📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya 📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex... #DevBio

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

🧠🧪Funded PhD job offer ok neddylation in glial cells @achucarro.bsky.social Pls repost

🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.

🚨 PhD opportunity! Join our group at @AchucarroNeuro (Bilbao, Spain) for a 4-year bioinformatics PhD on brain evolution 🧠🧬 Work with scRNA-seq & spatial transcriptomics to uncover how the THALAMUS diversified across amniotes! 📩 Apply: [email protected]

Zebrafish larvae are really good for time lapses. Just take some popcorns enjoy them like if they were movies. Here you can see with your own eyes how immune cells divide. This one I call it "Divide and flee" #spinalcordregeneration #zebrafish #timelapse #microglia

Our work on the TET enzymes in retinal development is out. We identified that rod fate is inhibited when DNA demethylation is prevented by removal of the TET enzymes. Interestingly, photoreceptor numbers are normal. We utilized WGBS and bACE-seq to profile the precise localization of 5mC and 5hmC,…

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

One long standing question answered ✅ Beautiful science ✅ Cool model organism ✅ Congratulations to the authors!

Useful tips from @scekker.bsky.social et al. 🐟

African turquoise killifish are short-lived & their CNS exhibits human-like ageing. Zandecki @eveseuntjens.bsky.social & co reveal the cellular diversity during the explosive growth of the telencephalon, uncovering specific progenitor signatures for each neurogenic region. 🧠 doi.org/10.1242/bio....

🫀Job alert 🧬 come and be our colleague! Join a BBSRC-funded consortium aiming to understand how the human heart develops - you will be contributing multimodal single cell & spatial transcriptomics data using zebrafish and human cardiac organoids as models. Learn more: www.heartdevelopment.org (1/4)

Are you interested in how cells talk to each other to promote regeneration in the heart? @bailinwu.bsky.social @florian-constanty.bsky.social and I are and we wrote a review about it ❤️🐟🐭 Check it out here 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Researchers in the Reh Lab have produced the clearest evidence yet that AAV-delivered genes can stimulate regeneration in the mammalian retina. @tomreh.bsky.social Marina Pavlou. #retina #regeneration @uwmedicine.bsky.social shorturl.at/qVUKz

This afternoon 👇🏻

Now you can also read all about @idoiaeu.bsky.social beautiful work on catshark brain development and the enigmatic origin of cajal retzius cells in their preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our preprint! We show that sustained macrophage and B cell responses are essential for heart regeneration in Mexican cavefish, helping uncover why surface fish heal but cavefish scar 🫀🐟. Check out the full story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The next 13th of May I’ll be taking about microglia in spinal cord regeneration. If you’re interested 👇🏻👇🏻

Exacerbated sonic hedgehog signalling promotes a transition from chemical pre-patterning of chicken reticulate scales to mechanical skin folding: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @lanevol.bsky.social‬ @rorylcooper.bsky.social‬ #OpenBiology #DevBio #biophysics

Very excited to see the first Beisaw lab publication out in its final form 🥳🥳 rdcu.be/ei1I7 if you’re interested in zebrafish heart regeneration and how cardiomyocytes replace the fibrotic injured tissue (spoiler alert: macrophages play an important role), then read it here 👇

It has been known for a long time that if the starting point of limb regeneration is at the hand level or close to the shoulder, it would take about the same time to regenerate. Puzzling right? Check out this preprint from our lab to know more about it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am so excited to share our review on microglial heterogeneity @natureneuro.bsky.social! It was a fantastic effort by the lab, led by @c9laura72.bsky.social and Alma Mohebiany. We provide a critical view on the plethora of microglial cell states in health and disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please register for this amazing meeting! Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 8, 2025

Creating an asymmetric heart: @tbonnely.bsky.social @audreydsg.bsky.social @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social &co identify Notch3 as a novel asymmetric factor in lateral plate mesoderm that acts as a genetic modifier of NODAL to regulate heart morphogenesis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42q6H4L

🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Le Dréau, G., & Martí, E. (2012). Dorsal–ventral patterning of the neural tube: A tale of three signals. Developmental Neurobiology, 72(12), 1471–1481. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/9LymPIE

🚨 Heads-up: a little over a week to apply for this exciting postdoc opportunity in Edinburgh @edinuni-irr.bsky.social! 🚨 I will be in Liverpool for #biologists100. Happy to chat about the position, our research, setting up a lab, spiny mice, axolotls, and whatnot!

