Huisken Lab outing to watch the total solar eclipse!

The final day of IPC15 was a fascinating insight into the world of EvoDevo & genomics. Two invited speakers Elaine Seaver and Toru Miura provided a backdrop for a series of fascinating talks.

Back from the International Polychaete Conference at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt! A big thanks to the organisers and everyone who made #IPC15 such an enjoyable and inspiring meeting. I learned a lot about polychaete biodiversity. @etilic.bsky.social #annelids #polychaete

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

I am thrilled to share my PhD work with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... A fun collaboration with Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Adrián Aguirre-Tamaral, @bart-smeets.bsky.social , Jef Vanghel and Tom Belpaire! Read the story in the comments below ⤵️

Beautiful movie of zebrafish development - previous work from @huiskenlab.bsky.social

Zebrafish Rock!@zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Zebrafish gastrulation colorfully captured by #SPIM. Credit to Dr. Gopi Shah (prev. with @mpi-cbg.de). #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈🐟 #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Huisken lab is at #EED2026! @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social & @bekeloh.bsky.social will show how we use #Flamingo #light-sheet microscopy to address biological questions in the annelid #Platynereis, with imaging of the developing nervous system as an example (Platy Satellite Meeting & Poster P146).

🗣️Invited speakers are @isabelalmudi.bsky.social, Mathilde Paris, Benjamin Prud'homme, Matteo Rauzi, @johnnyds.bsky.social, @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social, @tickphysiology.bsky.social & @verabiol.bsky.social More information here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/summer+sc...

Check out our 2026 subject collection, showcasing recent papers in @dev-journal.bsky.social on evolutionary developmental biology: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti... It has been curated to support the 2026 Euro-Evo-Devo conference in Glasgow, UK. #EED2026

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Always a pleasure to discuss annelid biology and live imaging of annelid development with Martin-Duran and Dumollard labs. @qmul.bsky.social @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social #LSFM #lightsheet #Flamingo #Platynereis #Owenia

Allan Carrillo-Baltodano@allancarbal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very cool to have @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social Silvia Caballero and Daniel González and @uni-goettingen.de @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social visiting @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Sharing ideas and data for future collaborations. Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday #EvoDevo

Very cool to have @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social Silvia Caballero and Daniel González and @uni-goettingen.de @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social visiting @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Sharing ideas and data for future collaborations. Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday #EvoDevo

Great PhD opportunity in the Huisken lab investigating cardiac conduction using light sheet microscopy.

Huisken lab@huiskenlab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PhD opportunity in Huisken lab with Zgierski-Johnston lab @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social. Topic: Multiscale Structural Imaging of Cardiac Conduction: Linking Interstitial Remodeling to Arrhythmia at Sub-Cellular Resolution. Deadline 7 June 2026. #LSFM #lightsheet #bioimaging #engineering #biophysics

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Happy to share our contribution to this new work led by @michalis-averof.bsky.social! @bekeloh.bsky.social and @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social tested membrane tags in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii — many reached the cell membrane, and several also label the developing nervous system in the larvae.

Michalis Averof@michalis-averof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Finding molecular tags that localise fluorescent proteins to the cell membrane was the goal of our latest paper, now published in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. The tags act as address labels, sending proteins to the cell membrane, where they highlight the shape and arrangement of cells. 2/9

Honored to have two images from our lab selected among the Top 5 Research Images of the Year in Göttingen 🎉 The images will be exhibited in Forum Wissen until 10 April 2026. www.forum-wissen.de/event/resear... #ForumWissen #ScienceIsAlsoArt

These are the first asexual vertebrate species known to science go.nature.com/4s2N0dM

How an all-female fish species defies evolutionary expectations

Asexual reproduction should be an evolutionary dead end. A study of asexual fish shows that a genetic ‘copy and paste’ helps to overcome the predicted costs of asexuality.

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New paper published! We explore how modern microscopy transforms biology from observing single examples to navigating distributions of phenotypes. doi.org/10.3389/fbin... #lightsheet #SmartMicroscopy #BiologicalVariation #visualization #RepresentativeSampling

Frontiers | Visualizing the multidimensional landscape of biological variation in modern microscopy

Variation is a foundational biological principle that has historically been marginalized—both due to limited experimental accessibility and because of ideali...

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Abstract submission and registration for the *10th Euro Evo Devo Meeting 2026* at University of Glasgow (June 8-12, 2026) is open. Early bird deadline: March 5, 2026. More info: https://www.evodevoconference26.com/ #conference

New Huisken lab member: We’re excited to welcome Roman Tsukanov (@romantsukanov.bsky.social)! With expertise in super-resolution microscopy using DNA-PAINT, Roman will combine this technology with light sheet fluorescence microscopy. Exciting times ahead! #SuperResolution #DNApaint #lightsheet #LSFM

Lichtblattmikroskope erstellen 3D-Scans von Geweben und Organen – erzeugen bei großen Proben aber unscharfe Bilder. Forschende haben eine Plattform entwickelt, die diese Hürde überwindet. Mehr erfahren: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html... #MBexC #UMG @mbexc.bsky.social @huiskenlab.bsky.social

Enjoying a Glühwein at the Christmas market - yearly Huisken lab tradition 🎄

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I was invited by @focalplane.bsky.social to write a short description about it: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/a...

A new version of TrackMate with improved integration of key AI algorithms and track edition improvements - FocalPlane

A new version of TrackMate with improved integration of key AI algorithms and track edition improvements -

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Jean-Yves Tinevez@jytinevez.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The new version of TrackMate, the v8.1 has just been released. It builds upon the recent v8, linked below, and offers two main improvements 👇

Trackastra is part of the brand-new TrackMate v8. It is the first deep-learning-based ("AI") drop-in replacement for TrackMate's regular LAP-Track algorithm. Tracks out of the box for many types of datasets (bacteria, fluorescent nuclei, phase contrast cell culture etc), zero parameters to tune 🤖

TrackMate Trackastra

Trackastra integration in TrackMate.

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Jean-Yves Tinevez@jytinevez.bsky.social · 9mo ago

With an image with a proper background >.<

Studying cochlear neuroanatomy demands imaging the entire cochlea at subcellular resolution. In our recent study (tinyurl.com/isotropicLSFM), we recorded the cochlea at isotropic resolution across the whole organ, laying the groundwork for what follows… #lightsheet #isotropic #cochlea

Happy to see our paper “Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue” in @natbiotech.nature.com – with Tobias Moser’s lab from @unimedizin-goe.bsky.social and @janwenzel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microscopy #lightsheet

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...

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📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026 #IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc... @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.