Stefan Luschnig

Zotero!

📅EZM2026-Save the date!
We are delighted to welcome you to the 13th European Zebrafish Meeting in Vienna, Austria!

📑Submit your abstract by March 15 2026!

✅Early bird registrations are now open until April 15th 2026

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Less than a week left for abstract submission for #EESMechanobiology - join us in this long-standing meeting on the mechanics of life.

ShineGAL4 FLP-out clones

#Drosophila calling. Delighted to share our new collection of ShineGAL4 drivers for CNS, FB, muscles, enterocytes, oenocytes and MTs made by @vgirard.bsky.social, @sebsorge.bsky.social and colleagues @crick.ac.uk. All at Bloomington @bdsc.bsky.social

@dev-journal.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4jpw9jd6

Good question, thanks! Our results suggest that transcriptional changes downstream of BMP signaling modulate adhesion and contractility. Whether this is reversible on a short time scale would be interesting, but not easy, to test. I am not aware of suitable tools to do this in our system. Any ideas?

Please make sure to attend!

Zoom-ID: ID: 961 7810 6979
Passcode: DGZ_FW

I will present how we captured vesicle fusion in neurons using optogenetics for timed cryo-ET.

🐟🧬 My lab is looking for a technischer Assistent (BTA) to support our #zebrafish -based research projects!
Hands-on work with animal models, molecular & cell biology methods!
Join us in Münster and be part of translational science.
👉 Apply here: jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-Biol...

We are excited to welcome Kent Søe (Odense University Hospital) to our @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar @uni-muenster.de. He will give a talk about "The “memory” of human osteoclasts - implications for aging, disease, and treatment”. Everyone is welcome! More: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i...

#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview.

2 weeks to Deadline: March 5 ⚡

@socdevbio.bsky.social

www.sdbonline.org/gethired

The registration is open! Junior #Drosophila PIs, join us for inspiring scientific discussion, contribute a talk and listen to our keynote speaker, Eugenia Chiappe. We meet in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 3rd. Register soon as spots are limited!

congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Cell-autonomous control coupled with tissue context regulates the cessation of migration at the site of organ development Summary: Migratory cells that participate in organ development lose motility upon arrival at their target. This study presents mechanisms governing this process during the early stages of gonad format...

A new paper from the lab is out!
"Cell-autonomous control coupled with tissue context regulates the cessation of migration at the site of organ development" - Q. How do cells stop migrating at their target?
A. Changes in tissue properties and an intrinsic molecular clock.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

We summarised the many roles of material phase transitions in development (and they are not just mechanical 🤔)

thank you Christian! Hope all is well!

The video is as a supplemental file in the @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social preprint, see www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Also happy to share of course - please email me.

Registration is now open! Secure your spot for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting “Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces” @uni-muenster.de from May 27–29, 2026! More informationen and registration: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

Identification of optimal fluorophores for use in the Drosophila embryo
#Drosophila

... credits for the 🎥 go to @theajacobs.bsky.social
To learn more about our work on #tricellular junction assembly and dynamics, open positions etc., see www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.IMZ... @uni-muenster.de @sfb1348.bsky.social

New preprint @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab @uni-muenster.de shows how a BMP #morphogen gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in #Drosophila
See tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh
@sfb1348.bsky.social

🐟🔬 We study vascular & lymphatic development in the gonad using zebrafish and advanced imaging & genetic tools — uncovering mechanisms relevant to fertility and disease.
Learn more about our work here: www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/en/zmbe/the-...

Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...

How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers?

Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Congratulations to all authors.

Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social
(lalealpar.com)

www.cell.com/developmenta...

Header image with the paper title: "Improved in vivo gene knockout with high specificity using multiplexed Cas12a sgRNAs"

Make your gene knockouts more efficient with multiplexed Cas12a sgRNAs. Our new paper is out now, with tools available from @addgene.bsky.social , www.plasmids.eu and @vdrc-flies.bsky.social.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#CRISPR #geneediting #Drosophila 🧪🧬✂️🔬🪰

Summary 🧵 below.

Development builds... But it also breaks!

Planarians split to reproduce. Hydra tears open a mouth. Embryos fracture to make cavities.

Failure? No. Fracture is essential to development.

Our new review on fracture physics and its uses in development:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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

Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones?
www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...

Break to build: fracture as a unifying morphogenetic strategy - Great review article by @rashmi-priya.bsky.social and colleagues highlights how fracture isn’t just mechanical failure in living tissues, but can be a morphogenetic process
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

Ooooh. Cool new paper on origins of life. A simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.

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

Great spotlight by @katjaroeper.bsky.social on very interesting work by the Franz lab on epithelial-like polarity in nonepithelial fat body cells in #Drosophila

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

We are excited to host an @sfb1348.bsky.social seminar with Andrea Ravasio on February 12, 2026. He will present his talk titled “Collective rigidity sensing governs epithelial cell migration.” More information: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/i...
Everyone is welcome!

Heute ist der Internationale Tag der Frauen und Mädchen in der Wissenschaft und dazu passend ist aktuell eine Bewerbung für das Programm "Freiraum für Forschung" möglich.
Das Stipendium richtet sich an fortgeschrittene weibliche Postdocs. Detaillierte Infos: www.uni-muenster.de/.../Freiraum...