3/3 🎉 And finally, we had a few days to learn more about our projects and to coordinate the first data generation and analyses. The kick-off of our graduate school could not have been more productive. Make sure to learn more about us and our mission here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...

1/2 Our #GoenomiX team is growing. 🥳 Welcome, @johnnyds.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: Metazoan evolution, regulation of gene expression 🔭 Looking forward to: Testing evolutionary hypotheses cross-phyla!

The Goodheart Lab is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow on an NSF-funded project to study the process of kleptocnidy, the theft and storage of nematocysts, in nudibranch mollusks. Project link: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Application here: careers.amnh.org/postings/4908.

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1/2 And here we go, a new member of our #GoenomiX team. 🥳 Welcome, @sassaf.bsky.social! 🔬 Research: Evo-devo, high resolution imaging, transgenic and genome editing approaches 🔭 Looking forward to: Learn how to integrate data into a 3D virtual model

I am glad to announce my new position as a postdoc for @goenomix.bsky.social at @uni-goettingen.de with Prof. Dr. Gregor Bucher in collaboration with UMG and @mpi-nat.bsky.social. I will be working in head evolution, integrating functional genetics and multiomics data analysis cross-phyla.

1/2 And another addition to our #GoenomiX family. 🥳 Welcome, Simon! 🔬 Research: Genomics, evolution and computational approaches to biology 🔭 Looking forward to: Learning and applying machine learning approaches to comparative multi-omics data

Very happy to announce that my first paper is officially out in Evolution & Development. In this article, we showed that species from two major annelid clades with similar fate maps have conserved mechanisms of specification of their central nervous system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida

Diagrams of blastomere isolations in Capitella teleta and Platynereis dumerilii showing autonomous head neural tissue (from 1q) and trunk neural tissue (from 2d) as well as a decoupling of D–V axis f...

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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

Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/

My time at Clark is coming to end. I will defend my thesis this Thursday, July 30th, at 10 a.m. EST. I am grateful to everyone who has encouraged, supported, and mentored me throughout this journey. I look forward to sharing my findings with you.

A polychaete (bristle worm) trochophore (young larva) from the top down. #marineplankton 🦑

If you study plankton, you’ll definitely come across polychaete (bristle worm) larvae, and today is a great day to recognise them, because it’s International Polychaete Day! #marineplankton 🦑 #wormwednesday

Applications are open for the international course “Developmental Biology” organized by the Institut Curie in partnership with @sorbonne-universite.fr 📅 Oct. 19–28, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Jul. 19 & Sept. 18 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/courses/developmental-biology-2026

With all techniques available to us, this is the type of classical embryology experiments that make our field still exciting.

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Embryonic ‘organizer cells’ can tell embryos of various phyla what kind of body to build go.nature.com/4vnO1ig

What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.

A blastoporal organizer in a ctenophore - Nature

Experiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit...

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Fun fact, the worms have eyes, THEY CAN SEE YOU 👀 I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Christmas tree worms extend their spiraled feeding crowns, while a spinyhead #blenny peeks from its burrow in front of one—two tiny reef icons sharing the same real estate in #PuertoRico. Life on the reef is small, colorful, and endlessly intertwined. #marinelife

Just got an alert that views for the Biology PhD Stipends database spiked over the past weekend! Lets keep this database up-to-date, if your program increased their EEB PhD stipend, submit an update: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬 #ModelMonday #DevBio 📸: Clemens Cabernard

📣 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/

Excited to see this work from June Ordoñez's PhD published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology! 🎉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel... #zoology #spiralia #development #evolution

Last month I came across this little dude in my plankton sample. I didn’t recognise it at first, and then I saw its scales (elytra). It’s a scale worm larva! Scale worms are bristle worms, but with added accessories. #marineplankton 🦑

Had a smasheroony time at Walton-on-the-Naze with my fellow microscopy nerds today. I’m putting together a little reel about it. But in the meantime, here’s an amuse bouche… I saw a phoronid larva (horseshoe worm) with tentacles! The first time! #marineplankton 🦑 #zooplankton

🚨 We discovered a new mode of Hox gene regulation in annelids! 🪱 A distal enhancer acts as a "global control region", lifting Hox genes from Polycomb repression. This is reminiscent of Hox gene control in vertebrates, but the two modes likely evolved convergently. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

As a great end of my conferences as a graduate student, I have been awarded 2nd place for best graduate student talk at #NESDB26. A huge thank you to the organizers, judges and everyone involved in such a great meeting!

I passed my PhD dissertation last Thursday, closing a very important chapter in my career/life. I received so much support over the years, and I cannot be more grateful to my lab and the Evo-Devo community. Catch me next week at #NESDB26 where I will give a talk about spiral cleavage and annelids.

Between Ave T & U on the promenade in Seaside Oregon there is an ongoing community knit project full of knit & crotchet versions of the creatures that live in our tide pools. #InverteFest

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...

Spionida (order) polychaete eggs and trochophores are really quite distinctive, with a sort of lattice-effect membrane going on. Excellent style choice! #marineplankton #zooplankton #polychaete