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Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 2d

#ScienceWithAView is back for Season 2

5️⃣ new episodes, each featuring 2 experts, to take you through the latest #PRBB research in cancer, genetics, Alzheimer’s, startups, and the connections between diet and mental health.

📅New episode every Thursday in November

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Talya Dayton, PhD @talyadayton.bsky.social · 3d

Our EMBL Barcelona lab is at #EESOrgan 2025! @embl.org
For the latest on #organoid models of #neuroendocrine #lungcancer don't miss posters 109 & 133 TODAY by Andrea Garcia & Heleen Jüngen
TOMORROW see posters 68, 80, 168, and 208 by Noah Candeli, Andrés Marco, Marina Cuenca, & Jackie Severino

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Marina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · 3d

Happy to present for the first time my postdoc project, characterizing airway organoid architecture at the EMBO organoid conference #EESOrgan Stop by on Friday on poster #80!
@events.embl.org

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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 5d

Pre-print alert 🚨
We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria?

The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain.

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Innate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum disrupt the blood-brain barrier

Plasmodium falciparum accumulation at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a hallmark of cerebral malaria, a life-threatening complication. Conversely, the contribution of the immune response to vascular ...

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · Sep 15

Join us for hands-on training in Cancer Genomic Epidemiology! #CancerEpi2026

Gain the expertise to use the tools and approaches to detect cancer mutations, and inform equitable prevention.

🗓️ 16-18 February 2026
Apply by 3 November - bursaries available

📎 bit.ly/41mRDnD
#OncSky #GeneSky 🧪🖥️🧬

Wellcome Connecting Science
Cancer Genomic Epidemiology 2026
Course dates: 16-18 February
Location: Wellcome Genome Campus, UK
Application deadline: 3 November 2025

Apply now

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Aug 11

@cuencam15.bsky.social synthesizes what was said today about using lightsheet in research based on her experiences in prior courses, in my lab and now at EMBL Barcelona. #LISH25 #LoPaT_alumni

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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are happy to show one ourt first exciting papers. We have developed a blood-brain barrier model to study the disruptive effects caused by the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

First, congratulations to the fearless @liviapiatti.bsky.social and @alinabatzi.bsky.social

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Plasmodium falciparum egress disrupts endothelial junctions and activates JAK-STAT signaling in a microvascular 3D blood-brain barrier model

Nature Communications - Here the authors show that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt endothelial barrier and activate JAK-STAT and interferon type response in a 3D blood-brain barrier...

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Marina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 Deadline extended!
You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social

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Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop 2026 – lightsheetchile

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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · Jul 11

Pre-print alert 🚨: We have developed 2D and 3D stable iPSC endothelial-differentiation models through dox inducible ETS expression. We demonstrate endothelial identity and used these models for studying malaria pathogenesis research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Talya Dayton, PhD @talyadayton.bsky.social · Jun 26

@embl.org #organoids

Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · Jun 26

🎙️ ¿Podrán los miniórganos del laboratorio sustituir a los modelos animales? En este capítulo del #PRBBPodcast #AbsolutosyRelativos, @talyadayton.bsky.social ( @embl.org ) nos habla de cómo usa organoides para estudiar órganos humanos bajo estrés. 🧫🧠

🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj

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Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · Jun 26

🎙️ ¿Podrán los miniórganos del laboratorio sustituir a los modelos animales? En este capítulo del #PRBBPodcast #AbsolutosyRelativos, @talyadayton.bsky.social ( @embl.org ) nos habla de cómo usa organoides para estudiar órganos humanos bajo estrés. 🧫🧠

🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj

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Talya Dayton, PhD @talyadayton.bsky.social · Apr 22

Want to help shape a young & dynamic research group while using #organoids to ask how #chromatin dynamics, #cell_state, & the #exposome contribute to #neuroendocrine #cancer? Apply for a postdoc position in our lab @embl.org Barcelona! #cancer_models.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Apr 15

The @embo.org practical course on #lightsheet #microscopy is back!

Join us in #Dresden for 2 weeks with #your #samples, try the complete line-up of #lightsheet microscopes, tackle big data image analysis, sample prep, OA hardware & much more

Apply now!

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meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm

Light sheet microscopy

Light sheet microscopy is a technology that enables near-isotropic imaging of large biological specimens over time. It opens new avenues to study biological processes with unprecedented imaging speed…

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Kristina Stapornwongkul @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!

Thankful for any retweet! 🫶

imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

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Talya Dayton, PhD @talyadayton.bsky.social · Mar 19

@cuencam15.bsky.social we’re excited to see you on bluesky and even more excited that you’ve joined the lab! Watch this space!

Marina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · Jan 31

-Recently started my postdoc with @talyadayton.bsky.social at EMBL Barcelona, where I will explore the role of neuroendocrine cells in the growth of human lung organoids, with a tissue mechanics twist.

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Marina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · Jan 31

-Recently started my postdoc with @talyadayton.bsky.social at EMBL Barcelona, where I will explore the role of neuroendocrine cells in the growth of human lung organoids, with a tissue mechanics twist.

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Marina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · Mar 11

Camila Weiss
(@cweissg.bsky.social ) submitted this curious amphipod we captured with Jose Palma and imaged in Chile during the EMBO Developmental Biology Practical Course. Go ahead and look at all the selected images and vote for your favourite!

focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v...

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Ina Sonnen @sonnenlab.bsky.social · Mar 11

How do embryos ensure precise tissue patterning? It’s all about timing cell divisions! Our new preprint reveals how cell proliferation syncs with signaling oscillations to regulate precision of somite formation and growth. Check the full story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alejandro Torres-Sánchez @torres-sanchez.bsky.social · Mar 10

Imagine being an engineer asked to build a material that withstands 100% strain, 150 times per minute—for a lifetime. Now imagine having to build it while it’s already functioning. That’s exactly what the heart does.

Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · Mar 10

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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EMBL @embl.org · Mar 10

Find out how video games helped scientists visualise limb development.

Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪

www.embl.org/news/science...

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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · Mar 10

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are very excited that former Birnstiel Award laureate Kristina Stapornwongkul will return to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social upon starting her own lab at @imbavienna.bsky.social.

www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/researc...

Kristina Stapornwongkul to start research group at IMBA

Developmental biologist Kristina Stapornwongkul, currently a postdoctoral researcher at EMBL Barcelona, will join IMBA as group leader in autumn of 2025. The Stapornwongkul lab will study how the nutr...

www.oeaw.ac.at

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Marina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · Mar 5

Any master students interested in (live) volumetric imaging techniques, organoid culture, image analysis and/or micro-fabrication could drop me a line? Please share :)

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Lucas Sullivan @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 20

Excited to share a recent preprint by Oliver Newsom, where we evaluate the functional contributions of serum for cancer cell proliferation. Inside:

A broadly applicable serum-free media,
Quantitative lipid uptake characterization,
Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Feb 17

Defined media reveals the essential role of lipid scavenging to support cancer cell proliferation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637975v1

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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · Feb 3

New blog post. Thoughts on this first year of being a new PI

gonzales.science/resource-blo...

Year One in Review — Gonzales Lab

One year. What a wild ride. They give you a lump of money, an empty lab space, a course to teach, and a parachute. Before you can even comprehend the purpose of the parachute, you get roundhouse kicke...

gonzales.science

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