Come join us in the next London EvoDevo meeting! This time in Cambridge, hosted by @emiliapsantos.bsky.social Good science & friends! :)

In our new preprint, Réza Shahidi, Alexandra Kerbl and Karel Mocaer give an exquisitely detailed manual on serial sectioning for electron microscopy. "Volume Electron Microscopy: Tips & Tricks on Micromanipulator-Assisted Serial Sectioning for Array […] [Original post on biologists.social]

I'm recruiting a postdoc and a research assistant in my lab in the south of France for an HFSP-funded project involving choanos. More info: Postdoc: bit.ly/4xxlJTX Research assistant: (EN) bit.ly/4aOwUha (FR) bit.ly/4vcy3av Please share with any potential applicant. Thx!

May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk

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If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Don’t forget to apply to this beautiful Electron Microscopy course at @szndohrn.bsky.social in Napoli, Italy by February 12th! 🌊 ☀️ Stay tuned for the preliminary program, in the meantime take a look here: www.szn.it/index.php/it...

🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc... #ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)

Our dispatch: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225014691 on the recent Hydra volume EM paper by Zhang, Rafa Yuste and colleagues: #connectomics, without synapses https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225013090 #neuroscience

We’re collecting protocols and reviews for studying neural mechanisms in marine invertebrates. Submit your functional imaging, connectomics, or electrophysiology techniques to our JOVE Methods Collection and help make these approaches accessible across species. app.jove.com/methods-coll...

Interested in a #PhD with neuroendocrine and bioimaging focus? Check out our @swbiodtp.bsky.social project 'Creating a functional map for brain-gut signalling in a simple worm', with @alexdcorbett.bsky.social and CASE partner Cairn Research Ltd. Application deadline Wednesday 3rd December.

🪸 Two weeks to go! Please apply for this Postdoc position! 🪸

Maria Sachkova@mariasachkova.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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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A joint Macquarie/St Andrews fully funded PhD scholarship is available to optimise the design of oyster reef restoration projects for biodiversity outcomes. The PhD will be jointly supervised by @melaniejbishop.bsky.social and me. See lnkd.in/e_Tr2EXQ

Huisken lab is attending Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction. Learn about our research... @spp2205.bsky.social @sfb1528.bsky.social @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction

We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction The conference brings together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral biology, computational scie...

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Excited to share that my latest paper is out in Open Biology! It explores how late larval development allocates resources depending on the food source. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Effects of food availability on larval development during ontogenetic niche shift in a marine annelid | Open Biology

Many marine invertebrates have a biphasic life cycle with a free-swimming larva and a bottom-dwelling adult. The transition from a planktonic to a benthic lifestyle is a significant step in the animal’s life history, highly regulated and influenced by ...

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Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

🗳️ Voting opens Oct 7 on our site 🏆 Winners announced Oct 9 @ virtual Town Hall 📧 Questions? vemcommunity@gmail.com #volumeEM #AwesomevEMImages

Check out our new preprint on bioRxiv: Brain-wide activity imaging combined with electron microscopy reveals novel nociceptive circuits. We link whole-brain activity to the connectome using volume EM. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Combining brainwide activity imaging and electron microscopy reveals novel nociceptive circuits

To understand how brains work, it is necessary to connect neural activity to synaptic-resolution circuit architecture. Recent advances in light-sheet microscopy (LSM) enable whole-brain, cellular-reso...

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With a related Insight piece written by Alex Winsor and Paul Katz "Connectomes: The wiring diagram of an entire animal" https://elifesciences.org/articles/108573 @eLife

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Gaspar Jekely@jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 12mo ago

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #Platynereis #connectome "Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out. Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964 @eLife @biology […]

Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile. Deadline JUNE 14th! www.szn.it/index.php/it...

Interested in how food affects larval development? Check out my new preprint 👉 (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) This work wouldn’t have been possible without the support of @marinvmet.bsky.social and @camzoology.bsky.social

Effects of food availability on larval development during ontogenetic niche shift in a marine annelid

Many marine invertebrates have a biphasic life cycle with a free-swimming larva and a bottom-dwelling adult. The transition from a planktonic to a benthic lifestyle is a significant step in the animal...

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