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Floris BOSVELD
@florisbosveld.bsky.social
Drosophila researcher at Institut Curie, dedicated to the pursuit of the scientific way of life.
Interested in insects?

Every topic will be covered in the upcoming ECE2026 meeting.
In beautiful Tours (France) during early summer.
June 29th – July 3rd 2026

Abstract submission & early bird registration until December 15th 2025

www.ece2026.org
ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
www.ece2026.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss?
Check it out our new preprint!
THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation.
Multicellular organisms possess conserved safeguard mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of tissue integrity. Exploring these mechanisms has proven instrumental in understanding how tissues robustly...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
FlyBase needs help.
Similar article last week in Science
www.science.org/content/arti...
September 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#standupforscience2025
Institut Curie Developmental Biology Unit
March 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Reposted by Floris BOSVELD
In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The importance of delivering Recherche d'Avenir – research for the future
In recent years, several European countries, including France, have reduced their investment in scientific research, with biomedical research taking a significant hit. The primary casualty is basic re...
journals.biologists.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Floris BOSVELD
📢 Submissions are now open for the CellMap Segmentation Challenge.

Build the best method for segmenting cellular organelles in vEM using our 289 annotated volumes, 40 organelle classes, and 22 diverse cell and tissue types.

🔗 hhmi.news/410evJQ
February 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Floris BOSVELD
First official post! A new paper out about #cytokinesis in #epithelia

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Explore our journey as we uncover how regulators of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions modulate cytokinesis efficiency, while revealing new roles for the Dystrophin-Dystroglycan complex.
November 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Reposted by Floris BOSVELD
To kick start the New Year, I'm delighted to share the lab's first preprint - now online:
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

See below for a couple of highlights👇
Any feedback is welcome!
"TEsky"

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! 🥂
An endogenous retroviral element co-opts an upstream regulatory sequence to achieve somatic expression and mobility
Retrotransposons, multi-copy sequences that propagate via copy-and-paste mechanisms involving an RNA intermediate, occupy large portions of all eukaryotic genomes. A great majority of their manifold c...
biorxiv.org
January 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reposted by Floris BOSVELD
Looking for a job still connected to acamedia and research ? Do you like interacting with a lot of people, outreach activity, organising scientific events ? Do you have good writing and organisation skills ? We may have a job for you👇 (permanent position)

emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp...

🙏RT
December 21, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Floris BOSVELD
For the dev bio crowd : there is a call for junior group leader at Institut Pasteur in Paris and one of the axis covered is related to development. Come and join us in this exciting place and become one of our colleague @devstempasteur.bsky.social
Please RT !!
research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...
Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur
research.pasteur.fr
December 8, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Floris BOSVELD
📢We have a 3y postdoc position available in our interdisciplinary team at the Institut Curie.
Join us if you're interested in epithelial tissue morphogenesis using live imaging, quantitative biology & (opto)genetics.
institut-curie.org/team/bellaiche
Please spread the word.
October 31, 2024 at 5:16 PM