Daniel Münch
@dahaniel.muench.bio
Neuroscientist🥼 father of 3 👨👩👧👧👶💥 chemo-sensory processing 👃👅 calcium imaging 🔬 open science 🌍 insect brains 🧠 Prof. of Animal Neurophysiology @jlugiessen.bsky.social
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 ⚖️.
🦠 Microbes for dinner, anyone?
When fruit flies go short on nutrients, their brains literally change the way they smell the world, helping them sniff out the microbes they need to survive.
👉 Article: tinyurl.com/yw4rfph2
🔗 Paper: tinyurl.com/3j4avr4x
@currentbiology.bsky.social
When fruit flies go short on nutrients, their brains literally change the way they smell the world, helping them sniff out the microbes they need to survive.
👉 Article: tinyurl.com/yw4rfph2
🔗 Paper: tinyurl.com/3j4avr4x
@currentbiology.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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 ⚖️.
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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
“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
October 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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
“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
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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
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
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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
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
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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 [email protected] to be added to our database.
#Drosophila
@fly-eds.bsky.social
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 [email protected] to be added to our database.
#Drosophila
@fly-eds.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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 [email protected] to be added to our database.
#Drosophila
@fly-eds.bsky.social
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 [email protected] to be added to our database.
#Drosophila
@fly-eds.bsky.social
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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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From Sensory Detection to Motor Action: The Comprehensive Drosophila Taste-Feeding Connectome
In Drosophila , the gustatory system is distributed across multiple body parts and tightly couples sensory input to value-based behaviors such as feeding, foraging, and social interactions. Despite th...
www.biorxiv.org
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Amazing opportunity, join the Manzini Lab and become part of the Institute of Animal Physiology in Giessen!
🚨 We are looking for 2 PhD students! 🧠🐸👃
Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates.
We mainly use #amphibians, combining:
🔬 Imaging
👩🔬 Cell biology
🐝 Behavior
👉 bit.ly/neurophd
🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab
Please share!
#PhD #neuroscience #job
Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates.
We mainly use #amphibians, combining:
🔬 Imaging
👩🔬 Cell biology
🐝 Behavior
👉 bit.ly/neurophd
🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab
Please share!
#PhD #neuroscience #job
August 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Amazing opportunity, join the Manzini Lab and become part of the Institute of Animal Physiology in Giessen!
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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. 🧵..
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July 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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. 🧵..
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We'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
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
June 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We'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
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
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Keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag?
Dann halt direkt auf der Tribüne!
Liebe Grüße an Julia Klöckner 🙃🏳️🌈
Dann halt direkt auf der Tribüne!
Liebe Grüße an Julia Klöckner 🙃🏳️🌈
June 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag?
Dann halt direkt auf der Tribüne!
Liebe Grüße an Julia Klöckner 🙃🏳️🌈
Dann halt direkt auf der Tribüne!
Liebe Grüße an Julia Klöckner 🙃🏳️🌈
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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
Join us as a #PhD student to work on fascinating 3D #lung models, #stemcells, and disease mechanisms! 🫁🔬
Please repost &
Apply here! tinyurl.com/lungorganoids
PhD student (m/f/d) in the field of organoids, stem cell research and lung development and disease
tinyurl.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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
Join us as a #PhD student to work on fascinating 3D #lung models, #stemcells, and disease mechanisms! 🫁🔬
Please repost &
Apply here! tinyurl.com/lungorganoids
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🧬🌽 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
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
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🧬🌽 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
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
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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...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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...
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Christa Rhiner presenting the mechanisms involved in brain injury response in flies 😲
June 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christa Rhiner presenting the mechanisms involved in brain injury response in flies 😲
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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.
May 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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
June 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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
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@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
June 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@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
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Honorary (fly) JEDI today - inspiring group of young investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social flyjedi.sciencesconf.org
June 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Honorary (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...
May 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Congratulations @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🥳
🚀 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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April 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚀 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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Die Trump Regierung hat Menschen als „Terroristen“ bezeichnet, ohne dass überhaupt klar ist, wer in diesem Flugzeug saß, ohne due process, die Abschiebung in ein Arbeitslager in El Salvador wurde gegen ein ausdrückliches Gerichtsurteil durchgeführt, das diese untersagte.
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Die Trump Regierung hat Menschen als „Terroristen“ bezeichnet, ohne dass überhaupt klar ist, wer in diesem Flugzeug saß, ohne due process, die Abschiebung in ein Arbeitslager in El Salvador wurde gegen ein ausdrückliches Gerichtsurteil durchgeführt, das diese untersagte.
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Interessiert an einem Studium? 🤔 Am 19. März laden #THM, #JLU und andere hessische Hochschulen zum virtuellen Aktionstag "Gut beraten – Studieren in Hessen" ein. 💻 Informiere dich von 15 bis 18 Uhr in Vorträgen über die verschiedenen Studienmöglichkeiten.
👉 Zur Übersicht: www.thm.de/site/hochsch...
👉 Zur Übersicht: www.thm.de/site/hochsch...
Aktionstag „Gut beraten. Studieren in Hessen“
„Nächste Station Studium! Machen Sie sich schlau zu diesem neuen Lebensabschnitt.“ Unter diesem Motto veranstalten die Studienberatungen an den hessisch...
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March 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Interessiert an einem Studium? 🤔 Am 19. März laden #THM, #JLU und andere hessische Hochschulen zum virtuellen Aktionstag "Gut beraten – Studieren in Hessen" ein. 💻 Informiere dich von 15 bis 18 Uhr in Vorträgen über die verschiedenen Studienmöglichkeiten.
👉 Zur Übersicht: www.thm.de/site/hochsch...
👉 Zur Übersicht: www.thm.de/site/hochsch...
@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!
Szenario einer AfD-Regierung aus dem Buch "Machtübernahme" (2024)
vs.
Schwarz-rotes Sondierungspapier (2025)
vs.
Schwarz-rotes Sondierungspapier (2025)
March 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
@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!
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Spatial 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...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
March 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Spatial 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...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...