Joris M. Koene
@joriskoene.bsky.social
Professor of Integrative Biology at VU Amsterdam🇳🇱🐌🐚🔬🧬
BSc programme director
Chief Science Officer of Anitomical
Collaborator in Bio-Art projects
Previously: 🇨🇦McGill Univ. (PhD), 🇩🇪Univ. Münster, Alexander von Humboldt awardee
BSc programme director
Chief Science Officer of Anitomical
Collaborator in Bio-Art projects
Previously: 🇨🇦McGill Univ. (PhD), 🇩🇪Univ. Münster, Alexander von Humboldt awardee
Another great seminar coming up next week!
☕️Bring-Your-Own-Fluid-Seminar|Wed Nov 19th @ 9:15 enjoy 7 min talks:
👩⚕️ Nanoparticle & Maternal-Fetal Communication • Tina Buerkli
🐀 Reproductive phenotypes • Ivana Jaric
👪 social stress & placenta • Juliet Richetto
Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
👩⚕️ Nanoparticle & Maternal-Fetal Communication • Tina Buerkli
🐀 Reproductive phenotypes • Ivana Jaric
👪 social stress & placenta • Juliet Richetto
Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Another great seminar coming up next week!
Reposted by Joris M. Koene
🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:
🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang
Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗
@socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow for some great flash talks on maternal provisioning, milk in utero, and molecular evolution of sperm in the Bring Your Own Fluid seminar @socialtransfernet.bsky.social
Join the online BYOF seminar on social transfers, September 17, 15:00 UK time. Featuring talks on maternal provisioning and more. Details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82976401049?pwd=HFiC0aIOfgYO2YK2TwoLu89v3Bejl1.1 #conference
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September 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Join us tomorrow for some great flash talks on maternal provisioning, milk in utero, and molecular evolution of sperm in the Bring Your Own Fluid seminar @socialtransfernet.bsky.social
If you are at ESEB2025 and interested in the models that we make for teaching innovation, contact me or find me during one of the breaks so that I can show you our 3D print of Lymnaea stagnalis!
Are you visiting #ESEB2025 this week? Make sure to grab one of our flyers at the main entrance to apply for a free trial of our Comparative Anatomy Application!
Also be sure to catch the presentation of our scientific advisor @joriskoene.bsky.social
Also be sure to catch the presentation of our scientific advisor @joriskoene.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
If you are at ESEB2025 and interested in the models that we make for teaching innovation, contact me or find me during one of the breaks so that I can show you our 3D print of Lymnaea stagnalis!
Thanks for the shout out. Remember to also attend the Socially Tranferred Materials session on Thursday.
@joriskoene.bsky.social of the @socialtransfernet.bsky.social talking about his amazing snail system of simultaneous hermaphroditism #socialfluids
August 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thanks for the shout out. Remember to also attend the Socially Tranferred Materials session on Thursday.
Looking forward to presenting at @eseb2025.bsky.social! I will present research on differences in responses to seminal fluid between populations of a simultaneously hermaphroditic snail. I will use @anitomical.bsky.social's model of L. stagnalis to highlight the anatomical location of the prostate
August 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Looking forward to presenting at @eseb2025.bsky.social! I will present research on differences in responses to seminal fluid between populations of a simultaneously hermaphroditic snail. I will use @anitomical.bsky.social's model of L. stagnalis to highlight the anatomical location of the prostate
Looking forward to this symposium with a great line-up at @eseb2025.bsky.social
🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
August 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Looking forward to this symposium with a great line-up at @eseb2025.bsky.social
It is official, as of 1 August I have been named full professor for the new chair “Integrative Biology”. I look forward to continuing my teaching, educational innovation, management and research at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE) at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It is official, as of 1 August I have been named full professor for the new chair “Integrative Biology”. I look forward to continuing my teaching, educational innovation, management and research at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE) at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Please join our exciting and active network if you are interested in socially transferred materials
🌐 Welcome to the Social Transfer Network (STN) on Bluesky! We’re an interdisciplinary community exploring how materials/signals (from molecules to microbes) transfer between individuals and shape health, behavior, and evolution. #STM
Redirecting
doi.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Please join our exciting and active network if you are interested in socially transferred materials
Amazing: 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com at @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social. Check them out before August ends. After that, @anitomical.bsky.social heads out to other places and events to show our teaching innovation (stay tuned!)
