🚨🚨🚨 As part of the MSCA-DN DECODES, we're looking for a PhD student to study splicing programs in beta cells and diabetes at @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu Join 14 other PhD students across Europe to decipher the splicing code in human disease. More info below 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

DECODES at University of Santiago de Compostela on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - DECODES at University of Santiago de Compostela, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)

FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy

Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...

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First published teamwork of the lab 🎉! We wrote a review about emerging concepts of how metabolism promotes, regulates and changes during gastrulation. We hope it will be useful for anyone interested in the emerging field of developmental metabolism. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A metabolic view of gastrulation: Coordinating signalling, epigenetics and morphogenesis

Gastrulation is the morphogenetic process by which the single-layered pluripotent epiblast is reorganised into the three germ layers and the basic bod…

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Check out our new review in Reproduction! 💥🥚🔬 In “The explosion of life”, @anitabichisecchi.bsky.social, @petramikec.bsky.social and I explore how live imaging has shaped our understanding of ovulation, revealing the cellular and tissue dynamics that drive egg release. doi.org/10.1093/repr...

1/ We’ve been working on making it easier to fine-tune AlphaGenome on new RNA-seq samples, with a focus on one of my favourite regulatory layers: splicing! Blog post: genomicsxai.github.io/blogs/2026-0...

🚨 Job Alert - Please share 🙏 Interested in 3D gene regulation in development & evolution? 🤓🧬 💥 Our lab at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social is expanding! ✅ 4 years fully funded PhD position 💻🧪 Experimental or computational backgrounds welcome 👇 Details below #PhDPosition #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs

Just approved an order for standard lab consumables. Prices have nearly doubled since starting the lab. Meanwhile, the bar for publishing keeps rising, requiring ever more costly experiments, while grant budgets barely changed. Hard to see how this is a sustainable trajectory for academic research.

We face great challenges, but our resolve is greater & vision clearer for the future of neuroscience. The @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social network is stronger than ever. Thanks co-organizers, speakers @tjryan.bsky.social, @drosostalis.bsky.social, @anne-schreiter.bsky.social, & our core ➡️ participants!

A special thanks to our hosts @adrianobolondi.bsky.social and the lovely @crg.eu Barcelona. This was an official @fens.org Satellite Event, and we thank our many sponsors: youngpisymposium2026.com

Young PI Symposium 2026

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Catalan centers and universities obtain 14 out of the 29 ERC Advance grants awarded in Spain this year, including a record 4th consecutive one for the CRG's Luis Serrano. Here's a deep dive in @ara.cat

Catalonia plays in the European research Champions League

Catalan centers and universities obtain 14 of the 29 grants awarded in Spain. Luis Serrano chains a fourth consecutive Advanced Grant and Eduard Batlle, a third

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Here we go!

We at @crg.eu and @prbb.org are very much looking forward to host this vibrant community! A great day of science and reflection ahead!

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

On my way✈️

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

Hola 👋 On my way ✈️ Looking forward to seeing you there

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

So much looking forward to this!

Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

How does an ovarian follicle remodel in space and time to release an egg? 💥🥚 We have an exciting PhD project combining follicle culture, advanced imaging and quantitative analysis to understand the cellular dynamics of ovulation. 🔬 Co-supervised by me and @guignardlab.bsky.social. Please share! 🌱

Let's step inside a neuron together, and ask, "how did all this get here?" 🤔 In this review, I trace the history and transformations of a neuron's molecules, pay homage to major discoveries in brain development ... and make a call to action for neuroscience. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Translation of Genetic Information in Neurodevelopment

Neurodevelopment is the transformation of genetic information into diverse neuronal phenotypes. Developmental signals initiate patterns of gene transcription and translation that drive progenitors tow...

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📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu. Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com

Very excited to share our newest findings! A very long team effort pursued by multiple team members -to frantically reproduce everything over and over-, we show mTOR-Polycomb synergy at promoters of developmental master regulator TFs in ESCs prior to their expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cambridge → Boston → Cambridge again: I’m thrilled to return to Cambridge(UK) to open my lab at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge!🥳 (mzhulab.com) We study how dev timing shapes and being shaped by plasticity, evolution & ageing. 🚩Hiring at all levels: pls email me if interested!📩

Meng Zhu Lab

We study how development measures time and how timing matters in development, evolution and ageing.

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New Preprint alert!🚨 Super excited to share my postdoc work now on BioRxiv. How does PRC2 loss lead to developmental failures? We combined rapid protein degradation with TLS embryoid models to uncover temporal and lineage-specific dependencies 🧬. Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.18.719361

A new study shows how different regulatory genetic elements control when a key developmental gene is active in the body. The findings could explain subtle differences seen in patients with congenital limb malformations, for which the underlying disease mechanisms often remain unknown.

Waves of regulation control an important developmental gene

In a new study published in Genes & Development, research led by Dr Lila Allou at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London and Professor Stefan Mundlos at the Max Planck Institute for Mo...

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In this interview, @juliabatki.bsky.social, FMI’s newest group leader, reflects on the early curiosity that drew her to science, why FMI is the right home for her lab, how studying cell clearance could help us understand disease, and her love of improv. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

Curiosity, cell clearance, and improv: A chat with Julia Batki

In this interview, Julia Batki, FMI’s newest group leader, reflects on the early curiosity that drew her to science, why FMI is the right home for her lab, how studying cell clearance could help us un...

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📣 New Perspective out in @natcellbio.nature.com! With an interdisciplinary team of scientists, ethicists & lawyer we propose embedded ethics as a framework for navigating the complex ethics of human stem cell–based embryo models. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text link: rdcu.be/fckmY 🧵

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

Honored to receive a La Caixa Junior Leader Fellowship @caixaresearch.bsky.social at @crg.eu. This recognition will support our research on oocyte dormancy and proteostasis for the next three years🥚! Big thanks to previous funders @embo.org & MSCA @ec.europa.eu and to @bokelab.bsky.social @prbb.org!

Many regulatory layers modulate splicing factors at the same time impacting their activity. How can we quantify it? Apparently "functional" target exons give us a hint and uncover two cancer programs. Have a look at our solution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exon inclusion signatures enable accurate estimation of splicing factor activity - Nature Communications

Splicing factors shape how genes are stitched into RNA, but their activity is hard to measure. Here, the authors benchmark network methods and show exon-inclusion signatures infer splicing factor acti...

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🥳 I am happy to share our latest manuscript published in @natcellbio.nature.com We use #Gastruloids to study #CellCompetition during early mammalian development and find not only that this is highly pronounced in our system but also tightly restricted in time. (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mosaic gastruloids reveal a temporal restriction for developmental cell competition - Nature Cell Biology

Frenster et al. utilize mosaic mouse gastruloids as a model of cell fitness and competition, identifying a temporal window between primed pluripotency and early gastrulation during which cell competit...

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🎉 Very happy, stoked & honored to have been awarded an @hfspo.bsky.social Research Program Grant for a dream project conceived w/ Eric Glowacki @ceitec.eu & @bernasozen.bsky.social 🥳 Thanks @hfspo.bsky.social for funding bold ideas & projects that aim to push across boundaries 🙏 #stuffthatmatters

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 5mo ago

Research Grant of @hfspo.bsky.social for @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de & collaborators from Brno University of Technology & @yalepress.bsky.social for their project “Control of mammalian embryo patterning and morphogenesis by opto-electrochemical gradients.” www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...