Christopher Thomas
@ovarylab.bsky.social
Repro biologist | Group leader at the Marseille Developmental Biology Institute, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université. He/him.
We use #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚
https://www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/team/control-and-dynamics-o
We use #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚
https://www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/team/control-and-dynamics-o
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🎉 Prix Grand Public – Concours Photo 2025 de la SBCF
Bravo à Chantal THIBERT & Christopher THOMAS, élus par le vote du public !
Merci aux 1000 votants et à tous les candidats pour avoir célébré la beauté du vivant à l’échelle microscopique.
📸 Une expo circulera prochainement... Restez connectés !
Bravo à Chantal THIBERT & Christopher THOMAS, élus par le vote du public !
Merci aux 1000 votants et à tous les candidats pour avoir célébré la beauté du vivant à l’échelle microscopique.
📸 Une expo circulera prochainement... Restez connectés !
Wow! Very happy that our follicles were selected as one of the winning images for the @sbcf.bsky.social Prix Grand Public 2025! 🙌🏼🪺🤩
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Interesting study showing that lack of follicular #patency may suppress vitellogenesis in ovaries of ant workers, restricting reproductive potential of this caste
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November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Interesting study showing that lack of follicular #patency may suppress vitellogenesis in ovaries of ant workers, restricting reproductive potential of this caste
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rdcu.be/ePNP8
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Last call! Applications for the @crg.eu International PhD Programme 2025 in beautiful Barcelona close next week! Join us and our inspiring colleagues at the CRG - an exceptional environment for discovery, creativity, and scientific growth.
Apply here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Apply here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Last call! Applications for the @crg.eu International PhD Programme 2025 in beautiful Barcelona close next week! Join us and our inspiring colleagues at the CRG - an exceptional environment for discovery, creativity, and scientific growth.
Apply here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Apply here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp
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Wow! Very happy that our follicles were selected as one of the winning images for the @sbcf.bsky.social Prix Grand Public 2025! 🙌🏼🪺🤩
🎉 Prix Grand Public – Concours Photo 2025 de la SBCF
Bravo à Chantal THIBERT & Christopher THOMAS, élus par le vote du public !
Merci aux 1000 votants et à tous les candidats pour avoir célébré la beauté du vivant à l’échelle microscopique.
📸 Une expo circulera prochainement... Restez connectés !
Bravo à Chantal THIBERT & Christopher THOMAS, élus par le vote du public !
Merci aux 1000 votants et à tous les candidats pour avoir célébré la beauté du vivant à l’échelle microscopique.
📸 Une expo circulera prochainement... Restez connectés !
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Wow! Very happy that our follicles were selected as one of the winning images for the @sbcf.bsky.social Prix Grand Public 2025! 🙌🏼🪺🤩
Wow! Very happy that our follicles were selected as one of the winning images for the @sbcf.bsky.social Prix Grand Public 2025! 🙌🏼🪺🤩
🎉 Prix Grand Public – Concours Photo 2025 de la SBCF
Bravo à Chantal THIBERT & Christopher THOMAS, élus par le vote du public !
Merci aux 1000 votants et à tous les candidats pour avoir célébré la beauté du vivant à l’échelle microscopique.
📸 Une expo circulera prochainement... Restez connectés !
Bravo à Chantal THIBERT & Christopher THOMAS, élus par le vote du public !
Merci aux 1000 votants et à tous les candidats pour avoir célébré la beauté du vivant à l’échelle microscopique.
📸 Une expo circulera prochainement... Restez connectés !
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Wow! Very happy that our follicles were selected as one of the winning images for the @sbcf.bsky.social Prix Grand Public 2025! 🙌🏼🪺🤩
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🏅 Fourth Place – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
🪰 Pop Art Drosophila! by Jenn-Yah Yu A bold color block print of six female fruit flies in a 3×2 grid, same design, different color combos. A Warhol-inspired take where shifting palettes echo phenotypic variation. 💥🎨 #DevBioArt
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🏅 Fourth Place – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
🪰 Pop Art Drosophila! by Jenn-Yah Yu A bold color block print of six female fruit flies in a 3×2 grid, same design, different color combos. A Warhol-inspired take where shifting palettes echo phenotypic variation. 💥🎨 #DevBioArt
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⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist?
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist?
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
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Applications for the 2026 Vienna BioCenter Summer School Program are now open!
