🇬🇷 #FKNE News from Crete! 🧠 On 19 September, the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence held its 2025 Scientific Symposium with the theme “Neuroscience through the Lens of Diversity: Levels, Methods, and Models.” 👉 https://loom.ly/DyVOs8I

🔔 Applications are open for the #FKNE Online Training Series for New PIs in Europe! Launching 11 November 2025, this 6-week course helps new PIs in Europe strengthen leadership, communication and lab management skills. 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025 Apply now 👉 https://loom.ly/Ceus8Ys

Very excited to be speaking at the @embo.org Epitranscriptome workshop at the @events.embl.org @embl.org Heidelberg this October! I will show some of the newest data from the lab on how ubiquitin signaling drives m6A RNA methylation in the context of neurodevelopment.

Kicking off the most amazing @fkne-scholars.bsky.social meeting in Heraklion, Greece! Here's to excellent neuroscience! @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social @biancasilvalab.bsky.social @yoavlivneh.bsky.social @crezaval.bsky.social @UrteNeniskyte

A few months ago, our review “The Molecular Toolbox for Linkage Type-Specific Analysis of Ubiquitin Signaling” 🧬🧰🛠️ came out in ChemBioChem. Time to give it a spotlight! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Want to join #EMBOEpitrans on site? Then don't forget to register by 16 September 👉 https://s.embl.org/etc25-01-bl#EMBOEpitrans ✨ The workshop will spotlight the latest breakthroughs, future directions, and current challenges in the field. 🗓️ 28 – 30 October 2025 📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Delighted to share our work on cellular ubiquitination of drug-like compounds by HUWE1 - a surprising journey! Kudos to all contributors & first authors, Barbara Orth and Pavel Pohl. Sincere thanks to @ireserra.bsky.social ‬ #NatCommun for expertly guiding the winding publishing path. rdcu.be/eDzPk

At FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social we believe in community empowerment and skill building. The registration for the Leadership and Soft Skill Training Series for the starting PIs is now open (deadline October 15)! Apply and network! 💪🏻

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🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨 First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️ Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA#FENS2026#Barcelona. 🔔 Stay tuned!

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🎉 Congratulations to the #DiversityPrize Winner! 🏆 At the 2025 #FENS Regional Meeting in Oslo, Norway, @network-alba.bsky.social and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (#FKNE) awarded this year's Diversity Prize to Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou. 🧠 👉 https://loom.ly/dphSwoM#DiversityPrize#FENS#FKNE)#DiversityInSTEM

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🏆 Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou (UK) has won the 2025 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize! Honoured for her transformative leadership in advancing EDI across neuroscience — from founding the ERB Centre at UCL to global mentoring, institutional change, & championing inclusive research. 👉🏽 loom.ly/4dR6P3A

Day 3️⃣ of #FRM2025 is underway! We have several exciting events lined up for you this afternoon, and we want to see you in the audience! 👀👇 Head to our website for an overview of all #FENS activities at the #FRM: https://loom.ly/DSvtDac#FRM2025#FENS#FRM:ee you in a bit! 🌟 @network-alba.bsky.social

The first day of #FRM2025 was brilliant! Thank you to the Norwegian Neuroscience Society & Nordic Neuroscience for warmly welcoming 1,000+ attendees to share #Neuroscience research. Excited for the 2nd day! @fens.org @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @network-alba.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

Great @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org FKNE symposium at #FRM2025 at Oslo on protein landscapes in the development and aging of neural circuits. @mambrozkiewicz.bsky.social Urte Neniskyte, Georgia Rapti

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1️⃣ week until #FRM2025! 🌟 From 16–19 June 2025, #FENS will be in Oslo, Norway for the 2025 FENS Regional Meeting (#FRM). 🇳🇴 🔔 If you're planning to attend, don't miss our sessions!👇 🔗 Full overview here: https://loom.ly/DSvtDac#FRM2025!#FENS#FRM).network-alba.bsky.social

Don't miss our scientific symposium in Oslo, Norway at #FRM2025 in less than 2 weeks! Already looking forward to all the fierce discussions!👩🏻‍🔬 @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org @berlinualliance.bsky.social @embl.org

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Led by @scienceyael.bsky.social & out today in @natneuro.nature.com: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread rdcu.be/eoaSY

Check out the program and exciting talks! #FRM2025

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Great read for students and even greater for faculties.

