Böke Lab
@bokelab.bsky.social
Oocyte Biology and Cellular Dormancy Lab in CRG, Barcelona, led by Elvan Böke. Joint lab account; Elvan's musings are signed EB.
🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...
The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director
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Do you need to think about something else after the amazing #eclipse experience 😎? Check our latest work with @bokelab.bsky.social, together with @danifranco93.bsky.social and using @biapyx.bsky.social, of course 🤗 @informatikaehu.eurosky.social @dipcehu.bsky.social
What does an ovary actually look like as it ages—one oocyte at a time? We mapped >85,000 oocytes in >100 intact mouse ovaries, in 3D, across the reproductive lifespan. And the ovary turned out to be much more organized than we expected. 🧵 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Happy Sunday with another issue of #cebooc! @bokelab.bsky.social shows the dynamics of follicle depletion with age using whole 3D imaging of intact ovaries: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42587142/ full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc @biomednews.bsky.social
What does an ovary actually look like as it ages—one oocyte at a time? We mapped >85,000 oocytes in >100 intact mouse ovaries, in 3D, across the reproductive lifespan. And the ovary turned out to be much more organized than we expected. 🧵 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Three-dimensional mapping of intact ovaries reveals the aging dynamics of the ovarian reserve - Nature Aging
The spatiotemporal dynamics of the depletion of the ovarian reserve remain incompletely understood. Combining whole-ovary imaging, AI and modeling, the authors mapped over 85,000 mouse oocytes and fou...
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Delighted to see this published! 🎉 Why do cells invest in such tight control of tubulin synthesis? @ac-almeida.bsky.social shows that even small increases in tubulin levels alter microtubule dynamics and disrupt multicellular architecture and viability. Bravo to the whole team 👏! 👉 rdcu.be/fu8ek
Tubulin autoregulation tunes microtubule dynamics to support multicellular architecture and viability
Nature Communications - Almeida AC et al. uncover the physiological role of a long-elusive feedback pathway that regulates tubulin biosynthesis. By tuning microtubule dynamics, this mechanism...
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Ana Coelho Almeida@ac-almeida.bsky.social · 4w agoHot off the press!! 🚨 Our work is now published in #NatureCommunications! We show that keeping tubulin levels in check is key for preserving microtubule dynamics, multicellular architecture and viability. A huge thank you to the @ivanagasic.bsky.social team for making this possible! 🙌 rdcu.be/fu8ek
Read our latest testimonial from @gzaffagnini.bsky.social from the @unicologne.bsky.social. He has been curating his report on cell biology of #oocytes since June 2024 and recently released his 100th issue. You can subscribe to his report by going to biomed.news/bims-cebooc
Paying peer reviewers Interview with @danielgorelick.bsky.social about @biologyopen.bsky.social Fast & Fair trial in which peer reviewers were paid £220/review Spoiler: it works - fast, high quality reviews www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief
A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.
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Exactly my thoughts re the "unbiased" QED 1% list- this analysis puts it on firmer footing. One thing not captured here is the prominence of well-established authors; that's what triggered me whether QED was really ranking the science OR influenced by signals assoc'd w/ scientific prominence- EB
Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2mo agoI wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...
Much deserved - congratulations both!! :) - EB @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social
EMBO@embo.org · 2mo agoCongratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
Science really takes a village. Thrilled to share this with my friend @dudinlab.bsky.social, and with our brilliant and fearless teams, our collaborators around the world and our mentors - in my case a special shoutout to Buzz Baum, Jan Ellenberg and @monicabettencourt.bsky.social. 1/2
EMBO@embo.org · 2mo agoCongratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
That's right! EQDB made it all the way to Japan 🇯🇵! Many thanks to @laghalab.bsky.social @juliebatut.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social @leopoldlab.bsky.social @clotilde-cadart.bsky.social Vincent, Emma, Miquel, Clara and Kai! Join us @sfbd.bsky.social for more outreach activities
Bardin Lab@bardinlab.bsky.social · 2mo agoFantastic outreach by @maitrejl.bsky.social et al, who have brought Biology Quest (En Quête de Bio) of the @sfbd.bsky.social to Japan! Want to bring model organisms into your primary schools? See www.eqd-bio.org or contact me or @drosopachea.bsky.social . French, English and other languages!
Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Huge congrats to the CRG's Mafalda Dias for being one of eight finalists for the 2026 Premio Vanguardia de la Ciencia, one of Spain's most visible science prizes. Voting is open now and closes on Sunday 28 June at 23:59 (peninsular time).
La IA mejora el estudio de las enfermedades raras
Vota a las finalistas del premio Vanguardia de la Ciencia
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New paper from the Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) group, this time in @science.org, on how plant cells cope with viral infection and how selective autophagy delays cell death to give plants a chance to survive. Chapeau and congratulations to all the authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection
RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...
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This award is such a beautiful surprise! 🤩 Tons of thanks to the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, the amazing #BioimageAnalysis, #Fiji, #ImageJ & #OpenSource communities, my mentors and mentees, my employers, and whoever nominated me (I still don't know how that person was 😅)!
Royal Microscopical Society@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are very pleased to announce Dr Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.eurosky.social as winner of the RMS Award for Data Analysis in Imaging (DAIM) 🙂 🔬 Read more about Ignacio's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...
Register now for the EMBO Workshop "The cell cycle: Exploring conservation and divergence in life's engine" in #Lisbon, Portugal, 5–7 October 2026. Registration by 31 May Abstract submission by 15 June https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cell-cycle #EMBOCellCycleEvolution #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪
It was amazing to participate in #PeopleinRed fundraiser Gala, as a guest of the mayor of Barcelona! A lovely reminder that science reaches far beyond the lab -- EB
Thank you to organisers @lydiafinley.bsky.social and @wilhelmpalm.bsky.social and everyone who joined us at this week's Workshop on 'Revisiting Metabolic Fundamentals' biologists.com/workshops #BiologistsWorkshops @dmmjournal.bsky.social
Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
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I’ve been wondering about conference norms. When I can’t attend an invited talk, I offer to send my postdoc who led the relevant work; but this is basically never accepted by organisers. When I organize meetings, I’m more than happy for postdocs to step in.
🚨 Registration closing soon! Join the AIM-Net Deep Learning Summer School (2–6 June 2026, La Ràpita 🇪🇸) 🔬 Hands-on training in AI for microscopy & bioimage analysis 👩🔬 For PhDs & early-career researchers 💻 Lectures + practicals + project work ⏳ Apply before April 10 aim-net.net/eventos/aim-...
AIM-Net · Deep Learning Summer School
Introduction to AI methods for microscopy and quantitative bioimaging The AIM-Net Summer School is a core training activity of the AIM-Net thematic network (AEI–REDES) in collaboration […]
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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!
📢 We are #hiring! #GroupLeader positions open at #IRBBarcelona in #ChemicalBiology and #StructuralBiology. Application deadline: May 22, 2026 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 ➡️ shorturl.at/1tE3n 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 ➡️ shorturl.at/eKiJn #IRBJobs #Jobs #AcademicSky
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12 days left to apply! @bokelab.bsky.social @crg.eu @prbb.org See here: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
Master’s Student position in Oocyte Biology and Cellular Dormancy | CRG Online Recruitment Portal
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Adriano Bolondi@adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨JOB ALERT🚨PLEASE SPREAD and RT Searching for a motivated Master’s student @bokelab.bsky.social @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate how proteostasis in oocytes influences dormancy and fertility. Reach out to me (adriano.bolondi@crg.es) to join us in sunny Barcelona! See details below👇
Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology? @embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word... www.embo.org/features/emb...
EMBO starts search for its next Director – Features – EMBO
The process to appoint the next EMBO Director is underway. The incoming Director will take office in February 2028, succeeding Fiona Watt, who has led the organization since January 2022
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On the occasion of International Women’s Day at @crg.eu, we are pleased to welcome : Marie-Émilie Terret (CIRB, @college-de-france.fr), who will speak on “Mechanics of Oocyte Divisions” Hosted by @adelaljord.bsky.social 📅 When? Monday, March 9th, 2026 - 12:00–13:00 - Aula Room, @prbb.org
🚨JOB ALERT🚨PLEASE SPREAD and RT Searching for a motivated Master’s student @bokelab.bsky.social @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate how proteostasis in oocytes influences dormancy and fertility. Reach out to me (adriano.bolondi@crg.es) to join us in sunny Barcelona! See details below👇
