Modeling whole ascidian embryos for #forksningdagene 😉🧪🧬🔬#devbio

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳 PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development! Cover art: embryos + flow fields 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳 We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution. 🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research www.echinox.org

Welcome! Great to have you here! #ascidian #DEEVA #WindyBanyuls @biom-banyuls.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @obs-banyuls.bsky.social

🧠🦈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.

🏠 «Sans actifs, la ville s’éteindra» : Cancale, première ville de Bretagne à interdire les nouvelles résidences secondaires Depuis une loi de 2024, des villes de divers bords politiques cherchent à contrer le déséquilibre entre logement touristique et durable.

La quasi-totalité des méduses mènent une double vie : fixées dans les fonds marins ou libres dans l’eau. Mais certaines ont échappé à ce cycle et passent toute leur vie à dériver. Selon une nouvelle étude, ces espèces dites holoplanctoniques ont colonisé l'Océan. Dériver pour mieux régner !

👨‍🔬 Retrouvez Lucas Leclère,chercheur au @biom-banyuls.bsky.social dans l'équipe @cnidevo.bsky.social, dans l’émission "Avec Sciences" sur @franceculture.fr ! Il y parle du fascinant destin des méduses holoplanctoniques. 🎧 Écoutez l’épisode : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... @obs-banyuls.fr

Be sure to join our zoom talks coming up🙌 @gregpask.bsky.social is up next then in Oct @kmkocot.bsky.social And in Nov - Sara Asadi (@)suluk.nomad on Insta from ICB’s Minorities in #Shark #science issue (MISS) #entomology #invertebrates #biology #oceanscience #bugs #insects #whalesharks

Finally, the excellent postdoc work of Emmanuel Haillot is out, where he dissected the integration of Wnt, MAPK and Notch signaling in defining mesoderm and endoderm identities in the diploblast Nematostella. Strikingly similar to sea urchins. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you @rafathchowdhury.bsky.social for your contribution to functional experiments in #amphioxus embryos @biom-banyuls.bsky.social of @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls. Novel and simple microinjection into fertilized eggs + efficient mutagenesis with Cas9/sgRNA RNP complex.

Happy to share my last paper from my PhD work with the Deeva team! We establish new tools in European amphioxus: fertilized egg microinjection, F0 CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis & show Ascl1/2.1 is required for epidermal sensory neurons formation in amphioxus. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Le #BIOM est ravi d'avoir contribué à cette belle exposition sur la #fluorescence, à découvrir au Biodiversarium de Banyuls sur mer.

Great opportunity! The Uni Vienna has launched a call (APART) for 4-funding for outstanding postdocs from a US institution. The host lab has to nominate by 1 August a candidate for further selection. Anyone interested in our work please contact me by email with CV/motivation letter. Hurry up!

Prof Claude Chelala and her team's research into the inequalities facing women with breast cancer from different ancestries is now featured on @natcomms.nature.com homepage! Learn more & watch our interview with Prof Chelala: www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/general-news... #medsky 🧪 #oncosky @qmul.bsky.social

📢 We are recruiting! Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies. Please share and RT 🙏

Here in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social at @qmul.bsky.social we are seeking to appoint (deadline for applications 17th August 2025) a Reader (Associate Professor) in EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS to join the QMUL Centre for Evolutionary & Functional Genomics. Please spread the word. qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Now available in its final form @narjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Find out how we can reconstruct enhancer activity in vivo in the Drosophila embryo using scRNAseq data and Optimal Transport.

We are looking for a new @thembauk.bsky.social Anne Warner Research Fellow (5 year post) to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms here in #Plymouth 🔬🦠🧫🧬 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

I am honored and beyond happy to share that I have been awarded an @inserm.fr #ATIP-Avenir fellowship to start my own lab to study body plan evolution in #echinoderms 🤩 Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon!!

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!

My first steps into paleontology!! 😀 Big thanks to @imranrahman.bsky.social for having me on this cool project to look at some fascinating echinoderm fossils ⭐

Nous avons eu le plaisir d’accueillir les étudiants et enseignants du BTS Pêche et Gestion de l’Environnement Marin (Lycée de la Mer P. Bousquet à Sète) pour un atelier sur les ascidies. @agnesroure.bsky.social et @cecileleblond.bsky.social @biom-banyuls.bsky.social @obs-banyuls.fr #WindyBanyuls

Des côtes jusqu’à la haute mer, comment les méduses ont-elles conquis l’océan ? 🌊 🤝 @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social‬ @sorbonne-universite.fr‬ ‪ @cnidevo.bsky.social‬ @biom-banyuls.bsky.social‬ @obs-banyuls.fr‬ Lire l'article dans @pnas.org‬ 👉 buff.ly/zguOFl2 buff.ly/mD9jWru

Check out our deep dive into the molecular genetics of male-specific cell type : the gorgeous UV-iridescent scales of Sulphur Butterflies by lab wizards 🦋🔬 🖥️ 🧬 Ling Sheng Loh @hanliconius.bsky.social and a big team 1/n

📝 New publication in @pnas.org ! From @cnidevo.bsky.social at #BIOM, in collaboration with @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social and LOV @imev-mer.fr 🌊How life cycle evolution has shaped the distribution of medusozoans in the world ocean doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 👏 Congratulations to all of you !

