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SFBD_BioDev @sfbd.bsky.social · 6h

Developmental Biology lost a giant yesterday 😔
May his legacy thrive and keep inspiring current and future generations of scientists

www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon Dies Aged 92 – Gurdon Institute

www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 1d

😳😢

James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

www.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 2d

I got it! Macron thinks he’s Guardiola. He implanted constant movement in French politics
Please help us

Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 2d

🙄🙄🙄

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Oct 4 y’all
#oct4 #pluripotency

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 6d

Baguette secondary axis formation!
CRISPR is amazing ! #devbio

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 6d

a cartoon character named spongebob is smiling and holding a shovel in his hand

ALT: a cartoon character named spongebob is smiling and holding a shovel in his hand

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 7d

Can’t complain! Learning to be a PI is a fun ride
I heard you’re coming back to Europe !

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 7d

WoW! Looks super interesting! Congrats Raquel !

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful cover 🤩

Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 7d

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out!

The cover image highlights the work by Wallace et al.,who provide an overview of recent progress in the field of maize microbiome research.

⬇️Links below

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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 8d

Hot off the press!

Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 - Nature Communications

Here they perform a systematic dissection of OCT4 and reveal how intrinsically disordered regions can be used to serve specific functions during reprogramming and embryonic development. This can be exploited to engineer more efficient and specific reprogramming factors.

www.nature.com

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Vincent Pasque @pasquelab.bsky.social · 8d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

X-chromosome upregulation operates on a gene-by-gene basis at RNA and protein levels - Nature Communications

Here, the authors investigate gene dosage compensation in mouse pluripotent stem cells to better understand the process of X-chromosome upregulation. They report that mammalian cells can sense when segments of one of the two X chromosomes are genetically deleted in cis and compensate gene expression by upregulation in trans.

www.nature.com

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 9d

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

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Dre Grr @drgrr.bsky.social · 9d

🚂 😴 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs et utilisatrices.

Pétition à signer ici ⤵️
agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

agir.greenvoice.fr

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 12d

La chouille! Pas entendu ça depuis l’école

Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats Audrey! Super cool!

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 13d

Featured resource: Facebase

In this post, we learn about the data and functionalities available at Facebase @facebase.bsky.social, and hear about new initiatives they are developing.

thenode.biologists.com/featured-res...

Featured resource: Facebase - the Node

Our ‘Featured resource’ series aims to shine a light on the resources that support our research – the unsung heroes of the science world. In this post, we learn about the data and functionalities avai...

thenode.biologists.com

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Roberto Mayor Lab @mayorlab.bsky.social · 28d

Early Career Opportunity
Mentorship & career development, access to world-class facilities, and a collaborative, supportive environment. We are particularly interested in researchers in Synthetic Dev. Biol. Mechanobiology and AI . #AcademicJobs #EarlyCareerResearcher #UCL #DevelopmentalBiology

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 15d

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics

Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

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John Lees @bacpop.org · 21d

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026):
www.embl.org/about/info/e...

We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

EMBL International PhD Programme – Unique in the world and waiting for you!

www.embl.org

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 17d

Compost is a worm specialty

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 19d

Keep calm & Listen to David Bowie

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 20d

Cdh2 helps the segmentation clock keep time

This Research Highlight showcases the work from Xueqi Jia, Akihiro Isomura and Ryoichiro Kageyama:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Figure 3: dh2 protein exhibits a relatively stable gradient along the posterior to anterior axis in iPSM. (A) Scheme of the knock-in strategy for generating a Cdh2-mScarlet fusion protein reporter line. Created in BioRender by Jia, X. (2025). https://BioRender.com/f9n6ph3. This figure was sublicensed under CC BY 4.0 terms. (B) Representative snapshots of Achilles and mScarlet channels 6 h after starting live imaging (105-h post induction). Dashed squares indicate the ROIs for quantitative plot of intensity. A, anterior; P, posterior. Dashed line in the mScarlet channel is used for plotting intensity along the posterior-anterior axis. Scale bars: 100 μm. (C) Plots of the pHes7-Achilles intensity along time measured using the ROIs in B. The purple and green lines indicate the mean of intensities of Cdh2-mScarlet and pHes7-Achilles, respectively, from three ROIs, and the light pink and grey lines represent the intensity from each single ROI. (D) Spatial smoothed plots of intensity from pHes7-Achilles (green) and CDH2-mScarlet (purple) channels along the posterior-anterior axis.

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 20d

My son is watching Goldorak with the signature tune sung in Japanese
So proud ! 🥲

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Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 22d

Venez nombreux, pas besoin d’être millionaire pour aider la recherche. Peu importe le montant, chaque don sera bénéfique !

Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · 27d

🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉
Pleased to announce the start of the Institut Cochin Foundation !

On September 18th at 6 p.m., upon registration come or connect to learn about the fantastic research done at the Institut Cochin @institutcochin.bsky.social , meet the people that do it and call for donations!

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