Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

For me this paper is a career highlight..truly astonishing biology! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A queen odour mediates reproductive suppression in a eusocial mammal - Nature

Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) queens produce isopropyl myristate, a low-volatility ester that high-ranking animals detect and avoid, which alters prolactin and progesterone in other females t...

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#PhD position in Antibiotic Biosensor Protein Engineering! Join the lab of Knut Drescher to develop next-generation biosensors for antibiotics using protein engineering and computational design, and help tackle antibiotic resistance. Apply by 20 Aug 2026! www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Extended early-bird deadline is 17 July for #DMM2026cancer. Organisers amatrudalab.bsky.social, bandolab.bsky.social, Ana Banito & Elaine Mardis look forward to seeing you and reading your abstract. Register now for your chance to be selected for a short talk. bit.ly/46r84Ca #PediatricCancer

Last Discovery Seminar before the summer break: On Friday, July 3, Prof. Alexander Stark from the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology @impvienna.bsky.social will talk about “Decoding Transcription Regulation.” Everyone is welcome!

Join us for our upcoming #DiscoverySeminar featuring Prof. Lacra Bintu @lacrabintu.bsky.social from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social . She will talk about: High-throughput dissection of transcriptional repressors in human cells. We look forward to welcoming you!

Excited to share that our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com, presenting a multi-omic atlas and high-throughput morphogen screen of human organoids modeling the posterior brain! 🧠 nature.com/articles/s41... @zhisonghe.bsky.social @hsiuchuanlin.bsky.social @TreutleinLab @graycamplab.bsky.social

Who ‘ll be attending the @bacell3d.bsky.social conference this year? I ‘ll be there! Feel free to drop me a note if you wanna discuss a manuscript for @natcellbio.nature.com or just to have a chat! #BaCell3D2026 www.bacell3d.com

BaCell 3D | Organoid conference

BaCell 3D is the essential meeting point for researchers and industry professionals dedicated to transforming developmental and biomedical science through cutting-edge in-vitro multicellular systems.

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🚀 Breakthrough in #ProstateCancer research from @biomedizin.unibas.ch published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! Matrigel-free PDOs preserve patient-specific cell populations. New single-cell atlas (PPScA) maps heterogeneity + reveals pathways altered in vitro.

🧪Protection for newborns Meningitis is rare in newborns but often dramatic. Researchers @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch and @ethz.ch have developed a preventive approach that stops harmful bacteria in their tracks before transmission even occurs. @snsf.ch @natcomms.nature.com Learn more 👇

Protection for newborns: new treatment aims to prevent meningitis without antibiotics

Meningitis is rare in newborns but often dramatic. For the first time, researchers have developed a preventive approach that stops harmful bacteria in their tracks before transmission even occurs. Res...

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Thrilled and honored to receive the Ernst Schering Prize 2026!🎉 Also deeply grateful to have been elected to the German Academy of Sciences. Both are recognitions of our whole group – I’m immensely thankful to all team members, past and present!❤️ tinyurl.com/hjrejv3p tinyurl.com/muw7j6mr

Ernst Schering Prize 2026 – Schering Stiftung

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Evolution runs through the gut: Researchers show, using highly diverse cichlids, how diet shapes the composition of intestinal tissue. @tschopplab.bsky.social @snsf.ch

You are what you eat: how diet drives evolution

A University of Basel study shows how different diets shape the evolution of intestinal cells in cichlid fishes.

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New evo-devo textbook 'Eco-Evo-Devo: The Environmental Regulation of Development, Evolution, and Health' 📗In this post on the Node, Scott F. Gilbert announces a new eco-evo-devo textbook. ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/new-evo-devo... #DevBio

One of my dream projects, ever since joining here in Basel, out now in @nature.com : single-cells 🤝 eco-morphological proxies rdcu.be/fiyso How cells and tissues adapt to dietary niches... Thanks and congrats to Antoine, Walter, and all the other co-authors for this great collaboration!! 🙏🥳

Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestine of hyperdiverse cichlid fishes

Nature - Single-cell transcriptomics combined with morphological and ecological data show that the rapid evolutionary radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika was accompanied by dietary...

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From molecules to complex biological systems, the Biozentrum explores a wide spectrum of research. In our new series, we introduce the people behind the labs—their science, their ideas, and their stories. We start with @c-handschin.bsky.social and muscle health: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSAi...

Meet our Professors: Understanding Muscle Health with Prof. Christoph Handschin

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Let's meet at "Engineered Microbes for the Treatment of Disease" Gordon Research Conference on August 2 - 7, 2026 at Bates College, chaired by Neil Forbes & Claudia Gravekamp. @batescollege.bsky.social Registration & abstract submission is open: www.grc.org/microbes-as-...

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

A clear/significant finding derived from the single cell (sc) analysis of biological systems has been the realization that phenotypically homogeneous populations are heterogeneous at the level of gene expression (GE). www.cell.com/fulltext/S00... 🧵

Nature, Nurture, or Chance: Stochastic Gene Expression and Its Consequences

Gene expression is a fundamentally stochastic process, with randomness in transcription and translation leading to cell-to-cell variations in mRNA and protein levels. This variation appears in organis...

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We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).

Reading this, ST Coleridge had a comment "The history of man for nine months preceding his birth would, probably, by far more interesting, and contain events of greater moment, than all three score and ten years that follow it."

"surely we are all out of the computation of our age, and every man is some months elder than he bethinks him; for we live, move, have a being, and are subject to the actions of the elements, and the malice of diseases, in the truest microcosm, the womb of our mother” T. Browne 1642 Religio Medici

2026 has been a remarkable year for me so far (despite the current world events): opening my lab at the University of Zurich, assembling an amazing group of people in the group, and celebrating it with a fantastic lab warming party. Figured it's also time for a small profile refresh.

Join us on March 13, 2026, for our #DiscoverySeminar by guest speaker Prof. Suliana Manley from #EPFL. She will present "Insights into the mitochondrial collective". @biozentrum.unibas.ch | Lecture Hall U1.131 We look forward to seeing you there!

The Summer Call for our prestigious, fully funded #PhDFellowships is now open to talented early-career scientists worldwide. 🔬 Rotation-based program 🌍 International community 🗓 Apply by May 8, 2026 Apply now and join a leading life sciences institute! www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/phd/internat...

Biozentrum PhD Fellowships

Share your passion for life sciences. If you are talented and highly motivated, want to broaden your horizons and are interested in a wide range of research topics, apply for one of the sought after B...

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📣 We are looking for new colleagues 🔬🧬🧪 The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London @ucllifesciences.bsky.social are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.

Deadline March 1. Join the new Dietschy Facility for Tissue Science. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Deadline March 1. Join the new Dietschy Facility for Tissue Science. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Deadline March 1. Join the new Dietschy Facility for Tissue Science. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Reminder that I will be speaking this Wednesday about my postdoc work. You have been warned. 🧪

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📢Register for our #DevPres webinar on neurodevelopment The webinar, chaired by Polina Kameneva, features talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social, Carlo Donato Caiaffa & Clarisse Brunet @clarissebrunet.bsky.social. 🗓️25 February, 15:00 GMT/UTC us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...