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Group leader @ MDC
https://www.mdc-berlin.de/zampieri
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Ariel Levine
3 days ago
Excited to share
@rbrianroome.bsky.social
‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord
@science.org
This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn
The dorsal horn of the mammalian spinal cord is organized into laminae where each layer is populated by different neuron types, has distinctive circuit connections, and plays specialized roles in beha...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx5781
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Rune W. Berg
25 days ago
New PhD-course! Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Understanding Cognition Venue: University of Copenhagen Length: 8 Wks, March 2-May 1st Registration before 1 February 2026
lnkd.in/ea63A59B
Organizers: Rasmus Herlo (
@rasherlo.bsky.social
) and Rune W. Berg
@naddenmark.bsky.social
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Mario Carta
about 1 month ago
New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only:
rdcu.be/eThU1
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The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-01001-5
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Ariel Levine
about 2 months ago
Hello 🇫🇷 I’ll be doing a mini-sabbatical in the lab of the amazing
@clairewyart.bsky.social
at the ICM in Paris. If you study motor control, spinal cord biology, evo/devo of behavior, let me know if you’d like to connect!
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Amelia Douglass
3 months ago
We are hiring a postdoc to work
@istaresearch.bsky.social
on an
@erc.europa.eu
funded project, investigating the control of behavior and physiology by the hypothalamus. Please apply and share!
ist.ac.at/en/job/postd...
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Postdoc Research Group Douglass
Our Group Our newly established research group at ISTA is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on an ERC-funded project- HypoAdapt. We study how the brain controls bodily responses to environm...
https://ist.ac.at/en/job/postdoc-research-group-douglass/
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Pot of gold somewhere at the Salk 🌈
about 2 months ago
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Alessandro Filosa
2 months ago
Are you thinking of enrolling in graduate school next year? The
@lsiexeter.bsky.social
is a fantastic place for multidisciplinary research... and my group is also hiring! Apply here 👇
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Ale Santuz
2 months ago
🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
, Berlin 🇩🇪,
@niccolozampieri.bsky.social
lab) for my
@dfg.de
-funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion
#proprioception
#neuromechanics
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On November 2nd with
@alesantuz.bsky.social
we will participate to Family Sunday at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden to talk to chidlren and their families about proprioception. Looking forward to it 💥
3 months ago
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Anna Schroeder
3 months ago
📢 🚨 Technical Assistant Opportunity in Neuroscience 📢 🚨 Join us at
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior! ⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025 Learn more and apply:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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James Briscoe
3 months ago
The
@crick.ac.uk
is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov
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Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/faculty/early-career-group-leaders
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"In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity: that esoteric, seemingly useless exploration can lay the bricks for a road to places we cannot yet see."🎯
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
3 months ago
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Lena Ting
3 months ago
Our department started a podcast to let people know about our research and the impact that it has on the public! Please have a listen and subscribe to the series! Also available on Apple podcast, Spotify, and Transistor,
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Current Biology
3 months ago
“For Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him” He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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John Gurdon
John Gurdon is at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology in Cambridge. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he changed from classics to zoology. Dur...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2803%2900684-5
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Alice Mosberger
3 months ago
How do we facilitate working across institutions and borders to improve sensorimotor research and health? Join us for an evening of discussing the future of technology and collaboration in sensorimotor neuroscience. Made possible by the DWIH, held at NYULH!
www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...
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Motor Health: Transatlantic Cooperation Strategies and Tech Transfer in Sensorimotor Neuroscience | DWIH New York
https://www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/motor-health-transatlantic-cooperation-strategies-and-tech-transfer-in-sensorimotor-neuroscience/
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I really like this one 🤓. Work led by Elisa Toscano with invaluable help from many 🙏
@alesantuz.bsky.social
,
@lowensteined.bsky.social
. A spinal circuit for skilled locomotion
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A spinal circuit for skilled locomotion
Toscano et al. identify glutamatergic Pitx2+ V0 ascending neurons (V0g-aNs) that receive input from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-contacting neurons and target spinal premotor and motor neurons. Eliminati...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901199-6
3 months ago
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Sampurna Chakrabarti
3 months ago
Delighted to be starting a new research group at
@helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
! Happy to chat about working together!
#pain
#infection
#electrophysiology
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/research/...
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Javier Apfeld
4 months ago
New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
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Stéphanie C Koch
4 months ago
New preprint out from the lab. We identified three critical windows over which sensorimotor behaviours can be shaped. Altered early experience over these windows changes somatosensory and motor outcomes for life. Tour de force experiments by Laura Andreoli.
