With the human embryo model field rapidly expanding, it would be good if those venturing into it properly acknowledge the history of the field and give credit where credit's due. I doubt hTLS would be there w/o mouse gastruloids @amartinezarias.bsky.social @susannevandenbrink.bsky.social & TLS.

This is now the 2nd human trunk-like-structure (TLS) paper in a row that fails to cite our work @adrianobolondi.bsky.social, which demonstrated the first TLS (mouse). Especially striking since the preprint studies (a.o.) the TBX6-KO phenotype, which we used as a proof-of-concept in mouse TLS (1/2)

Happy 🥲 We're now looking for a postdoc and a technician to work on this super exciting 5 years project on mRNA mtabolism and poly(A) tail length control. Links to apply here: Postdoc: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc-... Technician: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Technici...

Three more weeks to apply and join us in Barcelona! Help us understanding how oocytes regulate proteostasis and fertility! Find here more detailed information on the call: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Please spread around your communities!

Today we present another of our amazing speakers: @anne-schreiter.bsky.social the executive director from @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social. She will give us an interactive workshop about Leadership and Team-building. Register to our @fens.org Satellite 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

🚨 Job Alert - Please share! 🙏 Interested in 3D gene regulation in development & evolution? 🤓🧬 💥 Our lab at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social is expanding! We’re recruiting: ✅ PhD students ✅ Postdocs 💻🧪 Experimental or computational backgrounds welcome 👇 Details below

🚨JOB ALERT🚨PLEASE SPREAD and RT Searching for a motivated Master’s student @bokelab.bsky.social @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate how proteostasis in oocytes influences dormancy and fertility. Reach out to me ([email protected]) to join us in sunny Barcelona! See details below👇

The ISSCR is pleased to announce that Alexander Meissner, Director of Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany, has been named the recipient of the 2026 ISSCR Momentum Award, supported by BlueRock Therapeutics! Learn more: https://ow.ly/eUNt50YoFm3

Deadline extended until end of March! Join our @fens.org Satellite 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

Interested in doing a PhD in tumor mechanobiology? At Université Paris-Saclay, the upcoming PhD selection process is open, and I’m looking to put forward a candidate to join my lab. If you’re excited about uncovering how mechanical signals regulate tumor progression, please get in touch!

We wrote a piece on how easy it is to write gene regulatory sequences. - Turns out, it isn't that easy even though we know a lot about cis-regulation. huge credit to @carldeboer.bsky.social to seeing this through so our thoughts aren't lost. I promise, it's a worthwhile read!

INTERESTED IN SINGLE-CELL LINEAGE TRACING? Check our new review @naturerevgenet.bsky.social from the @alejofraticelli.bsky.social lab 🎉🎉 nature.com/articles/s41... With Victoria Parreno, we tried to update the modern manual for genetic tracing and clonal analysis. Read link: rdcu.be/e50gy

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the 2nd Meeting on Early Embryogenesis & Epigenetics last week—great talks and valuable discussions across the community! Huge thanks to our partners at the Weizmann, the speakers, session chairs, and all the behind-the-scenes helpers! www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Our most recent work on the “function and evolution” of #nuclear-speckles is now online at Cell @cp-cell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Read the thread👇 for the highlights of our findings.

@tjryan.bsky.social will join the @fens.org satellite @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social as a keynote speaker. He is Professor of Neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social and Chair of the FENS Advocacy Committee. He will speak about advocacy for neuroscience in Europe. Join us 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

🚨 Happy to see that my PhD work is finally published! We present METALoci, a tool that integrates #3Dgenome and #Epigenetics to identify regulatory hubs. Applied to #sexdetermination we uncover: ✔️ Non-coding regulatory region controlling Fgf9 ✔️ Meis genes as key players 👉 rdcu.be/e5sm2

🤩💪 Out now! 3D regulatory hubs in sex determination With @mamartirenom.bsky.social & Capel labs, led by @imotagom.bsky.social & @jrotwitguez.bsky.social 1️⃣ METALoci – explore #3DGenome 🧬 2️⃣ Non-coding region controlling Fgf9 🧩 3️⃣ Meis genes = new key players 🌟 👉 rdcu.be/e5sm2 1/n Bluetorial 👇

🚨Last week to register!! Noelia Antón Bolaños is one of our amazing keynote speakers. She will tell us all about her journey from Spain to Boston, and starting her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social 🛫🌎🛬. Join our @fens.org Satellite event in Barcelona!

yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists! youngpisymposium2026.com

📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab? 📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium. youngpisymposium2026.com

🧬 We are excited to announce the INTERNATIONAL DUTCH EMBRYO MODEL MEETING 2026 — Engineering the Origins of Life 📅 7–8 May 2026 📍 Utrecht, The Netherlands Register & submit abstracts: www.oncodeinstitute.nl/internationa...

