Hector Escriva
@hector-escriva.bsky.social
Biologist interested in research on the origin and evolution of chordates. Amphioxus enthusiast. Research Director at the CNRS at the Oceanological Observatory of Banyuls-sur-Mer in France
Happy #WorldHorseshoeCrabDay! These spinning #horseshoecrab (Limulus polyphemus) embryos are developing inside their eggs, just weeks away from hatching. Despite their name, horseshoe crabs are closer relatives of spiders and scorpions than crustaceans.
Zebrafish gastrulation colorfully captured by #SPIM. Credit to Dr. Gopi Shah (prev. with @mpi-cbg.de). #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈🐟 #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Join our team (at @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and in collaboration with LBBM) to examine the effects of the deployment of a solar farm on larval and juvenile fishes, as well as biofouling communities. The job will combine fieldwork, laboratory analyses and experimental approaches.
EcoEvoDevo@ecoevodevo.bsky.social · 2y agoWe recruit a research engineer to examine the potential impacts of an offshore solar farm on biofouling communities and fish early life-stages, through fieldwork (monitoring and sampling) and experimental (ecotoxicology) approaches. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... (in FRENCH)
Happy to share the new publication from the @cnidevo.bsky.social 🎉 This afternoon, we celebrated this work with a "pot". Congratulations to all the teams involved!
Looking for a #post-doc? #MSCA-PF 2026 program @sorbonne-universite.fr The #DEEVA team of @biom-banyuls.bsky.social from @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls from @sorbonne-universite.fr and @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social proposes a research project on #ascidians to host a post-doctoral fellow.
New alien friend in the echinox lab: the basket star Astrospartus mediterraneus. A truly bizarre fractal body plan, but sooo beautiful 🤩🥹
Heading home from a great #EED2026 meeting in Glasgow. Thanks to the local organizers @chemamd.bsky.social and team! Glasgow offered some of the most beautiful and history-breathing lecture halls in EED history. And special thanks to the EED programme/scientific committee, esp. Sylvie Retaux.
Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Les États-Unis perdent leur seul prix scientifique prestigieux.
Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US
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1st #EvoDevOmics meeting🍊 What a terrific team @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social Núria🔥 Nacho and more. What great hosts🥘 @hector-escriva.bsky.social & Steph
Excellent talk on #evodevo of mesoderm compartments in #chordates by @hector-escriva.bsky.social here @univie.ac.at! #Zoology #Development
Out @natcomms.nature.com: our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀 Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!). Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIJm5
The pericardium forms as a distinct structure during heart formation - Nature Communications
The developing heart integrates several progenitor cell types. Here they show that the pericardium enveloping the heart develops among cells that form the mesothelium around inner organs and body cavities, distinct from the classic heart field.
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Christian Mosimann@chrmosimann.bsky.social · 2y agoNew preprint - unravelling the origins of the mesothelium around the❤️: the pericardium! 🎈 SPIM, scRNA-seq, AFM, #CHD, rats & #zebrafish, all rolled into one. Led by our grad student Hannah Moran, a collab with the Sucharov & Peña labs, CU Anschutz - congrats all! #devbio biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The third West Pacific Marine Biology Network conference is approaching. Very interesting conferences and contacts with laboratories working in Deb Biol, EvoDevo, EcoEvoDevo, and Ecology of coral reefs. Do not hesitate to come. westpacificmarinebiology.network/wpmbn/meetin...
Field Trips
Pre-Conference Field Trip UQ’s Moreton Bay Research Station (MBRS) Begin your conference experience with a field trip to UQ’s Moreton Bay Research Station (MBRS) on Minjerribah (North S…
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Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan. Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃
🌊 Mytilus galloprovincialis meets Eco-Evo-Devo. We’re excited to announce the first school dedicated to the bivalve M. galloprovincialis. Applications are now open!✨🐚 Get ready to explore the fascinating world of mussels in an inspiring international environment 🔬 ℹ️ acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Many thanks to @hector-escriva.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, #ATIP-avenir, and everybody's support who are making this possible ❤️
I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳 We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution. 🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research www.echinox.org
Happy to share my last paper from my PhD work with the Deeva team! We establish new tools in European amphioxus: fertilized egg microinjection, F0 CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis & show Ascl1/2.1 is required for epidermal sensory neurons formation in amphioxus. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Towards functional genetics in the European amphioxus: efficient CRISPR/Cas9 editing reveals Ascl1/2.1 requirement for peripheral nervous system development.
Amphioxus, or cephalochordates, have a key phylogenetic position among chordates and serve as pivotal invertebrate models for investigating the evolut…
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Happy to share with you some beautiful expression patterns of amphioxus orthologues of genes expressed in vertebrate lateral plate and pharyngeal mesoderm. Congrats Anael. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Expression analysis of amphioxus orthologues of genes expressed in vertebrate lateral plate or pharyngeal mesoderm
The lateral plate mesoderm of vertebrates, which borders the other mesodermal territories, develops during embryogenesis into a variety of tissues and…
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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
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Discover the #referencegenome of the Western Montpellier #snake: a key to understanding #venom evolution! 🧬 🔗Blog: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/04/09/u... 🔗Genome report: preprints.arphahub.com/article/1550... @cnag-eu.bsky.social u.bsky.social ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
Unraveling the Genome of the Western Montpellier snake: A Key to Understanding Venom Evolution - Biodiversity Genomics Europe
Text by Salvador Carranza A Milestone for ERGA in Reptile Genomics In 2024, a collaborative team of researchers members of the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) initiative successfully sequenced...
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The pioneering research uncovering the viral causes of #MultipleSclerosis I mentioned in my previous post just won this year's Breakthrough prize. “A few decades ago, young scientists were advised to pick another disease to study”. The reality now of #NeuroCovid and #LongCovid shorturl.at/zVRNO
Danielle Beckman@daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 2y ago2022 was a great year for #MultipleSclerosis research. A study with over 10 million demonstrated an increased risk for MS after EBV infection. Another study proved how EBV does molecular mimicry to induce autoimmunity and destroy the neurons' myelin. #NeuroCovid time will arrive.
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