Sehr gutes Interview mit Hydrologe Günter Böschl von der TU Wien zur historischen Dürre in Österreich (und angrenzenden Ländern) 🧪

Olivera Stajić@oliveras.bsky.social · 6d ago

Alles chillig, bitte weitermachen. Hier gibt es nichts zu sehen. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Check out this cool study by Varsha Mathur and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It describes the life cycle, cellular and molecular interactions by a eukaryotic parasite with its host, a marine diatom. This interaction has global impacts on diatom blooms in the ocean.

Molecular and cellular insights into the parasitic infection of bloom-forming marine diatoms by Pirsonia diadema - Nature Microbiology

Ultrastructure expansion microscopy, live-cell imaging and time-resolved dual RNA sequencing reveal the infection dynamics of a microparasite, providing insights into how Pirsonia diadema shapes marin...

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Happy to share that my PhD work from the @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social lab is finally out! ^^

@ulrichtechnau.bsky.social · 2w ago

Check the brilliant work by Sanjay Narayanaswamy in Nature Comm. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... He established a scalable Gastruloid protocol and showed that in gastruloids of Nematostella axial polarity and germ layer restoration and sorting depends on a Notch-Wnt signaling feedback loop.

Check the brilliant work by Sanjay Narayanaswamy in Nature Comm. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... He established a scalable Gastruloid protocol and showed that in gastruloids of Nematostella axial polarity and germ layer restoration and sorting depends on a Notch-Wnt signaling feedback loop.

Notch coordinates self-organization of germ layers and axial polarity in sea anemone gastruloids - Nature Communications

Here they show that gastruloids made of embryonic cells of the sea anemone Nematostella can robustly regenerate whole organisms. They show that Notch signaling is crucial to sort out the randomly disp...

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Great work by PhD student Patricio Ferrer Murguia. His paper reporting the twist mutant in Nematostella is out: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... twist is required to form secondary tentacles, via localized FGFR and mTOR signaling. Later, mutants form stunning epithelial neoplasia with tentacle identity.

Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.

It's really cool. Old school embryological methods on the right organism, and a big finding.

someone in the lab needs to use the PrepCell and apparently i am the last person to have used it 🙃. Needless to say there is a lot of sceptisism. But i have the receipts! Had to explain about degassing polyacrylamide, and analog recorders! lets see whether we can get this puppy to work.

In this Obituary, Francesca Mariani & Mark Lewandoski write about Gail R. Martin, one of developmental biology's most influential conceptual architects, a scientist who reshaped how we think about signalling, pattern formation & genetic analysis in the mouse. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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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Was haben die Ozeane mit Österreich zu tun? 🌊 Ob Klimawandel, Artenvielfalt oder internationale Politik: Der Zustand unserer Meere beeinflusst unser Leben weit über die Küsten hinaus. Beim 15. Umwelt im Gespräch im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien am 16.6. geht es genau um diese Frage!

15. Umwelt im Gespräch: Unsere Meere – Grenzen der Balance

16.06.2026, 18:00 - 20:00 Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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I’m beyond excited to see our work published in Science Advances! 🎉 Deeply grateful to everyone involved — and especially to @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social for the great mentorship ✨ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pawel Burkhardt@pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thrilled to share that our preprint has been accepted in Science Advances! Grateful to an incredible team & collaborators. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @annaferraioli.bsky.social @maikekittelmann.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @hfspo.bsky.social #ctenophores

Here’s the last major paper from the PhD of @paulknabl.bsky.social. We were trying to understand what BMP signaling does in the sea anemone Nematostella when it is not patterning its second body axis. Check out Part 1 in BMC Biol. 2025; and here's is our Part 2 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The anti-neural role of BMP signaling is a consequence of its ancestral function in dorsoventral patterning

Bilaterian animals with centralized nervous systems have patterns of BMP signaling activity gradient that suggest an “anti-neural” ancestral role, but the evidence for this remains unclear. This study...

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Call for a demonstration, Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 13:00, starting on the Universitätsring in front of the Main Building of the University of Vienna! www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... Please join us and support #Science in Austria! @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Budget – Universities call for demonstrations against budget cuts

Rector Sebastian Schütze: "Enormous reputational damage"

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Americans need to hear this. The administration wants to cripple NSF. It did so by firing all members of the NSB. A significant amount of technological advances that we enjoy is traced back to NSF funding. The NSF budget = 1/3rd of what the Iran war has cost us in 3 months. It's not about $.🧪

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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In my previous post, embarrassingly I posted the wrong link for our collaborative paper with the group of Stefan Gründer on GABA-like receptors in Nematostella that turned out as Glutamate activated Chloride channels. Sorry for that. Here is the correct one: doi.org/10.1002/advs...

