🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Due to a few last minute cancellations we have a limited number of places left. Please register before July 19th: spatial-cell-id.github.io/scid2026/reg...

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Extended deadline until June 14th. Registration is totally free of charge for CNRS employees (including PhDs and postdocs!) Special features: time for hiking around Aussois! Bring your own data to get advice from our expert bioinformaticians!

Having a great time with past, current and future PhD students! A bitter sweet feeling as we say farewell to @baalberti.bsky.social and @mmasoura.bsky.social who will soon join @halloulab.bsky.social and @nvastenhouw.bsky.social labs and welcome Emeline Gallo who was just awarded a PhD fellowship!

he early bird registration deadline for DrosoFrance 2026 has been extended until July 6th. Registration remains open until September 15th, but only a limited number of places are left. So if you're planning to join us for the french Fly meeting (Trégastel), don't wait too long!

Roland Le Borgne@leborgne.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dear colleagues, The 36th French Drosophila Meeting (Trégastel, Oct 5–8, 2026) website is now online! drosofrance26.sciencesconf.org We look forward to welcoming you in Brittany! Best wishes, The Organizing Committee Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet, Roland Le Borgne

Extended deadline until June 14th. Registration is totally free of charge for CNRS employees (including PhDs and postdocs!) Special features: time for hiking around Aussois! Bring your own data to get advice from our expert bioinformaticians!

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢Join us for the Spatial-Cell-ID #spatialOMICs Summer School, September 13-18th 2026, at the Centre Paul-Langevin in Aussois, in the French Alps! You can find the full scientific program, our speakers, and the application form on our website: spatial-cell-id.github.io/scid2026/ Please share!

Only few days left to apply! This event is relevant both for wet lab biologists who want to learn more about spatial OMICs and get initiated to data analysis and for bioinformaticians who want to learn about the latests developments in spatial OMICs.

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢Join us for the Spatial-Cell-ID #spatialOMICs Summer School, September 13-18th 2026, at the Centre Paul-Langevin in Aussois, in the French Alps! You can find the full scientific program, our speakers, and the application form on our website: spatial-cell-id.github.io/scid2026/ Please share!

📢Join us for the Spatial-Cell-ID #spatialOMICs Summer School, September 13-18th 2026, at the Centre Paul-Langevin in Aussois, in the French Alps! You can find the full scientific program, our speakers, and the application form on our website: spatial-cell-id.github.io/scid2026/ Please share!

SCID 2026

Using Spatial OMICs to uncover cell identity during developmental processes 13-18 September 2026 Aussois, France

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Don't miss this great opportunity!

IGFL@igflyon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

L’IGFL recrute un•e Professeur•e des Universités en biologie moléculaire (CNU 64), UCBL Lyon 1. Enseignement L2-M2 (Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire) + projet en biologie moléculaire des eucaryotes au sein de l’IGFL. Détails: shorturl.at/K5Dno #Recrutement #BiologieMoleculaire

L’IGFL recrute un•e Professeur•e des Universités en biologie moléculaire (CNU 64), UCBL Lyon 1. Enseignement L2-M2 (Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire) + projet en biologie moléculaire des eucaryotes au sein de l’IGFL. Détails: shorturl.at/K5Dno #Recrutement #BiologieMoleculaire

There is a special Current Opinion in Genetics & Development issue about genome architecture and expression and it looks great including reviews by @lennarthilbert.bsky.social @yghavi.bsky.social and @wbickmor.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Happy New Year 2026! This year, Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet and I are delighted to be organising the 36th French Droso Meeting in Brittany, from 5 to 8 October. A great line-up of speakers Mark the date in your diaries ! The meeting website containing all the details will be opening very soon.

Congratulations to Dr @baalberti.bsky.social !! 🎉 And many thanks to his jury members @randersson.bsky.social @arnausebe.bsky.social @olivier-gandrillon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Marie Sémon Anouck Necsulea and co-supervizor @paulvilloutreix.bsky.social

This is so cool! It’s also nice to see how careful genetic dissection of loci is still at the forefront of discovery!

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a really cool work! everyone check it out! congratulations 🎉👏🏽

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

super cool to see this out! looking forward to now read the details! Congratulations, Yad and @mmasoura.bsky.social

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A must read! Check out @blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social and @danielibrahim.bsky.social 's latest work

Daniel Ibrahim@danielibrahim.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What is a promoter? And how does it work? We very happy to share our latest work trying to understand enhancer-promoter compatibility. I am very excited about the results of @blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social, which changed the way I think about promoters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our new story on how broad enhancer inputs are restricted into tissue-specific gene expression 🧬 Hint: Promoter-proximal regions are the key!

