Beautiful and thorough study about Cirl Toll Mechanobiology in neurons 👏👏! Could this be relevant to our findings by Jules Lavalou & Qiyan Mao on cis and trans regulation of Cirl and Toll in the control of actomyosin contractility? doi.org/10.1016/j.devc…

Very interesting paper showing new examples of Toll-8/Cirl interactions and its relevance in vivo, and the role of Cirl as a mechanosensor ! Congrats @LangenhanLab and Nicole Scholz !!!

Please RT: We are 🔥recruiting a post-doc 🔥to work on an exciting proof-of-concept project aiming at manipulating tumor cell trajectory by silencing microRNA modules. IBDM emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR…

Delighted to have been awarded the best poster prize at the Bristol Cancer's early career researchers' symposium! Thanks a lot to Bristol Cancer for organising this great event! Looking forward to come back next time with even more exciting data (I hope ! ;) ) !

Delighted and honoured to have been elected EMBO member! Thanks to those who supported my nomination and congratulations to all new EMBO members! 👏👏👏 embo.org/press-releases… University of Bristol

"Our latest research introduces #tgCRISPRi, a novel gene knock-down technique using shorter gRNAs & active Cas9. Achieves efficient gene silencing in Drosophila without mutations. Exciting possibilities for gene regulation and gene-drive tech." nature.com/articles/s4146…

Good morning #EDRC2023. It's been great being here! Please come to my poster later this evening to talk about cell competition and metabolism while nibbling on cheese.

Excited to present my project "Unmasking the competitive loser status of tumours with ribosomal mutations" in the Eugenia Piddini lab at #EDRC2023 ! Looking forward to see you at my talk at 3:15pm in the "Disease Models" session ! :)

Wonderful meeting, great science, and party for the last night ;) ! Thanks a lot to the organisers of this EDRC2023 and to the amazing Drosophila community which always makes these meeting so enjoyable ! Already looking forward for EDRC 2025 in Alicante ! :)

#EDRC2023 in a nutshell: Exciting Science, great people, full rooms and poster sessions, straws, boat trip, wine and cheese, great food and a superb party. The hearts of the organizing committee is very light after all the great feed backs we got. Thank you all. GO #EDRC2025 !!!

Congratulations to the amazing newly elected #Drosophila EMBO members: @BartDeplancke, Katja Roeper, Eugenia Piddini, Stephan Sigrist, Hongyan Wang, Oliveira Lab, Florence Besse, Magali Suzanne, Marco Milan, pictured with a proud Maria Leptin!!!🥂🍾

Our latest on planar polarity mechanisms: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… No long thread (be grateful!) but the highlights are in the graphical abstract. We're excited because after decades of work we think we're moving towards a molecular understanding of what the proteins do.

New paper officially out in Development ! We show that TLRs/Tolls in human epithelial cells affect junctional cytoskeleton, tension and epithelial tightness. We were inspired to analyse this by the role of Tolls in fly morphogenesis, excellent collaboration with AstraZeneca

Are you interested in the emergence of biological shape and want to work in an interdisciplinary team and institute? The Morphomechanics Group at LSI in Exeter is hiring! Come and join us for your Postdoc: drive.google.com/file/d/1kjakj7… Or PhD: drive.google.com/file/d/1AFtLMi… Please share!

It’s out! Learn how a self-organized wave of adhesion, contractility and de-adhesion is mechanically regulated at the cellular scale. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S15…

Juvenile hormones, like retinoic acid, can act locally to guide primordial germ cells. These findings have many implications for JH function and regulation in reproduction and beyond! Congrats, Lacy Barton - now UTSA sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Have you ever wondered how our tissues stay healthy, and how they are able to identify and remove abnormal cells? Click authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09… Current Biology for the whole story. 1/9 #devbio #cellbio #tumor #axonguidance #cellcompetition #SFB850 #Ras #Drosophila #JNK #teneurin

🪰Droso peeps! Pleased to inform you that the 35th French Drosophila Meeting will take place from the 14th to the 17th of October 2024 at the Lazaret holiday village in Sète. Looking forward to seeing many of you for this exciting scientific meeting! 🪰drosofrance2024.sciencesconf.org

We have an EPSRC-funded PhD studentship in my group LSI Exeter to model shape generation by basement membrane mechanics. Application deadline 6th May 2024 Apply here to join our dynamic team: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Very happy to share the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)