Functional Analysis of Ligand‐Gated Chloride Channels in a Cnidarian Sheds Light on the Evolution of Inhibitory Signaling

We uncover a large variety of putative inhibitory ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) in the phylum Cnidaria, the sister group to all bilaterian animals. Phylogenetic analysis suggests a complex evolut....

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Why does learning drop when tech enters the classroom? Because computers train kids to skim. Dr. Horvath warns that we are currently redefining education to fit our tools rather than designing tools to fit how our children actually learn.

dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪

Apply now to join us in December for our workshop "Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective". This will be an intimate meeting (30 people total) and we hope will be a great place to discuss this topic.

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop on Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective, organised by Elena Casacuberta & James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social. Find out more www.biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops

Only 1 weeks to apply (April 7) for the joint Master program on "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" in Vienna. studieren.univie.ac.at/en/admission... Cool program with hands-on experience taught by leading scientists in PopGen, EvoDevo, Evolutionary Systems Biology. Spread it!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Today the EMBO Journal special issue on molecular ecology and evolution is finally published. It was a pleasure coordinating this collection together with @berndpulverer.bsky.social and many outstanding authors. Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Cover art by @munafomarzia.bsky.social

EMBO Press co-evolves with molecular ecology and evolutionary biology - The EMBO Journal

The EMBO Journal - Molecular ecology and evolution are central to understanding how biological systems function, interact, and diversify. A special issue of this journal reflects the growing...

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The EMBO Journal@embojournal.org · 5mo ago

Our SPECIAL ISSUE on MOLECULAR EVOLUTION & ECOLOGY is out! Editorial: @yehumoran.bsky.social, @berndpulverer.bsky.social et al Reviews on Asgard archaea, epimutations, giant-virus/host dynamics, smartphone analogy for animal origins… …& many related primary articles link.springer.com/journal/4431...

Superexciting research by @ibaums.bsky.social including our researchers @nicoledubilier.bsky.social & Harald Gruber-Vodicka @maxplanck.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social #Deep-sea #corals harbour yet unknown bacterial #symbionts with extremely small #genomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Discovery of deep-sea coral symbionts from a novel clade of marine bacteria with severely reduced genomes - Nature Communications

Corals and other marine invertebrates host diverse microbes that remain poorly characterized, especially in the deep sea. Here the authors discover a new clade of bacteria with uniquely streamlined ge...

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Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw@idw-online.de · 2y ago

Two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico have symbionts with extremely small genomes. The bacteria can't even produce energy from carbohydrates. @UniOldenburg@wisskomm.social @hifmb.bsky.social @NatureComms @IlianaBaums @PennState @icbm-uol.... weiterlesen

Still about 2 weeks to apply (April 7) for the joint Master program on "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" in Vienna. studieren.univie.ac.at/en/admission... Cool program with hands-on experience taught by leading scientists in PopGen, EvoDevo, Evolutionary Systems Biology. Spread it!

Looking for a #PhD project? The #DEEVA team (biom.obs-banyuls.fr/presentation...) proposes a PhD research project on the evolutionary modifications in the formation of the palps, the sensory and adhesive organ located at the anterior end of the #ascidian larvae.

If you wondered what ‘oidsks’ are - these belong to a species of ‘Haptomonitora typo-didae’. Can frequently be found on the world wide webs.

Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie e.V.@gfeev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

That's it: #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026 is over. Thanks for the science, talks, posters, chairing, discussions, helpers in back & front. See you latest at #GfE2028 for more #DevBio & oidsks for all the fish, plants, mice, worm, flies, frogs, squids, brown algae, human, -oids, whatnots and you.

Die Universität Wien ist an vier von insgesamt sechs neuen Emerging-Fields-Konsortien des @fwf-at.bsky.social beteiligt: Förderungen für die Bereiche #Kognitionsbiologie, #Genregulation, #Nanoplastik und #Mathematik. 🧪👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Mehr Informationen zu den Projekten hier: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Application for our cool joint Master "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" at Uni Vienna and VetMed Vienna is open. Deadline: April 7, 2026! Here is the website for the Master program. Bachelor degree only needs to be completed in September. studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr... Go for it!

👀 Curious about how RNA is shaped inside cells? Apply for a Master’s thesis in the Martinez Lab and investigate the mechanisms and functions of tRNA processing in health and disease ➡️ tinyurl.com/4hxm6x8p

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/