Daniel Münch

New work from the lab 🧠🪰🎉 Using pan neuronal volumetric brain imaging in three Drosophila species, we show that niche adaptations arise from central sensory processing, not peripheral tuning. Great collab led by @enriberti.bsky.social @tomtom-auer.bsky.social 🤝 Out now in @nature.com rdcu.be/eRWuD

They just announced passport controls on the TGV between Paris and Frankfurt. WTF happened to Schengen?!? #eu #schengen

Congratulations to Ibo, Inês, Rory, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and everyone else for making it into German newspapers 😀. Fly brains rule! 🧠🪰

Researchers showed people how to lucid-dream (they were conscious and able to control the dream) and then made them transform into wolves. It worked and "about a third of the volunteers achieved the wolf transformation": www.psypost.org/lucid-dreame... Lucid Dreamers are fucking werewolves!

Wir gedenken: Vor 21 Jahren, am 15. Juni 2005, wurde Theodoros Boulgarides in seinem zwei Wochen zuvor eröffneten Schlüsseldienst in #München vom #NSU ermordet. Er wurde 41 Jahre alt. #KeinSchlussstrich 20.6., 15 Uhr: Solidaritätsfestival der Familie: public-history-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

Loved writing this with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, for all the German speakers and those that wish to practice their German reading skills :D Check out the whole @modolfor.bsky.social collection!

A big "THANK YOU" to the sponsors who significantly contributed to making this year's JEDI meeting a success: the EDS: @fly-eds.bsky.social , the EMBO society: @embo.org and The Company of Biologists: @biologists.bsky.social!

The amazing JEDI crowd 2026! Hurray for an inspiring #Drosophila meeting at a gorgeous location. Thank you to everyone who attended!

@dahaniel.muench.bio one of the co-organisers of the @fly-jedi.bsky.social 2026 meeting using a gorgeous and scrumptious-looking picnic scene to explain his lab's research question.

The first few talks of this year's conference have been amazing! Here is a picture of @katrin-domsch.bsky.social rocking the stage talking about #Drosophila muscle development!

Today our keynote speaker Eugenia Chiappe from @champalimaudf.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk. The JEDI's enjoyed interacting with a first generation JEDI, who attended these #Drosophila meetings when she first started her lab. Thank you, Eugenia!

Extended registration deadline for our conference (June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal) to May 15th! Join if you are a Junior #Drosophila PI or senior #postdoc about to transition to independence. Spread the word! 🎬Venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P1n... 🔗Registration: fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...

Gentle reminder that there is only about 1 week left to register for the upcoming JEDI meeting in beautiful Portugal in June! If you identify as Junior European Drosophila Investigator you shouldn't miss this! fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...

Our work is out now in PNAS. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Immense respect for handling this situation with this level of integrity. Mistakes happen. Science is a process.

First paper out from the @zsantoslab.bsky.social Congratulations everyone, can't wait to dive into it!

Gentle reminder that registrations are open for the upcoming JEDI meeting in June in beautiful Portugal. Don 't miss it!

Registration is open for the JEDI meeting 2026 in Palmela, Portugal in June. Spread the word on join us for a fantastic meeting! fly-jedi.org/meetings/202... #drosophila #portugal #flyresearch #pimeeting

5 Landesverbände gesichert rechtsextrem, 4 Landesverbände Verdachtsfälle. Ehemalige Jugenorganisatiom gesichert rechtsextrem. Bundespartei gesichert rechtsextrem. Es ist noch zu früh, um sich ein Urteil zu bilden.

​A great disturbance in the Force… ⚡️ ​The next JEDI meeting is landing in Portugal this June. Don't let this opportunity drift away into a galaxy far, far away, clear your schedules for June 1st–3rd. 🇵🇹 ​Registration link coming soon. Prepare your mind! 🧠✨

Congrats to all the grant recipients! Extra happy for Burak and Dennis from my lab. And in this context: we’re hiring—open postdoc positions in the lab. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested.

