Daniel Münch
Neuroscientist🥼 father of 3 👨👩👧👧👶💥 chemo-sensory processing 👃👅 calcium imaging 🔬 open science 🌍 insect brains 🧠 Prof. of Animal Neurophysiology @jlugiessen.bsky.social
- 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! 🧠✨
- Registration will open soon for the next JEDI meeting: June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal! Join us and our keynote speaker Eugenia Chiappe. Her #neuroscience lab studies how #Drosophila estimates its own movement and integrates sensory inputs to control locomotion. chiappelab.org
- Reposted by Daniel MünchCongrats 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.
- In 2025, early-career researchers at the FMI secured highly competitive fellowships and grants, including postdoctoral fellowships from @embo.org and @hfspo.bsky.social, which support outstanding research. Read more about the winning projects here 👇 www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
- 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
- Reposted by Daniel MünchOur 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...
- Reposted by Daniel MünchAuch das Präsidium der Justus-Liebig-Universität zeigt heute Flagge! #Giessen
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchExcited 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.
- Reposted by Daniel MünchMy 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...
- Reposted by Daniel MünchSüßes 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...
- 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
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchPreparations 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 ⚖️.
- Reposted by Daniel MünchExcited 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
- Reposted by Daniel MünchExcited 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
- Reposted by Daniel MünchDear 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
- Reposted by Daniel MünchI 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!
- Reposted by Daniel MünchPreprint 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. 🧵..
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchWe're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share! Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline: 10 July More info here: www.rezavallab.org
- Reposted by Daniel MünchKeine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag? Dann halt direkt auf der Tribüne! Liebe Grüße an Julia Klöckner 🙃🏳️🌈
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- Reposted by Daniel Münch🧬🌽 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
- Reposted by Daniel MünchFlybase 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...
- Reposted by Daniel MünchChrista Rhiner presenting the mechanisms involved in brain injury response in flies 😲
- Reposted by Daniel MünchWe 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
- Reposted by Daniel Münch@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
- Reposted by Daniel MünchHonorary (fly) JEDI today - inspiring group of young investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social flyjedi.sciencesconf.org
- Congratulations @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🥳
- Herausragender Erfolg in der #Exzellenzstrategie: Gleich drei #Exzellenzcluster für die #JLUGiessen – #Herz-#Lungen-, #Batterie- und #Wahrnehmungsforschung konnten im Wettbewerb überzeugen @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @heroldlab.bsky.social @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- 🚀 I’m thrilled to announce I’ve started a tenure track position as Professor for Animal Neurophysiology at @jlugiessen.bsky.social As of April 1, the Münch Lab is open! 🔬🧠🪰 We’ll study chemosensory processing, multisensory integration & feeding in flies. 🎓 PhD position coming soon, stay tuned!
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- @spdfraktion.de, meine in Portugal geborene Tochter hat auch die portugiesische #Staatsbürgerschaft. Soll ich ihr wirklich erklären, dass sie weniger deutsch ist als ihre Schwestern und ihr in Zukunft der deutsche Pass entzogen werden kann? @ricardalang.bsky.social & Co, bitte macht Druck dagegen!
- Reposted by Daniel MünchSpatial transcriptomics in fly brain and body. Wonderful collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social led by @jasperjanssens.bsky.social @pierremangeol.bsky.social Nikolai Hecker & Gabriele Partel - look at mRNA patterns in muscles and brains spatialfly.aertslab.org elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchThis was supposed to be a post about my lab's first funding of the year, a diversity supplement to fund our amazing research technician. The award never arrived. Now it's a post about the value of diversity and trying to persevere in these dark times. devinenilab.org/news/diversi...
- Reposted by Daniel MünchAnti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’ | Musa Okwonga
- Gute Zusammenfassung der letzten Wochen und Monate. Die Normalisierung des rechtsextremen Randes durch die C-Parteien und die Medien ist wirklich eine beängstigende Entwicklung. Ich verstehe nicht wie man so blauäugig sein kann.
- Reposted by Daniel MünchDass Merz sich nicht schämt, Walter Lübckes Namen in den Mund zu nehmen, um Menschen zu diskreditieren, die gegen Faschismus und Rechtsruck aufstehen, nachdem er selbst die Brandmauer zu der Partei, zu deren Fans Lübckes Mörder gehört, eingerissen hat. Verlogen und verkommen.
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchWir erinnern an die Opfer des rassistischen Anschlags am 19. Februar 2020 in #Hanau: Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar und Kaloyan Velkov #SayTheirNames
- Reposted by Daniel MünchOpen positions in our lab. Just sayin…
- 📢Please share: We're now accepting applications for our #PhD and #MDPhD programs! 🧬Join us in Basel, Europe's #LifeScience hub, and unleash your potential in a vibrant, international and supportive environment. 📅Apply by May 1 at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchDoge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchNEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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- Reposted by Daniel MünchDear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!
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- Apparently not everyone is willing to sell their soul so easily! (Although I don't think those who sold had much to keep anyway)
- Reposted by Daniel MünchElon Musk biographer here. The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now. Publicly. Daily. The Post either knows this or should not be in business.
- Reposted by Daniel MünchIf you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
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