Christian Mosimann
@chrmosimann.bsky.social
Johnson Chair/Assoc. Prof., Peds DevBio @ CU Anschutz:
#zebrafish, #devbio, heart disease, lateral plate mesoderm, #evodevo, imaging, transgenesis, et al.
#MobileOfficeViews | #AlwaysBeWriting | guitars | Colorado | #SwissAbroad 🧪
#zebrafish, #devbio, heart disease, lateral plate mesoderm, #evodevo, imaging, transgenesis, et al.
#MobileOfficeViews | #AlwaysBeWriting | guitars | Colorado | #SwissAbroad 🧪
Pinned
Out @natcomms.nature.com:
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
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One and see us at West 106!
#AAASmtg
#AAASmtg
Tomorrow, we will be hosting a panel at the 2026 AAAS Annual Meeting in Phoenix. Our associate Leonor Sierra, will be joined by Michael Meth, Elisabeth Bik, and Rodrigo Pérez Ortega.
@aaas.org @elisabethbik.bsky.social @rpocisv.bsky.social
@aaas.org @elisabethbik.bsky.social @rpocisv.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
One and see us at West 106!
#AAASmtg
#AAASmtg
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Guess who’s turning 217 today? It’s Charles Darwin! 🥳
Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’.
Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇
Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’.
Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Guess who’s turning 217 today? It’s Charles Darwin! 🥳
Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’.
Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇
Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’.
Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇
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Pale winter leaves/unfurling.🌱
February 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Pale winter leaves/unfurling.🌱
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The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Gopal Kushawah @gopalkushawah.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Register today and join us. bit.ly/46K9iss #SDBPostdocSeminar
February 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Gopal Kushawah @gopalkushawah.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Register today and join us. bit.ly/46K9iss #SDBPostdocSeminar
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Applications are now open for funded ECR places at our Workshop 'Integrating Multi-Modal, Multi-Scale Models of Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms', organised by Jennifer Davis, Christine Mummery & Beth Pruitt. Find out more & apply to attend: biologists.com/workshops/no...
@sharday-penn.bsky.social
@sharday-penn.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Applications are now open for funded ECR places at our Workshop 'Integrating Multi-Modal, Multi-Scale Models of Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms', organised by Jennifer Davis, Christine Mummery & Beth Pruitt. Find out more & apply to attend: biologists.com/workshops/no...
@sharday-penn.bsky.social
@sharday-penn.bsky.social
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Happy to share this new, very intentional chapter. I have left UCLA after 14 years to join the University of Colorado Anschutz as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurosurgery and the inaugural Marsico Chair in Excellence in Functional Precision Medicine/n
news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/cu-ansc...
news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/cu-ansc...
CU Anschutz Recruits National Leader to Launch Functional Personalized Medicine Initiative
CU Anschutz welcomes Alice Soragni to launch a Functional Personalized Medicine Initiative using rapid tumor organoid testing to guide treatment decisions.
news.cuanschutz.edu
February 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Happy to share this new, very intentional chapter. I have left UCLA after 14 years to join the University of Colorado Anschutz as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurosurgery and the inaugural Marsico Chair in Excellence in Functional Precision Medicine/n
news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/cu-ansc...
news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/cu-ansc...
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Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word!
@mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
@mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
February 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word!
@mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
@mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
This.
February 10, 2026 at 5:18 AM
This.
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Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
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Let's talk about root beer & why you've probably never tasted real sassafras OR sarsaparilla.
Root beer was originally made by adding yeast to a syrup made from the pulverized root bark of a sassafras tree.
Sassafras produces SAFROLE, a compound that deters animals from eating the bark or leaves.
Root beer was originally made by adding yeast to a syrup made from the pulverized root bark of a sassafras tree.
Sassafras produces SAFROLE, a compound that deters animals from eating the bark or leaves.
a glass mug of a & w beer with foam on top
Alt: a glass mug of a & w beer with foam on top. The foam spills over slowly.
media.tenor.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Let's talk about root beer & why you've probably never tasted real sassafras OR sarsaparilla.
Root beer was originally made by adding yeast to a syrup made from the pulverized root bark of a sassafras tree.
Sassafras produces SAFROLE, a compound that deters animals from eating the bark or leaves.
Root beer was originally made by adding yeast to a syrup made from the pulverized root bark of a sassafras tree.
Sassafras produces SAFROLE, a compound that deters animals from eating the bark or leaves.
