Fantastic! 😍 Congrats!!!

Monkey on my way to work! #singaporewildlife

Apply for a PhD in Singapore at NUS! Deadline Jan 12. I'm recruiting:

Here with Mechanobiology Institute: www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...

and

Here with Biomedical Engineering dept: cde.nus.edu.sg/bme/

Thanks Andre! Was an absolute pleasure. 😊

Thanks Otger!

My lab @poldresden.bsky.social is now CLOSED! The fabulous @sanikajah.bsky.social has left (defense soon). The lab @mbisg.bsky.social in SG is now 1yr old and growing!
PhD students apply here (Jan 12): www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...
Undergrads (Jan 31): www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/mu...

For those of you in Singapore curious about doing a PhD in mechanobiology, come by our MBI Open House on Nov 18 @mbisg.bsky.social. I will be looking for talented students next round!

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in researching mechanisms of 3D tissue morphogenesis and have experience studying cell dynamics and performing quantitative image analysis, consider joining us @mbisg.bsky.social! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/jobs/seeking...

I have worked on this project remotely for the last year @mbisg.bsky.social. If you like this kind of work on tissue morphogenesis, please consider joining my team in Singapore!

This was a tight collaboration between @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpipks.bsky.social. In particular, credit goes to the amazing @janafuhrmann.bsky.social, who helped conceive and lead the project. At PKS, Marko Popovic and @vicioms.bsky.social. Tremendously enjoyable collaboration (as always)!

Then we use physical modeling and genetic perturbations to argue that the aECM has an adhesive function that stabilizes the folds and must be biochemically removed at early pupal stages to allow unfolding.

Using electron microscopy @mpi-cbg.de, we discover extensive fibrous apical extracellular matrix (aECM) that covers the folds from top to bottom and adheres the two sides together through apical microvilli.

We used light sheet microscopy and new analysis methods to extract the 3D apical surface of the wing disc and quantify its main folds over development.

Tissue folds are a common occurrence during animal tissue development. While there are known mechanisms to initiate folding, we wondered, what happens after? How does the fold shape progress and what stabilizes the structure?

Apical extracellular matrix regulates fold morphogenesis in the Drosophila wing disc Tissue folding is a fundamental process occurring in animal organ development. Here, we study the progression of fold shape and the underlying mechanics in the development of the Drosophila wing disc....

How are tissue folds stabilized during animal organ development? Our latest preprint helps to answer this question, using the fruit fly wing disc as a model doi.org/10.1101/2025.... @poldresden.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @dfg.de @janafuhrmann.bsky.social @vicioms.bsky.social @mbisg.bsky.social

Company on my way to work #singapore #monitorlizard

Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.

Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A short but sweet visit to Dresden ends. See you again in the fall! 🇩🇪 🇸🇬

I confess, when I look at this poster, I see a wing disc on its side - but I don't know what it is actually. It's got too many folds for a Drosophila wing disc😅

We are Ibidi's Image of the month! From my PhD student Sanika Jahagirdar @sanikajah.bsky.social @ibidicells.bsky.social
ibidi.com/content/cate...

Join us in Singapore in September for the "Mechanobiology in Time and Space" meeting hosted by the Mechanobiology Institute at NUS @mbisg.bsky.social and Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de. Abstracts due soon! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/events/mbico...

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Amazing news Rita! Congratulations 🎉

Congrats! 🎉

🧫Looking for a PhD to start Autumn 2025? We're recruiting! 🧪

The project will focus on using #embryomodels to explore #development & could cover a range of specific questions. Please RT! 🙏

Apply via the portal, and get more details here: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

I'm looking for a talented+motivated person to join my team at the #MechanobiologyInstitute @NUS for a #postdoc. If you're interested in investigating collective cell behavior during 3D tissue #morphogenesis with me, please apply here or PM for Qs. Please RT! careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

DeepCook | The Li Laboratory Introducing DeepCook, the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, which simplifies the fly food cooking process and enables greater flexibility in making diverse diets.

Drosophila friends--here is fun, seemingly simple and efficient method for making small batches of fly food using--get this--a "soy milk machine" :) Thank you Wanhe Li @xseedling.bsky.social
wanheli2022.wixsite.com/wanheli/deep...

🚨🚨 MEGA JOB ALERT 🚨🚨
Independent Group Leader Positions in Computational Biology @humantechnopole.bsky.social!

Are you ready to start your own lab? Do you know someone who is? Repost this + share with everyone who might want to know about it. Thanks!!! 🙏

More details below... check it out! 🧵 1/3

If you're an undergraduate looking for a research opportunity in mechanobiology - consider coming to us in Singapore - open to local and internationals from 2nd year. It's paid, 6weeks. Deadline 31 Jan.

Apply for a fully funded 4yr PhD in Mechanobiology at the MBI, NUS in Singapore! Deadline 13 Jan 2025.