Please share this opportunity with talented undergrads or Masters students interested in broadening their research experience in molecular biology in the heart of Europe 🧬
Please share this opportunity with talented undergrads or Masters students interested in broadening their research experience in molecular biology in the heart of Europe 🧬
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Applications for the 2026 Vienna BioCenter Summer School Program are now open!
Please share this opportunity with talented undergrads or Masters students interested in broadening their research experience in molecular biology in the heart of Europe 🧬
Please share this opportunity with talented undergrads or Masters students interested in broadening their research experience in molecular biology in the heart of Europe 🧬
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Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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What an adventure the last 2 weeks have been! We were selected for the semi-finals and made it to the final of #simfonies_ciencia! We didn't win the final, but we won much more than that. This competition gave us the opportunity to present our project twice in front of very varied audiences (1/2)
We went to the Simfonies de Ciencia @comunicacioaccc.bsky.social final, @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social and Laia de la Torre, and we got a prize!! It was a great experience and we are very pleased and happy to have participated! Always searching for new ways to take #scienceinsociety #SciArt
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
What an adventure the last 2 weeks have been! We were selected for the semi-finals and made it to the final of #simfonies_ciencia! We didn't win the final, but we won much more than that. This competition gave us the opportunity to present our project twice in front of very varied audiences (1/2)
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Are you passionate about the mathematics of data science, computational geometry and topology and want to apply your skills to a beautiful biological question?
Come do a PhD with us!
You will help us understand of how boundaries are established and maintained in early heart development.
Come do a PhD with us!
You will help us understand of how boundaries are established and maintained in early heart development.
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Are you passionate about the mathematics of data science, computational geometry and topology and want to apply your skills to a beautiful biological question?
Come do a PhD with us!
You will help us understand of how boundaries are established and maintained in early heart development.
Come do a PhD with us!
You will help us understand of how boundaries are established and maintained in early heart development.
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We are pleased to announce our next #SEBD2026 meeting! The meeting will take place in El Rompido, Huelva, from the 28th to the 30th of October 2026 #savethedate @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social @ijdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We are pleased to announce our next #SEBD2026 meeting! The meeting will take place in El Rompido, Huelva, from the 28th to the 30th of October 2026 #savethedate @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social @ijdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social
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Our November issue is now live! 🎉
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our November issue is now live! 🎉
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
On the cover, cell tracking in a developing zebrafish embryo visualized using Ultrack. Cover by Alexandre Dizieux, Jordão Bragantini, Loic Royer, Merlin Lange, CZ Biohub. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🌟 We’re happy to share that @adelaljord.bsky.social will be speaking at the upcoming @embo.org Workshop taking place at @icfo.eu next February: "Intracellular Mechanics and Organelle Mechanobiology »
👉 Don’t miss it - applications are now open❗ meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...
@crg.eu @prbb.org
👉 Don’t miss it - applications are now open❗ meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...
@crg.eu @prbb.org
Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology
Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…
meetings.embo.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Want to join a happy bunch 🥳 to organise meetings, outreach activities and other initiatives about developmental biology in France? Apply and/or vote 🗳️!
🚨🚨🚨
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Want to join a happy bunch 🥳 to organise meetings, outreach activities and other initiatives about developmental biology in France? Apply and/or vote 🗳️!
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🚨🚨🚨
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚨🚨🚨
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
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🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
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Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
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🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
Egg freezing, fertility tech and why ovulation is like the Hunger Games.
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
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Tricky questions and challenging discussions, but I hope we communicated the importance of basic developmental biology research and social context when it comes to the #futureoffertility #ivf Available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎤 www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
What is the future of fertility?
Professor Brian Cox and our expert panel explore the science of fertility.
Biology has come a long way, but when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development, our knowledge is still surpr...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Tricky questions and challenging discussions, but I hope we communicated the importance of basic developmental biology research and social context when it comes to the #futureoffertility #ivf Available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎤 www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
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We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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New PhD opportunity studying oocyte biology. Excited about this new direction in the lab.
The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte with Dr Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New PhD opportunity studying oocyte biology. Excited about this new direction in the lab.
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The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte with Dr Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte with Dr Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A versatile cohesion manipulation system probes female reproductive age-related egg aneuploidy - Nature Aging
To study pathways that lead to aneuploidy during aging, the authors provide a system that enables cohesion protein depletion in mouse oocytes, mimicking effects that occur during aging. They uncover a...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microfluidic Platforms for Organ-on-a-Chip Models: Creating dynamic microenvironments for organoid and multi-organ systems
Organoids have revolutionized in vitro modeling of human development and disease, yet their full potential remains constrained by the limited spatial …
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November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...