Deadline for applied topology postdoc in Dresden closes in a week. Please share with early career researchers!

Happy to share our last paper in PNAS! Woo-hoo! 🥳 This article supports once more the hypothesis that sponges (and therefore animals) emerged about 100 million years before the Cambrian, and before we find any animal fossils. www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...

What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org Check it out.

A lovely example of the interplay of morphogen dynamics, tissue mechanics, cell mechanics and signal transduction at the most crucial stage of embryogenesis. And a good example of why talk of development being "programmed" into the genome is simply the wrong language. www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

This is the future 👇

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Combining different perspectives is the way to innovative ideas. Recognizing this, Jaroslav Koča, one of the founders of CEITEC, helped establish a dedicated internal scholarship fund to foster collaboration between the material and life sciences 🤝 @paveltomancak.bsky.social Read more - link below.

As @paveltomancak.bsky.social said — the second incarnation of Mendel has arrived in Brno and received the Mendel Medal of Honor 😇 @odedrechavi.bsky.social

It was absolutely incredible to have the honor of giving the “Mendel Lecture” at the Augustinian Abbey in Brno, where Mendel lived and worked. While Mendel is the greatest hero of genetics, the lessons from his story were never learned 👇

Here he goes @odedrechavi.bsky.social #MendelLecture #Brno

Two giants of Genetics #MendelMonastery

A proper hashtag#WoodstockBio2 welcome for @odedrechavi.bsky.social — complete with the YMCA song (yes, really 😄). With @harnoslab.bsky.social we couldn’t resist celebrating a scientist who truly embodies fun and courage in science. #science #FabianLAB, @paveltomancak.bsky.social 🙏

Oded in deep discussions about #Moravian 🍷

#CEITEC atrium welcomes the monster of epigenetics 🎃@odedrechavi.bsky.social

📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!

PAPER OUT ✨ What if you could use your microscope as a 3D printer? Prototype microfluidics in-house, <5$ in material costs per chip. From idea to experiment within a day. Now published in Lab-on-a-Chip (open-access): doi.org/10.1039/D5LC...

Waiting for @odedrechavi.bsky.social

Internet people, please help me to decide on the logo for #bigvolumebrowser, a multi-volume 3D viewer plugin for Fiji I'm working on. Please vote by replying with a number or liking one that was already mentioned. My favorites are 6, 7, 8 and 10 so far.

Last month, we attended the "Imaging Principles of Life" / Czech-BioImaging Annual Meeting in Brno 🇨🇿 and got to visit the Multimodal #Imaging Brno Node. An amazing conference & fantastic facility visits! 🤩 @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social @ceitec.eu Learn more⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/czech-b...

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... 🧵

Two back-to-back stories on mitosis led by my incredible postdoc @krunovuk.bsky.social at @institutrb.bsky.social, in which we challenge the gliding model of CENP-E-driven chromosome congression! Today in @natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414... doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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...

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

We are looking for a Technical Assistant (m/f/d) in RNA and Translational Control in Zebrafish Development in the future @mpi-cbg.de group of Madalena Reimão Pinto. Apply until Nov. 10: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/6019856...

Just snapped a pic with… Oded Rechavi - actually Mendel 😎 But in 6 days, @odedrechavi.bsky.social will be in Brno! 👀 Don’t miss his Mendel Lecture on Transgenerational Memory, Oct 30, 5 PM, Mendel’s Refectory. #MendelLectures #BrnoRegion #FabianLAB #Genetics #Epigenetics #MasarykUniversity

Such an honor! Can’t wait to visit Brno next week, the place I’ve been teaching about in Genetics course for years but never visited (I feel like I know the garden and the monastery from what I read).

The new @mpi-cbg.de research group leader Daniela Egas Santander is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Applied Topology for Biology. Apply until November 16th here: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/6002777...

Early-career researchers from @ceitec.eu and @iocbprague.bsky.social met in Telč to learn, connect, and share ideas 💡 The symposium featured inspiring talks, seminars on tech transfer and science communication, and plenty of new insights and connections 🤗💚 #CEITECScience #postdocs #PhD

@odedrechavi.bsky.social heresy comes to the cradle of #Genetics #Brno @ceitec.eu

Happy to present for the first time my postdoc project, characterizing airway organoid architecture at the EMBO organoid conference #EESOrgan Stop by on Friday on poster #80! @events.embl.org

I am guessing full professors are safe. They should ask themselves, who is actually doing the science…

🚨 #WeAreHiring a facility manager to lead our state-of-the-art research infrastructure at PoL! 🔬 Please share with your scientific network. What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics. Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy 🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.

💡“Where do we want our institutions to be in 5 years when it comes to #ResearchAssessment?” EU-LIFE & @idibaps.bsky.social co-organised a workshop in the context of the @coarassessment.bsky.social working group SAGA to explore struggles, enablers & visions for the future. More info🔗 bit.ly/4ob7Ndq

Correlative Materials Characterization Workshop has just kicked off at CEITEC📣 Bringing together experts from Materials, Life & Computer Sciences to explore shared challenges and ideas. The programme is packed with exciting talks and discussions 🎤 we can’t wait to dive in! @paveltomancak.bsky.social

In this weather @ceitec.eu MU atrium is pretty special.

New #Dresden theorist. We are all excited. Me in particular as Fridtjof and I share the passion for #Drosophila and #Hydra!

We welcome @fbrauns.bsky.social as a new group leader @mpipks.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de!

🧬 Celebrating science, curiosity & creativity in Grenoble! EMBL Grenoble joined @esrf.fr & @illneutrons.bsky.social for the Parvis des Sciences during France’s Fete De La Science — 1,750+ visitors explored ‘Intelligences’ through crystal fishing, AI games, & creative workshops.

What a meeting! #GastrulationReloaded not only discussed the blueprint of the body plan, but also provided the blueprint of what the next decade of #devbio could look like. Old 🤝 new questions. New 🤝 classical tools. In vivo 🤝 in vitro. Gastrulation Reloaded: The most amazing time of your life?

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

#GastrulationReloaded was a FANTASTIC , loaded with exciting discoveries. It went beyond gastrulation because what happens before & after is obviously connected. Still, not half the people who should be there were. @jeromegros.bsky.social largely funded the conference 👏. @embo.org should reconsider

#Gastrulation reloaded Thank you to @Jeromegros.bsky.social P. Tomancak, K. McDole, @Bensteventon.bsky.social L Solnica-krezel for a wonderful meeting to bring together @[email protected] a community whose work is growing in importance #CONGASTRULATIONS A bientot

Missing also @bipashadey29.bsky.social, but with @sameerthukral.bsky.social crashing the party, more than making up for it!

The 10 Years of #mesoSPIM Symposium was a blast! 🔟🎂The excitement was palpable, and we were all inspired. Three days flew by fast! Thanks to all the attendees, speakers, organizing team, and our sponsors for making it such a memorable event! Let's shape the next 10y of microscopy together! 💪❤️🔬