Impressive characterization of the visual system of the Bogong moth, a nocturnal long-distance migrant navigating by integrating magnetic and visual cues.

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...

How do animals with lifelong growth modulate cell #proliferation? @eudaldpascual.bsky.social @ktgarschall.bsky.social @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social show that starvation induces G1/G0 #CellCycle arrest in Vasa2+/Piwi1+ #SeaAnemone cells; cycle re-entry is TOR-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48J2o6P

Very thought-inspiring presentation at @univie.ac.at @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social today by Ron Jenner from @nhm-london.bsky.social on rethinking the concept of venoms, sap-sucking and blood-sucking animals. Also see the recent piece in Trends in Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Same same, but different: A microscopy-based reference brain from @danielkronauer.bsky.social for the queen-less clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi, revealing interindividual variability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/

+ in this #TansleyInsight (which is also my first paper as corresponding author!) we ask ourselves: if bacteria can anticipate the seasons, how does that change the way we think about the evolution of photoperiodic responses? bsky.app/profile/newp...

Wonderful opportunity to do research on worm brain-gut signalling with ‪@marinvmet.bsky.social and @alexdcorbett.bsky.social!

Freshly out at @natcomms.nature.com ! Our @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @ercgrantees.bsky.social research into neurogenic plasticity of adult worm brains, and similarities in stem cells supporting growth of camera-type eyes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]

Wonderful preprint from Wallace Marshall‘s @wallaceucsf.bsky.social group on the intriguing intracellular patterns of Stentor. Amazing biology and great imaging.

"These findings demonstrate that spatial control of waste is crucial for supporting group living by reducing exposure to faecal hazards, particularly for immobile life stages such as eggs."... wonderfully serious #IgNobel work in royalsocietypublishing-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/doi/epdf/10....

Nice work linking transcription, cell cycle regulation, and a transition in symmetry during reproductive organ development.

The Beyond EPICA project begins the fifth and final drilling campaign in Antarctica. AWI researchers are part of the international research team that will drill into the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet – at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level and temperatures around -35°C.

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Excellent talk by Audrey Matt @maxperutzlabs.ac.at at the UBB @univie.ac.at introducing us into the exciting field of deep sea research and circadian and tidal rhythms!

In her wonderful podcast "Where the wild thoughts are", Jo Marchant has recently hosted Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social to discuss how the moon impacts biology. Full episode at shows.acast.com/where-the-wi...

Congratulations to Magnus Nordborg @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with two colleagues in Cambridge to study the transposable element landscape of eukaryotic genomes!

Congratulations to both Sascha Martens @univie.ac.at and former colleague Claudine @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de on jointly securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with @jimhurley.bsky.social at UC Berkeley!

Adhesion without glue: Clemens Schaber @uni-kiel.de talks at the LifeSci Faculty @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today, showing how chitinous hairs of spiders can adhere to surfaces, inspiring biotechnological applications. More at doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social presenting at @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today on the remarkable world of eye muscles in dipteran flies. Check out the original description of fruitfly eye movements here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A day of Neurosciences & Developmental Biology today at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social kicked off by "spider-man" Friedrich Barth @oeaw.bsky.social, emeritus professor and founder of the original Neurobiology Dept at @univie.ac.at

Timing matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams. on.orf.at/video/142925... Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Excited to share that senior postdoc Sören Häfker @awi.de just secured one of the highly competitive @erc.europa.eu ‬ @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERCStG grants to pioneer work decoding the molecular clockwork driving rhythmicity of krill in the #marine #foodweb! More on BICLOPS here: bit.ly/4lYpBq0

Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...

Exciting news - Elly Tanaka, director of @imbavienna.bsky.social , received the #Wittgenstein award of the @fwf-at.bsky.social today, Austria's top research award. Congratulations to Elly, and thanks so much for being not only a great scientist, but also a wonderful role model!

Excited to welcome @mariacocurullo.bsky.social to the Tessmar-Raible lab, who secured a prestigious #MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship to explore how monthly timing shapes brain #plasticity in Platynereis dumerilii — and how light pollution at night may disrupt it. #BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN

Interested to join our Vienna lab for #Postdoc research into regenerative plasticity or biological 3D printing? The Raible group bit.ly/RaibleUniVie invites expressions of interests for Marie-Skłodowska-Curie #MSCA postdoc fellowships - an excellent opportunity for mobility to and within Europe!

