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Incoming Assistant Professor at Columbia University | HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow | Researching how microbes shape the development and plasticity of the gut’s nervous system | theaydinlab.com 🦠💩🐁🧫🔬🧿

🩸🩸🩸TODAY WE SHARE TWO MAJOR DISCOVERIES🩸🩸🩸 1. We peered into genomes and brains of the rare mosquitoes that QUIT feeding on blood and found what biting is built from 2. Humans got rid of isoleucine in their blood, malaria suffers from it, and mosquito proteomes budget for it THREADS>

I'm thrilled to share that I'll join Columbia in Jan 2027 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Development& the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative! A long-held dream; I'm grateful for my mentors and colleagues. We'll study microbiota-ENS interactions-now hiring! theaydinlab.com

The Aydin Lab | Laboratory of Neurodevelopmental Plasticity

The Aydin Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center studies how gut microbiota shape the development and plasticity of the enteric nervous system.

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Please consider joining us for a wonderful meeting on Brain Body Physiology at Cold Spring harbor this summer, organized with @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and Asya Rolls. In CSHL tradition most talks are chosen from submitted abstracts. Abstracts due this Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Brain Body Physiology

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.