Christopher Noack
@chnoack.bsky.social
Fundamental aspects of neural circuit evolution and development. Focused on early developmental stages. PostDoc in the Technau Lab @univie.ac.at
Now Open: E-STEEM Postdoc Call 2026 20+ fully funded 4 year-postdoc positions for females in STEM (and Economics) at the University of Vienna. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... Application Deadline: March 2, 2026 Select your desired Host. Anyone interested in my lab, please get in touch.
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If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back. I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support
Dear colleagues, even if you are short in time, take a look at Figure 5B. Quote from the discussion: "First and foremost, we need to separate the different tasks required of a just accountability system: detection, investigation, and sanctioning."
Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · last yr.Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
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Just dropped a new preprint! 🧠✨ We did some exciting comparative connectomics and uncovered new insights into how neural circuits evolve. Check it out 👇 #neuroscience #connectomics #preprint #evolution
Lucia Prieto Godino@neuroluci.bsky.social · last yr.How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇 bit.ly/44aVm9E
I am excited to share our new publication in @pnas.org on the de novo nerve net assembly in Hydra embryos showing that neural circuits self-assemble through activity-driven processes, modulated by temperature and the microbiome. Thanks to all colleagues involved here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Assembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by temperature and the microbiome | PNAS
Understanding how neural populations emerge to give rise to behavior is a major goal in neuroscience. Here, we explore the self-assembly of neural ...
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Die Leopoldina beruft Prof. Thomas Bosch, Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie an der #UniKiel, zu ihrem neuen Mitglied. Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften ehrt ihn für herausragende Leistungen in der Erforschung der Wirts-Mikroben-Beziehungen und ihrer Bedeutung für Gesundheit und Krankheit:
Thomas Bosch zum Leopoldina-Mitglied ernannt
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften ehrt CAU-Professor für die Erforschung der Wirts-Mikroben-Beziehungen
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About 100 years the Mangold-Spemann organizer was published and this has been one of the most fruitful and inspiring concepts in Developmental Biology. But how can organizers self-organize? In this review we summarize the knowledge how cnidarians do that: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
Redirecting
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Cnidarians are among the earliest animals to possess a nervous system. If you're interested in how neuronal circuits emerge and assemble in Hydra embryos, find me at the #NWG2025 @neurowissg.bsky.social conference and check out my poster on Saturday! (T23-3D). #Cnidaria #Hydra
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Our atlas of BMP signaling activity in adult Nematostella is finally out! Fantastic, meticulous work and beautiful illustrations by @paulknabl.bsky.social Thanks, @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding our work! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A whole-body atlas of BMP signaling activity in an adult sea anemone - BMC Biology
Background BMP signaling is responsible for the second body axis patterning in Bilateria and in the bilaterally symmetric members of the bilaterian sister clade Cnidaria—corals and sea anemones. Howev...
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We posted our surprising finding that removal of the nervous system in Nematostella always leads to the regeneration of a second head. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ectopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemone
Some animals are able to regenerate all missing cell types and large body parts after bisection, a phenomenon called whole-body regeneration. Many of these animals regenerate the correct tissues and s...
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7 PhD positions in Translational Evolutionary Research available @uni-kiel.de Application deadline is March 27, 2025 Please spread the word! www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...
new work: deep dive into microbiome differences of coral exhibiting thermally resilient & susceptible phenotypes, long time coming, great team effort @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #coral #bleaching #microbiome
Inherent differential microbial assemblages and functions associated with corals exhibiting different thermal phenotypes
Key multidomain microbial members of thermal resistant corals represent putative avenues for conservation strategies.
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Zeit, neue Wege zu gehen: Gemeinsam mit mehr als 60 weiteren Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen wir heute X – und starten dafür hier! idw-online.de/de/news845520 #eXit #WissXit #ByeByeX #QuitX | ©️: HHU/Paul Schwaderer
An important read for all microbiome researchers #microbiomania www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
There’s little evidence of a ‘brain microbiome’ | Letter
Letters: Prof Mark Pallen, Dr Aimee Parker, Prof Nick Loman and Prof Alan Walker take issue with an article that discussed the existence of a brain microbiome and its impact on diseases
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Finally, the major part of my PhD is now available as preprint showing the de novo assembly of a functioning neural population in Hydra embryos!
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y agoAssembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by environmental signals including the microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.10.627692v1