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🧪 New paper alert! In new work led by Adele Mossa out now in @natcomms.nature.com, we find that the #autism risk gene #DDX3X is a critical regulator of sexual dimorphisms in neuronal neurodevelopment 🧬 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Haven’t shared this in a while. But the #ubiquitin and #ubl Starter Pack now includes 116 profiles to follow if you’re interested in the field: signalling, structure and biochemistry, biology, mechanisms, proteostasis, TPD, chemical biology… Check out the list and let me know if you are missing.

New Ambrozkiewicz Lab preprint! 🧠 Ubiquitin – m6A axis controls brain development 👶 Loss of UBE3C → too many neurons, not enough glia 💊 Fixed with METTL3 inhibition We have the mechanism, the concept and the therapeutic lead. 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to present the latest preprint of the lab. This was work done predominantly by a Master student, Leonardo Tadini, assisted by Lilia Younsi, Isabel Holguera, Felix Simon, and Max Courgeon: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 March 11th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Next Tuesday, @mambrozkiewicz.bsky.social , will give the Institut Jacques Monod Seminar "Proteostatic Mechanisms of Cellular Diversification in the Developing Brain" ➡️ buff.ly/FnWURYx

Super excited for this one! 🇫🇷

It's that time again! The call for the #FENS2026 Forum is open for Symposia and Technical Workshops. Deadline is 5 May 2025 so don't miss out! fensforum.org/proposal-submission #FENS #Neuroscience @fens.org @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @network-alba.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

Despite a court order to restart US aid by Tuesday, #HIV programs in Uganda funded by USAID have not resumed: www.devex.com/news/a-month...

If you're coming to Oslo for the @fens.org Regional Meeting #FRM2025 in Oslo, see you at our Symposium #3 "Navigating Protein Landscapes in the Development and Aging of Neural Circuits" featuring Georgia Rapti and Urtė Neniškytė of @fkne-scholars.bsky.social - looking forward already!

It was such a pleasure to host Georgia Rapti of @embl.org in my lab and with Katya Borisova explore the molecular evolution of neuroproteomes🔥 many thanks to the generous exchange grant to spark this exciting collab from @fens.org @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @kavlifoundation.bsky.social 💪🏻

More RNA helicases coming in hot to Neurodevelopment 🔥 featuring early developmental changes in #autism congratulations @derubeislab.bsky.social and the whole team!

🔥 ubiquitin ligases literally taking out the trash 🔥 beautiful work, congrats to @jcornlab.bsky.social and @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social and @jakobfarnung.bsky.social 🎉👏🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our article on #ubiquitin and E3 ligases in neurons is now in print at NSMB @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🎊 take a peek at our exciting collab with Sonja Lorenz to tackle the challenges of studying Ub in vivo 👩🏻‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re calling this subfield (sub-subfield?) “Developmental Systems Neuroscience” and have put together a starter pack of some labs on Bluesky that we cited in the article. Of course, this list is still incomplete, so if want to be added, send Meike or me a DM. bsky.app/starter-pack...

i cobbled together a science starter pack: Neuronal Post-transcriptional / Protein Synthesis agonizingly incomplete - join our growing community! go.bsky.app/Qqq9HTw

Happy New Year! Let’s start with an updated starter pack. Now with 94 profiles to follow if you are interested in anything #ubiquitin or #Ubl: signalling, structure and biochemistry, biology, mechanisms, proteostasis, TPD, chemical biology, etc. Let me know if you or anyone else is missing.

Calling all FENS-Kavli Scholars on Bluesky to join the starter pack! Spread the list, lmk to add you and let's connect 🦋 #fkne @fkne-scholars.bsky.social go.bsky.app/LBj1bDh

Announcing the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at @tcddublin.bsky.social Half of speakers will be selected from abstracts submitted by trainees. Registration is open below, with discounted rates available until January 31st. event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...

What an absolute pleasure to have worked with the brilliant @SLorenzLab on this article, just out today in @NatureSMB. We share our thoughts on ubiquitin dynamics in developing neurons and outline collaborative approaches to investigate brain E3 ligases in health and disease 🧠 #openscience