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Margarida Cardoso Moreira @margaridamcm.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in understanding how new cell types evolve? Consider joining our group for a PhD!

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 2d

2026 PhD recruitment is now open.

As well as our main PhD recruitment, which is open to all, we are pleased to be offering scholarships for candidates of Black or mixed Black heritage. Learn more and apply on our website:

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

PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 2d

Thrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 1d

A thoughtful and beautifully written @quantamagazine.bsky.social article about genome regulatory innovation at the origin of animals. Featuring some of our work and highlighting key open questions. Thanks to @philipcball.bsky.social for this fantastic piece.

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Bart Deplancke @bartdeplancke.bsky.social · 4d

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

Dissecting the impact of transcription factor dose on cell reprogramming heterogeneity using scTF-seq - Nature Genetics

This study introduces single-cell transcription factor (TF) sequencing, a single-cell barcoded and doxycycline-inducible TF overexpression approach that reveals dose-sensitive functional classes of TFs and cellular heterogeneity by mapping TF dose-dependent transcriptomic changes during the reprogramming of mouse embryonic multipotent stromal cells.

www.nature.com

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 5d

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 🧵

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 18d

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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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 15d

@jacobmusser.bsky.social @sebasn1.bsky.social @lpachter.bsky.social @plantscientist.bsky.social @saukaspengler.bsky.social @lsaunders.bsky.social @eveseuntjens.bsky.social @jordisolana.bsky.social @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 15d

These discussions started in Barcelona in 2023, and BCA is now taking its first steps thanks to the support of the @moorefound.bsky.social. This is just the very beginning - reach out and get involved: biodiversitycellatlas.org

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 15d

Understanding evolution, decoding genome regulation, predicting gene function, biomonitoring, and much more.

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 21d

It's that time of the year again... Soon the applications for 12 PhD positions at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social will open. Interested in genomics and thinking about doing a PhD? Join us at Sanger. www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

4-Year PhD Programme

The Wellcome Sanger Institute have a 4-year PhD programme and a Clinical PhD programme in genomics and genetics, registered with the University of Cambridge, which are open to UK and overseas applican...

www.sanger.ac.uk

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Nicholas Bellono @nbellono.bsky.social · 21d

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Photo by Anik Grearson. #evolution #symbiosis. #cellbiology. @cellpress.bsky.social

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 25d

Registration deadline for @embo.org workshop EvoChromo extended until September 30.

meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

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ulrichtechnau.bsky.social @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social · 28d

We knew that cnidarians have stunning regenerative capacities. But the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the self-organization of gastruloids of Nematostella surprised us. A story of cell sorting and Notch signaling. Please check out the work of Sanjay's PhD work: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 28d

Interested in joining our lab (dunnlab.org) as a postdoc to work on siphonophores, processes that structure diversity in the open ocean, or natural history? If so, please reach out to discuss a nomination for the Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellowship - yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...

The Dunn Lab

Casey Dunn's laboratory in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.

dunnlab.org

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · Sep 9

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates

Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

www.cell.com

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations Mike! So well deserved.

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · Jul 15

We are looking for a student to continue our work on chromatin evolution:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The project with @seanamontgomery.bsky.social will focus on chromatin state readers across eukaryotes.

More info: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · Aug 30

Bravo Núria!

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ulrichtechnau.bsky.social @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social · Aug 29

Finally, the excellent postdoc work of Emmanuel Haillot is out, where he dissected the integration of Wnt, MAPK and Notch signaling in defining mesoderm and endoderm identities in the diploblast Nematostella. Strikingly similar to sea urchins. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are happy to show one ourt first exciting papers. We have developed a blood-brain barrier model to study the disruptive effects caused by the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

First, congratulations to the fearless @liviapiatti.bsky.social and @alinabatzi.bsky.social

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Plasmodium falciparum egress disrupts endothelial junctions and activates JAK-STAT signaling in a microvascular 3D blood-brain barrier model

Nature Communications - Here the authors show that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt endothelial barrier and activate JAK-STAT and interferon type response in a 3D blood-brain barrier...

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Arnaud Krebs @arnaudkr.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is not a HiC map! Ever wondered if multiple enhancers get activated simultaneously? We measured chromatin accessibility on thousands of molecules by nanopore to create genome-wide co-accessibility maps. Proud of @mathias-boulanger.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social Biology in the thread👇

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