Periklis Paganos
@perievodevo.bsky.social
Animal evolution from a cell type perspective, evolution of organogenesis, gene regulatory networks in evolution and development, echinoderms
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I am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Researchers discover an "all-body brain" in sea urchins - @mfnberlin.bsky.social
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Researchers discover an “all-body brain” in sea urchins
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an “...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Researchers discover an "all-body brain" in sea urchins - @mfnberlin.bsky.social
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Our study, just published in #ScienceAdvances and funded by @hfspo.bsky.social, explores the post metamorphic cell composition of the sea urchin juvenile, revealing that its body is head-like. Long considered brainless creatures, they’re all brain instead!
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Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system
A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Our study, just published in #ScienceAdvances and funded by @hfspo.bsky.social, explores the post metamorphic cell composition of the sea urchin juvenile, revealing that its body is head-like. Long considered brainless creatures, they’re all brain instead!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thrilled to share my newest perspective article with @arnonelab.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social
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In preprints: cell type-specific gene regulation through the lens of echinoderms
One of the most intriguing questions in developmental biology is how a single cell, the zygote, gives rise to hundreds or millions of distinct cell types during embryogenesis. Decades of research have...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thrilled to share my newest perspective article with @arnonelab.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social
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Our lab studies how animals regenerate their body, e.g. how crustaceans regenerate broken legs. One of our aims is to understand if regeneration re-uses the gene networks that built the legs in the first place. Arthur Monternier, an artist in our team, captured the question in this cartoon.
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our lab studies how animals regenerate their body, e.g. how crustaceans regenerate broken legs. One of our aims is to understand if regeneration re-uses the gene networks that built the legs in the first place. Arthur Monternier, an artist in our team, captured the question in this cartoon.
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First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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📣 II Edition of the International Summer School “The Systems Biology Approach to Discover Marine Life: From a Big Eye to a Microscopic Picture”
📍 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn / Darwin-Dohrn Museum, Naples (Italy)
🗓️ 27–30 October 2025
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📍 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn / Darwin-Dohrn Museum, Naples (Italy)
🗓️ 27–30 October 2025
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June 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📣 II Edition of the International Summer School “The Systems Biology Approach to Discover Marine Life: From a Big Eye to a Microscopic Picture”
📍 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn / Darwin-Dohrn Museum, Naples (Italy)
🗓️ 27–30 October 2025
isssb2022.wixsite.com/isssystemsbi...
📍 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn / Darwin-Dohrn Museum, Naples (Italy)
🗓️ 27–30 October 2025
isssb2022.wixsite.com/isssystemsbi...
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Our brittle star patterning study is now out at EvoDevo! 🥳
doi.org/10.1186/s132...
@lowelab.bsky.social
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@lowelab.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Excited to welcome @mariacocurullo.bsky.social to the Tessmar-Raible lab, who secured a prestigious #MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship to explore how monthly timing shapes brain #plasticity in Platynereis dumerilii — and how light pollution at night may disrupt it.
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Excited to welcome @mariacocurullo.bsky.social to the Tessmar-Raible lab, who secured a prestigious #MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship to explore how monthly timing shapes brain #plasticity in Platynereis dumerilii — and how light pollution at night may disrupt it.
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
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Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!
May 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!
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Less than a week left to register and submit an abstract ‼️
Come & join us!
Come & join us!
May 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Less than a week left to register and submit an abstract ‼️
Come & join us!
Come & join us!
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Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
May 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Guys another fantastic opportunity, in a fantastic environment, wonderful PI and with one of the most promising new experimental systems!!Apply NOW!
Do you want to unravel the function of fluorescent cells in marine organisms?
Join the Annunziata lab @szn.it for a PhD project exploring embryonic origins, function and biotechnological potential of fluorescent cell type in sea cucumbers!
To apply: www.szn.it/.../ph-d-pro...
Join the Annunziata lab @szn.it for a PhD project exploring embryonic origins, function and biotechnological potential of fluorescent cell type in sea cucumbers!
To apply: www.szn.it/.../ph-d-pro...
May 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Guys another fantastic opportunity, in a fantastic environment, wonderful PI and with one of the most promising new experimental systems!!Apply NOW!
Don’t hesitate!!! Amazing project and team and fantastic mentor!!! Apply NOW!
Do you want to understand how developmental programs are encoded in animal genomes? Join our lab at the @szndohrn.bsky.social for a PhD project to unravel the developmental dynamics in sea urchins during the metamorphosis from larva to juvenile.
Deadline JUNE 14th!
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Deadline JUNE 14th!
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May 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Don’t hesitate!!! Amazing project and team and fantastic mentor!!! Apply NOW!
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Single Nucleus Profiling Highlights the All-Brain Echinoderm Nervous System https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644250v1
March 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Single Nucleus Profiling Highlights the All-Brain Echinoderm Nervous System https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644250v1
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Molecular evidence for pre-chordate origins of ovarian cell types and neuroendocrine control of reproduction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644836v1
March 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Molecular evidence for pre-chordate origins of ovarian cell types and neuroendocrine control of reproduction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644836v1
Also a blast from the past! Another preprint is now available from my first postdoc in the @arnonelab.bsky.social at @szndohrn.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Also a blast from the past! Another preprint is now available from my first postdoc in the @arnonelab.bsky.social at @szndohrn.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint from my Postdoc in Zak Swartz’s lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social, in collaboration with Carsten Wolff and @. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New preprint from my Postdoc in Zak Swartz’s lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social, in collaboration with Carsten Wolff and @. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.30.626178v1
Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.30.626178v1
Despite the growing abundance of sequenced animal genomes, we only have detailed knowledge of regula
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December 1, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.30.626178v1
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Thrilled to share this new work resulting from a great collaboration of my lab with the labs of Ignacio Maeso and Veronica Hinman, started with the dear José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta many years ago. Take a look!
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Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Despite the growing abundance of sequenced animal genomes, we only have detailed knowledge of regulatory organization for a handful of lineages, particularly flies and vertebrates. These two groups of...
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December 1, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Thrilled to share this new work resulting from a great collaboration of my lab with the labs of Ignacio Maeso and Veronica Hinman, started with the dear José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta many years ago. Take a look!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...