Once your 3D sample is reconstructed, you can rotate, take virtual sections in any orientation, project gene expression through depth, link 3D space with UMAP, and compute spatial differential expression on the reconstructed volume to find region-enriched genes.

To turn spatial data into a 3D object, check our protocol (open source, napari plug-in). @guignardlab.bsky.social @adrianobolondi.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social For example, if you have spatial RNA-seq as sections, you can align them automatically to analyse directly in 3D. bio-protocol.org/e5607

We're recruiting a #devbio Postdoctoral Fellow to explore the hTLS system! If you know any fab PhD students finishing, or candidates wanting to get their hands on #SCBEM embryo models, do get them to apply! 🌟https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/vacancies/2026-02-03-postdoctoral-fellow-moris-lab

EMBL scientists Jamie Hackett and Robert Prevedel have been awarded ERC Proof of Concept grants to support the translation of innovative ideas into tangible therapeutic and imaging tools. www.embl.org/news/awards-... @erc.europa.eu @jamiehackett.bsky.social

We wrote a protocol article detailing induction of dormancy in stem cells, embryos, and blastoids. We hope that it is useful to the community. As usual fun to work with @nicolasrivron.bsky.social, Heidar and Dhanur.

Lovely little pre-Christmas present to see this out @natcellbio.nature.com! Some 🔥 new results in here since the biorvix incl (1) a new RARE-GFP reporter ✳️🙌, (2) additional NMP quantification 🔢, (3) no neural tube patterning on RA inhibition 🙅 etc. Enjoy! 😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉 Our deconstructed, stem-cell–based approach to studying signaling centers and limb-development cell types is out! 🥳 So nice to see it in its final form after the preprint— and huge thanks to the community for all the enthusiasm and interest since then! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Outstanding PhD fellowship call OPEN for excellent students. lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... This is for students incoming from outside Spain. And it is VERY well supported (ie at European levels). If you’re interested in doing a PhD in our lab @irbbarcelona.org, reach out!!!!

popEVE is out in Nature Genetics! 🎉 We built a proteome-wide model that combines cross-species and human population variation to rank missense variants by disease severity and help diagnose rare genetic disorders. rdcu.be/eRu7K

Happy to see Atsuhiro Taguchi's work on genes involved in liver zonation published in Dev @cellpress.bsky.social. Kudos to all authors at @molgen.mpg.de #MeissnerLab #HniszLab. Grateful for the opportunity to help! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

check out my journal club on the seminal discovery of local translation in neurons (Kang & Schuman. 1996), and more recently, its activity in neocortex neurodevelopment (Pilaz...Silver. 2023). cheers to the @erin-schuman.bsky.social & @debbysilver.bsky.social labs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to present the final version of our Cadherin and gastruloid manuscript, online at @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. www.cell.com/cell-reports... Initially in BiorXiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) 1/12

"His secret weapons were an unquenchable curiosity and continuing hands-on experimentation at the bench with his beautiful frog embryos and oocytes". A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

@campaslab.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social labs use #gastruloids to explore axial extension in mammalian embryos www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... They find novel mechanisms involving and interplay of proliferation and mechanical constraining. #NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs

Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩 We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oh wow - pre-made templates :) - EB I am happy to present our latest research at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. #ISSCR2026 invt.io/1bxb7uh48oo @isscr.org

Wouldn’t it be cool to leverage the throughput of single-cell data to study splicing regulation even when we lack exon resolution? 😀 Here’s the peer-reviewed version of our paper on how we can measure changes in splicing factor activity in virtually any single-cell dataset: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Fully-funded 4-year PhD Opportunities available at the @crick.ac.uk , including a project in our lab on human #embryomodels Feel free to share with anyone interested, and apply through the online portal before 5th November! 👏 www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Two positions available (start Jan/Feb 2026): - Research Assistant: surl.li/atndnv - Master Student: surl.li/kgwrni Deadline: Nov 1st Please reach out to me ([email protected]) if you want to join us in sunny Barcelona!☀️

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility. See below 2 calls👇

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I think everybody knows but Adri is awesome!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility. See below 2 calls👇

Stay Connected with VGZT Season 7 🌍 From Oct 2025–July 2026, join our online seminar series featuring cutting-edge developmental biology across diverse model organisms. Hear from senior PhD students, postdocs, and PIs as they share their latest discoveries with a global audience.

THANK YOU for many years of friendship, support and for sharing your great Science La Pedrera #Barcelona #NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs #Cambridge

Last days to apply! Cool project, cool cities! :-) (Please repost! 🙏)

With the group that came together @upf.edu in #Barcelona, celebrating 5 years of exploring, dreaming and discovering. Grateful #NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs

Excited to post my first #JobOffer! I am looking for a research technician to help me build new projects from the grounds up at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social We will use medaka to study how organs can be reprogrammed! Details on how to apply below 👇 #JobOffer #ScienceJobs #EvoDevo #GeneRegulation