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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scientific and medical progress will be stunted if we don’t find a way to sustainably fund these important resources!

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

recent times have made it clear how vital knowledgebases like FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social are to the scientific community. and that they are not simply static websites, but living, dynamic, active entities run by dedicated humans. they require continuous support and can't be taken for granted. 🪰

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Great opportunity to get involved and shape what is happening at the next EDRC in Bonn in 2027!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Very interesting, and worrying, read

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SeYeon Chung @seyeonchung.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So grateful for the new Kathy Matthews Endowment for the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. A wonderful tribute by Kathy's husband, Lawrence Washington, that will help preserve Kathy's legacy and support the fly community for years to come. biology.indiana.edu/news-events/...

biology.indiana.edu

Major gift to establish endowment for IU Drosophila Stock Center

IU Biology news: The IU Stock Center maintains thousands of documented, living genetic strains of Drosophila melanogaster, a small fruit fly that has served as one of science’s most powerful tools for...

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

An extra treat at the EMBO Crete Drosophila meeting provided by Eric Lai and Cassandra Extravour, what a week! 🪰☀️🌊

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British Society for Developmental Biology @bsdb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Save the date! The 2027 BSDB Spring Meeting will take place on 19 - 22 April in Edinburgh. An exciting programme with a fantastic lineup of speakers showcasing developmental biology across scales! More details soon!

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Ben Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Fantastic science in Münster, great opportunity!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

On my way! I will talk in and chair the first session Thai afternoon, make sure to be there! #gfe2026

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reminder: Brian Calvi's FlyBase talk is TOMORROW, March 7, at 7:30-7:45 pm in Room Sheraton/Chicago 4-7 #DROS26

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So cool! Where would you like to take this mobile lab?

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Ben Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Happy to share this work from Carlos Camacho de la Maccora that reveals how rates of posterior progenitor addition and anterior vacuolation are balanced across the notochord. With Alberto Ceccarelli and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social we present a model of long-range communication to provide robustness.

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Join for our exciting meeting in Spain! Deadline for abstracts today!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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!

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NordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Check out the tour de force by @jalehtimaki.bsky.social in its final form: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . An elegant combination of transcriptomics, F0 screens and high end imaging unravels the cues that guide cells (here retinal horizontal cells) in an increasingly crowded tissue. #proudPI

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Spatiotemporal coordination of Slit-Robo repulsion and neurturin-Gfrα attraction guides multipolar migration during retinal lamination

Multipolar migration is a conserved neuronal migration mode in the developing brain, enabling emerging neurons to navigate in crowded environments and…

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Cool new paper from the Munro lab!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

So cool! How any of these processes can happen with such precision and speed in a madly dense cytoplasm never stops amazing me!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

An amazing day, I was 17 and lived about 5 min away from Checkpoint Charlie!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Beautiful image and cool story, congrats, Frank!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Amazing, Emma, congrats! One to read!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Lovely summary of how the advent of confocal microscopy changed our research and ability to understand biology

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Brilliant postdocs in my lab! Here they are, plus an undercover MPhil student, for Postdoc Appreciation Week! #LovePostdocs #NPAW2025

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If you love cytoskeleton and tissue morphogenesis, have a read!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Dear president@harvard.edu, dear gaudet@mcb.harvard.edu, to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link: droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We cannot provide invoices at present but are working on a system to do so in the near future. However, you will receive a receipt for your tax-deductible donation. Large teams of people work to keep FlyBase going, and the need is great, so please donate generously.

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Brian Calvi @briancalvi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Flybase is free to use but not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create the knowledgebas and tools for fly research. Please donate generously.

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

If you run a fly lab and have not yet contributed to save FlyBase, please look at our wiki page for the latest information!

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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

For something as classic as the Spemann-Mangold organizer first discovered in amphibians, the existence of such an organiser in mammals remains elusive. In this thought provoking review by Kate Mcdole et al, they discuss the evidence for and against such organiser in mouse. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Cell migration and morphogenesis in the organizer.

The AVE and PrCP in the formation of the head in mouse.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Congrats to all newly elected Members!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In the current Cambridge temperatures, this is the only way to do lab meeting! And the first Röper Lab outing from PDN!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Amazing when something like this comes through!

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Sandra Iden @sandraiden.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#Job alert: #Postdoc position in the Iden lab within the new #DFG #SPP2493 consortium #HetCCI @hetcci.bsky.social ci.bsky.social‬. Please share, or apply if you want to dissect epithelial:non-epithelial cell-cell interactions: shorturl.at/W3M5z #CellCellCommunication #epithelia #cellbiology

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HetCCI (SPP 2493) @hetcci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Proud to kick-off #HetCCI, a DFG-funded research consortium in Germany (Priority Programme #SPP2493 on heterotypic cell-cell interactions in epithelia). Follow us if interested in how epithelial cells interact with non-epithelial tissues in different settings! Webpage will follow asap. #cellbiology

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

My pleasure! Great fun spending a day talking about lots of exciting project going on at the CABD!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

European Fly PIs: please respond to the email we sent out yesterday and help save FlyBase!

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I’ll be in Sevilla to give a seminar on Friday, should be great fun, excellent science at the CABD!

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

An interview with Helen Skaer Helen was awarded the @bsdb.bsky.social‬ Waddington Medal, which recognises outstanding individuals who have made major contributions to UK Developmental Biology. Find out more about her research and what this award means to her: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This will be a really interesting meeting, and in lovely Andalucia!

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