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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Claire Dessalles @clairedessalles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NeMo is finally out! 🐟 We present our new method to peel cellular layers and extract their nematics. If you're wondering what a fish has to do with curved nematics, check out the thread and the publication 👀👇🏼 arxiv.org/html/2609.12...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."

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From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!

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Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls

ALT: Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls

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SFB 1348 @sfb1348.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Many congratulations to @maikbischoff.bsky.social on receiving a @dfg.de Emmy Noether grant! We’re delighted and proud to host you at @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de. We look forward to exciting times and groundbreaking science ahead! 🎉🔬 www.bischofflab.com

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Bischoff Lab | Morphogenesis | Cell Bio | Chirality | Multiscale Imaging Centre Münster, Germany

We work on cell biology, morphogenesis and organ chirality using Drosophila as a model organism.

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/23 I have fantastic news! I am truly honored to have been awarded an Emmy Noether-Grant by @dfg.de @uni-muenster.de Since most of you are not from Germany, I will use the following posts to explain what this Program is, who Emmy Noether was and what my group in Münster will be doing. #cellbio

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Universität Münster @uni-muenster.de · 21/09/2026

3,1 Mio. Euro für exzellente Nachwuchsforschung! 💸 Die @dfg.de nimmt @maikbischoff.bsky.social (Organentwicklung) & Marcel Rey (Nanopartikel) in das Emmy Noether-Programm auf. Wir gratulieren den beiden Forschern zum Aufbau ihrer eigenen Gruppen! 🚀 Mehr Infos: www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

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Neue Emmy-Noether-Gruppen erforschen Organentwicklung und steuerbare Nanopartikel

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert den Biologen Dr. Maik Bischoff und den Chemiker Prof. Dr. Marcel Rey in den kommenden sechs Jahren mit insgesamt gut 3,1 Millionen Euro.

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Alex Ludwig @alexludwig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How do epithelial cells make a lumen as they polarize? We have some exciting new answers to this long standing question. Check out our new paper in which we show that lumen initiation is driven by large vacuoles that deliver a pre-assembled apical cortex to the AMIS: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bulk delivery of a preassembled apical surface initiates epithelial lumen formation - Nature Communications

Epithelial lumen formation is fundamental to organ development, yet how apical surfaces first emerge remains unclear. Ghosh, Martin, and Chen et al., show that lumen initiation is driven via bulk deli...

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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Cngratulations to @JoanaESaraiva and Sandra from the lab on their new review @embojournal.org we discussed few points about the coordination of cell state transitions in #embryos and #regeneration Also welcome @joanaesaraiva.bsky.social to BlueSky! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 07/09/2026

Dynamic control of cell state transitions during tissue morphogenesis Elias Barriga et al @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social review how gene expression, chromatin modifications & microenvironmental biophysical factors contribute to robust coordination of morphogenesis link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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bogdanlab.bsky.social @bogdanlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The @bogdan_lab in Marburg identifies the formin-like Frl/FMNL as a key regulator in the innate immune response against parasitic wasps. Press release at Philipps University of Marburg: www.uni-marburg.de/de/aktuelles... Original PLOS Pathogens publication: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n

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Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Interested in combining #Drosophila genetics, advanced imaging, and modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? Apply now for #PhD position @uni-muenster.de, integrated in @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Learn more tinyurl.com/5n86bmsf and tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d

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Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Schüler*Innen und Lehrkärfte aufgepasst: Spannender Vortrag über Wanderung von Zellen am 14.09.26 mit Dr. Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social @sfb1348.bsky.social - und gleich dabei noch die Ausstellung unSICHTBAR @uni-muenster.de anschauen! Nicht verpassen! www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Mot...

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As you may know, NIH abruptly terminated funding to FlyBase curators based in the United Kingdom. Please help us retain these curators and thereby enable ongoing curation of bibliographic, genetic and phenotypic data by contributing annually (tinyurl.com/4jw65mbb). Thank you. #FlyBase

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Alexandra Weber @toedtoad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My first paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! We found that snake embryos coil due to a mismatch in growth rates between the gut and spine. This tight coil is one of the reasons why snakes are able to get so long. Read the paper here!