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We're hiring! The Hoffman lab at Yale is recruiting for Post-Doctoral Associate and Post-Graduate Associate positions available immediately. Join us! www.hoffmanlab.net/jobs #zebrafish #zebrafishjobs
February 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
We're hiring! The Hoffman lab at Yale is recruiting for Post-Doctoral Associate and Post-Graduate Associate positions available immediately. Join us! www.hoffmanlab.net/jobs #zebrafish #zebrafishjobs
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Save the date! The organizers of the Midwest Zebrafish Meeting would like to personally invite you to attend their next gathering, which will be held June 24–26, 2026, at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Check out this thread for more details about the conference!👇 #zebrafish 🧪
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Save the date! The organizers of the Midwest Zebrafish Meeting would like to personally invite you to attend their next gathering, which will be held June 24–26, 2026, at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Check out this thread for more details about the conference!👇 #zebrafish 🧪
Necessary/sufficient.
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Necessary/sufficient.
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Our EMBO workshop is now live. Visit us in Bath this summer for a two week workshop designed to help you study host-microbe interactions in the zebrafish, and develop the bioinformatics skills needed to analyse the complex data sets that arise from microbiomic studies.
Computational and experimental microbiomics
The critical contribution of microbiota to animal, plant and environmental health is now widely accepted. Progress has been driven by two parallel approaches: in silico analyses of large -omics data …
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February 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Our EMBO workshop is now live. Visit us in Bath this summer for a two week workshop designed to help you study host-microbe interactions in the zebrafish, and develop the bioinformatics skills needed to analyse the complex data sets that arise from microbiomic studies.
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The beauty of the kidney arterial tree for this #FluorescenceFriday. Evans Blue dye labels the vasculature. Image courtesy of postdoc Sarah McLarnon.
February 6, 2026 at 10:16 PM
The beauty of the kidney arterial tree for this #FluorescenceFriday. Evans Blue dye labels the vasculature. Image courtesy of postdoc Sarah McLarnon.
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This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
RETRACTED: Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree
Determining whether sponges or ctenophores root the animal tree has important implications for understanding early animal evolution. Here, we examined support for these competing hypotheses by constru...
www.science.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New preprint out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.
February 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
New preprint out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.
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What happened before the last universal common ancestor? Pre-LUCA evolution is hard to study. In our new Cell Genomics Perspective we spotlight how paralogous proteins open a window onto the deepest chapters of evolution. 🧬🌍
Out today!
--> www.cell.com/cell-genomic... @cellpress.bsky.social
Out today!
--> www.cell.com/cell-genomic... @cellpress.bsky.social
Universal paralogs provide a window into evolution before the last universal common ancestor
Universal paralog protein families form due to gene duplications that occurred prior
to the last universal common ancestor of life. This perspective describes how these
protein families offer valuable...
www.cell.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
What happened before the last universal common ancestor? Pre-LUCA evolution is hard to study. In our new Cell Genomics Perspective we spotlight how paralogous proteins open a window onto the deepest chapters of evolution. 🧬🌍
Out today!
--> www.cell.com/cell-genomic... @cellpress.bsky.social
Out today!
--> www.cell.com/cell-genomic... @cellpress.bsky.social
This, tbh. Similar for "in preparation".
#PILife
#PILife
Been on multiple search committees
For me (personally so YMMV)…I basically dismiss everything that’s labeled *submitted* unless there’s a preprint I can read
For me (personally so YMMV)…I basically dismiss everything that’s labeled *submitted* unless there’s a preprint I can read
You can read more about that experience here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This, tbh. Similar for "in preparation".
#PILife
#PILife
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After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken.
I think we all should:
1. Review three papers for every one that we submit.
2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives.
#AcademicChatter
I think we all should:
1. Review three papers for every one that we submit.
2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives.
#AcademicChatter
February 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken.
I think we all should:
1. Review three papers for every one that we submit.
2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives.
#AcademicChatter
I think we all should:
1. Review three papers for every one that we submit.
2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives.
#AcademicChatter
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the Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing
February 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
the Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing
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This male mail-carrier is wearing mail.
"Mail" (letters & such) is from Old French 'male' which meant bag or satchel. It entered Middle English as "male" but acquired the connotation of "bag of letters/correspondence".
"Mail" (letters & such) is from Old French 'male' which meant bag or satchel. It entered Middle English as "male" but acquired the connotation of "bag of letters/correspondence".
February 5, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This male mail-carrier is wearing mail.
"Mail" (letters & such) is from Old French 'male' which meant bag or satchel. It entered Middle English as "male" but acquired the connotation of "bag of letters/correspondence".
"Mail" (letters & such) is from Old French 'male' which meant bag or satchel. It entered Middle English as "male" but acquired the connotation of "bag of letters/correspondence".