Congratulations to Oğuz Akar who was awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy in Cell and Biology yesterday!

Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan. Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃

Congratulations to Lou Marchal, the new PhD student of the team, to have obtained a ministerial fellowship !!!!

Proud to have been part of this work. Congratulations to everyone!!!

Tanya's @tclebedeva.bsky.social paper on endomesoderm specification in the beta-catenin-negative area of the Nematostella embryo is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Les oursins "ça pique" mais "ça a du nerf aussi" ! : leur "fabuleux système nerveux" avec Jenifer Croce @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social dans un reportage au sujet de #neuroplanète diffusé dans l'édition du 7 Mars d'Ici 19/20 #france3PACA A découvrir 👇 france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alp...

#Neuroplanete yesterday.

#Neuroplanete 2025. Today and tomorrow in Nice

For the #UNOC conference to be held in #Nice in June 2025

New production of baby sea urchins from December 2024

If you like snowflakes, check our new preprint about axial patterning in brittle stars ⭐ We looked at the expression of anteroposterior patterning genes in Amphipholis squamata juveniles, and compared it with existing data from other classes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lowelab.bsky.social

Our work on the sea urchin adult nervous system will soon be presented in the context of the Neuroplanete 2025 program organized by the national journal #LePoint in Nice from March 6th to 8th. evenements.lepoint.fr/neuroplanete...

For a first post on Bluesky, I'm happy to share our work recently published in Plos Biology, on b-catenin and its multiple roles during sea urchin embryogenesis journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...