Always happy to see Ciona represented and popularized #ciona #ascidian #tunicates

Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his)@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very happy to see this piece on the Tunicate Ciona published. Grateful to @alexandrejan.bsky.social and @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social for the Illustrations, and to @natmethods.nature.com for the opportunity to showcase our ever emerging model organism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We got an unexpected visitor to the Ciona tank! Little dude has his own little container now and is doing well #nudibranch #seaslug #PIlife

Sometimes it pays to dig through the Altmetrics of your papers! My rendered image of migrating trunk ventral cells from our latest paper was featured by @bpodaily.bsky.social as the image of the day and I had no idea 😂 beautiful images are what we're all about! 🧪🔬

Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD@bpodaily.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Transcriptome maturation just before multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors divide confers their distinct fates – sea squirt study reveals 📷 Yelena Y Bernadskaya, Ariel Kuan, Andreas Tjärnberg, Wei Wang et al @nyu.edu in @embojournal.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

The guests of honor have arrived! It feels like a functional lab now. Don't worry, they're getting plenty of light, it's my phone that's too dark 😁 #cionarobusta #newpi #lablife

Our latest on how cells get ready for fate transition! @noahbruderer.bsky.social @margauxfailla.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors | The EMBO Journal

imageimageDuring development, multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors express both cardiac and pharyngeal muscle transcriptional programs. This study in the tunicate Ciona shows that cell cycle-regul...

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When your tank arrives, your electroporator order goes through, and the business office says you're good to place your first #ciona order:

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Fascinating talk today by @danielkronauer.bsky.social about a novel mechanism for odorant neuron fate acquisition in ants, thanks for visiting us here in @umassamherst.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Transcriptional interference gates monogenic odorant receptor expression in ants

Ant pheromone communication relies on an expanded odorant receptor repertoire, with many genes in large genomic tandem arrays. Glotzer et al. describe a novel mechanism, conserved across ants and othe...

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All the parts are here, now comes the assembly! #lablife #newpi #onestepatatime

The Bernadskaya Lab is officially open for business today in beautiful UMass-Amherst! We'll be looking for postdocs, grad students, and a full-time tech. If you love dev bio, morphogenesis, and microscopy this just might be the place for you!