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EVBO @evborg.bsky.social · 2d

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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @kawresearch.bsky.social · 16d

Kaska Koltowska @uu.se har identifierat unika DNA-sekvenser som aktiveras när lymfkärl bildas. Hon hoppas nu att hennes kommande forskning ska avslöja nya dolda hemligheter om hur lymfkärl bildas #forskning #medicin #lymfödem @lymphaticslab.bsky.social tinyurl.com/muap24vj

Utforskar lymfsystemets djupaste hemligheter | Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse

Kaska Koltowska har identifierat unika DNA-sekvenser som aktiveras när lymfkärl bildas. Hon hoppas nu att hennes kommande forskning ska avslöja nya dolda hemligheter om hur lymfkärl bildas.

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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @kawresearch.bsky.social · 16d

Kaska Koltowska @uu.se has identified unique DNA sequences, enhancers, which are active in lymphatic vessels. She hopes that new research will reveal new hidden secrets of the lymphatic vessel formation #research #lymphedema #medicine @lymphaticslab.bsky.social
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Exploring the innermost secrets of the lymphatic system | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Kaska Koltowska has identified unique DNA sequences, enhancers, which are active in lymphatic vessels. She hopes that new research will reveal new hidden secrets of the lymphatic vessel formation.

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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · Aug 18

Final call: Applications close September 2! KI is recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

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Rui Benedito @ruibenedito.bsky.social · Jun 26

The new Department of Functional Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine is looking for scientists at any level. 👉 mpi-muenster.mpg.de/780013/profil

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Makinen lab - Lymphatic Biology and Pathology @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social · Jul 1

I am honoured to be elected as a Member of EMBO and look forward to contributing to its mission and community!

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

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Nature Cardiovascular Research @natcardiovascres.nature.com · Jul 15

❤️Our July issue is out❤️Discover an Angiopoietin-TIE2-dependent circuit promoting venous malformations, complex disease modelling in cardiac organoids, regulation of cardiac homeostasis by methyonil tRNA synthetase, and more!

www.nature.com/natcardiovas...

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Kevin Thiessen, PhD @kevinthiessen.bsky.social · Jun 26

After 7 years and a lot of memories, I've finally decided to retire Zebrafish Rock! on social media. I really want to say it was always positive but I've had a tumultuous experience with the account. Those that make the community more toxic continue to be promoted to positions of power. 1/4

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Kaska Koltowska @lymphaticslab.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you Kevin for all your hard work, you and the team did a fantastic job! ZR will be missed here, but we are very lucky to have Slack! See you there! 😆

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EVBO @evborg.bsky.social · Jun 13

#EVBOSeminarSeries Moderated by Joanna Kalucka. Speakers: Ralf Adams and Mariona Graupera. ⏰When: Wednesday, 18th June 2025, 3PM EU time (2PM UK). Place: online. See you there! For registration evbo.org

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Miguel Torres @miguel-torres-1963.bsky.social · May 27

Here we study the origin of the cardiac cell lineages in the mouse embryo. Separate but coordinated lineages independently specified at gastrulation generate the myocardium and endocardium. Credits: Miquel Sendra & coll: Jorge Dominguez, K. McDole and L. Guinard
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Vascular Signaling and Sensing Lab @vascsensinglab.bsky.social · Apr 24

Welcome to Toulouse 🇫🇷 for the first #EuropeanLymphaticSymposium - we had a fantastic first day with exciting #lymphatic science by @karinayaniv.bsky.social @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social, Kathleen Caron and many others.

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Ben Hogan @benjhogan.bsky.social · Mar 21

A group leader position is open at Peter Mac in Melbourne, Australia!
Join us! Applications until May 5.
👇👇

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Group Leader - Melbourne (Suburb), Greater Melbourne (Inner) (AU) job with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | 12837590

Peter Mac is recruiting a Group Leader to increase the capacity and efficiency of our “discovery to translation” cancer research pipeline.

