Here is the link to download the PDF of my course#5 on Biological computation. I present & discuss Self-tuning, Adaptation and Learning in biological (non-neuronal) systems, in particular during embryonic development. This course contains various personal ideas/proposals. tinyurl.com/hcpwsbtm

In this month's Creature Column, we feature the ascidian tunicate Ciona, a model for marine systems life sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share the preprint from my PhD! 🥳 Where I characterised epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big thanks to my supervisor @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social and coauthors @noahbruderer.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social at🇳🇴 @msarscentre.bsky.social ⬇️🧵

Very happy to share our 'Evoscape' paper, now published in PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very happy to see this piece on the Tunicate Ciona published. Grateful to @alexandrejan.bsky.social and @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social for the Illustrations, and to @natmethods.nature.com for the opportunity to showcase our ever emerging model organism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Re-upping this with a Bluetorial in a shameless act of self-promotion. 1/n

Crowding more proteins per cytoplasm unit volume would hamper processes such as diffusion, which is already about ten fold slower inside the cell than in pure water. Source: book.bionumbers.org/what-is-the-...

Intestinal villus cells extrude living, following a calcium pulse. Unlike from extruding apoptotic cells, Ca2+ messaging stops at the first neighbors! #FluorescenceFriday Part of our TrepatLab preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by @ronjahoutekamer.bsky.social @gloerichlab.bsky.social

Our latest on how cells get ready for fate transition! @noahbruderer.bsky.social @margauxfailla.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

💡Just presented our new paper at the @iccv.bsky.social BioImage Computing workshop: cubic: CUDA-accelerated 3D Bioimage Computing. We introduce a simple way to add GPU acceleration to scikit-image–based bioimage processing pipelines by swapping import statements. 🧵 1/6 #iccv2025

Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods! 📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking 🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration Let’s dive in! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Morphogenesis alert! A unifying physical principle links gastrulation in frogs, fish and flies! Stoked to be part of this new paper with Xin Li in Dave Thirumalai's lab and Robert Huebner in my group and a co-lab with @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and Margot Williams. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Michael Sars Visitors Program! ✨🧪 To spark new connections, we are opening our doors to visiting researchers who wish to conduct a project in #SunnyBergen. Applications are open, help us spread the word!

What a fantastic morning at #MSS2025 🤩 After an opening by BIO Dept. head @unibergen.bsky.social Ståle Ellingsen, three amazing talks by @lowelab.bsky.social, Georgia Rapti @embl.org and Camila Esguerra @ncmbm.bsky.social on System Evolution 👏

🚀🔬🦠 Releasing 🤖Cellpose-SAM🤖, a cellular segmentation algorithm with superhuman generalization 🦸‍♀️. Try it now on 🤗 huggingface.co/spaces/mouse... paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @computingnature.bsky.social 1/n

📣 New article out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🤩 Zonglai Liang and colleagues from the @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social group reveal a dual role for Anoctamins in sensory perception & metamorphosis in #Ciona larvae 🧪 Take a peek behind the scenes ⤵️

🧬🔬🧪 We are seeking a Scientist to push the limits of spatial transcriptomics in zebrafish! Come join us! #MolBio #SpatialTranscriptomics #DevelopmentalBiology #ScienceJobs 🧫🐟🔍 job-boards.greenhouse.io/chanzuckerbe...

Loïc Royer @loicaroyer.bsky.social presented today the impressive work of his team @czbiohub.bsky.social in optical engineering and developing analysis tools to explore vertebrate development 🐟🧪 Thank you for an inspiring and visually stunning talk! 🤩

We are in for a mindblowing treat today at @msarscentre.bsky.social with @loicaroyer.bsky.social from @czbiohub.bsky.social hosted by @noahbruderer.bsky.social for a seminar on “Building a virtual embryo, a single cell at a time”.

Applying LLMs to biomedical research today can go one of two ways: we either use a closed-source web app, or we get coding ourselves. Many researchers lack training for the latter, so their only choice is the former. We want to change that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are excited to announce that registration for the Michael Sars Symposium 2025 is now open! 🤩 Join us on June 6th at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks 🧪 #MSS2025 ✨Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz

Search is changing, using LLMs to reliably query your own data and public data bases will become the norm. Amongst other tools we use @langchain.bsky.social to drastically reduce hallucinations of LLMs.

I’m delighted to share that I will be starting my lab @univmiami.bsky.social in Spring 2025! We will study cellular and developmental biology in non-bilaterian animals – cnidarians, ctenophores, placozoans, and sponges – to explore early animal evolution.

Find me at #CBIAS2024 in London! Come to chat about image-to-single-cell morphology and how morphosnaker 🧊🐍🧊 can help. Also come to play around with our virtual embryo. #morphosnaker #singlecell #morphology

🚨 Today's the day! #CBIAS2024 is kicking off this morning! buff.ly/4fITsAq #BioImageAnalysis

Ciona intestinalis in situ @ 25m around Sotra island,🇳🇴! @msarscentre.bsky.social I am trying to understand how chemical cues lead to these mass aggregations!