NEW GRANT OPPORTUNITY! Ever wanted to travel to a different lab to learn more? Or expand your knowledge and experience in the field? #IZFS has a new grant opportunity for you! Read more about the Knowledge Exchange Grant here: www.izfs.org/awards/knowl... #ZebrafishGrant
Dorothee Bornhorst-Ohmstede
@dorotheeb.bsky.social
IZKF Research Group Leader at the Institute of Cell Biology (ZMBE) & CeRA, previous Postdoc in Gunawan and Zon Lab - endothelial cells, gonadal function, vascular biology & zebrafish 🐠🔬
Interested in using #Drosophila genetics & advanced imaging combined with modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? We’re hiring a #PhD student @uni-muenster.de, based at the Multiscale Imaging Center and @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Apply here tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d
I will be opening my research group at the Max Delbrück Center later this year to unravel the principles governing the unique context sensing capacity of the liver www.mdc-berlin.de/schwayer and am looking for enthusiastic PhD applicants.
Schwayer Lab
The mammalian liver possesses a regenerative capacity that is unmatched by any other organ. Following injury, liver epithelial cells can proliferate or even change their identity, enabling the organ t...
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Looking for a PhD? Applications are now open for PhD positions at the Max Delbrück Center. 🧵 www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...
PhD Positions (m/f/d) in Biomedical Research
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Applications for the Hubrecht International PhD program are open until September 15! PhD students at the Hubrecht work on various themes, including ‘Developmental biology and regeneration’. Curious what kind of questions PhD students Rahul and Andy work on? Read the comments! www.hubrecht.eu/hipp/.
NEW #IZFSWebinar, hosted by the #CZC: Harnessing Zebrafish Biology to Elucidate Tissue Regeneration and Disease Mechanisms. Join Gülsüm Kayman-Kürekçi & Deepika Dogra on 8/20 at 10 am ET! Learn more: www.izfs.org/education/webinars #zebrafish #tissueregeneration #diseasemechanisms
Biologie-Lehrkräfte & Schüler*innen aufgepasst: Der @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de öffnet euch wieder die Türen für: - das beliebte Genetikpraktikum (08.03.-19.03.27) - spannende Vorträge von Professor*innen ab dem 14.09.26 Weitere Infos: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/p...
Save the date! The 20th International Zebrafish Conference will be held in Daejeon, Korea from June 26-30, 2027 🐟 🇰🇷 Stay tuned for more conference updates at the "ofFISHial" conference website: www.izfs.org/education/20... or by following @izfs.bsky.social (and us 😉)! #zebrafish #ZebrafishMeeting 🧪
The Swinburne Lab is hiring a Lab Assistant! Join us in using zebrafish and live imaging to uncover how organs form and function. If you're passionate about cell and developmental biology, we'd love to hear from you. Apply and help spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05459
Jr Specialist/Assistant Specialist – Developmental Biology/Cell Biology – Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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✨Jeffrey Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social is a Stadtman Investigator at the NIH. He has led seminal work constructing single-cell RNAseq atlases for entire embryos using zebrafish. We are excited to host Jeffrey at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🔬
📣 #JobAlert The Faculty of Biology of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics. ❗ Application Deadline: 15 August, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/roi8 #Biology #Bioinformatics #MolecularGenetics
Two days left to apply for a PhD position in our group, see below!
🚨Job Alert: PhD in Theoretical Biophysics 🚨 we are looking for a PhD student to join our group at Uni Münster to work on models of multi-layered active materials @uni-muenster.de More details here: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6... Please share and contact me if interested!
Excited to share our latest study identifying Scube2 as a novel regulator of coronary vessel formation and heart regeneration, promoting regenerative revascularization through PDGF signaling and EC-mural cell interactions published in ATVB @americanheart.bsky.social ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/AT…
The ZDM19 meeting in Oxford is coming up soon! We have a great list of speakers, lots of early career researcher events, and an amazing location. Registration is open now but early bird pricing will end soon - so please register as soon as possible! www.zdmsociety.org/zdm19-regist...
