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/...

We discuss new research on sea urchins, how echinoderms remain relevant experimental systems in the multiomics era, and the future of the cell type evolution and development field.

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

We‘re thrilled to be involved in this great open science initiative; @mlrusciano.bsky.social really enjoyed testing this tool in sea urchins!

Very proud to be a part of this!

Do you want to unravel the function of fluorescent cells in marine organisms? Join the Annunziata lab @szn.it for a PhD project exploring embryonic origins, function and biotechnological potential of fluorescent cell type in sea cucumbers! To apply: www.szn.it/.../ph-d-pro...

Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile. Deadline JUNE 14th! www.szn.it/index.php/it...

It's only mid-April, but course season at the MBL is already underway! 🔬 Gene Regulatory Networks for Development started on April 6 and wraps up later this week 🧬 Congrats to this year's cohort! 👏 📲 Read more about the GRN course: bit.ly/3Wi6LQE

Another terrific Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin & Other Marine Invertebrates is done! Thank you to all attendees for sharing your awesome science, the co-organizers for their hard work, our sponsors, and @mblscience.bsky.social for being such a great venue. Photo credit to Bob Morris 👏

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...

Excited to share our latest work! @arnonelab.bsky.social , @John Kirwan, @Ina Arnone. We investigated the impact of light on the phenotypic response to food in sea urchin larvae. Check it out here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco.... @szndohrn.bsky.social, #SZN, #seaurchin, #ecoevodevo

Happy to share this: Ricercatori della Stazione Dohrn pubblicano su Nature nuovo studio sul plancton. Il lavoro firmato da Angela Falciatore, Chris Bowler e Maurizio Ribera d’Alcalà. Avevano cominciato a lavorare insieme 30 anni fa a Napoli... napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024...

Amazing work from the group of my former colleague, for ever friend, Angela Falciatore and colleagues: the "pigment of imagination" rocks! Congratulations! 🎉🍾🥂

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...

Alright, I guess someone had to do this. Let me know if I forgot you (or anyone else), I can add accounts! go.bsky.app/DRMSeby

Looking for a tag to localise fluorescent proteins to the plasma membrane? Unsure which tag might work in your species? We generated a toolkit of 11 membrane-localising tags, which can be screened rapidly by microinjecting mRNA in your species of interest. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...