Today we reached a milestone in Borrell lab history

PhD defended! 🎓 After years studying the developmental origins of pediatric brain tumors, I’m incredibly grateful to my supervisor Dr. Víctor Borrell @borrell-lab.bsky.social and to all the mentors, colleagues, friends and family who supported me along the way. On to the next chapter!

🎉 Enhorabuena a la recién nombrada hoy Dra. Anna Prieto Colomina @annaprico.bsky.social por su defensa de #TesisIN y felicitaciones a su director de tesis, el Dr. Víctor Borrell @borrell-lab.bsky.social 🎉 @umh.es @csic.es @dicv.csic.es

Today, the IN Developmental Neurobiology Scientific Department has offered a new scientific seminar featuring the presentations of researcher Francisco Tejedor and PhD student Enrico Negri (📷) @borrell-lab.bsky.social 👏👏👏 @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es

Dejamos atrás el mes más largo del año😅y damos la bienvenida a #febrero con esta imagen de Emily Wilson @glb-lab.bsky.social #SciencePhoto_IN 🔬🧠 #Ciencia @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es

🎉 Enhorabuena al recién nombrado hoy Dr. Eduardo Fernández Ortuño @edufdzortu.bsky.social por su defensa de #TesisIN y felicitaciones a sus directores de Tesis, el Dr. Víctor Borrell y el Dr. Adrián Cárdenas Castelló @borrell-lab.bsky.social 🎉 @umh.es @csic.es @dicv.csic.es

Dynamic subtype- and context-specific subcellular RNA regulation in growth cones of developing neurons in the cerebral cortex. rdcu.be/eXuwg

Just a regular thing at @pasteur.fr cantine.

Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Temporal control of neurogenesis” A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏 @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @borrell-lab.bsky.social

We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social tomorrow at #SeminarsIN 🙌 He is a world leader in the study of genetic regulation of brain development. Don’t miss it! @borrell-lab.bsky.social @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es

The importance of model organisms for research and training www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...

👏 Congrats to @neuroalc.bsky.social researchers named in Stanford’s ranking of the world’s most cited scientists: Carlos Belmonte, @borrell-lab.bsky.social , @jlerma1.bsky.social , Salvador Martínez, @nietoangela.bsky.social & @neuroviana.bsky.social , outstanding global impact in neuroscience!

📅 Hoy es el Día Mundial de la Investigación en #Cáncer, una jornada para visibilizar la ciencia frente a este conjunto de enfermedades  🔬 Te contamos algunas de las investigaciones oncológicas del #CSIC para mejorar la salud de las personas #WorldCancerResearchDay 🧵👇

Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This therapy builds on research from Carlos Belmonte, @neuroviana.bsky.social and colleagues, who showed how corneal cold receptors drive tear production and identified TRPM8 as a target. Once again showcasing the international nature of scientific progress.

Join us if you want to learn about #microglia!

Sharing our newest study led by the incredibly talented @federicamosti.bsky.social investigating new molecular mechanisms of human brain development. We discover a human-specific enhancer HAR1984 that influences chromatin looping to promote cortical size and folding! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

My quote of the day I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

The Confocal Room

#ScienceJobs Great opportunity to cutting edge science with a really great mentor!!

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to [email protected].

📢 We are seeking a Head of the Human Brain Organoid Core Facility as part of our Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence 2023–2026 program. This is a prestigious leadership opportunity in advanced neuroscience research! 👇 in.umh-csic.es/es/ofertas/t... @csic.es @umh.es @sommalliance.bsky.social

🎉 Enhorabuena al recién nombrado hoy Dr. Rafael Soler Ortuño por su defensa de #TesisIN y felicitaciones a su director de Tesis, el Dr. Víctor Borrell @borrell-lab.bsky.social 🎉 @umh.es @csic.es @dicv.csic.es

Thanks to #PremiosReiJaumeI for enabling visits from the outstanding award jury to research centers across the Comunitat Valenciana. At @neuroalc.bsky.social, we were honored to welcome: @ardemp.bskyverified.social ( #NobelPrize 2021) & Erika Pastrana (Editorial Director @natureportfolio.nature.com)

