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Group Leader @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social/Branco Weiss Fellow. Studying how to regrow limbs! Alum: @EPFL ELISIR / @Cambridge_Uni @GurdonInstitute EN/TR

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Jan 6

🚨Why can’t mammals regenerate legs or arms like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
Our preprint tackles (part of) this BIG question with surprising findings about oxygen sensing
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉
🐭 vs 🐸 #evodevo #regenerative #cellbio 🧵👇

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 6d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

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We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 9d

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology

McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes.

www.nature.com

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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 14d

Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!

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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminars

📅 Oct. 7th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Invited by the @stemdevevo.bsky.social Lab , @canaztekin.bsky.social will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme « Signaling centers of appendage regeneration: from single cells to species »

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kuba sędziński @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 16d

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 20d

George, our very first postdoc (super brave!), has been central to so many projects. Had a hugely risky project that paved the way for his regeneration work. Proud to share it here again
#PostdocAppreciationWeek 🐸 vs 🐭 👇
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · 20d

Thrilled to share that our Group Leader Prof. Azim Surani, together with Prof. Davor Solter, has been awarded the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 🎉 for discovering genomic imprinting—a breakthrough that reshaped genetics and launched modern epigenetics.

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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 21d

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 23d

🚀 Looking for a Bioinformatician / Data Scientist to join our crew and explore regeneration through single-cell genomics & evolutionary biology! @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
📩 Questions? Contact us ✉️
🔗 Apply here: www.mpg.de/25243280/bio...

Bioinformatician / Data Scientist (m/f/d)

Bioinformatician / Data scientist position in the Aztekin Lab focusing on Structural Regeneration and support the working group together with the other members

www.mpg.de

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Navin B. Ramakrishna @navinbr.bsky.social · 26d

Excited to share our Review on human PGC development covering the latest in vivo observations & in vitro developments, esp. in the last 5 years. Have a read! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
From: @astar-gis.bsky.social @ki.se Warwick University, @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Emerging principles and models of human primordial germ cell development

Summary: This Review examines recent insights into early human germ cell development and how these regulatory principles guide stem cell-derived models aiming to reconstitute human gametogenesis in vi...

journals.biologists.com

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you so much, Marian!! Hope you catch up soon :))

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much, Tatiana!!! Hope all is well :))

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much, Osvaldo, for all your support and our discussions! 🥳

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks, Wouter!!

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you very much, Eve! Look forward to catching up soon :)

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks a lot Cagri!!!! :)

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much, Uri!!

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Aida!! thank you so much!

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks, Kristina!! :)

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks a lot, Thorsten!! :)

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Valentin Flury @flurylab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excited and very grateful to announce that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant by @erc.europa.eu! 🎉 This is a fantastic opportunity to further build my team at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (@mpi-ie.bsky.social) exploring new grounds in fundamental research:

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks a lot, Hassan!

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks, Ekin!

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thats the motivation! 😂

canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks a lot, Pierre!!