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Really excited to share our latest work led by @mattiaubertini.bsky.social and @nesslfy.bsky.social: we report that cohesin loop extrusion creates rare but long-lived encounters between genomic sequences which underlie efficient enhancer-promoter communication. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A🧵👇

Rockstar!

We’re proud that the work of FMI group leader Margherita Yayoi Turco on reproductive organoids is featured in @nature.com. From the first placental organoid in 2017 to today’s advances, Turco's research is helping reshape reproductive health. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

For those who understand Arabic 😊 A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Truly honored (and a little overwhelmed) to see our work featured in The Transmitter's "This Paper Changed My Life." Huge thanks to @neural-reckoning.org for the kind words - and to our amazing community that keeps pushing spiking neural network research forward 🙏

This year's Ruth Chiquet Prize goes to @solygamagda.bsky.social, who sent a video message, for her work on how the brain detects sensory mismatches. Read more at: www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

I am excited to announce that we are looking for a Lab Manager @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. If you want to be part of a growing team investigating development and tissue formation, and are enthusiastic about helping set up a new lab, please check out the role: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

We're looking for highly motivated candidates for PhD positions in the physics of living systems. Our group uses theoretical physics to understand how cells collectively self-organize. If you're interested, get in touch & check out the Biozentrum PhD Fellowship program, deadline October 12th!

You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Fürst-Ache!

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

📣The Turco group is seeking a computational biologist to analyze large omics datasets. Work on cutting-edge 3D organoid models of the human placenta and be embedded in our Computational Biology Platform (part of @sib.swiss). Apply here: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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True on so many levels... lucky us having her at @fmiscience.bsky.social

📣 It is my pleasure to announce our recent review with Margherita on the current approaches, challenges, and perspectives in studying human maternal-fetal interface using in vitro models www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... 🚀✨️

Why not! Well done!

One year in our new home, we welcomed 500+ Novartis colleagues last week for our Open Day. Under the motto United by Science, our visitors explored how FMI research, tech & partnerships fuel biomedical discovery. Check the story for event pics 👇 www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

🚨 Job Alert: we seek a Lab Manager for @juliabatki.bsky.social's new group (start Mar 2026), which will study cell fate regulation during organ development. Join the Batki's group to drive experiments & lab operations! Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Excited to share our latest work - expressing the bacterial sodium channel in fly Kenyon cells surprisingly *decreases* their excitability, thanks partly to decreased endogenous sodium channels. This prevents learning and decreases odor-evoked calcium influx doi.org/10.1113/JP28...

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

Come be my colleague! We are hiring for two tenure-track positions. www.reed.edu/dean_of_facu...

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

Lucky us!

📢 Fresh off the press! Our article on Arc is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧶 Full thread on our discoveries here: bsky.app/profile/thec...

Exciting new paper from the Bahl lab @bahllab.bsky.social @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social and Katja Slangewal about parallel and convergent processing pathways of different visual features in the larval zebrafish brain🐟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✨ We’re #hiring Theory Fellows!✨ Janelia is recruiting early-career scientists to join our collaborative research environment and use #computation & #theory to tackle bold questions in #biology. 🔗 Apply by Nov. 3 👉 janelia.link/theoryfellow... @hhmi.org

Very happy to share that the awesome @merterginkaya.bsky.social was awarded a @dfg.de #WalterBenjamin scholarship for his postdoc project on mechanisms for action-selection in visual sensorimotor pathways. The more Mert the better. 🎉

Preprint Alert! Walking mostly feels natural and easy to us - but the neuronal control of walking is actually incredibly complex. We leveraged the fruit fly as a genetically tractable animal model with a compact nervous system to ask how the brain controls walking direction: tinyurl.com/flywalk. 🧵..

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

A huge project has analysed more than 1,000 claims about the immunity of Drosophila fruit flies in scientific papers published over some 50 years go.nature.com/4lxhwJB

🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨 Check it out 👇👇 'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila' It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞

👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social

Another keynote speaker at #EDRC2025 is @mcgambetta.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne. Her research group is interested in the mechanisms of gene regulation, using #Drosophila as a model. Looking forward to her talk!

It is happening! Great opportunity! #happyPhD

We're seeking a Research Associate in stem cell biology to join a global, interdisciplinary team investigating organoids and tissue organization. This unique role is part of a collaboration between the @priscaliberali.bsky.social lab & the @alleninstitute.org. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @jrbch.bsky.social

Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu. apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry) apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)

Excited about a truly international lineup of speakers and looking forward to connecting with fellow stem cell and metabolism enthusiasts at #ISSCR2025.

On Friday, June 6, we will welcome Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @champalimaudr.bsky.social as the next speaker in our #BiozentrumDiscoverySeminar series. He will talk on "The Metabolic Mosaic: Illuminating the Interplay of Diet, Microbiome, Brain, and Metabolism"

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

Neurons deep in the brain don't just start movement — they also precisely suppress it, finds a new @nature.com study from Silvia Arber’s team at the FMI and the @biozentrum.unibas.ch. The findings may shed light on disorders like Parkinson’s. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

We are excited to be recruiting 3 post-doctoral researchers to study glial cell dysfunction in #agingresearch and #neurodegeneration, including one position using #Drosophila models! If you are interested, please read more below to get in touch or apply (links in thread).

Wir begrüßen Professorin @silkesachse.bsky.social‬ als neue Leiterin des Lehrstuhls für #Neurobiologie und #Genetik! Sie kommt aus Jena zu uns (@mpi-ce.bsky.social) und erforscht den Geruchssinn von #Insekten. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

If you’re in Basel, make sure to attend the talk from our Büşra Çoban later today! 👇🏽

No plans for Wednesday eve? 🌧️ = perfect excuse for a @pintofscience.ch! Join us at Klara for: 🐟 the magic of tiny fish 🧠 growing brains 🌱 & the secrets of adapting & thriving! I'll be talking alongside brilliant @mads100tist.bsky.social & Büsra Coban. Come curious. Leave inspired! ✨ #ScienceRocks