🚨New preprint out!🚨 I’m excited to share the latest work by Anyi Zhang and me, which shows that mTORC1-dependent transient dendritic pruning is essential for efficient axonal regeneration in spontaneously regenerating zebrafish neurons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!

I like that Development journal does these interviews, specially when it is about good scientists and good people journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The people behind the papers – Agnès Roure and Sébastien Darras

In animals, species-specific organs and nervous systems are patterned from the developing neuroectoderm by conserved canonical Wnt signals. However, how these developmental trajectories diverged throu...

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Latest publication from the #DEEVA team in @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and @obs-banyuls.fr and @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr in #WindyBanyuls Congratulations to @agnesroure.bsky.social and @rafathchowdhury.bsky.social #Ciona #ascidians

Six3/6 acts downstream of canonical Wnt signaling to regulate the formation of anterior neural border-derived structures in ascidian embryos

Highlighted Article: In ascidian embryos, canonical Wnt signaling limits the posterior extension of the most anterior structure, the palps, by activating Six3/6, which inhibits palps fate.

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With transcriptomic and functional data, @lucamasin.bsky.social et al. @labmoons.bsky.social show that local glycolysis supports injury-induced axonal regeneration. rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In Cellular Neurobiology collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #SfN25

One of the “golden videos” that I took during my Grass Fellowship @grassfoundation.bsky.social - active sleep in these little guys is so obvious and flamboyant! @mblscience.bsky.social

New England Society for Microscopy@nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · last yr.

🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social‬, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM #Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology

Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

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African turquoise killifish are short-lived & their CNS exhibits human-like ageing. Zandecki @eveseuntjens.bsky.social & co reveal the cellular diversity during the explosive growth of the telencephalon, uncovering specific progenitor signatures for each neurogenic region. 🧠 doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Looking for a post-doc? In the frame of the #MSCA-PF 2025 program at @sorbonne-universite.fr , the #DEEVA team (biom.obs-banyuls.fr/presentation...) from @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls proposes a research project (www.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...).

Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙 We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system… doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system

Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...

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The #DEEVA team proposes a PhD research project on the formation of cellulosic fins in ascidians: Molecular regulation of cellulose-based 3D morphogenesis in animals. This project stems from a study that we have published last year (rdcu.be/ediJK).

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Des requins et des hommes : à la recherche des asymétries perdues

Chez de nombreux vertébrés, y compris l’humain, l’épithalamus, une région clé du cerveau régulant les émotions et les comportements, présente des asymét

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