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RWedlichSoldner.bsky.social @rwedlichsoldner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's been a while in the making, but finally out:😂🥳 We’re excited to share our new work with H. Pavenstädt, D. Braun, M. Krahn, P. Bieling and @raunser-lab.bsky.social on INF2 and global actin remodeling! Read the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Actin #Cytoskeleton #CellBiology #INF2

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1/3 Very proud to announce that the Bischoff Lab has its first PhD student! 🎉 Juliette ( @juliettea.bsky.social ) already started with us in May, but she only recently joined Bluesky 😊 #cellbio #LifeofPI #devbio #PhD #morphogenesis

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Confocal microscopy captures one thin layer of a sample at a time, revealing structures other imaging methods can miss. Imaged by Igor Siwanowicz at our Janelia Research Campus, this view of the underside of a bitter bolete mushroom cap demonstrates the technique's power in awe-inspiring detail.

Confocal microscopy image of the underside of a bitter bolete mushroom cap against a black background. Dense rows of elongated blue tube-like structures — the spore-bearing cells (basidia) — curve in an arc from upper right to lower frame. Along their inner edge, clusters of orange and yellow globular structures are scattered among smaller bright yellow droplets. Isolated bright red oval shapes appear at the lower left. The overall composition is strikingly ornate, revealing microscopic detail invisible to the naked eye.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Keep telling me MDPI publishes real journals. Uh, huh....

Dear Dr. Peifer,

We recently invited you to submit a Feature Paper (20% discount) in the
Special Issue entitled "Advances in Spermatogenesis and Male Infertility, 2nd
Edition", to be published in the "IJMS" (ISSN 1422-0067, IF 5.6). Prof. Dr.
Wanxi Yang is serving as Guest Editor for this issue. Based on your expertise
in this field, we think you could make an excellent contribution. For more
information on this Special Issue, please visit the Special Issue website at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/IVE9LW334T

This invitation entitles you to publish a manuscript in IJMS with a 20%
discount of total article processing charges 2900 CHF if accepted after peer
review. This discount is valid only for future submissions to the journal
IJMS. It does not apply to other MDPI journals, or papers currently under
processing.

Please click on the following link to either accept or decline our invitation:
https://susy.mdpi.com/editor/paper-invitation/process/208923731/TGdEshQ7

The submission deadline is 31 December 2026. For details about our submission
process, please visit the following website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/instructions

IJMS (ISSN 1422-0067) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal. It is
abstracted and indexed by Scopus, SCIE, PubMed, Embase, Medline, PMC, NLM.
The Impact Factor of the Journal is 5.6. On average, a first decision is
provided to authors 17.5 days after submission, and the median publication
time is 2.9 days.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please do not
hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity - One week until the 2026 BINA Light Microscopy Image contest closes! Don’t miss out on this chance to win prizes and show off your talent! Learn more: buff.ly/8Qz8EM1

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

TIL about Bonsai plots, a very cool replacement for UMAPs ⬇️

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We discovered hidden gems by: @ritamateus.bsky.social (Developmental growth/Injury) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @vlecaudey.bsky.social (Respiration/Hemodynamic forces) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @mpownall.bsky.social (Chromatin organization) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... among others!

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dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#DZG2026 news: Early bird and abstract submission extended until Wed July 1st! Check out the exciting programme and use the chance to register at reduced costs or submit your talk or poster abstract at dzg-meeting.de Dinner with friends and colleagues at the Allwetter-Zoo is included(-;

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Welcome | DZG Meeting

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We’ve just published our latest #preprint list. This week we focus on research using microscopy to answer questions in biology. Let us know if you have any recommendations for us to add to the list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/08/21/m...

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Microscopy preprints: applications in biology - FocalPlane

Microscopy preprints: applications in biology - News

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank you @focalplane.bsky.social for highlighting my work😍

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voigtvision.bsky.social @voigtvision.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🤩 It's time for some invertebrate eye candy! 🤩 Here's a ctenophore (or comb jelly) stained with phalloidin by John Alexander Salazar Hernandez & imaged on an exaSPIM built by Kaelin Wulf of the team of @adamkglaser.bsky.social as part of the FHL Functional Biodiversity course #microscopy

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Thea Jacobs @theajacobs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Things that sound weird if you are not a scientist: Look I found @maikbischoff.bsky.social ‘s testis (or the muscles that surround them)!

