Check out this amazing video summarising the recent discovery from Robin Hiesinger's lab on target-independent formation of retinotopic maps in the fly's visual system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZP...

I am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.

It was areal pleasure to visit and exchange with colleagues about the beautiful science being done. Thank you for having me!

Thank you for the invitation. Really looking forward to the visit.

Julien Pigeon and colleagues show how conserved processes can be fine tuned to result in species-specific patterns of brain development. Thanks to @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social for a great collaboration 👇🏽

Looking forward to this exciting meeting

Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...

For those who understand Arabic 😊 A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social Register early because places go fast!

Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain. Discover more in The Brain’s Secret. #Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement

One can only hope that history will judge harshly all those who are complicit in or remain silent in the face of genocide aje.io/uj36z1

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social! 🧠🪰🐭🐙🐸🦎🧒🏻🧫🧪🧠

There is only one name for that: this is a crime against humanity. Israel is governed by monsters.

"Solo le pido a Dios Que la guerra no me sea indiferente Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvyl...

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms? @nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Fantastic opportunity for neuroscience research. The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders. 750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025. www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...

A temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circuits in Drosophila 🧪🧠 @bassemh.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from the lab: @maheandria.bsky.social and colleagues in collaboration with the Hiesinger, Stoeckli and von Kleist labs dissect the sequential emergence of axonal targeting during development in today's issue of Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010

Hot off the press: The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010

@maheandria.bsky.social and I challenge the notion of a static and deterministic definition of a (neural) cell type and argue for its replacement by a multi parametric probabilistic definition in this perspective sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anna CHRZANOWSKA, PhD, postdoc in The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social is organizing a trainee-led symposium @institutducerveau.bsky.social June 2-4 Spread the word! nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/

I contend that the genome does not encode a mean and an error around it. It encodes a distribution. I would suggest that even evolutionary selection is on phenotypic distributions. The mean is just an emergent property of the distribution, and thus not in and of itself interesting to understand.

Registration deadline is soon! Don’t miss this wonderful meeting 👇🏽 meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...

Journée portes ouvertes : le saviez-vous ? Les mouches drosophiles sont des modèles de choix pour les scientifiques. En effet, leur cerveau fonctionne selon les mêmes principes physiologiques que le cerveau humain.

Last few days to apply! Post-doctoral position 3 years Wellcome funded in UK To investigate how experience shapes the brain Drosophila neurogenetics, imaging, behaviour Deadline 19/3/25 Pls RP. #drosophila #postdoc #jobs Apply here edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Just a little stream of thoughts: As materialists (i.e. non-dualists) we believe that there is only the universe out there an nothing outside it that imposes anything on it and that the universe is made of matter and energy (and they are interchangeable and I will thus only refer to matter)...

Meanwhile in hell on earth aje.io/vsxxj7 Let that sink in for a minute

"Developmental Timing Across Species" @embo.org Workshop organised by @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social 📅6-9 May 2025 📍Paris Submit abstract and register by 1 April: thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #EvoDevoTempo

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Join us this coming May 6-9 in Paris for the second EMBO Meeting on developmental timing across species. Registration now OPEN. Stellar line-up of inv. speakers + talks selected from abstracts. meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev... @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social

Final poster for the second edition of the #EvoDevoTempo meeting is finally ready! Great lineup and 3x more social activities: meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev... @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social

@silvianeuro.bsky.social, @sergiuppasca.bsky.social, @matthewcobb.bsky.social, @gocastelobranco.bsky.social, @r3rt0.bsky.social, @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social, @bogglerapture.bsky.social, @cedricboeckx.bsky.social, @boyanbonev.bsky.social, @bassemh.bsky.social, @venkataramanilab.bsky.social & more

🗓️ Mark your calendar: May 19-21, 2025 Registration is now open for the Neurogenomics Conference @humantechnopole.bsky.social: humantechnopole.it/en/trainings.... Come and join us in beautiful Milan! Incredibly excited to welcome a truly stellar line-up of speakers: including... 1/2

Can't miss opportunity for anyone interested in developmental timing!! See you in Paris⏳️

Join us in Paris 6-9 May 2025 for the #EvoDevoTempo conference (2nd edition) with a fantastic line up of speakers confirmed!! Organized by @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social and me. Please RT to spread the word meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...

@hrw.org report: By deliberately depriving people of water, the Israeli government created “conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction” of Palestinians in Gaza. That's how the Genocide convention defines a “genocidal act.”

Thanks to all the followers on @bsky.app if you’re a scientist please also follow the lab account @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social for updates on our work minus all the personal/political opinions 😃

What - if anything- does the fact that AI (LLMs) use memory mechanisms, but are incapable of reasoning tell us about the link between the two in biological intelligence?

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Second edition of the EMBO workshop on Developmental Timing across species. Second edition organized by @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and Margerete Diaz-Cuadros Cool speakers & fun networking activities. More details coming soon.Save the date: May 6-9 2025!

don't order books (or anything) from Amazon today! Instead, order from a small press, Bookshop, a local bookstore, or request a book from your local library. Yes, Amazon is "easy," but it's continuing to kill local businesses and concentrate wealth.

techforpalestine.org/about/ For the interested tech savvy people of conscience among y’all