Tune in to the GASTRONAUTS Bite Size Summit tomorrow to hear @gili-ezranevo.bsky.social talk about dietary amino acids, appetite and the gut microbiome of flies! Register here: bit.ly/3LCXZdE

Our paper on the counterintuitive effects of activating dopamine "reward" neurons is out now! Props to all the trainees, especially Fio Lozada-Perdomo and Yuzhen Chen who did most of the work. Yuzhen is applying for PhD programs now and you'd be lucky to get her! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Auch das Präsidium der Justus-Liebig-Universität zeigt heute Flagge! #Giessen

Es gibt Updates zu #Gießen: Das Verwaltungsgericht hat zwei "Verlegungen" von Versammlungen kassiert, diese dürfen nun doch in der Nähe des Treffens der AfD-Jugend stattfinden. Hier der aktuelle Stand zu den laufenden Verfahren: netzpolitik.org/2025/demover...

Beyond delighted to finally share the main results of my years as a postdoc in the Lowell lab. This was a labour of love, with contributions from many fantastic colleagues, particularly my coauthor @lowensteined.bsky.social

Excited to share the latest work from the lab: rdcu.be/eRWuD Great team effort, led by @enriberti.bsky.social first at @unil.bsky.social and now @unifr.bsky.social; with fantastic collaborators @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and @dahaniel.muench.bio.

My main postdoc work is now out :) In the group of @tomtom-auer.bsky.social with Justine Pascual, @bruzz-1.bsky.social , Noemi Sgammeglia , with crucial collaboration with @dahaniel.muench.bio and @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Süßes oder Saures? Bei #Fruchtfliegen ist die #Evolution von Ernährungsvorlieben im #Gehirn verwurzelt und nicht in den peripheren Geschmackssensoren – Studie mit Beteiligung der #JLUGiessen in @nature.com veröffentlicht www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

To survive in new environments, animals must adapt how they eat. @nature.com study with researchers from CF shows that fruit fly diet evolution isn’t just about taste receptors, it’s driven by brain processing of taste 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

New paper with @gili-ezranevo.bsky.social & Silvia Henriques from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social's lab out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Appetite, driven by amino acid need 🥚🍖 reshapes olfactory receptor expression so flies 🪰 seek bacteria 🦠 and fermented cues 🥫 to restore nutritional balance ⚖️.

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion. Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit shorturl.at/gGYm7

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to katja.rust@uni-marburg.de to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

I rarely dive into circuit-mapping papers, but this blockbuster from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social lab is a doozy! Check it out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing opportunity, join the Manzini Lab and become part of the Institute of Animal Physiology in Giessen!

Preprint Alert! Walking mostly feels natural and easy to us - but the neuronal control of walking is actually incredibly complex. We leveraged the fruit fly as a genetically tractable animal model with a compact nervous system to ask how the brain controls walking direction: tinyurl.com/flywalk. 🧵..

Keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag? Dann halt direkt auf der Tribüne! Liebe Grüße an Julia Klöckner 🙃🏳️‍🌈

I have started my tenure-track Professorship for Lung #Organoids at⁣⁣ @jlugiessen.bsky.social — and 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 #𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 !⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Join us as a #PhD student to work on fascinating 3D #lung models, #stemcells, and disease mechanisms! 🫁🔬⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Please repost &⁣⁣ Apply here! tinyurl.com/lungorganoids

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Christa Rhiner presenting the mechanisms involved in brain injury response in flies 😲

We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

Best treatment of homesickness? Meeting Portuguese friends at French castles for Drosophila science meetings! @carvalhosantosz.bsky.social @clarahowcroft.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social 🏰🪰🇫🇷 #flyjedi #science #meetings #drosophila

@nkonst4.bsky.social introducing the round table with Prof. Almut Kelber @giorgio.gilest.ro @richardsever.bsky.social and @marialep.bsky.social on the following subjects