Get ready for #SPONT26! 🚀 Our official website is up and running. Check out the program and join us for the latest on spontaneous brain activity. spont2026.umin.ne.jp @guillelbendito.bsky.social

Nice findings on the evolution of cortical cells. Evolutionary origins and transcriptomic innovations of vertebrate Cajal-Retzius cells: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Please read open letter and consider to share & sign - ERC matters! - see below

We launched a new Group Leader vacancy in our Center for AI & Computational Biology - VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social - with a Professorship at Ghent University. Join us with your most creative AI+Biology research plan! Apply before 31st May vib.ai/en/group-lea...

Applications are open for the Lake Conference on Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology - co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel! 🗓️ Oct. 25-29, 2026 📍 Seattle, WA 🧠 All career stages welcomed. 🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/events/lake-conference-comparative-and-evolutionary-neurobiology-2026/

very exciting meeting !👇

EuroSynapse 2026 This Fall in Leuven with Eunjoon Kim Nathalie Rochefort Bea Rico Ed Lein @franckp.bsky.social @cecilecharrier.bsky.social @bellonec.bsky.social @blibep.bsky.social @fekrijeselimi.bsky.social @fan-liu.bsky.social @pouchelon.bsky.social and more! www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...

📣 Registrations are open for the next European Synapse Meeting, taking place in Leuven from 21–23 October 2026! With @synapse-lab.bsky.social, @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social, LynetteLim and MarinkaBrouwer, we’ve put together an exciting program—take a look here: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...

Should go without saying, but saying so becomes urgent: New approach methodologies: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: Cell Metabolism www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

Published 30 years ago, 'The identification of genes with unique and essential functions in the development of the zebrafish, Danio rerio' by the Nüsslein-Volhard Lab highlighted the arduous work that took place during 'The Big Screen'. In total, 1163 mutants were described. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award. Deadline: 15 May Read more: https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/febsembo-women-in-science-awardees/nominate-for-the-women-in-science-award/#WomenInScience#award

Décès de Jean Rossier, Président passionné de Parole et Musique : www.olyrix.com/articles/act...

There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers - mentoring - leadership training - profile rising - networking journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Book the dates Oct 21-23 2026 of upcoming exciting eurosynapse meeting in Leuven! www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...

Join us this May to explore the biological mechanisms of mental health challenges and treatment strategies. Apply by January 31: lakeconferences.org

🎉 Proud moment for our Center Pierre Vanderhaeghen received the 2025 Fyssen Foundation International Prize, also awarded this year to Franck Polleux (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) for work on the neurobiological foundations of human cognition. 🧠🏆 Congratulations! #FyssenPrize #Neuroscience #VIB

Delighted to be awarded the 2025 International Prize from the @fondationfyssen.bsky.social jointly with my long time collaborator @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social for our work on the 'Neurobiological foundations of human cognition': www.fondationfyssen.fr/deux-laureat...

La Fondation Fyssen a le plaisir d’annoncer que le Prix international 2025, consacré au thème « Fondements neurobiologiques de la cognition humaine », est attribué à Franck Polleux et Pierre Vanderhaeghen. @franckp.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social Rdv en juin 2026 pour la remise de prix !

Please check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.

Please repost widely. @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc with expertise in sensory physiology and in vivo circuit imaging/manipulation. The project centers on human-specific brain development and SYNGAP1-related disorders. Call closing soon—apply ASAP jobs.vib.be/j/119852/pos...

Nice cover of our work linking SRGAP2/SYNGAP1 synaptic neoteny and ID/ASD with @blibep.bsky.social @benvermaercke.bsky.social @franckp.bsky.social @boninlab.bsky.social @cecilecharrier.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/pro...

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Out in Cell Genomics: A comprehensive analysis of the cell-type-specific effects of CHD8 loss of function on gene expression in the embryonic and juvenile mouse cortex. Thread 🧵: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social

Beautiful and inspiring work from Gero Miesenböck and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

May has been quite the month… The #EvoDevoConference was a blast 💥 Thanks to all participants and organizers for your engagement! @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social 📸 (1/2)

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Hot off the press: The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010

wonderful - congratulations @debbysilver.bsky.social !!