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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · Apr 8

Online #DevBio seminar from @liu.se

Save the date 👇 @swedbo.bsky.social

🕕 Wed April 23rd 12:30-13:30 (CET)

Assoc Prof @ppagella86.bsky.social on Oral Tissues & Disease Models
&
Prof. Neil Lagali on PAX6 and eye development

Link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/6577579032...

Passcode is given upon request!

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · Apr 8

See a short video summary of the study by @zebrafish007.bsky.social: youtu.be/jEChI8XE_0g

The axillary lymphoid organ is an external, experimentally accessible immune organ in the zebrafish

Original paper: https://rupress.org/jem/article/222/6/e20241435/277359/The-axillary-lymphoid-organ-is-an-externalVideo summary by Daniel Castranova (Eunice K...

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · Apr 7

The heart's system of lymphatic vessels develop in the epicardium initiated by signalling of VEGFC & D

📷 Ester de la Cruz et al @miguel-torres-1963.bsky.social
CNIC Madrid in @emboreports.org

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

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Ulvmar lab @ulvmarlab.bsky.social · Apr 6

Excellent opportunity for researchers within 7 years from PhD 👋 for a six-year career-development position! 🍀Establish your research group at Uppsala University - inflammation in cancer, in chronic inflammatory diseases or autoimmunity - vessels - immune cells - tissue uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Associate Senior Lecturer (SciLifeLab Fellow) in inflammation research

The Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) is a national center for leading edge technological infrastructures that supports large-scale data and hypothesis-driven research in the field of molecular

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Olov Andersson @o-andersson-lab.bsky.social · Apr 4

Great opportunity & startup for someone that wants to start their lab studying inflammation/immune system (perhaps in metabolism, diabetes or the islet...) external/international candidates are wanted:
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Associate Senior Lecturer (SciLifeLab Fellow) in inflammation research

The Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) is a national center for leading edge technological infrastructures that supports large-scale data and hypothesis-driven research in the field of molecular

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Kaska Koltowska @lymphaticslab.bsky.social · Mar 22

Great to see it out! Absolutely beautiful!! A must-read!!!!! 🤩

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Makinen lab - Lymphatic Biology and Pathology @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social · Mar 20

www.youtube.com/watch?v=seh5...

Why humans have puzzle-shaped cells

YouTube video by nature video

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Makinen lab - Lymphatic Biology and Pathology @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social · Mar 20

If you’re curious about why lymphatic endothelial cells have their jigsaw puzzle-like shape,
check out our paper
@Nature
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Dynamic cytoskeletal regulation of cell shape supports resilience of lymphatic endothelium

Nature - Dynamic cytoskeletal regulation of lymphatic endothelial cell shape, induced by isotropic stretch and crucial for dermal lymphatic capillary function, is identified and found to result...

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EVBO @evborg.bsky.social · Feb 26

Did you book? Places are filling up!
Registration NOW OPEN - EVBO Summer School!
10-11 June 2025 | Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland
The summer school will be preceded by the excellent and free-of-charge Wihuri Research Symposium on Cardiovascular Biology!
More info here: https://buff.ly/42I9fvY

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Kaska Koltowska @lymphaticslab.bsky.social · Feb 10

🤩 Excited to share our protocol for computationally averaging confocal images of zebrafish lymphatic vessels to identify phenotypes! 🐟🔬 Check it out in Star Protocols 👉 star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4030

#Zebrafish #Microscopy #StarProtocols

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Miikka Vikkula @mvikkula.bsky.social · Feb 6

International Conference on Vascular Anomalies: Translating basic research into new therapies (VAC 2025)! : lnkd.in/e6_BbzQF. Don't miss the event. The congress networking dinner nearly sold out! A few seats left for congress participation. lnkd.in/dzTfFVej
#VASCAPA #HEVAS #CMTC #EVBO #ISSVA

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SFB1348 @sfb1348.bsky.social · Jan 17

We have an exciting line-up of speakers for our @sfb1348.bsky.social meeting "Cellular Interfaces across Scales: from Molecules to Tissue Dynamics" from May 7 - 9, 2025. Registration will start on February 1, 2025. More information: crc1348-conference.ycode.site

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