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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 5d

Fully-funded 4-year PhD Opportunities available at the @crick.ac.uk , including a project in our lab on human #embryomodels Feel free to share with anyone interested, and apply through the online portal before 5th November! 👏

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Moris Lab | Investigating human trunk development using stem cell-based embryo models

www.crick.ac.uk

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 9d

Two positions available (start Jan/Feb 2026):
- Research Assistant: surl.li/atndnv
- Master Student: surl.li/kgwrni
Deadline: Nov 1st

Please reach out to me ([email protected]) if you want to join us in sunny Barcelona!☀️

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 9d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇

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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 9d

yo scientists awesome opportunity! ⬇️🔥

Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 9d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇

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Rafael D. Acemel @rdacemel.bsky.social · 9d

I think everybody knows but Adri is awesome!

Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 9d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 9d

Two positions available (start Jan/Feb 2026):
- Research Assistant: surl.li/atndnv
- Master Student: surl.li/kgwrni
Deadline: Nov 1st

Please reach out to me ([email protected]) if you want to join us in sunny Barcelona!☀️

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 9d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 16d

Stay Connected with VGZT Season 7 🌍

From Oct 2025–July 2026, join our online seminar series featuring cutting-edge developmental biology across diverse model organisms. Hear from senior PhD students, postdocs, and PIs as they share their latest discoveries with a global audience.

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Alfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · 18d

THANK YOU for many years of friendship, support and for sharing your great Science
La Pedrera #Barcelona
#NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs #Cambridge

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 19d

Last days to apply! Cool project, cool cities! :-)

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Please RT!

We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.

Deadline: 30/09/25👇

www.upf.edu

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Alfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · 18d

With the group that came together @upf.edu in #Barcelona, celebrating 5 years of exploring, dreaming and discovering. Grateful #NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs

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Rafael D. Acemel @rdacemel.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to post my first #JobOffer! I am looking for a research technician to help me build new projects from the grounds up at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
We will use medaka to study how organs can be reprogrammed!
Details on how to apply below 👇
#JobOffer #ScienceJobs #EvoDevo #GeneRegulation

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Luca Braccioli Lab @ UU @bracciolilab.bsky.social · 25d

Ever wondered how to get a gastruloid to grow a head?

The Bulut-Karslioğlu lab figured out that by growing different stem cell aggregates in high and low oxygen and later assembling them, you can get gastruloids with a fully formed neural tube. Check out our "In preprints": doi.org/10.1242/dev....

In preprints: gastruloids get (a)head

A major breakthrough in the field of mammalian embryology is the development of stem-cell based embryo models. Derived from pluripotent stem cells, such as embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent ...

doi.org

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 26d

🚀 Looking for a Bioinformatician / Data Scientist to join our crew and explore regeneration through single-cell genomics & evolutionary biology! @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
📩 Questions? Contact us ✉️
🔗 Apply here: www.mpg.de/25243280/bio...

Bioinformatician / Data Scientist (m/f/d)

Bioinformatician / Data scientist position in the Aztekin Lab focusing on Structural Regeneration and support the working group together with the other members

www.mpg.de

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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 Job Alert: we seek a Lab Manager for @juliabatki.bsky.social's new group (start Mar 2026), which will study cell fate regulation during organ development. Join the Batki's group to drive experiments & lab operations! Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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Julia Batki @juliabatki.bsky.social · 27d

I am excited to announce that we are looking for a Lab Manager @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. If you want to be part of a growing team investigating development and tissue formation, and are enthusiastic about helping set up a new lab, please check out the role:

www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 26d

🧬 Els oòcits humans “s’apaguen” per protegir-se

➡️Un estudi del #CRGenomica revela que els òvuls humans redueixen l’activitat dels sistemes de neteja quan maduren.

Aquesta aturada parcial podria ser la clau per mantenir-se vius i sans.

ℹ️T'ho expliquem:

Els oòcits humans s'apaguen per protegir-se - El·lipse

Aquesta imatge, de Gabriele Zaffagnini del Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG), mostra un oòcit humà fixat i immunotenyit. Les mitocondries es mostren en taronja i el citoesquelet d’actina es mostra en verd. L’ADN es mostra en blau clar. La imatge és part d’un estudi recent realitzat pel laboratori d’Elvan Böke que va mostrar que els […]

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 28d

📣 New preprint! We present SpinePy, a modular framework that enables automated 3D spatiotemporal quantification of #gastruloids & other multicellular in vitro systems. Spearheaded by @cryaaa.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Check out his thread 👇 & the paper:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · Sep 10

Understanding how embryos build themselves requires studying developmental trajectories. This is beautiful work from @santoslab.bsky.social!

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Sep 10

Researchers have found that early embryonic cells start to specialise via converging developmental paths, rather than following linear trajectories as was previously believed.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Converging development: how cell paths unite in the embryo

By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells – early embryonic cells that give rise to tissues such as the gut and lungs – originate from multipl...

www.crick.ac.uk

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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · Sep 9

Have you ever wondered what happens with your microvessels after exposure to high temperature in fever? In this preprint former postdoc (ans soon to be PI) Viola Introini found that high temperatures cleaves glycocalyx , having severe consequences in malaria www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Febrile temperature enhances Plasmodium falciparum cytoadhesion by disrupting the endothelial glycocalyx

Fever, a universal host defense in infection and inflammation, paradoxically contributes to neurological complications in malaria. While febrile temperatures enhance the expression of parasite virulen...

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Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am deeply honoured to have been recognized by the European Research Council with a #StartingGrant. @erc.europa.eu

With this support, my team and I will launch #MOVIOLA. Our goal is to understand how human neural progenitors decide their fate during brain development.

Two life sciences ERC Starting Grants at EPFL

Milena Schuhmacher and Gioele La Manno at EPFL’s School of Life Sciences have received European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants. Former EPFL researcher Can Aztekin (now at Max Planck), is also ...

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Hsiu-Chuan Lin @hsiuchuanlin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thrilled to share that our group will be supported by an ERC Starting Grant! 🚀

With the project 'DECIPHER', we will decode and perturb gene regulation to engineer human cell subtypes, niches, and maturation.

We’ll soon be recruiting at all levels — stay tuned for opportunities to join us!

Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · Sep 4

🎉 Two @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants awarded to CRG researchers! DECODE-PMD @markushopfler.bsky.social explores how half-made proteins can trigger deletion of their own mRNA. DECIPHER @hsiuchuanlin.bsky.social decodes gene networks to program precise, mature human brain cells #ERCStG
Read more 👇👇👇

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great news Can, vivid congratulations!! What an year, super deserved!

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Uoooo congratulations Juliane!!! Keep rocking!!🤟🤟🤟

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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de · Aug 26

Congratulations to Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu on receiving the GSCN Young Investigator Award 2025! The award recognizes her lab’s research on dormancy.
Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-gs...

@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social

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