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cosheidelberg.bsky.social
New preprint from the @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social. The group developed an "infinity pool" setup to test visual acuity and swimming behavior in medaka.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A Scalable, High-Throughput Optomotor Response Pipeline for Quantitative Analysis of Vision Using Infinity-Pools
The optomotor response (OMR) provides a robust readout assay for evaluating visually guided locomotion and has been widely applied to various animal models. We present a scalable, high-throughput OMR ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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owenmarshall.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to announce damidBind, our new R/Bioconductor package for analysing differential binding in DamID datasets, and its accompanying preprint.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

marshall-lab.org/damidBind/
damidBind: an R/Bioconductor package for differential DamID analysis and data exploration
Summary: DamID, and its cell-type specific adaptations, including Targeted DamID (TaDa), Chromatin Accessibility TaDa (CATaDa) and NanoDam, are now widely-adopted as techniques for the genome-wide pro...
www.biorxiv.org
January 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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rustflylab.bsky.social
Yay! 🎉
fly-jedi.bsky.social Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 7d
Dear #Drosophila researchers, the year starts with good news! The date and venue for our next meeting is confirmed: June 1st to 3rd at the beautiful Historic Hotel Castle De Palmela in Portugal! Mark the dates, registration will open soon!
January 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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rustflylab.bsky.social
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!
Pseudotime trajectory created with Monocle3 of WT and tumor follicle cells labeled by pseudotime.
January 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
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
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
There is still over a week left to apply.
Please send your documents to [email protected]
maikbischoff.bsky.social Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 10d
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
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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events.embl.org
Are you ready for the 17th edition of 'Transcription and chromatin'? Our conference remains a must-attend event for anyone engaged in the forefront of transcription research and we hope you can join us! 🧬

25 – 28 August 2026
Submit your abstract by 25 May: s.embl.org/trm26-01-bl

#EMBLTranscript
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
So excited to share this as a new junior PI:

My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com

Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊

And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!

#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
The brand new website of the Bischoff lab ... together with my SciArt Gallery :)
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
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
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luschnig.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 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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fly-jedi.bsky.social
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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gromesroland.bsky.social
Unsere Heidelberger Studierendenzeitung Ruprecht mit einem wichtigen Artikel zu rechtsextremen Influencern an deutschen Universitäten und hier vor Ort

www.ruprecht.de/2025/10/28/p...
Promotion und Propaganda
Rechtsextreme dringen an die Universitäten vor und wollen Wissenschaft zur Waffe machen. Der ruprecht recherchierte zu einem ihrer wichtigsten Ideologen,
www.ruprecht.de
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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crisprflydesign.bsky.social
High levels of Cas9 are toxic in sensory neurons. Reducing Cas9 levels with uORFs avoids toxicity and is compatible with efficient editing. From @thompsonpeerlab.bsky.social. Fly lines @vdrc-flies.bsky.social

#CRISPR #Drosophila

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Figure from the preprint showing sensory neuron morphology with different levels of Cas9 expression.
October 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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flybase.bsky.social
There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
FlyBase Update – October 2025 The termination of the NIH/NHGRI FlyBase grant has placed the long-term sustainability of FlyBase at risk. However, thanks to the generous support of several key individuals and institutions, we are pleased to announce that FlyBase will remain operational through the coming year. We extend our deepest gratitude to Yukiko Yamashita, Cassandra Extavour, Hugo Bellen, Thom Kaufman, the Genetics Society of America / Drosophila Board, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, an anonymous donor and the Wellcome Trust. We are especially thankful for a generous gift from Seemay Chou, Jed McCaleb, and The Navigation Fund. We also greatly appreciate the continued support from the broader Drosophila community – your donations and service fees have been vital in helping us stay afloat. Special thanks also go to Jessica Manning for her tireless administrative work at Harvard, to Ruth Lehmann, Hugo Bellen, and Paul Sternberg for advice and efforts, and to the Board of the European Drosophila Society for all their efforts. Sadly, we must also share that several long-standing FlyBase team members have recently moved on. We are immensely grateful to Susan Russo-Gelbart, Lynn Crosby, Gil dos Santos, Kris Broll, Victoria Jenkins, and TyAnna Lovato for their many years of dedicated service and contributions to FlyBase. Looking ahead, ensuring FlyBase’s sustainability beyond the next year – and successfully integrating with the Alliance – will require new funding sources. We kindly ask for your continued support: • European labs: Please consider contributing to the Cambridge, U.K. FlyBase group • U.S. and other non-European labs: Please consider contributing to the U.S. FlyBase groups • Both U.K. and U.S. FlyBase are working diligently to establish an invoicing system. We appreciate your continued patience. For more information on how to support us, please visit: Contribute to FlyBase wiki page https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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fly-eds.bsky.social
The #EDS has the pleasure to announce that, after #EDRC2027 in Bonn, we will have #EDRC2029 in Szeged! Don’t forget these hashtags!
September 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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edrc2025.bsky.social
That’s a wrap! We are done with #EDRC2025 and we look forward to seeing everyone again in 2027 for #EDRC2027 in Bonn!
September 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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edrc2025.bsky.social
3, 2, 1 and we are on!!! #EDRC2025 is starting! Welcome to our more than 740 participants from more than 40 countries! Thank you to all our sponsors!
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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lucaswaltzer.bsky.social
#edrc2025 European #drosophila Society meeting announces the 2029 meeting location : see you all in Szeged (and Bonn in 2027 of course)!
September 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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rustflylab.bsky.social
Met a new friend at the #EDRC meeting today who is also a @fly-jedi.bsky.social!
Katrin Domsch and Katja Rust at the EDRC meeting at Alicante.
September 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM