@windfelder.bsky.social
I am a comparative immunologist interested in the functional and multimodal imaging of insects as alternative animal models for biomedical research. https://www.windfelder-lab.com ๐๐ฆ
ChatGPT estimates that probably at least hundreds of millions of mice worldwide are killed each year to protect crops and plausibly into the low billions. I bet some die painfully. If we donโt want to torture mice, much has to change!
Congratulations!
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I am truly honored to receive the Hilde Mangold Award from @gfeev.bsky.social!
Mangoldโs classic transplantation experiments transformed developmental biology and our understanding of self-organization. I am grateful to be associated with this legacy!
Great to welcome visitors from federal politics today at Fraunhofer IME in Giessen.
I had the opportunity to present our research on insects as alternative model organisms to help reduce the use of mice in biomedical research.
Highlight: exploring the anatomy of Manduca sexta together in VR ๐๐ฅฝ
๐จ University Marburg (Germany) is recruiting a W2 Professor of Mol. Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine.
Focus areas: Epithelial adaptation in #inflammation, #regeneration, and/or #cancer
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/0...
#AcademicJobs #Pharmacology #FacultyPosition #cellbio
Job opening: Professorship for Molecular Pharmacology at Marburg University, Germany.
We seek a scientifically outstanding researcher in the field of epithelial biology in inflammation, regeneration, and/or cancer.
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/0...
๐จ PhD Position Available ๐จ
Iโm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Mรผnster, Germany.
www.bischofflab.com/jobs
Fully funded โ
#Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy
#Drosophila #PhD
(Details Below)
Original Posting:
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![3 pictures marked A, B, and C. The first two are of CT machines with multiple shoes poking out. The last is resulting CT scan results. The caption explains:
Fig. 1 --QUAC technique. A. Four pediatric patients position in CT gantry aperture. B. Two adult patients positioned for simultaneous examination and (C) resulting image (bottom, liver cysts; top, ruptured spleen [unrelated to patient positioning within gantry])](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fls5ilxyfjv2nqao22axzgcl/bafkreifksjwpk4qk7g7fnuxc63uma4foa7xv73hoeigb7ym4pxu4yf3xjq)
I finally had to reverse image search this for my own curiosity.
An April Fools' joke from 1984. The full picture used in the article was even funnier.
Link: (to download the PDF to the article) www.ajronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2...
This is a CT
Great opportunity!
๐จ The deadline has been extended until January 31st!๐จ
Eyes are wide open now
#irishsetter
So cute ๐ฅฐ
Our Irish setter puppiesโฆ.
The eyes are nowopening โบ๏ธ
New paper out ๐ฅ!
Small promoter, big potential๐งฌ We show that the ultra-compact Calm1 promoter efficiently targets human neurons in brain organoids and is a promising alternative to hSyn for AAV gene delivery.
Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this work!
๐ง ๐: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our beautiful, purebred Irish Setter bitch Fine gave birth to 13 healthy and lively puppies today, December 29, 2025.
All seven females and six males are doing very well, and there is already plenty of activity in the whelping box.
Life is better with a setter
This is good news because it is an environmentally friendly way to protect potatoes without lots of pesticides that kill every insect in the field, and therefore it helps protect wild birds.
Nature: "This study confirms... accumulation of cell waste in the form of ubiquitin-labeled degrons that correlate with larval mortality."
Translation: The Colorado Potato Beetle becomes constipated to death.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So excited to share this as a new junior PI:
My brand-new lab website! ๐๐ชฐ๐
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions ๐
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: donโt miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
๐ Great Nikolaus moment in the Windfelder Lab!
Isabel surprised everyone with handmade gift bags โ such a cool boost to our already amazing team spirit. ๐
Weโre growing! Interested in joining us for a Masterโs project or PhD?
๐ windfelder-lab.com
Happy Nikolaus & a great Advent season!
"A YouTuber dropped his camera to the bottom of the ocean and recorded a deep-sea animal that no one has been able to identify."
petapixel.com/2025/11/25/y....
โจ Science Day 2025 (last week) at JLU Giessen!
Great to see our insect-imaging work featured:
Anouk โ behavioral fever + imaging
Anna โ ultrasound gut-wall
Jan โ CT + deep learning
Proud of this team! ๐
#ScienceDay #Imaging #Manduca
Mammalian apex predators like tigers with solitary lifestyle are more prone to cancer death. Sharks, non-mammalian apex predators, are thought to have low rate of cancer (they have remarkable genome stability and slow rate of evolution). Why are they so different? ๐
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Allow the lies equal weight to the truth and we're truly fucked.
#DeathOfScience
#GlobalWarming
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Somehow I couldnโt reach the #Dipteran #Evolution community with my questionโฆ so maybe I need something controversial ๐
๐๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐!
#Phylogeny #TreeOfLife #Drosophila #Diptera
(โฆ ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ)
Great ๐! Congratulations Maik!
1/12 A very special moment for me! ๐
My first paper as corresponding authorโa @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes.
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#cellbio #devbio #science
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So, so true.
I had in Germany a PCP who let me lay down for 10 minutes and listening to some music before taking the pressure.