Researchers discover an "all-body brain" in sea urchins - @mfnberlin.bsky.social www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...

Our study, just published in #ScienceAdvances and funded by @hfspo.bsky.social, explores the post metamorphic cell composition of the sea urchin juvenile, revealing that its body is head-like. Long considered brainless creatures, they’re all brain instead! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thrilled to share my newest perspective article with @arnonelab.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our lab studies how animals regenerate their body, e.g. how crustaceans regenerate broken legs. One of our aims is to understand if regeneration re-uses the gene networks that built the legs in the first place. Arthur Monternier, an artist in our team, captured the question in this cartoon.

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

📣 II Edition of the International Summer School “The Systems Biology Approach to Discover Marine Life: From a Big Eye to a Microscopic Picture” 📍 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn / Darwin-Dohrn Museum, Naples (Italy) 🗓️ 27–30 October 2025 isssb2022.wixsite.com/isssystemsbi...

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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

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

Less than a week left to register and submit an abstract ‼️ Come & join us!

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Guys another fantastic opportunity, in a fantastic environment, wonderful PI and with one of the most promising new experimental systems!!Apply NOW!

Don’t hesitate!!! Amazing project and team and fantastic mentor!!! Apply NOW!

Single Nucleus Profiling Highlights the All-Brain Echinoderm Nervous System https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644250v1

Molecular evidence for pre-chordate origins of ovarian cell types and neuroendocrine control of reproduction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644836v1

Also a blast from the past! Another preprint is now available from my first postdoc in the @arnonelab.bsky.social at @szndohrn.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint from my Postdoc in Zak Swartz’s lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social, in collaboration with Carsten Wolff and @. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.30.626178v1

Thrilled to share this new work resulting from a great collaboration of my lab with the labs of Ignacio Maeso and Veronica Hinman, started with the dear José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta many years ago. Take a look! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...