🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!

Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls

ALT: Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls

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1/2 And here we go, our next #GoenomiX student arrived. 🥳 Welcome, Mariam! 🔬Research: Gene-environment interactions, evolution of gene regulatory networks, evolution of exaggerated traits 🔭Looking forward to: Learning how to use single-cell omics in non-traditional model species

🏃‍♀️ @bucherlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social and our new #GoenomiX PhD student Kevin represented our Research Training Group at the Göttinger Altstadtlauf. ☀️ Perfect weather for running 5k and fun experience to be supported by so many people in the city center.

Hard work can't have a great view? 🏔️🔬 Of course, it can! Our retreat in Braunlage is in full swing! We're spending our time exchanging our research, new ideas, but also networking, and bonding over volleyball in the evenings. 🏐✨ #PhDLife #IMPRSGS #ScienceRetreat #TeamBuilding #Harz

1/2 And our second #GoenomiX student arrived. 🥳 Welcome, Kevin! 🔬Research: Understanding how gene functions diverge during evolution 🔭Looking forward to: Establish a new tool to restrict RNAi to certain tissues

A small contribution to an important topic, in Nature Reviews Biodiversity. I highlight @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social and Harvey's work in 2000 and illustrate it's pivotal role in our understanding into the principles of brain evolution. Have a read - it's short! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our central complex paper with Yi Peng Toh, Theodora Loupasaki, Basil el Jundi, @eahodge.bsky.social & @ebablab.bsky.social has now emerged, like a butterfly, in it's final form. Some heavy grant-writing induced heterochrony has delayed eclosion, but...finally done. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

A cognitive adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, accompanied by strikingly divergent changes in two principal insect integration centres, reveals that neural circuits can differ strongly in their pro...

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Also: For people working in Developmental Biology, I can recommend @biologists.bsky.social PI Fellowship which culminates in a fantastic leadership course in Cambridge.

Danai Papageorgiou@danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Starting as an EN Group Leader, I really wanted to get some training on how to constructively and healthily lead a lab. I thus attended a four-day @embolableadership.bsky.social workshop and feel much more prepared for this new role! Highly recommended for lab leaders of all career stages.

1/2 And here comes our first #GoenomiX PhD student. 🥳 Welcome, Erik! 🔬Research: Molecular mechanisms behind molluscan shell development 🔭Looking forward to: Multi-method approaches to collect and analyze my results

📣 Following the Summer School, we will have this year's Symposium on "Frontiers in Molecular Zoology". Present your work on emerging model systems! Register until June 30 with a contributed talk: events.gwdg.de/event/1458/ (Registration without a talk is open until August 14).

Göttingen SPIRIT - Symposium “Molecular Genetics in Zoology” (Symposium only)

In this 2-day symposium will bring together international scientists working on understanding the function of genes underlying a wide range of zoological phenomena. Some contributed talks will be sele...

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📣 Join us for the Spirit Summer School "Molecular Genetics in Zoology" with three days of hands-on training and consulting in #RNAi, #CRISPR genome editing, in-situ hybridization, #imaging and #RNA-seq for emerging model systems. 🐌🪰🪱🐞🧬 Registration is open until June 30: events.gwdg.de/event/1457/

🚀 Ready for take-off! We are excited to announce that the GönomiX Research Training Group (RTG 3074) funded by @dfg.de is officially up and running. We develop 💻 #bioinformatics and 🧬 #genetics tools to study fundamental questions in emerging model systems. Stay tuned for more details!