At the #EZM2026 in Vienna? IZFS 2025 CBC Award Winner, Victoria Deneke, will be presenting her award lecture, "The Key to Life. How the SPARK Complex Unlocks Vertebrate Fertilization," in Strauss 2-3 at 5:15 pm! Don't miss it! #Zebrafish #ViennaMeeting #CBCAward
The Long Hall Pub was flooded with early career scientists that joined our social event for #EZM2026 🐟🍻 Special thanks to our Pub quiz master aka György🙏🏻 and of course everyone of you that joined us. 🩵 Congrats to the Fintastics teams,our Pub quiz winners 🏆 🐟
New #IZFS Webinar on July 16 at 10 am EDT! Join in for How Specialized Cell Types Arise in Evolution and Development: Insights from Brain and Gut with Megan Y Dennis and Jeffrey Farrell. Red more and register here: www.izfs.org/education/we... #IZFSWebinar #Evolution #brainandgut
No better way to head to #EZM2026 than with a freshly published success! Our eLife paper is now out: elifesciences.org/articles/107.... We show optimised prime editing in zebrafish for precise DNA substitutions and insertions. Huge thanks to the fantastic team #Zebrafish #GenomeEditing #eLife
Optimised genome editing for precise DNA insertion and substitution using prime editors in zebrafish
Nickase and nuclease Prime Editors offer complementary routes for precise zebrafish genome editing, balancing accuracy for substitutions with efficiency for short insertions.
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We’re heading to #EZM2026! Check out FOUR talks from the Elkouby lab, with exciting new stories presented by our fantastic four. Make sure to grab Avishag, Amal, Neta, and Swastik for a chat. They’ll be entering the postdoc market very soon. #zebrafish
🚨 We are searching for 2 PhD students to join our CRC 1550 'Molecular circuits of heart disease' project - a joint venture with @eldadtzahor.bsky.social to investigate the mechanisms underlying intercellular communication and how these promote cardiac repair and regeneration. Please share 🙏🐟🐭🧬🔬
Two positions (see the text, W2 and W3!!!) in Experimental Medical Biophysics have just been announced here, @hhu.de Come and let's make some great science together! 🤓🔬🧬🧪 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w2-prof...
W2-Professur für Experimentelle Medizinische Biophysik - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Experimentelle Medizinische Biophysik in Düsseldorf - jetzt bewerben!
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Might cerebellar disinhibition underlie Restless Legs Syndrome symptoms? Will Joo found that loss of the RLS-associated gene meis1b perturbs locomotion in zebrafish by disinhibiting cerebellar output. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In time for Pride Month! In a Q&A with @slefkopoulos.bsky.social and @natcellbio.nature.com, I had the privilege of sharing my personal journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant from Indonesia to Canada and Germany. #PrideinSTEM (a mini thread) Link to read (pdf): rdcu.be/fnXyK
A scientist can come from anywhere - Nature Cell Biology
This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with Felix Gunawan, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and co-affiliate group leader at the University of Münster, about his personal and acad...
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🏳️🌈This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with @gunawanlab.bsky.social about his personal and academic journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant. Happy Pride month! #PrideinSTEM #LGBT 👉https://rdcu.be/forCt www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A scientist can come from anywhere - Nature Cell Biology
This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with Felix Gunawan, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and co-affiliate group leader at the University of Münster, about his personal and acad...
nature.com
🔬Join our #ReproductionMS seminar with Prof. @yanivelkouby.bsky.social on the topic of "Illuminating unpredicted cellular machineries in germ cell production and reproduction" next Wednesday, 17 June 12 PM CEST. DM for Zoom details.
Super proud to be part of his journey! Truly inspiring! 🥳🌈
🌈 At a time when progress can't be taken for granted, I 'm especially proud to share this @natcellbio.nature.com Q&A piece. I had the pleasure to discuss with @gunawanlab.bsky.social about his inspiring journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant. #PrideInSTEM 👉 rdcu.be/fnXQ6 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just a few months to IVBM in Australia! Come down and enjoy great science, food, beaches, wine and company. Time to register now at ivbm2026.com
📢 The Ghersi Lab is recruiting! We are looking for motivated students and postdoctoral fellows interested in stem cell biology, developmental hematopoiesis, and zebrafish genetics. Interested? Get in touch or share with your network! l1nq.com/d22fg4o
This year’s @sfb1348.bsky.social meeting @uni-muenster.de has come to a close. 3 days of inspiring science, stimulating discussions, and valuable exchange made it a truly rewarding event. Many thanks to all participants - we’re already looking forward to the next one! Photos © Michael Kuhlmann