Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I was one of the people that benefited from Irini's advice during my career path; I could not think of a better person to receive the inaugural GSA mentorship award. Absolutely deserved Irini. Your article is also brilliant; I can associate with all these mixed feelings of nostalgia and belonging

Two great scientists and humans, whose collaboration shows what it’s like to do science as a positive-sum game. Wonderful news for evolutionary cell biology and for you two @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social! 👏

The amazing JEDI crowd 2026! Hurray for an inspiring #Drosophila meeting at a gorgeous location. Thank you to everyone who attended!

Have you ever wondered how chromatin states shape developmental trajectories? In our preprint, we address this question using single-cell nanoCUT&Tag, a method developed by Marek Bartosovic @mardzix.bsky.social, which simultaneously profiles active H3K27ac and repressive H3K27me3 in the same nucleus

🏃‍♀️ FENS at the Brussels 20K Congratulations to our #FENSTeam runners for completing the Brussels 20K this Sunday and showing their support for neuroscience along the way! 🧠

So great to have you @mads100tist.bsky.social; such an awesome project and a lot of food for thought

Also a good hang @mads100tist.bsky.social @nkonst4.bsky.social . We’ll be on the Seine for a while if you want to join 😉🍻

The was a straight up awesome talk. Beautiful work, @mads100tist.bsky.social , congratulations!

👟 Support the #FENSTeam for Brussels20K 2026! 🌟 Join us at the start or finish lines to cheer for them on 31 May! 🌐 You can also help raise funds for FENS activities, helping more researchers connect and share their work. 👉 Go to our GoFundMe: buff.ly/NO78tUX

Extended registration deadline for our conference (June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal) to May 15th! Join if you are a Junior #Drosophila PI or senior #postdoc about to transition to independence. Spread the word! 🎬Venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P1n... 🔗Registration: fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...

We are organising this meeting to discuss about developmental dysregulation and cancer in October in Crete! The speaker line-up is great, the location is awesome (in the most beautiful island on earth *objectively*), the topic ispans from basic to translational research. How could anyone miss this?

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we're on the cover!

🦈🧠2 JOB OFFERS in the brand-new Neuroshark group starting at the Institute of Neuroscience Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI)? Lab manager: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Bioinformatician: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Curious about the lab but not your profile? Feel free to contact me

Felix was a runner up for the 2025 Sandler Award for best thesis using Drosophila

Félix Simon's paper is out in its final form 😍 When we got into (extreme) detail in the temporal and spatial patterning of neuroblasts, Félix asked a simple question "sure, but how does this translate into neuronal cell fate?". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

May 29th. If you're in Paris, mark your calendars. Lock your pipettes. TELL YOUR cHAIR. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 🧪🐟

ElmoFire.gif @mads100tist.bsky.social @nkonst4.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social Looking forward to having Dr. Mad Scientist (AKA Joaquin) grace our humble institute! 🐟🧪

Now also featured in the cover of @devbiol.bsky.social

Our latest publication is now out at Genome Biology! link.springer.com/article/10.1... We uncover a unique association between a H3K27me3 reader complex and active transcription. A thread with our key findings: (1/8) #TEsky #Polycomb #transcription #smallRNAs

Registration is still open for the Young PI Neuroscience Symposium. Whether you're a young PI or a "seasoned" postdoc, you can never invest too much in building community; especially in, let’s say, turbulent times. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

Thank *you* @marianneroca.bsky.social for visiting us and for a great seminar. I really enjoyed discussing with you and I’m looking forward to your next steps!

« world leadership goes through investing in research and science »… France is clearly shooting itself in the foot (again) by announcing new major budget cuts with immediate effects on all @cnrs.fr institutes! 😩

New paper from the lab out in Cell Death & Disease @cddpress.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social "Transcription-dependent and -independent functions of Drosophila p53 isoforms in the induction of apoptosis and senescence-associated tumorigenesis.” #p53 #Drosophila Thread 1/9👇👇👇

@jlarsch.bsky.social and I are organising the 2026 CIG Symposium on June 11-12 in Lausanne on "Information transfer: from genes to behaviour", featuring an eclectic set of brilliant scientists. Details and registration here (abstracts by May 1, registration by June 1): www.unil.ch/fbm/en/home/...