Fantastic opportunity for neuroscience research. The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders. 750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025. www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...

Fantastic PhD opportunities at the intersection of machine learning and biology. Come join us at @vibai.bsky.social! More details at: vib.ai/en/vibai-int...

Join us in Engelberg, Switzerland, for an exciting #EMBO workshop on #mitochondria in the nervous system #EMBOmitoNervousSys! Great speaker line up and opportunities for short talks from early career scientists. Submit your abstract until May 30st! @jcourchet.bsky.social @tatjanakleele.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to be co-organizing the very first EMBO Workshop bridging mitochondria and brain research - a powerhouse of science, ideas, and amazing speakers! 🧠🔬 📅 registration closes MAY 30th, so don’t wait to snag your spot! Stay tuned - more updates about the topics and speakers coming soon! 🎙️

It’s out! The first paper from my postdoc – and first from the @bhadurilab.bsky.social – is now live @natneuro.nature.com . 🧠✨ Using a new meta-atlas generation strategy, we identified functional gene networks that more fully explain how cell types are formed in the human cortex. (1/13)

Turns out eye colour (mainly a result of iris pigmentation) is yet another complex trait, now demystified by genomic advances. DNA variants in two neighbouring genes (HERC2 & OCA2) explain much of the blue-brown variation, but analyses of ~193k people in 2021 revealed another 50 genetic loci. 👇 7/n

Very cool study from Ikuo Suzuki lab, comparing temporal patterning in mouse and rat cerebral cortex. Non-uniform temporal scaling of neurogenesis for species-specific dosing of cortical excitatory subtypes. www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

Our latest manuscript (7 years in the works) tackles the question of how diurnal ground squirrels evolved a cone-dominant retina, in contrast to the ancestral rod-dominant retina retained by virtually all other mammals./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting project in Parkinson's disease! Patrik Verstreken's lab (verstrekenlab.sites.vib.be) and my lab are looking for a postdoc to develop and apply ML methods to the analysis of exciting brain-on-chip data. Please spread the word! More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...

Very excited to share our new preprint together with @daniedaaboul.bsky.social, where we studied the gene regulatory code that hippocampal granule cells (GCs) use during synapse formation (1/n)

With beautiful illustration of calcium imaging of human cortical neurons in visual cortex of awake transplanted mice by @benvermaercke.bsky.social @boninlab.bsky.social

A short Perspective on xenotransplantation to study human neuron development, evolution and disease @thetransmitter.bsky.social More related articles on human neurobiology coming out soon - thanks a lot to Josh Sanes for the initiative and opportunity! www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...

The latest essay in our new essay series exploring technologies for studying the human brain, guest edited by Josh Sanes.

EMBOMtg Paris May 6-9 @aydoganlab.bsky.social @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social @mwdorr.bsky.social @beyerlab.bsky.social @franckp.bsky.social @janereznick.bsky.social @olmedo-lab.bsky.social @perez-carrasco.bsky.social meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...

Join us in Paris in May 6-9 for an exciting EMBO Workshop on Developmental timing mechanisms and evolution. Slots still open for short talks - Registration deadline next [email protected] @trayon.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...

How does gene regulation shape brain evolution? Our new preprint dives into this question in the context of mammalian cerebellum development! rb.gy/dbcxjz Led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social

Join us for this exciting EMBO workshop in Paris May 6-9 on a fundamental emerging question in biology: Mechanisms that control species-specific development timing (Deadline for registration fast approaching April 1). meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...

From Bluesky folk: @cedricboeckx.bsky.social @debbysilver.bsky.social @blibep.bsky.social @franckp.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social @joanocha.bsky.social @psudmant.bsky.social @evobioclio.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social @alwaysrong.bsky.social @baumoflife.bsky.social @noonanlab.bsky.social