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We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the
#cephalic
#furrow
published in
@nature.com
. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the
#Evolution_of_Morphogenesis
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2 months ago
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Yi-Jyun Luo
about 5 hours ago
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...
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Oded Rechavi
1 day ago
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) 👇
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Richard Sever
1 day ago
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (
@qedscience.bsky.social
), the brainchild of
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
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openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
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Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
https://openrxiv.org/enabling-review-options/
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Grill Lab @ MPI-CBG
1 day ago
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.
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Philip Ball
about 24 hours ago
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...
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Crosstalk between tissue mechanics and BMP4 signaling regulates symmetry breaking in human gastrula models
Brivanlou and colleagues used optogenetics to spatially control BMP4 expression in human stem cell models across different mechanical regimes. By combining these experiments with mathematical modeling...
https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909(25)00337-6
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This is the future 👇
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦
7 days ago
🚨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...
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CEITEC
7 days ago
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.
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Peter Fabian
8 days ago
As
@paveltomancak.bsky.social
said — the second incarnation of Mendel has arrived in Brno and received the Mendel Medal of Honor 😇
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
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Oded Rechavi
8 days ago
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 👇
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Here he goes
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
#MendelLecture
#Brno
8 days ago
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Two giants of Genetics
#MendelMonastery
8 days ago
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Peter Fabian
8 days ago
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
🙏
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Oded in deep discussions about
#Moravian
🍷
8 days ago
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#CEITEC
atrium welcomes the monster of epigenetics 🎃@odedrechavi.bsky.social
8 days ago
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Monica Bettencourt-Dias
8 days ago
📣 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!
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Lucien Hinderling
4 months ago
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...
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Waiting for
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
9 days ago
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reposted by
Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦
10 days ago
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.
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reposted by
eurobioimaging.bsky.social
10 days ago
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...
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reposted by
Michalis Averof
12 days ago
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...
🧵
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Iva Tolić
17 days ago
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...
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Campàs Lab
11 days ago
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...
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Junior European Drosophila Investigators
10 days ago
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!
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Pawel Burkhardt
11 days ago
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
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The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
https://rdcu.be/eMX3E
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Society for Developmental Biology
11 days ago
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
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
11 days ago
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...
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Peter Fabian
14 days ago
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
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Oded Rechavi
14 days ago
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).
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reposted by
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
15 days ago
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...
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CEITEC
14 days ago
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
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@odedrechavi.bsky.social
heresy comes to the cradle of
#Genetics
#Brno
@ceitec.eu
14 days ago
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reposted by
Marina B. Cuenca
16 days ago
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
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I am guessing full professors are safe. They should ask themselves, who is actually doing the science…
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16 days ago
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Physics of Life Dresden
17 days ago
🚨
#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.
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EU-LIFE
16 days ago
💡“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
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CEITEC
17 days ago
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
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In this weather
@ceitec.eu
MU atrium is pretty special.
18 days ago
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New
#Dresden
theorist. We are all excited. Me in particular as Fridtjof and I share the passion for
#Drosophila
and
#Hydra
!
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18 days ago
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Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
19 days ago
We welcome
@fbrauns.bsky.social
as a new group leader
@mpipks.bsky.social
and
@mpi-cbg.de
!
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EMBL
18 days ago
🧬 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.
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Jesse Veenvliet
21 days ago
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?
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reposted by
Peter Mulhair
21 days ago
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
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Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies
Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01251-5
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#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
21 days ago
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Alfonso Martinez Arias
21 days ago
#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
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Yu-Chiun Wang
22 days ago
Missing also
@bipashadey29.bsky.social
, but with
@sameerthukral.bsky.social
crashing the party, more than making up for it!
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reposted by
mesoSPIM: Clear Images. Big samples. Open source.
22 days ago
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! 💪❤️🔬
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Today our
#cephalic
#furrow
#evolution
story hits the shelves in the glossy journal form. How appropriate that it’s architects met in Paris. Missing @bruvellu.bsky.social but joined by
#CF
enthusiast Mateo Rauzi &
@heisenbergcplab.bsky.social
@yuchiunwang.bsky.social
Steffen Lemke
#mechanicsfirst
22 days ago
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Am event you don’t want to be an invited keynote speaker 🤣
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23 days ago
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Oded Rechavi
23 days ago
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
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