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
July 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Amazing: 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com at @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social. Check them out before August ends. After that, @anitomical.bsky.social heads out to other places and events to show our teaching innovation (stay tuned!)
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
#lymnaea #mollusc #squid #octopus #mussel #snail
A nice piece in @advalvas.bsky.social by Welmoed Visser about #testosterone: advalvas.vu.nl/en/science-e... (also available in Dutch: advalvas.vu.nl/wetenschap-o...)
A bizarre, but pleasant effect
Men commit the vast majority of violent crimes and sexual offenses and are more often involved in traffic accidents and fireworks-related incidents. Can hormonal differences be blamed for these number...
advalvas.vu.nl
July 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A nice piece in @advalvas.bsky.social by Welmoed Visser about #testosterone: advalvas.vu.nl/en/science-e... (also available in Dutch: advalvas.vu.nl/wetenschap-o...)
Reposted by Joris M. Koene
Have you ever wondered how our 3D anatomical models are made? Straatgras features an interview with our CEO @miekeroth.com on her expertise, background and our exhibition with 3D models of mollusks @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social until August 31, 2025.
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
June 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Have you ever wondered how our 3D anatomical models are made? Straatgras features an interview with our CEO @miekeroth.com on her expertise, background and our exhibition with 3D models of mollusks @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social until August 31, 2025.
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
Download the latest copy: tinyurl.com/2efv49mv
Reposted by Joris M. Koene
Just 1 week away from our next Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar 🔬☕️ | 11th June
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
🔬☕️ Bring-Your-Own-Fluid (BYOF) Seminar is back! | June 11, 2025
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
June 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Just 1 week away from our next Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar 🔬☕️ | 11th June
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
🔗 Interested in our excellent rapid-fire talks on sperm, seminal fluid and placenta below?!
👉 DM me or comment below for the Zoom link!
Reposted by Joris M. Koene
Mijn mensen zijn nu voor anitomical.com bezig tijdens Naturalis Nights!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
May 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mijn mensen zijn nu voor anitomical.com bezig tijdens Naturalis Nights!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
www.naturalis.nl/agenda/natur...
Als je nog tijd hebt of in de buurt bent, gaat dat zien!
I am looking forward to the next BYOF. Please join us if you are interested in hearing the latest about socially transferred materials.
🔬☕️ Bring-Your-Own-Fluid (BYOF) Seminar is back! | June 11, 2025
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
The Social Transfer Network are thrilled to invite you to the next edition of our BYOF Seminar! What’s BYOF, you ask? It’s either the social fluid you study or that comforting cup of coffee or tea in your hand, your choice! 😉
May 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I am looking forward to the next BYOF. Please join us if you are interested in hearing the latest about socially transferred materials.
The 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com, that I helped develop and verify for @anitomical.bsky.social, are getting great reviews! On show until August 31st @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social in Rotterdam and coming Thursday at Naturalis Nights @naturalis.bsky.social #biodiversiteitsdag
Hier een hele fijne recensie over de tentoonstelling (in het Nederlands)
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...
Van preparaat tot print
Mieke Roth brengt dierlijke anatomie tot leven in het Natuurhistorisch Museum te Rotterdam. Met haar waarheidsgetrouwe 3D-geprinte werken maakt ze de complexe anatomie van dieren inzichtelijker.
www.nemokennislink.nl
May 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The 3D models of science visualiser @miekeroth.com, that I helped develop and verify for @anitomical.bsky.social, are getting great reviews! On show until August 31st @hetnatuurhistrdam.bsky.social in Rotterdam and coming Thursday at Naturalis Nights @naturalis.bsky.social #biodiversiteitsdag
The Simultaneous Hermaphrodite Organisms Workshop a.k.a. SHOW in Edinburgh was great. I am already looking forward to next year’s edition in Lund.
May 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Simultaneous Hermaphrodite Organisms Workshop a.k.a. SHOW in Edinburgh was great. I am already looking forward to next year’s edition in Lund.
