🥳 Thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded an ERC StGrant for our project SigReg: Signal to Regeneration! How can we unlock limb regeneration in adult mammals? It’s time to apply what we learned from 🐸 ➡️ 🐭 Thank you @erc.europa.eu for supporting ambitious science!!!

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

#ISRB2025 I am honored and delighted to have received the Distinguished Achievement Award from International Society for Regenerative Biology for the pioneering work that we have done with my team on Hydra regeneration over the past decades! internationalsocietyforregenerativebiology.org/page-18246

Very proud of our @canaztekin.bsky.social on his Rising Star Award 2025 from @isrbio.bsky.social! Find out more about his work on the structural limb #regeneration, specifically in understanding the differences in regeneration abilities across various species: s.gwdg.de/QidoUL #biology #maxplanck

Regeneration blueskyers, what animal models regenerate fingers/finger tips? (Obviously beyond salamanders and mouse) Can lizards regenerate finger tips? Frogs?

How important is #epigenetics for human brain? Researchers led by @mareikealbert.bsky.social used brain organoids 🧠 🧫 and Epi-CyTOF to show that histone methylation controls how brain cells multiply and how big the organoid grows. Read more ➡️ tud.link/4ywe3g #neuroscience #CMCBnews

Preprint alert from our lab! Human fingertip regeneration is not reserved for infants. Adults can regenerate with little to no scarring! We analysed wound fluids of patients during the course of regeneration and found that... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Visitors to the axolotl exhibit, Long Night of Science #LNoS are the BEST!!! @crtd-tud.bsky.social

Gearing up for the long night of science 🔬🥼🧪🧬 Come and visit us!

We are really grateful and honored for this comment on our latest preprint! AND we share the spotlight with the Monaghan lab! Thanks @woutermasselink.bsky.social and @dev-journal.bsky.social

In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social‬ discusses two #preprints from the groups of James Monaghan and @tatianasg.bsky.social‬: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka. 🧵1/14

Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Mareike Albert @mareikealbert.bsky.social presenting how Human-specific morphoregulatory signatures in basal radial glia characterize neocortex evolution. #neurogen25 @nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental rigor and reproducibility. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Masters of regeneration? #Zebrafish are capable of regenerating their fins, spinal cord, pancreas, skin, retina, heart, liver, brain, tendons, hair cells, & kidney. For more info on this amazing species, read this primer on regeneration: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

Great work from the Echeverri lab! 👇🏽 a brain response to distant injury in the axolotl. Moving beyond the blastema, with this study there are many new opportunities to better understand regeneration

Good news: there will be 3 scholarships available for Physics of Life MSc students starting in 2025! ✅ €300/month for 1 year ✅ No separate application—admitted students are automatically considered. Apply now ➡️ tud.link/vejrmx #Biophysics #PhysicsofLife #StudyinGermany #Masters #Biology

It has been known for a long time that if the starting point of limb regeneration is at the hand level or close to the shoulder, it would take about the same time to regenerate. Puzzling right? Check out this preprint from our lab to know more about it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

💫 New preprint from the lab: Comparing great ape cerebral organoids, we found that human-specific morphoregulatory signatures in basal radial glia characterise neocortex evolution. Fantastic work from super-talented PhD student Theresa Schütze! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling all students. The registration for the European Summer School on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine is now open.

March 8 is international women's day. Life Sciences at @tudresden.bsky.social is running a symposium with a spotlight on the career of women in the Life Sciences, 6 March 2025 from 1 to 5pm @crtd-tud.bsky.social - there'll be a panel discussion and science talks by diverse women - all welcome!

Let’s just call the Gulf of Mexico “Sea Señor”

🚨Why can’t mammals regenerate legs or arms like frog tadpoles or salamanders? Our preprint tackles (part of) this BIG question with surprising findings about oxygen sensing 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉 🐭 vs 🐸 #evodevo #regenerative #cellbio 🧵👇

🚨ISRB Webinar - The Americas 🚨First one of the year! 🥳 Happening on January 17th, 12pm US East Coast Time, featuring Karen Echeverri from @mblscience.bsky.social and Katy Loubnet-Senear from Phil Abitua's lab @ohnolog.bsky.social at U. of Washington. Find all details at isrbio.org/event-6026206

Welcome @bsky.app! As our first post, we would like to celebrate the recent paper uncovering a weak spot in bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanism from the @schlierflab.bsky.social 🥳 Read more following the link below ⤵️

New year, new beginnings 🎉 Online: welcome @bsky.app 👋 And in the real world: 📸 a shiny new banner in front of our institute 😊 Happy 2025 everyone!

We are really proud to share the first 'Pre-Print' from the Storer lab driven by the fantastic Byron Mui, and co-lead by the innovative Kevin Chalut, on tissue mechanics, ECM and regeneration. A big thanks also to our collaborators in the Franze Lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to present the work of our lab at #ISSCR2025, Hong Kong on 11-14 June 2025. For registration: invt.io/1tbx41l6y5w @isscr.org

¡Feliz (1+2 +3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²! - elpais.com/ciencia/cafe...

Everything is terrible, so here are some "Santa Conchas" brought to you by Mexico 🎅🏽

For new folks on Bluesky - I made some starter packs! These first two feature model organism reachers using their systems to study disease mechanisms. go.bsky.app/MhUwjSx

Excited to share this mini-review on dynamic mechanical stress inference of tissues written with @borgesaugust.bsky.social!! doi.org/10.1042/BST2... (1/8)

I ventured over onto X nee Twitter to see what things were like these days. Almost all the individuals I used to follow are gone, and those that remain use X for broadcast only. i.e. they are using it to advertise themselves/their brand. Not for community, or discussion, or promoting others...

Me checking every day if more salamander people joined 🦋

Sadly, my #morphogenesis Package fell victim to a bug 🐜 and I had to recreate it from scratch. I tried to add everyone... 👉Please check if you are still in!👈 Please SHARE/Like, so those I might have missed see this post! #cellbio #devbio #science I can also start a Part II... go.bsky.app/RzDD9or

Yey for us in Germany! 🎉👇🏽

Amazing fossil alert. Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach… 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

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go.bsky.app/LjbAncZ Made an axolotl one. Let me know if you'd like to be added, I'm sure there's going to be more of us on here!

A new population count will start, to see if and how many axolotls are left in the Xochimilco lake 🤞🏽 elpais.com/mexico/2024-...

Fantastic work by @peruhlen.bsky.social and @kanashigeaki.bsky.social, with a beautiful cover in Science that tells it all! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We recently published a work describing what happens with the organism’s lipid metabolism during regeneration. The first author wrote a great post about it 👇🏽 communities.springernature.com/posts/regene...

Hello! 🐸

I am really enjoying the surge of people to bluesky but still kind of missing the VERY early career group of people! (Aging in academia is a funny thing) - I went ahead and made this starter pack go.bsky.app/Jq8YaQM - if you would like to be removed/added please let me know

Kudos to those creating the starter packs with a good gender balance!! 🎉👏🏽👏🏽🥳

I love how the scientific community here is growing. Here, I started a list of regenerative biologist: go.bsky.app/MGXL9Ra

A new preprint from our lab!

Interested in how appendages grow, evolved and regenerate? Register and submit your abstract for this amazing EMBO conference meetings.embo.org/event/24-lim...