New preprint from us and @emiliapsantos.bsky.social’s #NERC grant, led by Jake Morris, @gadusmo.bsky.social et al Using an interspecific cross between two #cichlids to think about models of #brainevolution 🐟🧠 Feedback and suggestions welcome! 🙏🏻 🧪

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 April 10th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by @nkonst4.bsky.social Lab, @marianneroca.bsky.social ( @mpinb.mpg.de ) will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar "From avoidance to attack: Rewiring mechanosensation in nematodes " ➡️ buff.ly/la3VoWj

Deeply honoured to have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to study how competition is encoded in the brain. This builds on the discoveries of outstanding past/present lab members. Grateful to mentors/collaborators/colleagues for their support. We are recruiting postdocs/PhD students.

Do you work with a strange model species and are frustrated by the lack of antibodies for immunos? Here's a web app that does some computational pre-screening for you. sixpack-abscan.serve.scilifelab.se

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 March 23rd 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by he Konstantinides Lab ( @nkonst4.bsky.social), Erin Barnhart ( @columbiauniversity.bsky.social ) will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar "Organelle dynamics and neuronal form and function" ➡️ buff.ly/rSl5exu

The 2026 Visual System Development GRC and GRS are fast approaching. Jeremy Kay, Kristen Kwan, Robert Johnston, and I have built an exciting program that we hope you will enjoy. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting this summer in beautiful Maine. Register and RT!

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

Very proud of our undergrads Caroline Wong and Elnor Bashir who presented their research at the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago! 🧪🪰 #Dros26 #scicomm @umassboston.bsky.social

177 years and we’re still waiting for that day

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

Last days to register! Our second keynote speaker is Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social. He is Professor of Neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social and Chair of the FENS Advocacy Committee. He will speak about advocacy for neuroscience in Europe. Join our @fens.org Satellite 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

Last few days to register for the young PI symposium @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social The speaker line-up is 🔥

@tjryan.bsky.social will join the @fens.org satellite @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social as a keynote speaker. He is Professor of Neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social and Chair of the FENS Advocacy Committee. He will speak about advocacy for neuroscience in Europe. Join us 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨Last week to register!! Noelia Antón Bolaños is one of our amazing keynote speakers. She will tell us all about her journey from Spain to Boston, and starting her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social 🛫🌎🛬. Join our @fens.org Satellite event in Barcelona!

Among the amazing keynote speakers at the @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social, a Satellite Event of @fens.org in Barcelona, is Noelia Antón Bolaños 🤩. Noelia will tell us about her journey from Spain to Boston, and now to her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social. Register! youngpisymposium2026.com

The registration is open! Junior #Drosophila PIs, join us for inspiring scientific discussion, contribute a talk and listen to our keynote speaker, Eugenia Chiappe. We meet in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 3rd. Register soon as spots are limited! congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

This one is extra special: my rockstar former UG (now MD-PhD!) Stephanie's first 1st author paper, and my first as senior author, is now out in Development!

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 February 27th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by the @ishier.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social will present the Institut Jacques Monod seminar "Evolution and diversity of mitosis" ➡️ buff.ly/uCSfjgQ

Now in its final form published in @devbiol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Everything is a matter of perspective, dear Emmanuel… The further to the right you sit, the further left everyone else seems.

Our new preprint is out! A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.

Can we make brains “smarter”? By boosting mitochondrial metabolism in neurons of memory circuits, we improved memory in flies and mice. Thrilled to see this work out - congrats to @amrapalianjali.bsky.social for spectacular work, and to all lab members for invaluable contributions!

Postdoc job alert at Institut Jacques Monod in Paris! Interested in fundamental membrane trafficking? We seek a postdoc to study collagen secretion as a model for core principles of how cells and their environment build each other. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...