Lucie van Leeuwen

Application deadline for up to 5 @mrc-lms.bsky.social postdoc positions in developmental epigenetics closes soon - don’t miss out! Positions across both experimental and computational projects. Come and join our fantastic team science community!

Join the #LMS! Our institute is advertising for junior #GroupLeader positions in #Physiology and #Metabolism. Closing date for applications: August 31st!

Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche in Drosophila Robust and controlled intestinal regeneration involves reciprocal interactions between the intestinal epithelium and its microenvironment. Here, we id…

Very happy and proud to share the latest work from our lab.
Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Acrylic/flyspeck 🪰🎨

Toward more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with Drosophila Abstract. The ever-increasing amounts of plastic waste and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide threaten our environment. Biomedical laboratories across the

Now proper out: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Very pleased to see this study out in @natcomms.nature.com! Congratulations to first author @claudialennicke.bsky.social and everyone involved.

This work highlights how a single #redox-sensitive cysteine can regulate #autophagy and extend healthy lifespan in #flies 🪰

Do you have some cool results to present to the #Drosophila community at #EDRC2025 ? Please do not forget that abstract submissions are opened until the 28th of May edrc2025alicante.com/abstracts/

Als de serie Adolescence iets laat zien, is het dat het in tijden van giftige mannelijkheid niet gemakkelijk is om een jongen te zijn – of om er een op te voeden. Wat blijkt: ouders en de cultuur geven jongens precies níét wat ze nodig hebben.

Lees verder: corr.es/b9120b

Panther

Axolotl

pterodactyl

thylacine

I uploaded 282 high quality scans (1200dpi, greyscale) of animal etchings on the Internet Archive.
They are from the book "Éléments De Zoologie" published in 1885, so feel free to use them for your projects !

archive.org/details/elem...

A photo of a young Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting with a book on her lab staring into the distance.

A photo of an older Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting at a lab bench with a microscope and dozens of glass milk bottles bunged with cotton. Lilian is in the middle of applying ether to anaesthetize a bottle of flies.

This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass.

Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination

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Please provide the following to Jessica.Treisman@med.nyu.edu: Name and contact information A 1-page summary of the program, including an explanation of how the program would broaden participation among Drosophila scientists Budget justification of up to $2000

Outreach funding opportunity, sponsored by the Fly Board:
Non-profit programs anywhere in the world that introduce middle school, high school, or college students to Drosophila research are eligible to apply! The number of students that this funding would impact and financial need will be considered

ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States

The European federation of Academies of Sciences has posted a statement of concern about the developments in the US. They now have added the option to endorse this statement as an organisation. Would be great if this could go viral. allea.org/portfolio-it...

Recently completed your #PhD using #Drosophila in a European lab? Apply for the European Drosophila Society best thesis prize!
🏆🪰
Deadline: 28 Feb 2025.
Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025.bsky.social!
Info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Fluorescence images showing nora virus antibody staining in intestinal stem cells (ISCs) in red.

Nora virus causes a SMURF phenotype, where blue dye in food can leak through the gut, colouring the whole fly blue. Fun fact, also works in humans.

Many charts showing nora virus is behind severe lifespan reduction in flies

A great piece of work by the Ferrandon lab to describe the huge importance of Nora virus in #Drosophila stocks. Gut disruption creates susceptibility to coinfection by microbes. Major effects on lifespan, infection, etc...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Much needed fly #virus PSA to boot.

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Center for Molecular Medicine

Our Center for Molecular Medicine (cmmutrecht.eu) at UMC Utrecht, NL, is looking for a Principal Investigator in the field of fundamental Cancer Biology! The vacancy states tenure track level, but candidates with a more advanced career are very welcome to apply. shorturl.at/KZeYQ. Please repost!

Mentor sign-up for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program Sign up is close for now, but please add your name here for the next matching cycle. Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to postdocs and faculty...

Worm friends: Join the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program!

Become a mentor and pay it forward by sharing your wisdom with people at earlier stages of their career.

Click on the link to sign up (we will be signing up mentees and peer-mentoring groups soon). Please repost and spread the word!

Please RT: Associate Professor position in my department at the University of Oxford. Broad search in molecular and cellular biology: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Programme Leader Track - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences Programme Leader Track appointments are an open-ended contract, which comprises a six-year advanced career development scheme after which you will be considered for promotion to Programme Leader.

We’re delighted to share our recruitment brochure for our current Programme Leader Track vacancies at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences.

You can download the brochure on our vacancy web page 👇
lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

PIEZO-dependent mechanosensing is essential for intestinal stem cell fate decision and maintenance Stem cells perceive and respond to biochemical and physical signals to maintain homeostasis. Yet, it remains unclear how stem cells sense mechanical signals from their niche in vivo. In this work, we ...

Perfect reason for my first post here. Super excited to see this work on PIEZO mechanosensing of the intestinal stem cell niche led by Meryem Baghdadi @vignjeviclab.bsky.social and Kim lab out in Science! Honored to have contributed to this story as 2nd author. 🎉

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

Wow, congratulations Ronja!!

Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵

Very excited to see our work on genome-wide mapping DNA repair in single cells out @naturecomms.bsky.social
Amazing work by Kim de Luca & Pim Rullens. Wonderful collaboration with the Legube lab, @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social & @jjachowicz.bsky.social . rdcu.be/d0ZAM

Overlooked histories in ageing research: Pioneering women at the foundation of our field Pioneering women in ageing research. Photo credits: Marjory Warren, Photo: Archives of the British Geriatrics Society; Lillien Martin, courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stan...

This Thanksgiving, I am hugely grateful for scientists who were pioneers in our field - particularly those who did not receive the credit they deserved in their own time. Inspiring examples published today:

doi.org/10.1111/acel...

#agingresearch #geroscience #biologyofaging #GeroSky #WomenInSTEM

EMBL Jobs We offer a wide range of challenging scientific and non-scientific positions at all of our European locations and encourage applications from international candidates at all career levels.

My first post on Blue Sky - moving over !

For all post-docs out there - fantastic opportunity @EMBL. Independent group leader position: Core funding, state-of-the-art core facilities, access to fantastic Ph.D. students, and of course amazing colleagues. Please apply www.embl.org/jobs/positio...

Endogenous mitochondrial NAD(P)H fluorescence can predict lifespan - Communications Biology Endogenous mitochondrial NAD(P)H fluorescence enables label-free and subcellular resolution quantification of aging, prediction of remaining lifespan and tracking of age-dependent changes to mitochond...

Cool new work from the lab by @chris-morrow.bsky.social: Often we think of auto-fluorescence as a hindrance to experiments - but endogenous metabolites have specific fluorescence we can use to determine the metabolic state of the cell - and predict lifespan.. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Aging starter pack!

go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

Only close to 10 months to go until #EDRC2025 ! Here are the plenary speakers who look forward to welcoming you! #Drosophila #EDRC

Spatial reconstruction of single-cell enhancer activity in a multicellular organism Enhancers play an essential role in developmental processes by orchestrating the spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression. However, mapping the location of these regulatory elements in the g...

🚨Preprint alert!
tinyurl.com/2zkmynsd
Did you ever dream of reconstruction #spatial single-cell #enhancer activity in a multicellular organism using massively parallel enhancer-reporter assays?
Then Spatial-scERA is the method for you!
#spatialOMICs