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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 7d

Well, we also find increased contractility in the aged embryo also correlates with faster compaction at the 8-cell stage. Could this be a possible metric to see which ones will implant?

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · 13d

Admirez la magie du développement cellulaire des organismes marins !
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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · Jun 26

Bravo...

Rafath Chowdhury @rafathchowdhury.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congrats !!!!

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · Jun 16

Quel est cet étrange animal marin gélatineux vu cette semaine ?
#France3PACA

Avec #AlexandreAlié @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social

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Sommet des océans à Nice 2025. Quel est cet étrange animal marin gélatineux vu cette semaine ?

Qui se cache derrière cette photo prise au large de Beaulieu-sur-Mer dans les Alpes-Maritimes ? Des scientifiques étudient cet étrange organisme qui présente des particularités originales : reproducti...

france3-regions.franceinfo.fr

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · Apr 22

This Earth Day, we’re honoring the planet through the power of genomics—preserving biodiversity, protecting ecosystems, and decoding the DNA of life to shape a sustainable future. Happy sequencing! 🌍

#earthdayeveryday #earthday #earth #genomics #genome #DNA #biodiversity #conservation

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Turlier lab @turlierlab.bsky.social · Apr 23

First post on bsky for a very good news. Very glad to be awarded this HFSP with @chemamd.bsky.social & @baronelab.bsky.social to study the evolutionary biophysics of spiralian early asymmetric divisions !
@hfspo.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @collegedefrance.bsky.social @cirbcdf.bsky.social

Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · Apr 3

Good news alert! We are among the 2025 HFSP awardees! In a fun project developed together with @turlierlab.bsky.social and @chemamd.bsky.social we will study the polar lobe of spiralian embryos. Very excited about the opportunity to explore this unique mode of asymmetric cell division. Stay tuned!

Human Frontier Science Program @hfspo.bsky.social · Apr 2

🥳Congratulations to the 104 pioneering scientists from 30 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPResearchGrants! 🎉Your frontier research is shaping the future of #LifeSciences! 🌍🔬🧪
🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202...
#ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

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Sébastien DARRAS @darras-sebastien.bsky.social · Apr 23

Looking for a post-doc?

In the frame of the #MSCA-PF 2025 program at @sorbonne-universite.fr , the #DEEVA team (biom.obs-banyuls.fr/presentation...) from @biom-banyuls.bsky.social and @obs-banyuls.fr in #WindyBanyuls proposes a research project (www.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...).

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · Apr 18

imMERsion-Sciences is online !
A virtual dive into the heart of Sorbonne University marine stations & their scientific platforms without mask or snorkel !
By #mohamedkhamla @imev-mer.fr
With the support of @embrc-france.bsky.social @alexmcdougall.bsky.social #nathalieturque

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · Apr 8

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d

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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · Mar 27

Our effort to extend genome editing across species just got a new member. This time, not a marine organism, nor a vertebrate, but the beautiful Dictyostelium discoideum and other Dictyostelids. In collaboration with van Gestel group
@jordivangestel.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Selection-free CRISPR-Cas9 editing protocol for distant Dictyostelid species

Dictyostelids are a species-rich clade of cellular slime molds that are widely found in soils and have been studied for over a century. Most research focusses on Dictyostelium discoideum , which – due...

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Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social · Mar 25

And... it's live! In situ hybridization has been foundational for sea urchin developmental biology. Here we report a fully automated method to probe more than a hundred genes using a general purpose liquid handler.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644641v1

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Hector Escriva @hector-escriva.bsky.social · Mar 26

We have a new website at #BIOM. It is still young, but after many years, we are now visible in the net!!!! biom.obs-banyuls.fr.

Presentation unité de recherche Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins (BIOM)

L’unité de recherche « Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins (BIOM) » a pour objectif d’étudier selon une approche évolutive les mécanismes de développement et d’adaptation des organismes. Cet ob...

