Erez Raz

One more week to finalize your applications for the 2026 MBL zebrafish course at Woods Hole!

Application deadline extended to March 9.

Please repost and forward to anyone interested in learning 'everything zebrafish'!

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A figure from the paper showing two cells (SGP and PGC) and the molecular interactions within each cell and between the cells.

Hedgehog and Drosophila germ cell migration

In their #OpenAccess Review, Girish Deshpande, Ji Hoon Kim, Caitlin Hanlon, Paul Schedl and Deborah Andrew discuss how Hedgehog attracts migrating germ cells in Drosophila

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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.
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Evolutionary cell biology comes of age Summary: This Perspective discusses how the discipline of evolutionary cell biology, by integrating evolutionary theory, comparative physiology and modern molecular approaches, works to understand how...

Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍

W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social

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🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany.

www.bischofflab.com/jobs

Fully funded ✅
#Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy
#Drosophila #PhD
(Details Below)

Original Posting:
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Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp

Corrections in single-cell migration path in vivo are controlled by pulses in polar Rac1 activation Hoffmann et al. study how cells change their migration direction. They find that transitions between polar and apolar phases in germ cells are regulated by pulses in Rac1 activity and actin polymeriza...

a great Dispatch on the paper of Dennis (Curr Biol, www.cell.com/current-biol... ) written by Michael Sixt - www.cell.com/current-biol...

Corrections in single-cell migration path in vivo are controlled by pulses in polar Rac1 activation Directed migration of single cells is central to a large number of processes in development and adult life. Corrections to the migration path of cells…

A new paper from the lab is out-

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A great collaboration between our lab in Muenster (Led by Dennis Hoffmann), Nir Gov (Weizmann/University of Cambridge), Ben Simons (University of Cambridge) and Tal Agranov (University of Cambridge).

Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Optochemical control over mRNA translation by photocaged phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligonucleotides in vivo - Nature Communications Tools enabling mechanistic studies of protein function are important for furthering developmental and cell biology research. Here, Tarbashevich et al. develop molecules that are activated by light to ...

A new paper from the lab-

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

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship Fall 2025 Seeking Applications - DAAD Scholarship 2025 Are you a postdoctoral researcher with a solid academic track record, ready to take your research global? Germany awaits you! The prestigious Alexander

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Optochemical control over mRNA translation by photocaged phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligonucleotides in vivo A key regulatory step in protein synthesis is the initiation of mRNA translation. We developed an efficient, robust, and broadly applicable system for light-induced protein translation to control the ...

A preprint from the lab - a new method for light-induced RNA translation employing morpholino oligonucleotides- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Corrections in single cell migration path in vivo are controlled by pulses in polar Rac1 activation Directed migration of single cells is central to a large number of processes in development and adult life. Corrections to the migration path of cells are often characterized by periodic loss of polar...

A preprint from the lab- Corrections in single cell migration path in vivo are controlled by pulses in polar Rac1 activation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new AI-genrated short audio summary of a BioRxiv preprint from the lab -
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will send you the pdf. :)

Cell and Tissue Dynamics (Wickström)

My lab at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Muenster, Germany offers postdoc positions in stem cell mechanobiology. www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/departments/... drop me an email

A new review from the lab-

Single-cell migration in development – Lessons from germ cells

copy-paste the link and enjoy-

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a new review from the lab
-Single-cell migration in development – Lessons from germ cells

doi.org/10.1016/bs.c...

a bit over a year old, but worth looking at- doi.org/10.1016/j.de...

Screams Before Silence A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in t...

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