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

you must check out @yghavi.bsky.social and @mmasoura.bsky.social's story, who found a similar mechanism in Drosophila. it's so cool if two works align!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Promoter-proximal gatekeepers restrict pleiotropic enhancer inputs to achieve tissue specificity

Developmental enhancers are central regulatory elements that can activate multiple genes, yet how they selectively regulate one gene over its neighbours remains unclear. Using the Drosophila twist E3 ...

biorxiv.org

Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Promoter-proximal gatekeepers restrict pleiotropic enhancer inputs to achieve tissue specificity

Developmental enhancers are central regulatory elements that can activate multiple genes, yet how they selectively regulate one gene over its neighbours remains unclear. Using the Drosophila twist E3 ...

biorxiv.org

In the starting blocks for #EDRC2025! Come see our work at posters 100 and 155 and during the Gene expression in the 3D nuclear space workshop!

EDRC2025@edrc2025.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Only a few hours left before our meeting starts! Are you travelling to #EDRC2025 now? Let us know by using the oficial #EDRC2025 hashtag!

Merci au @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social de mettre en avant notre travail! @baalberti.bsky.social @paulvilloutreix.bsky.social @igflyon.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social

CNRS Biologie@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · last yr.

Un embryon virtuel pour cartographier l’activité des régions régulatrices du génome 🤝 @yghavi.bsky.social @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social 👉 Lire l'article dans @narjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/e41cZQD

📢 We are recruiting! Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies. Please share and RT 🙏

🚨 Our paper is out! 🚨 Check how spatial-scERA can predict enhancer activity in a virtual Drosophila embryo. Very proud of this first step in the research world published in @narjournal.bsky.social Thanks to @yghavi.bsky.social, @paulvilloutreix.bsky.social and all the scientists who made it real!

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · last yr.

Now available in its final form @narjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Find out how we can reconstruct enhancer activity in vivo in the Drosophila embryo using scRNAseq data and Optimal Transport.

Now available in its final form @narjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Find out how we can reconstruct enhancer activity in vivo in the Drosophila embryo using scRNAseq data and Optimal Transport.

Spatial-scERA: a method for reconstructing spatial single-cell enhancer activity in multicellular organisms

Abstract. Enhancers play an essential role in developmental processes by regulating the spatiotemporal expression of genes. Characterizing their spatiotemp

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Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Preprint alert! tinyurl.com/2zkmynsd Did you ever dream of reconstruction #spatial single-cell #enhancer activity in a multicellular organism using massively parallel enhancer-reporter assays? Then Spatial-scERA is the method for you! #spatialOMICs

300 000 signatures dont plus de 200000 en moins de 48h ! L’objectif des 500 000 signatures est possible d’ici dimanche soir, afin d’obtenir un vrai débat à l’Assemblée nationale sur la loi Duplomb.

Honored and extremely grateful to see our project in collaboration with @hilaryashe.bsky.social and @hilsawh.bsky.social awarded an #HFSPReseachGrant @hfspo.bsky.social Stay tuned for exciting job offers!

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · last yr.

🥳Congratulations to the 104 pioneering scientists from 30 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPResearchGrants! 🎉Your frontier research is shaping the future of #LifeSciences! 🌍🔬🧪 🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202... #ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

Thanks @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @criscanestro.bsky.social for having us and showing us all the secrets of beautiful Oikopleura!! 😍

Lovely day at @biom-banyuls.bsky.social So much exciting science on cool marine species!

Poster #5 is a collaboration with @yghavi.bsky.social led by Baptiste Alberti where we propose a method for reconstructing of the spatial single-cell enhancer activity in a multicellular organism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spatial reconstruction of single-cell enhancer activity in a multicellular organism

Enhancers play an essential role in developmental processes by orchestrating the spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression. However, mapping the location of these regulatory elements in the g...

biorxiv.org

On my way to Heidelberg @EMBL #EMBLOmics to present our work. Looking forward!!!

Yad Ghavi-Helm@yghavi.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Preprint alert! tinyurl.com/2zkmynsd Did you ever dream of reconstruction #spatial single-cell #enhancer activity in a multicellular organism using massively parallel enhancer-reporter assays? Then Spatial-scERA is the method for you! #spatialOMICs