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Mar 26

#VaSavoir 🌊 Depuis 150 ans, à la station biologique de Roscoff on se mouille pour étudier l’océan et le protéger. Certaines méthodes perdurent, d’autres révolutionnent la compréhension du vivant et des écosystèmes. Embarquez avec notre reporter ! 🐠
👉 youtu.be/ezzrml6RBUM

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Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social · Mar 25

The "superpower" of sea urchins is the fact that a single female can produce millions of embryos. In the next day or so we will share a new method to analyze gene expression methods in these embryos using a fully automated, open platform.

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · Mar 10

vimeo.com/70509692 Single cells with a nucleus, Acantharians, Radiolarians, and Foraminiferans differ by their shells and skeletons made of strontium, silicium, or calcium

#MicroscopyMonday
#Nassellaria #Protists
@biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @SARDET.Christian

Protists 2 ENG

This is "Protists 2 ENG" by Parafilms on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Mar 6

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · Mar 6

🌊 Jenifer Croce chercheuse @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social animera un atelier "Le fabuleux système nerveux des oursins" à l'occasion de l'événement #Neuroplanète @lepoint.fr à #Nice (7/8 Mars).

www.nice.fr/fr/l-agenda/...

Neuroplanète

Le 7 et 8 mars prochain, la ville de Nice accueillera au Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen la nouvelle édition de Neuroplanète, le Forum du Point dédié aux extraordinair

www.nice.fr

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · Mar 3

3D rendering of the vegetal hemisphere of a Phallusia mammillata embryo. The endomesoderm (yellow, blue and red) is in metaphase. White balls are the sindle pole. manual segmentation.

#microscopyMonday #marinelife @imev-mer.fr @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @rdumollard.bsky.social

16 cell Vegetal 3D - 3D model by CNRS LBDV (@faisal)

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International Society for Regenerative Biology @isrbio.bsky.social · Mar 1

🚨ISRB Webinar - Zone 2: Europe, West Asia & Africa on March 11th at 4pm Central European Time 📷 featuring Uri Frank and Stefano Tiozzo #ColonialRegeneration

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · Feb 28

#RésultatScientifique 🔎 Quand la méduse éclaire l’origine des axes embryonnaires ! 🔬

@momotsuyo.bsky.social et ses collaborateurs ont identifié sur Clytia hemisphaerica un mécanisme régulant la symétrie des embryons, offrant un éclairage sur l'évolution du développement animal. 🌊

La méduse, un modèle clé pour revisiter la mise en place des axes embryonnaires

Dans un article publié dans eLife, des scientifiques utilisent la méduse Clytia hemisphae

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · Feb 27

"Les diatomées, joyaux des océans et sources d’oxygène" @lemonde.fr

#christiansardet @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social

www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Les diatomées, joyaux des océans et sources d’oxygène

Sous leurs dentelles de verre, ces algues unicellulaires prolifèrent dans les eaux du monde entier. Leur carapace en silice, percée de pores minuscules, est une des clés du succès évolutif de ces orga...

www.lemonde.fr

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · Feb 21

marine embryo (ascidian/Phallusia) making a gut (gastrulation)...thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team. Cell contours are blue, microtubules that separate the chromosomes are magenta

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · Feb 19

The catshark: a model for understanding kidney regeneration

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@agnes.boutet @julia.morales @sbroscoff.bsky.social @roscoff-collection.bsky.social #marinelife

Postembryonic Maintenance of Nephron Progenitor Cells with... : Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

d regeneration.Molecular analysis suggests a potential link between protein synthesis rate and nephron progenitor cell maintenance. Background While adult mammals are unable to grow new nephrons, c...

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Alex McDougall @alexmcdougall.bsky.social · Feb 13

Microtubules still doing their thing in an early ascidian embryo (Phallusia). Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team

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Ibon Cancio @iboncancio.bsky.social · Feb 12

Last week we published the 1st set of data of our ARMS-MBON long-term marine monitoring program. We announce now...the 2nd PREPRINT
A long-term ecological research data set from the marine genetic monitoring programme ARMS-MBON 2020-2021 doi.org/10.3897/arph...
@embrcspain.bsky.social
#EMOBON

A long-term ecological research data set from the marine genetic monitoring programme ARMS-MBON 2020-2021

Continuing the international efforts of the ARMS Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (ARMS-MBON), we present data from the second sampling campaign, coming from 56 Autonomous Reef Monitoring Struc...

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