Hoy ha arrancado @pintofscience.es y #Alicante es una de las ciudades que participa 🙌 No te pierdas las charlas de los investigadores del @neuroalc.bsky.social 👇👀 #PINT25ALC

New preprint alert 📣 #Cerebellum, organoid, autism & brain evolution 🧪 🧫🧠🧬 Collaboration with G. Testa; fruit of years of work by smart students, led by postdoc Davide Aprile. Organoids to understand better the developmental basis of autism (focus: CHD8) & sapiens brain evolution (focus: CADPS2) 🧵

¡Muy orgullosos de acompañar a Félix Leroy @leroyfelix.bsky.social en la entrega del premio Alberto Sols al mejor trabajo científico! 👋👋 🎉Enhorabuena por este merecido reconocimiento 🎉 @csic.es @umh.es @dicv.csic.es

It has been an absolute pleasure for our lab to attend #ECCN2025 for the first time this year. We had meaningful discussions and learned a lot from a vibrant community tackling tough questions on brain evolution and development! Super excited for what lies ahead!

I'm still processing all the amazing interactions and possibilities this meeting brought. Different fields and expertise converging in a common interest: brain evolution. It was fantastic. Thanks to the organizers @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social ( Nerea Moreno, Fernando and Zoltan)

Today, Dr. Kristian Franze from @fau.de offered us a fantastic #SeminarsIN about the chemo-mechanical regulation of brain development. Great talk, thank you! 👏👏 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @csic.es @umh.es @dicv.csic.es

Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social showing us how to enable birdsong precision and speed through gene regulatory co-option at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Over 100 scientists gathered in Alicante for #ECCN2025 to explore how nervous systems evolve across species. The 11th European Conference on Comparative #Neurobiology featured cutting-edge research from around the world 👇 in.umh-csic.es/en/over-200-... #BrainEvolution @borrell-lab.bsky.social

Pavel Němec taking us on a ride through an impressive number of species across the avian and fish kingdoms in his talk on the evolution of brain neuron numbers in jawed vertebrates. With amazing @kkverkova.bsky.social #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Ornella Bertrand @ornellabertrand.bsky.social takes us on a journey exploring the evolutionary history of the mammalian brain – how behaviour and adaptation have shaped its structure over millions of years in her talk (and poster) at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social takes us into the intricate world of connections, unraveling the multiscale principles of neuronal path-finding at #ECCN2025 @r3rt0.bsky.social @borrell-lab.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

How can the brain make new connectivity pathways when traditional ones are disrupted? Fantastic talk by @laurarosefenlon.bsky.social showing us how Marsupials reveal the evolutionary diversity of neocortical development. @rsuarezsaa.bsky.social #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

#ECCN2025 posters were all absolutely fantastic! 🥳 Congrats to best poster&flash talk awardees @giacomogattoni.bsky.social @rsuarezsaa.bsky.social @kkverkova.bsky.social Anh T Trihn Kindly sponsored by BBE Karger, organised by amazing Nerea Moreno-García @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Carmen Falcone @carmenfalcone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk at #ECCN2025 on Varicose projection astrocytes: from evolution to neuroinflammation @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Brought a bit of #glia to this great evolutionary meeting. It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩 Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation! #ECCN2025

Many thanks to @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social for organising #ECCN2025 and bringing together such a variety of research and species! I truly enjoyed the experience! Stay tuned for the next edition #ECCN2028 in Leuven! (Or Tenerife, still have to decide hehe)

Learning so much at the ECCN meeting — even better with the great company of several SEBD colleagues! Exciting science, inspiring talks, and great conversations @sebioldev.bsky.social #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social

Takashi Namba @takashi-namba.bsky.social talking about the metabolic microenvironment for the evolution and development of the human neocortex at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Laurent Nguyen giving us an evo-devo perspective on cortical interneuron migration in the forebrain. at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Alain Chédotal @alainchedotal.bsky.social giving a beautiful presentation with amazing data on the Development and evolution of the visual system. at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Enjoying the beautiful and inspiring talks presented at the #ECCN2025. Learning from the bests! @borrell-lab.bsky.social eccn2025.umh.es

Maude Baldwin tracing the Functional evolution of the taste and digestive system in birds at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social