David’s @davidmoersdorf.bsky.social cool paper about the role of Chordin in BMP signaling in the sea anemone Nematostella is finally out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

You still have one week to apply to this position! Take your chance to do your postdoc on alien critters 🐙🦑 in a vibrant yet cosy - walkable!- town in Europe. Pls RT

Don't have an invertebrate artwork to post for #InverteFest? I got you covered. I teamed up with multiple experts to create guides to comprehend various invertebrate anatomy. Links to the full posts in the reply below.

PhD Call Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Naples, IT. Check out this call for a PhD position in my lab with Dr. Lionel Christiaen as an external supervisor and me as Director of the study. Deadline: June 14th www.szn.it/index.php/it...

90% of you probably don’t need to read this. But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy. It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud; partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3) tinyurl.com/DudinO

The last part of @paulknabl.bsky.social 's PhD is now available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Paul showed that BMP signaling is active in the diffuse nervous system of the sea anemone Nematostella and the box jellyfish Tripedalia. Moreover, suppression of BMP signaling in Nematostella leads...

What a fantastic essay by last year's @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology students! A perfect paean to the most wonderful science: "It's exhausting; it's exhilarating; it's Embryology." journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

It's finally here! Great start of the summer. We got our latest preprint from @chemamd.bsky.social in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social, showing evidence of developmental system drift in the specification of dorsoventral (belly vs back) axis in annelids 🪱🪱🪱 #DevBio #EvoDevo

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!

Do you want to unravel the function of fluorescent cells in marine organisms? Join the Annunziata lab @szn.it for a PhD project exploring embryonic origins, function and biotechnological potential of fluorescent cell type in sea cucumbers! To apply: www.szn.it/.../ph-d-pro...

Great PhD opportunities at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples (Italy). 6 fellowships are available to carry out interdisciplinary training. https://www.szn.it/index.php/it/bandi-e-concorsi/bandi-di-concorso/ph-d-program/ph-d-program-open-calls Topics include the function of […]

🔥 We've already received over a third of pre-registrations! #Mifobio2025 is already shaping up to be a highly attractive event... Don't delay in pre-registering! 👉 imabio-cnrs.fr @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsingenierie.bsky.social @cnrs-inist.bsky.social

Les passe-droits et l’impunité dont bénéficient les politiques doivent cesser. Signez et partagez la pétition d’Anticor et Transparency International France pour le retrait de la Légion d’honneur de Nicolas Sarkozy ! #CondamnéMaisDécoré

Cette affaire Néstlé Waters laisse à penser que l'Etat préfère préserver les intérêts financiers de qqs industriels plutôt que la santé des consommateurs. Sans l'enquête des journalistes, on aurait encore des eaux contaminées dans des bouteilles labélisées "eau minérale" 1/2

"Aboral cell types of Clytia and coral larvae have shared features and link taurine to the regulation of settlement" Kudos to Julia Ramon-Mateu and Anna Ferraioli @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social, and thanks to our collaborators for their coral larva expertise www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for ECR in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have the data in 3 fishes & amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and enthusiasm! tinyurl.com/3aewk286

📣 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 ⤵️

Congratulations to the Chatzigeorgiou lab @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social for a new preprint 🤩👏 @midlangandreas.bsky.social and team studied the mechanical forces at play during #Ciona postembryonic development, and found links to larval chemosensation and settlement behavior 🧪 Read the article ⤵️

Looking for a post-doc? In the frame of the #MSCA-PF 2025 program at @sorbonne-universite.fr , the #DEEVA team (biom.obs-banyuls.fr/presentation...) from @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls proposes a research project (www.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...).

imMERsion-Sciences is online ! A virtual dive into the heart of Sorbonne University marine stations & their scientific platforms without mask or snorkel ! By #mohamedkhamla @imev-mer.fr With the support of @embrc-france.bsky.social @alexmcdougall.bsky.social #nathalieturque immersion-sciences.org

Meet the sea squirt — small but mighty! These marine creatures may look simple, but they could be key to unlocking big questions about #development and #evolution. 🌊🧬 #UnordinaryOrganisms Learn more: bit.ly/3ZnG9ht