Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

New from Silvia Caballero, Stefania Castagnetti and friends - Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Drawing together findings from several projects over many years, we make a case that neural cell types in the Clytia larva have two embryological origins: i-cells and ectodermal. bioRxiv 2025.11.17.688882; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Proud to have been part of this very nice piece of work and this great collaboration. Congratulations to all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

These are embryos of a jellyfish, made up of cells that are about a fiftieth of a millimetre in size. Their outlines are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Sarah Asaf and @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

What are these? You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

Congratulations to Oğuz Akar who was awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy in Cell and Biology yesterday!

L’imev et des scientifiques @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social mettent l’océan et les cellules au cœur du festival #regarddonssensemble au #ParcPhœnix @cnrs.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr 1/4

A great collaboration... rdcu.be/eEUv5

Bravo @juliarmateu.bsky.social et @annaferraioli.bsky.social, merci à Richard Copley pour ce travail co-dirigée, et merci aux collaboratrices coralistes Isabelle Domart-Coulon (MNHN, Paris) et Núria Teixidó (LOV, et Ischia Marine Center, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn)

Researchers from @imev-mer.fr recently visited us for a workshop supported by the French-Norwegian mobility program Åsgard 🌊 Between seminars, lab demos and discussions, new ideas and plans for long-term collaborations emerged 🤩 Read more about this exciting partnership below ⤵️

Congratulations to Lou Marchal, the new PhD student of the team, to have obtained a ministerial fellowship !!!!

Interested in visiting Villefranche, Roscoff or Banyuls marine stations? The EMBRC-France (www.embrc-france.fr) 8th Call for Projects is open. Deadline Sept 19 for stays by end of June 2026. Up to 42 person-days per project are covered, with access to EMBRC-France services, accommodation & catering.

Quel est cet étrange animal marin gélatineux vu cette semaine ? #France3PACA Avec #AlexandreAlié @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/provence-alp...

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

Cette épopée de grains de pissenlit rescapés d’une explosion nucléaire, réalisée par Momoko Seto, est absolument fascinante ! Christian Sardet du @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social @cnrs.fr a participé à ce fabuleux projet. #Cannes2025 🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Sd...

Excited to finally see my PhD work published! We identified specialized cells in jellyfish and coral larvae with shared features and potentially linked to settlement regulation.

#OpenCall | 👉 #canSERV open call now live 📢 Among other services & training, cancer scientists can apply to access marine model organisms for their research projects, including ascidians at @imev-mer.fr @embrc-france.bsky.social @szndohrn.bsky.social ⌛ 15 July 🔗 www.embrc.eu/project/cans... 🧪🌊🦑

🌍 🔬 Meet the ZooCELL Doctoral Candidates! 🌍 🔬 Curious about the young scientists behind the ZooCELL Doctoral Network? Watch their introduction videos on our YouTube channel to discover their research, backgrounds, and what fuels their passion for science! […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Candidate to be the future director of our marine station ! Appel à candidature pour la direction de la FR IMEV ! www.insu.cnrs.fr/fr/appel-can...

Proud to have been part of this work. Congratulations to everyone!!!

A chaetognath (arrow worm) stained for tubulin and stained with Hoechst (blue). #fluorescencefriday @Elisabeth.ZIEGER @Michael.Schubert @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social movincell.org/medias/43

It's time for an #introduction. We are ZooCELL, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network that will train 12 doctoral candidates in comparative integrative cell biology of animals. We are located in five different countries (France, Germany, Italy […] [Original post on biologists.social]

‪ Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! Today we have a image from @HOULISTON.Evelyn : confocal image of an isolated Clytia gonad shows specialized Opsin/Oocyte Maturation Hormone-expressing cells in the ectoderm @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @imev-mer.fr movincell.imev-mer.fr/medias/386

Our work on the sea urchin adult nervous system will soon be presented in the context of the Neuroplanete 2025 program organized by the national journal #LePoint in Nice from March 6th to 8th. evenements.lepoint.fr/neuroplanete...

I’m happy to present our recent paper, Uveira et al., online on eLife as the Reviewed Preprint. We took a comparative cell biology approach to study the evolution of metazoan. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Congratulations, and many thanks, Julie and all the other contributors! Photo T. Momose CC-BY 4.0

Today all PhD students of our research federation show their work through short seminars. Topics include biology, biogeochemistry, ecology, chemistry, modeling, … @imev-mer.fr @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social #lov #oceanography Our auditorium is full !