Nicolas Rohner

Cellular Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on „Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces" in Münster from May 27–29, 2026.
Registration opens in February! Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de

Dream Job alert!

🐟 Exciting News! 🐟 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting :
🔗 Submit your abstract and register today: www.germanfishmeeting.org

📅 When: September 16–18, 2026
📍 Where: Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

#germanfishmeeting2026 #fish #research #zebrafish #science

Motto for 2026: Yes, We coelaCANth! Thanks @drheathheckman.bsky.social for the nice Fishmas present!

Apply soon: Full professorship in Systems #Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de
See shorturl.at/VczFp

Maybe we should revise policies that push postdocs out of academic research too early. It selects for early achievers that remain in one field and risks losing the highest impact people

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

ICYMI by @rohner.bsky.social et al.

Talin force coupling underlies eukaryotic cell-substrate adhesion - Nature Communications Talin is a well-known regulator of cell adhesion and intracellular force transmission in animals. Here, the authors demonstrate that talin’s mechanical function is evolutionarily conserved and already...

I am thrilled to share that my PhD work is published. Here, we uncover the conserved evolutionary principles of eukaryotic cell-substrate adhesions. A huge thanks to Prof. Dr. Carsten Grashoff.
Do check out the article and I look forward to get in touch!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Susanne Menzel-Riedl wird am 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels ...

Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels an, der seit 2016 im Amt ist.

New work from @rohner.bsky.social & @alexckeene.bsky.social 🐟

Elevated DNA damage without signs of ageing in the short-sleeping Mexican cavefish offers a unique model to study sleep, DNA repair, and ageing.
buff.ly/6VrO19l

Come join us in Heidelberg for the first German fish meeting 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧬🔬🐟🐠

Please share widely! This is an amazing opportunity. Beautiful new building, great colleagues, cool science, fantastic city. There are not that many opportunities like this!! Apply, if you can! Feel free to DM me if you have questions, I am on the search committee.

Some bats eat a ton of sugar and have no health woes. Are there lessons for diabetes? Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.

Want more bat content? Check out this recent NPR feature with Hanna Gray Fellow Jasmin Camacho, who studies wild bats using cutting-edge metabolomics to identify and map the mechanisms that protect against the damaging effects of sugar consumption: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

6 ways evolutionary medicine can transform our health Evolutionary medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary field with huge potential to improve human health and tackle a broad scope of major health challenges.

1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation
2. Revolutionize cancer therapy
3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance
4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases
5. Support healthier behaviors
6. Improve pandemic responses
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!

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Silos for Sunshine: we've mastered harvesting the sun, but storage is the gamechanger | Ember The shift to renewables represents an agricultural revolution for energy, moving from searching and extracting scarce fuels to harvesting abundant sunlight in place.

"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance."

In the future we will look back on the oil & gas era the way we look at hunting and gathering.

Bon Appetit

« … Un Français consomme en moyenne plus de 10 000 animaux au cours de sa vie alors qu’il en utilise indirectement seulement 2,5 en moyenne pour la recherche scientifique et biomédicale … »

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Turns out cavefish don’t mourn their dead — they season them. 💀🍴
Congrats on that ‘killer’ preprint #cannibalism #dinnerplans

Super cool work on metabolism and regeneration! Congrats

Call for Applications / Ausschreibung

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

Yeah! Welcome (back - kinda) to Europe! Let me know when you are there. I will visit!

How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too.

Mexican tetras living on the surface (left) look dramatically different from populations that were washed into caves generations ago (right) – and not just on the outside. Featuring @rohner.bsky.social‬ and others. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries, no matter what Trump says.

A tariff is an import tax, raising the price of almost everything we buy.

Tariffs are also regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Best Postdoc Symposium Oral Presentation award - Jasmin Camacho @stowersinstitute.bsky.social ! Congratulations! Evolutionary rewiring of insulin signaling in Nectar bats #PASEDB2025 #nectarbats #sweettooth