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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to this exciting meeting

The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 6d

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 6d

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 17d

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Donate to Aide pour deux familles à Gaza, organized by Ghayda Hassan

Bonjour à tous et toutes (english below) Je m’appelle Dre. Ghayda et je suis psycholo… Ghayda Hassan needs your support for Aide pour deux familles à Gaza

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 17d

Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...

Heterozygous pathogenic variants in the splicing factor SF1 lead to a large spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders | Bassem Hassan

Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder.

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 17d

For those who understand Arabic 😊
A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative.

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في ...

الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في تخصص علم ا...

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 28d

Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development
@neuraldevgrc.bsky.social
Register early because places go fast!

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · Sep 1

Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social
labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporal transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial morphology primes activity-dependent circuit connectivity - Nature Communications

This study investigates the developmental transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial quality control. Authors identify the Drosophila factor Mirana, homologous to mammalian TZAP, as a key temporal re...

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EXPeditions @expeditions.bsky.social · Aug 26

“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain.
Discover more in The Brain’s Secret.

#Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · Aug 2

One can only hope that history will judge harshly all those who are complicit in or remain silent in the face of genocide
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I may starve to death before I am able to graduate in Gaza

My only dream is to take the tawjihi exam so I can continue my education. Is this too much to ask?

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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · Jul 14

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social!
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image of web page for Neural Development GRC - go to https://www.grc.org/neural-development-conference/2026/

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Jun 29

There is only one name for that: this is a crime against humanity. Israel is governed by monsters.

Israel is destroying the subsistence of Gaza's population, from agriculture to fishing

More than 95% of farmland has been damaged or lies in areas inaccessible to farmers, as the Palestinian enclave suffers from famine.

www.lemonde.fr

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Solo le pido a Dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvyl...

Mercedes Sosa - Sólo Le Pido a Dios (con León Gieco)

YouTube video by Rio Grande Records

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 28

Intriguing! If true, this would be further evidence in support of the concept of developmental origins of neurodegenerative disorders pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37184296/

The brain on time: links between development and neurodegeneration - PubMed

Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons. In this Spotlight, we explore the idea that genetic forms of neurodegenerative disorders might...

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 28

This was a really exciting and fun conference organized in a lovely setting. It was a pleasure to be part of it. Thanks for having me and congratulations to the organizers for putting it together. I hope it’s the first of many!

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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · May 19

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms?

@nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 19

Very much looking forward to the next 3 days of frontier neurobiology!

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 16

Just drop me an email [email protected] if you want the full text PDF

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 16

While I applaud Europe taking a step to fund bringing scientific excellence to Europe, the ERC’s current success rates at 10% for Europe based scientists is statistically at lottery levels. The total ERC budget should double across the board aiming at doubling funding rates.

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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · May 10

Fantastic opportunity for neuroscience research.
The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders.
750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025.
www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...

ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize | Fondation ROGER DE SPOELBERCH

Each year, the Foundation awards the ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize to a laureate for a clinical or fundamental scientific research project in the field of neurodegenerative diseases and certain psychiatri...

www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 9

Thank you for accepting the invitation to speak and I’m very glad you enjoyed the meeting

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · May 7

New from the lab: @maheandria.bsky.social and colleagues in collaboration with the Hiesinger, Stoeckli and von Kleist labs dissect the sequential emergence of axonal targeting during development in today's issue of Nature Neuroscience:
rdcu.be/ek010

Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster

Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 7

Hot off the press:
The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience:
rdcu.be/ek010

Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster

Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...

rdcu.be

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · May 7

A temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circuits in Drosophila 🧪🧠

@bassemh.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster - Nature Neuroscience

The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circu...

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · May 6

@maheandria.bsky.social and I challenge the notion of a static and deterministic definition of a (neural) cell type and argue for its replacement by a multi parametric probabilistic definition in this perspective
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Toward a probabilistic definition of neural cell types

A classical view of cell type relies on a definite set of stable properties that are critical for brain functions. Single-cell technologies led to an …

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Anna CHRZANOWSKA, PhD, postdoc in The Hassan Brain Development Team
@hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
is organizing a trainee-led symposium @institutducerveau.bsky.social June 2-4

Spread the word!

nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/

Nencki Open Lab

Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning Paris Brain Institute, June 2-4th 2025 Applying machine learning and other models to decode behavioral parameters from neural activity is now a standard …

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · Apr 16

Steve Kerr’s dad, Malcolm Kerr, was president of my Alma Matter, AUB. He was a principled man who was assassinated on the AUB campus for defending academic freedom and it was a privilege to have gone to AUB with a scholarship bearing his name. It’s nice to see his son espousing the same principles.

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · Apr 10

No adults in the room, just crooks:
Stocks dip, investment firms buy, tariffs get reversed, stocks spike they make a killing; classic insider trading. As Soul Asylum put it: there are no secret tricks, no correct politics, just liars and lunatics…https://youtu.be/sLJovBEyCSc?si=Wxl2PldrQsv_l2hN

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · Apr 9

I contend that the genome does not encode a mean and an error around it. It encodes a distribution. I would suggest that even evolutionary selection is on phenotypic distributions. The mean is just an emergent property of the distribution, and thus not in and of itself interesting to understand.

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · Mar 25

Registration deadline is soon! Don’t miss this wonderful meeting 👇🏽
meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...

Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights

Like choreography, development consists of a highly ordered suite of steps and transitions. Modifying developmental tempo can affect final size and composition of tissues, as well as their plasticity…

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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · Mar 22

fascism and faith…!

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