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For this #FluorescenceFriday 🔬 A glimpse into our latest work: Shroom3 influences pillar cell contractility and establishes a mechanical threshold for gill lamella stability. #Zebrafish ⚪ Pillar cell nuclei 🔴 Contractile apparatus More soon — multi-post thread coming! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202...

MIP of cryosection from adult gill arches showing a top view of a respiratory lamella stained with DAPI (white) and phalloidin (red), acquired using Machine Intelligent Structured Illumination Microscopy (MISIM)

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Excited that this is now out in MBoC @ascbiology.bsky.social Check out our new insights into the subset of cell junction proteins in action in migrating mesenchymal cells. Open access PMC version is in line being processed 🧪 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

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Thea Jacobs @theajacobs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! I have cuticula-shedding office company at the moment, so I took the opportunity to take some cool autofluorescent images of Flossis cuticula! (Plus an image of Flossi herself!)

Color-coded Z-projection of Triops cuticula, mouth region.

Color-coded Z-projection of Triops cuticula, some appendage on the thorax.

Color-coded Z-projection of Triops cuticula, some appendage on the abdomen.

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Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Interested in using #Drosophila genetics & advanced imaging combined with modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? We’re hiring a #PhD student @uni-muenster.de, based at the Multiscale Imaging Center and @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Apply here tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hot take but any reporter that makes the actin network visible will make any cell look awesome under the microscope! These Xenopus 🐸 ectoderm cells are expressing an actin tension sensor, and you can see the retrograde flow very nicely. Actin is better than microtubules 😁 #FluorescenceFriday

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I gave @theajacobs.bsky.social my Triops to babysit… …and what does she do? She takes microscopic pictures 😂🔬

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Tara M Finegan @tarafinegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our International Developmental Mechanics Zoom Seminar Series returns this fall! Interested in sharing your research with an international community? Sign up to speak at an upcoming session: sites.google.com/view/devmech... #DevBio #Mechanobiology #Morphogenesis

Graphic to promote upcoming Developmental Mechanics Zoom Seminar Series

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Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Amazing work and a great thread on this fantastic paper about how flies control breathing during flight.

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 27/07/2026

Patterning in motion: Cell interfaces guide mesenchymal collective migration and #morphogenesis. A perspective from @maikbischoff.bsky.social and @mayorlab.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sarah Clark spent two years with us. Early on she worked with postdoc @maikbischoff.bsky.social, co-authoring 2 papers & she then led & trained a team of postbacs who carried out a genetic screen defining subsets of cell junction proteins in action in mesenchymal cells, now in press at MBoC 2/n

Abstract of her preprint now in press at MBoC
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42239457/

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's always a bittersweet moment to send lab members off to the next step in their careers. It's time to formally say goodbye to four amazing postbacs in our lab, all off to PhD programs this Fall. 1/n

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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Shroom3-dependent pillar cell constriction establishes a mechanical threshold for respiratory lamellar stability www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔥🧪🔬 A blaze of neural crest cells migrates through a developing quail embryo on one of embryonic development's most epic journeys. Beautifully captured by @vanderspuy.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🐣 #Devbio

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AIC at Janelia @aicjanelia.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Despite its nebula-like qualities, this image is from the microscopic rather than astrophysical scale. This adherent cell was labeled for focal adhesions (blue structures) and actin (orange fibers). It is one of the many samples the team is hard at work preparing for #IALSJanelia 2026!

An image taken on a microscope of a single adherent cell. Two images were combined in this visualization: an image taken with widefield illumination (orange colors) and an image taken using TIRF (blue colors). Together these colors highlight fibers of actin and elongated focal adhesion structures.

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I feel honored that my Perspective article with @mayorlab.bsky.social on collective cell migration has been featured in this special collection. Many thanks to the curators, @wumin-lab.bsky.social and Gabriele Stephan, as well as @jcb.org rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration

A collage of figures in the perspective article.

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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New favorite way to color code microscopy data: this is a real 3D confocal image of an unidentified larvae stained for actin (muscles fibers here). Looks like a watercolor painting! #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday

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