@medresfdn.bsky.social
@uclnpp.bsky.social
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David Sussillo
4 months ago
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀 You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09255-w
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Rémi Ronzano
4 months ago
Do comparator modules exist within spinal circuits? Here, we show that spinal dI3 neurons integrate multimodal sensory feedback, receive direct efference copy from Renshaw cells, and mediate corrections of ongoing movements. Thank you so much to everyone involved!!
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Evidence of spinal cord comparator modules for rapid corrections of movements
Successful movement requires continuous adjustments in response to changes in internal and external environments. To do so, neural circuits continuously compare efference copies of motor commands with sensory input to respond to sensory prediction errors. Some responses need to be very fast and, for limbs, likely occur in as yet undefined spinal cord circuits. Here, we describe spinal circuits involving dI3 neurons, showing that they receive multimodal sensory inputs and direct efferent copies from both Renshaw cells and motor neurons. We further show that they form connections to motor pools, including diverging connections to antagonist motor nuclei. Reducing dI3 neuronal activity diminished stumbling responses, as did disrupting Renshaw cell circuits, providing evidence for a comparator role of dI3 neurons for online corrections. Together, our findings reveal a pivotal role for dI3 neurons functioning as comparators of internal predictions and external sensory feedback to mediate rapid corrections of ongoing movements. ### Competing Interest Statement Robert M. Brownstone is a co-founder and director of Sania Therapeutics Inc. Wellcome Trust, https://ror.org/029chgv08, 221610/Z/20/Z, 227433/Z/23/Z, 225674/Z/22/Z Royal Society, NIF\R1\192316 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, https://ror.org/01gavpb45, PJT 180556, PJT 162357 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BB/S005943/1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672590v1
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Claire Wyart
5 months ago
Hey
#motorcontrol
researchers!
@jul-bouvier.bsky.social
, LeMouel & I organize *Searching for principles in Motor Control* Paris Sept 23-24, 25
@sorbonne-universite.fr
@institutducerveau.bsky.social
@neuropsi.bsky.social
: Submit Abstract for Posters by Aug 31!
motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
5 months ago
Teneurin-3 and latrophilin-2 are required for somatotopic map formation and somatosensory topognosis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670179v1
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Society for the Neural Control of Movement
5 months ago
Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website -
ncm-society.org/awards/
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Misha Kudryashev
5 months ago
Postdoc program at the MDC in Berlin,
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
: take a look 👇👇 For this call, collaborative projects between two groups will be funded. Take a look at the call and the groups and drop me an email if interested. Share with colleagues too!
www.mdc-berlin.de/postdocs#t-g...
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Alice Mosberger
7 months ago
🚨🚨🚨 OPEN POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🚨🚨 in my lab! Are you interested in understanding how the brain moves our arms? Reach to your computer and apply!
www.mosbergerlab.com/open-positions
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Open Positions — Mosberger Lab
https://www.mosbergerlab.com/open-positions
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Ale Santuz
6 months ago
Stockholm bound for
#isb2025
! Come and say hi on Tuesday (poster on loss of
#proprioception
) or Wednesday (talk on
#locomotor
modularity in simulated
#hypogravity
)!
#musclesyneRgies
#neuroscience
#biomechanics
#locomotion
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
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David Sussillo
6 months ago
Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting).
github.com/facebookrese...
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The Transmitter
6 months ago
Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write
@bingbrunton.bsky.social
and
@tuthill.bsky.social
.
#neuroskyence
#neuroai
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
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Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment
Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/breaking-the-jar-why-neuroai-needs-embodiment/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250721-perspectives-why-NeuroAI-needs-embodiment
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The Transmitter
6 months ago
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and
@katjareinhard.bsky.social
.
#neuroskyence
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Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective
To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/systems-and-circuit-neuroscience-need-an-evolutionary-perspective/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250716-perspectives-systems-circuit-neuroscience
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Salvatore Lacava
6 months ago
Super excited for my PhD work to be out at
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social
! We thank the reviewers for how they shaped the final form of this story.
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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal)
6 months ago
Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues.