🚨We’re proud that The Genetics Society @gensocuk.bsky.social supports the upcoming UK EvoDevo meeting. Register for only £5 and submit your abstracts before June 1st! Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...

🚀 We are proud to launch the new "Ambassadors for the ERC" initiative, together with @ercgrantees.bsky.social ! We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7 🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved! #Amb4ERC

Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social will serve as one of the Ambassadors for the ERC @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social. #Amb4ERC aim to advocate for the importance of fundamental research across Europe. See bit.ly/4jOulOq and aerg.eu/ambassadors

Thanks to Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social from @uniofgalway.bsky.social for giving a great talk at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @univie.ac.at today, introducing the remarkable reproductive system of #Hydractinia and fascinating research into sex determination; more at doi.org/10.1126/scia...

At the end of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, the organizing committee gave out the presentation awards to six happy winners. Many thanks to @gfeev.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes and the subsequent networking meeting!

The final presentation of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is given by Joanna Jachowicz @jjachowicz.bsky.social from @imbavienna.bsky.social, shedding light onto the mechanisms by which long #RNAs expressed from the “dark genome” can become switches for developmental control.

Nikhil @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social from @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social concludes the late afternoon session of #DevStem2025 with a careful analysis of mitotic waves in early #zebrafish development, their regulation by cell geometry & impact on zygotic #transcription. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

At #DevStem2025, Theresa Maxian from Sandra Haider’s group at #MedUniWien now discusses the emergence of cell types in human placental development, capitalizing on #scRNAseq and various staining techniques. More on placental biology in the recent publication doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Kick-off of the late afternoon session at the #DevStem2025 meeting. Sanjay Narayanaswamy @sanjay-n.bsky.social from @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social lab discusses germ layer biology in #Nematostella, exploring a powerful gastruloid system. For a primer on gastruloids, see doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Sabrina Villar Pazos from Sofia Grade’s lab @imbavienna.bsky.social closes the first afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social with research testing the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of Huntington's disease.

The afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is continued by Helena Bragulat-Teixidor from the @shotarootsuka.bsky.social lab, using high-resolution EM and CLEM to interrogate the junctions btw. nuclear envelope and endoplasmitic reticulum. Read more at doi.org/10.1038/s443...

The afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has begun. First speaker: Lidija Milojković from Noelia Urbán’s lab @imbavienna.bsky.social, presenting on the interplay of molecular pathways regulating #quiescence and activation of adult neural #StemCells in the mammalian CNS.

In the final talk of the #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social morning session, Stavros Papadopoulos from Lora Sweeney’s group at @istaresearch.bsky.social presents on #development and evolution of rostrocaudal circuits and their molecular regulation.

Kyojiro Ikeda @beingkyo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at presenting now at #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on first mechanistic & molecular regulators of #bristle biogenesis in the #Platynereis model. Also check Kyojiro's recent @naturecomms.bsky.social publication www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is Leonie @leonieadelmann.bsky.social ‘s turn now at #DevStem2025 to present progress in decoding the modulation of #regeneration in Platynereis dumerilii. Pls. check www.nature.com/articles/s41... for our recent study, and bsky.app/profile/tess... for our @vbcscitraining.bsky.social PhD opening!

Carina Seidl from Elly Tanaka's lab @imbavienna.bsky.social presents at #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social now on research into functional motor circuit #regeneration in the #axolotl system.

Carolina Atria from Roger Revilla’s lab @univie.ac.at now diving into the molecular details of #StemCells and their regulation in the sponge model Suberites domuncula during the morning session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social

Now at #DevStem2025, Anastasia Chugunova from @pauligroup.bsky.social group reports on changes in mitochondria over early fish development. Check out the recent preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2024...

A beautiful spring outside, and a colorful bouquet of model systems and topics at display in the morning session of #DevStem2025 now at the @impvienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social, ranging from sponges and annelids to fishes, amphibians and mammals.

First keynote at #DevStem2025 by Andi @pauligroup.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on conserved and divergent mechanisms of vertebrate egg-sperm interactions. Also check out recent the study by Deneke et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Meeting at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today for this year's Vienna region #DevStem2025 meeting! Many thanks to co-organizers Sofia Grade (IMBA), Paulina Latos (MUW), @dianapinheiro.bsky.social & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social, institutional sponsors, @gfeev.bsky.social and all helpers!