.

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Ovarian germline stem cell dedifferentiation is cytoneme dependent

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Rachel Smith-Bolton @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social · 23d

We are hiring! The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Cell and Developmental Biology is hiring a faculty member in the area of Aging, broadly defined. Come join us! Deadline is soon! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant or Associate Professor - Urbana, Illinois job with University of Illinois, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology | 12843703

Tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor Department of Cell and Developmental Biology School of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of I...

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 23d

Epithelial crowding drives membrane depolarisation by ENaC/Na+ entry which triggers rapid volume loss, piezo activation and live cell extrusion. Importantly, low intracellular ATP primes cells for live extrusion by preventing the restoring of mb polarisation.

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

Energy deficiency selects crowded live epithelial cells for extrusion - Nature

Crowded epithelial cells with the least energy and membrane potential are selected for extrusion.

www.nature.com

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 23d

If you are interested in the latest advances in Imaging Cell Dynamics, check out the 2026 @jcellsci.bsky.social Meeting. These small meetings are a terrific way to meet key people in the field and get feedback on your own work. Highly recommended!
www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

maging Cell Dynamics
11 - 14 May 2026, Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain

Organisers: Francesca Bottanelli, Guillaume Jacquemet, Michael Way and Giulia Zanetti

Dear colleague,

Following on from our successful meeting in 2023, we are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the second iteration of our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting, which will be held in May 2026. This meeting will provide a unique opportunity to bring together experts working at the interface between cell biology and imaging, with a focus on researchers who use advanced light and electron microscopy approaches, and novel image analysis tools.

The meeting will feature talks from an outstanding set of invited speakers with opportunities for short talks and poster presentations.

We are delighted to showcase the rapid and exciting progress in this field and to nurture this growing community.

We hope you can join us.

On behalf of the organising committee,
Michael Way
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cell Science

Organisers and speakers
Francesca Bottanelli Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Guillaume Jacquemet Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Giulia Zanetti The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Michael Way The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Ori Avinoam Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Sarah Cohen UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Emmanuel Derivery MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Lea Dietrich Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Ben Engel University of Basel, Switzerland
Marco Fritzsche University of Oxford, UK
Gerry Hammond University of Pittsburgh, USA
Virginie Hamel University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sven Klumpe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Christophe Leterrier CNRS-Aix Marseille University, France
Dong Li Tsinghua University, China
Taija Mäkinen Uppsala University, Sweden
Jonas Ries Max Perutz Labs Vienna, Austria
Katja Röper MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Loic Royer Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, USA
Ilaria Testa KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Aubrey Weigel Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus, USA

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The Interactive Fly @interactivefly.bsky.social · 29d

Garibagaoglu, R., Kobayashi, R., Hanashiro, V., Tomita, J., Kume, K. (2025). The effect of L-alanine on sleep through taste properties in #Drosophila melanogaster. Neurosci Res, 218:104924 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The effect of L-alanine on sleep through taste properties in Drosophila melanogaster

Sleep and nutrition are important for the survival of organisms. This study focuses on the effects of amino acids, specifically L-alanine, on sleep of…

www.sciencedirect.com

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