This looks like a lovely PhD position!
PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology
May 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This looks like a lovely PhD position!
Check out this exciting PhD opportunity in Paris
PhD opportunity on Oxytocin and social interactions across sexual systems in annelids. Research on the evolutionary conserved role of the “love hormone” at Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord and Vienna University. Please RT! www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/documents/LE...
May 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Check out this exciting PhD opportunity in Paris
Last call for abstracts for our ESEB2025 symposium (deadline: 25th April 2025)
Details: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
ESEB Special Topic Network: www.socialtransfer.net
Details: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
ESEB Special Topic Network: www.socialtransfer.net
Abstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you?
Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social
Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Last call for abstracts for our ESEB2025 symposium (deadline: 25th April 2025)
Details: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
ESEB Special Topic Network: www.socialtransfer.net
Details: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
ESEB Special Topic Network: www.socialtransfer.net
Reposted by Joris M. Koene
Reminder that abstracts for ESEB 2025 are due soon, by 25th April. If you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate or microbes, please consider submitting to our symposium - we want the full range and amazing diversity of STMs to be represented!
Submit abstracts for the ESEB 2025 Symposium on "Cooperation, Conflict and the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials" by April 25, 2025, in Barcelona. Details: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/ #conference
Call for Abstracts – ESEB 2025. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Barcelona. Spain
Call for Abstracts – ESEB 2025. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Barcelona. Spain
eseb2025.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Reminder that abstracts for ESEB 2025 are due soon, by 25th April. If you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate or microbes, please consider submitting to our symposium - we want the full range and amazing diversity of STMs to be represented!
Yes, please join! I am already looking forward to this symposium @eseb2025.bsky.social
Do you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, seminal
fluid, skin secretions or regurgitate? Interested in attending ESEB 2025 in Barcelona? Then please consider submitting to our symposium!
fluid, skin secretions or regurgitate? Interested in attending ESEB 2025 in Barcelona? Then please consider submitting to our symposium!
Submit abstracts for the ESEB 2025 Symposium on "Cooperation, Conflict and the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials" by April 25, 2025, in Barcelona. Details: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/ #conference
March 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Yes, please join! I am already looking forward to this symposium @eseb2025.bsky.social
Join us for another exciting BYOF seminar!
📣 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar
Mon Dec 9 @ 9am CST/4pm CET
The #SocialTransferNetwork invites you to a fun hour of talks, connections, and your favorite social fluid - whether that's a study topic like mucus, milk, or regurgitate, or a seminar beverage ☕️🧋🥛🍹
DM for link!
Mon Dec 9 @ 9am CST/4pm CET
The #SocialTransferNetwork invites you to a fun hour of talks, connections, and your favorite social fluid - whether that's a study topic like mucus, milk, or regurgitate, or a seminar beverage ☕️🧋🥛🍹
DM for link!
December 5, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Join us for another exciting BYOF seminar!
I am excited to share the #Lymnaea stagnalis #genome paper! Our phylogenetic analysis uncovers a remarkable expansion of receptors (GPCRs) in parallel with the evolution of simultaneous #hermaphroditism in #gastropods. We also find specific expression of receptors in either male or female glands.
The genome of the simultaneously hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis reveals an evolutionary expansion of FMRFamide-like receptors - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The genome of the simultaneously hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis reveals an evolutionary expansion of FMRFamide-like receptors
doi.org
November 28, 2024 at 8:21 AM
I am excited to share the #Lymnaea stagnalis #genome paper! Our phylogenetic analysis uncovers a remarkable expansion of receptors (GPCRs) in parallel with the evolution of simultaneous #hermaphroditism in #gastropods. We also find specific expression of receptors in either male or female glands.
Indeed a fantastic workshop thanks to a lovely group of scientists!
Thanks so much to the Lorentz Center and everyone that came for the #sociallytransferredmaterials meeting. It was great fun working with you all. I can’t wait to see the outputs of this meeting. Hint: #principles of #milkcus during #globalchange 😉
November 22, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Indeed a fantastic workshop thanks to a lovely group of scientists!