@mcgill.ca
@cusm-muhc.bsky.social
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Anna Beyeler 🐝
6 months ago
👨💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
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@LaBonneLaB
6 months ago
Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:
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Claire Wyart
6 months ago
We work on humans with
@antoniocbscosta.bsky.social
@marcoromanato.bsky.social
@wyartlab.bsky.social
predicting effects of
#DBS
in Parkinson's Disease patients. Yet, understanding cellular & circuit mechanisms underlying behaviour require model organisms 🎏🐭🪱🪰 & cannot be done in humans nor organoids
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Camilla Bellone
6 months ago
We’re hiring! Join us @unige_en as a Full/Associate Prof. in Neuroscience (Chair of Excellence). Focus: development, molecular & cellular evolution of brain circuits. Great team, top science, Geneva 🇨🇭 🧠 Apply by Aug 15, 2025
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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Professeur-e ordinaire, professeur-e associé-e (6454)
Chaire d'excellence - développement, évolution moléculaire et cellulaire des circuits cérébraux // Full Professor or Associate Professor Chair of Excellence Development, Molecular and Cellula...
https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=70986
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Development
6 months ago
Hear from our Editor-in-Chief,
@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
, in the latest episode of
@stemcellpodcast.com
.
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Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...
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Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/science/franklin-w-stahl-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
6 months ago
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boehninglab
6 months ago
This is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
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NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announces-end-to-funding-for-animal-only-studies/
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Andrew Plested
6 months ago
One last chance, course is not fully subscribed yet!
#biophysics
#patchclamp
#TIRF
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🚨PhD position opening on a project aimed at defining the role of different sources of sensory information on locomotor control. 📢 ⬇️
www.mdc-berlin.de/zampieri#t-j...
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Zampieri Lab
The execution of coordinated movements depends on the ability to dynamically adapt motor plans to external conditions and perturbations. Spinal circuits integrate motor commands and sensory information in order to generate precise patterns of muscle activation. The detection of different sensory stimuli and their integration with descending commands from the brain and local spinal networks is therefore critical for motor control. Our laboratory studies the mechanisms controlling assembly and function of spinal sensorimotor circuits by combining transcriptomics, genetics, tracing, and behavioral analyses to reveal how these circuits are first organized during development and then function in controlling movement and coding of sensory information.
https://www.mdc-berlin.de/zampieri#t-jobs
7 months ago
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Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art
The advent of A.I. has shocked me into questioning my relationship with art. Will humans still be able to draw for a living?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/magazine/ai-art-artists-illustrator.html?smid=bs-share
7 months ago
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Graziana Gatto
7 months ago
Paper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation
Yao et al. developed a neuromechanical model based on experimental perturbations, aligning theory-predicted with genetically labeled cell types. This work highlights the importance of inhibitory inter...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247%2825%2900616-3
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Claire Wyart
7 months ago
🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of
@kevinfidelin.bsky.social
& myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿
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Britton Sauerbrei
7 months ago
Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain?
@andpru.bsky.social
and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com
:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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François Lallemend
7 months ago
Postdoc in Computational Biology – Auditory Pathways & Sensory Disorders @LallemendLab to study how peripheral/central auditory pathways (circuit, cellular, molecular) are altered in tinnitus & age-related hearing loss.
#scRNAseq
,
#barcode-lineage-tracing
,
#translational
ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Postdoctoral studies in single-cell and computational biology
Postdoctoral studies in single-cell and computational biology Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Professor Francois
https://ki.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:829113/
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Spagnoli_Lab.
7 months ago
We are doing it again!! 🚶♀️🚶♂️🚶🧪🧫🔬 For the Second Year My Lab is participating to the One_Walk_London 🎡 to raise money for life-changing research & make a difference to T1D
#diabetes
⤵️
support.breakthrought1d.org.uk/fundraisers/...
Please help us raise funds for
@breakthrought1duk.bsky.social
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Spagnoli Lab. One Walk
Please help us raise vital funds for Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research charity. Your support will help change the lives of everyone affected with T1D - Thanks so much...
https://support.breakthrought1d.org.uk/fundraisers/SpagnoliLabOneWalk
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James Briscoe
8 months ago
Credits: It was a long & intense project. All credit to Marine Fontaine (maths) & Joaquina Delas (xpts) for driving it forward. Supported by Meri Saez, Lizzie Finnie, and Rory Maizels It's the result of a longstanding collaboration with David Rand Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data
Building a mechanistic understanding of cell fate decisions remains a fundamental goal of developmental biology, with implications for stem cell therapies, regenerative medicine and understanding dise...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.28.656648v1
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James Briscoe
8 months ago
Beautiful work from
@sagnera.bsky.social
& co on how spinal neurons diversify A temporal TF clock in spinal neurons, sequentially specifying different motor and sensory neuron subtypes during development A shared molecular timer driving cellular diversity
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Rune W. Berg
8 months ago
Computational Neuroscience Workshop announcement: August 11-14, 2025 Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK Registration is open!
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...
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Computational Neuroscience – NAD Workshop – Neuroscience Academy Denmark
Join an immersive four-day workshop bringing together early-career researchers and leading experts in computational neuroscience.
https://neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/computational-neuroscience-nad-workshop/
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