📢 We are hiring! 📢 We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*. More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef Get in touch if interested!

Interested in #cardiac_regeneration, #zebrafish, #aging, and the #immune_response? We are looking for a candidate to apply for a PhD opportunity from the CARe graduate school in Toulouse!

We are currently preparing a job ad and will be looking for someone at postdoctoral level who wants to build an independent profile in the field of CNS regeneration. We have a unique multiome dataset of successful spinal cord regeneration and an in vivo model to test hypotheses. /2

Elly Tanaka, IMBA’s Scientific Director, receives the Schleiden Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, honoring her groundbreaking insights in the field of regenerative biology. Congratulations! Read more here: imba.science/schleidenmedal

We are hiring a senior research technician to work with me on my Moorfields Eye Charity-funded killifish ageing retina project! If interested, apply by 18 February, and feel free to email me with queries.

Couple of opportunities up to join the group! One at postdoc level, but open to senior support path. One research assistant role. Please share, or drop a line if you want to learn more! Or just apply! Thanks! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I wasn’t aware of this at all…I learnt a lot today 🧐 Congrats to the authors; very neat and didactic.

What shapes the #immune profile of organs? Study from Ninov Lab #CRTD, led by Nadeem, find that developmental #celldeath define the immune cells of the pancreatic #islet in #zebrafish ! 🎉👏 Read more @embojournal.bsky.social : embopress.org/doi/full/10.... #Diabetes

📖 www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... @obs-banyuls.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @maxencelanoizelet.bsky.social

Academic guilt season starts today, winter edition. Feel guilty if working, feel guilty if not.

Thrilled to see this paper out!! 🧪 Spatial transcriptomics of brain aging and 'spatial aging clocks' identify cells that have pro-aging or pro-rejuvenating effects on their neighbors! Huge CONGRATS to Eric Sun and all authors! Fantastic collaboration with @jameszou.bsky.social! rdcu.be/d33uQ 🧵

Here is the new account in Bluesky that every #microglia lover or afficionado should follow.🧪 You can find a repository of previous talks at www.achucarro.org/es/european-...

Excited to share our lab's first preprint: we used spatial transcriptomics to dissect how aging disrupts the cycling ovary! 🧵 This was an incredible team effort w/ @jennifergarrison.bsky.social #TammyLan @davidsebfischer.bsky.social #AlisonKochersberger #RuthRaichur #SophiaSzady

#cellbio2024: sorry to miss you all this year (Final Exam & grading), but our lab will be well represented. Postdoc @maikbischoff.bsky.social will be giving a talk Monday 12/16 4:00 PM in the "Welcome to the Zellenstaat" session. He'll describe his exciting work on regulation of cell migration 1/3

Aanandita Kothurkar, @colinchulab.bsky.social, Ryan MacDonald and colleagues @ucleye.bsky.social apply IBEX to simultaneously identify all the major retinal cell types. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

1/🚀 Excited to share RegVelo, our new cell model combining RNA velocity with gene regulatory network (GRN) dynamics to model cellular changes and predict in silico perturbations. Here's how it works and why it matters! 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.11.627935v1

The first work of my PhD is OUT 🎆 star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/38... In this work, we share with the community our protocol for preparation, clearing and visualization of adult 🦓🐟 spinal cords structures that has been tested, refined and used quite frequently in our lab.

🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬 Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎 Please read & share! 🧪 @genevunige.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of the most surprising lessons for me during my 30 years of doing science is how it's essentially impossible predict what major scientific breakthroughs will emerge or where they will emerge from. But the way we fund science is mostly based on the assumption that we can make such predictions.

I'm loving the starter packs! But didn't see one for all CNS injury researchers (stroke, TBI, SCI, etc). Can you help me build it? go.bsky.app/PPPHzU2

fantastic resource: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

It’s #FluorescenceFriday but also Christmas month is comming! Macrophages and neural stem cells in our lab are already dressed up for the event. Enjoy! #zebrafish #spinalcord #regeneration