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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jul 29

How does foxg1 impact pineal gland development? What are the implications for FOXG1 syndrome?

Lewis Hill, masters student, investigates this in #zebrafish. His image shows in-situ HCR + immuno in foxg1,Gal4;UAS,GFP zebrafish at 24hpf revealing foxg1 mRNA/protein with pineal markers aanat2 & exorh.

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jul 18

Human cortical neurons growing in a dish, with their signal-receiving structures - dendrites - coloured in green by Richard Taylor.

Richard explores how translation of mRNAs into proteins is regulated in dendrites and whether disruptions in this process in dementia contribute to their degeneration.

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Ferenc Mueller @ferencmueller.bsky.social · Jul 13

#IZFC2025 #zebrafish #DANIO-CODE data coordination centre is back online. Note changed address: danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

DANIO-CODE DCC

This Data Coordination Center allows DANIO-CODE consortium members to submit and view their data sets annotated with standard metadata nomenclatures.

danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

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International Zebrafish Society @izfs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations to the 2025 George Streisinger Award Winners! And, thank you, to your contributions to the #zebrafish field! #IZFC2025

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jun 24

This week, post-doc Katie Adamson shares an incredible image of a #zebrafish embryo forebrain at 24hpf with membrane labelled tbr2+ excitatory neurons.

Just 24 hours post fertilisation, neuronal cell types are already being born and will come to form the forebrain of this magnificent beast.

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

A 3D view of apical radial glia finding their way in the developing human cortex.

A stunning video shared by @gessicagoncalves.bsky.social who cultures organotypic cortical slices to study cell dynamics during human cortex development.

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Corinne Houart @cohouart.bsky.social · Jun 20

Movie of the week - joined collab of @houartlab.bsky.social & Long lab @kingsioppn.bsky.social @devneuro.bsky.social
@crick.ac.uk
Joining cell identity to cell behaviour in human embryonic brain.
Fascinating >10 days timelapse imaging by @gessicagoncalves.bsky.social
A technical tour de force!

Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

A 3D view of apical radial glia finding their way in the developing human cortex.

A stunning video shared by @gessicagoncalves.bsky.social who cultures organotypic cortical slices to study cell dynamics during human cortex development.

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Jun 13

The last weekend opening of our free #HelloBrain exhibition is tomorrow, Saturday 14 June. 🧠

Pop by for one last visit before it closes for good.

For those who can make it, we’re also open on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June.

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

Hello Brain!

Explore the marvellous and mysterious world in your head.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Corinne Houart @cohouart.bsky.social · Jun 11

Amazing work by Afnan @stochastalive.bsky.social and our lab satellite colleagues @crick.ac.uk, comparing human vs mouse forebrain signalling centres & progenitor diversity in nascent embryonic telencephalon. Outcome of exploration soon on bioRxiv.
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @devneuro.bsky.social

Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jun 11

A look at the developing human embryonic forebrain in 3D!

Post-doc @stochastalive.bsky.social shares this week's image showing a dorsal view of the human embryonic forebrain at Carnegie Stage 16 (~6 weeks post conception). Major regions marked by FOXG1, WNT8B, PAX6, and SHH are displayed.

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jun 11

A look at the developing human embryonic forebrain in 3D!

Post-doc @stochastalive.bsky.social shares this week's image showing a dorsal view of the human embryonic forebrain at Carnegie Stage 16 (~6 weeks post conception). Major regions marked by FOXG1, WNT8B, PAX6, and SHH are displayed.

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Jun 3

Another week, another Houart lab image🔬

This week, it's a 3D image of a multiplex, in-situ of a chick forebrain by @danafd.bsky.social who studies early forebrain development in vertebrates & uses HCR to show the expression patterns of gene products instrumental in pallial/subpallial specification.

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · May 28

This week, Rachel Moore shares a gorgeous image from her #zebrafish neuron culture. In a dish, these neurons can grow long axons (magenta). If you look closely, you might be able to see some RNA splicing proteins (green) localised as small puncta along the axons.

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Corinne Houart @cohouart.bsky.social · May 26

Sounds like a message to my psychiatrists colleagues: Develop Mental Biology🤪

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · May 20

We are so proud of Triona, Stephania, Joao & Vicky for finishing the London Moonwalk for Marie Johansson, a dear member of our lab and the CDN, who lost her battle against breast cancer last June. Marie was a talented scientist and an exceptional colleague whom we miss terribly.

Donate link below⬇️

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 19

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · May 20

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Moi Moi Crew

We are walking for Marie who died of breast cancer 1st June 2024. We have so many memories, her ridiculous dedication to the work Xmas parties, fantastic dance moves and the most inspired costumes, t...

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · May 17

This week's image is by @joseriveraz.bsky.social who's tracing the lineage of progenitors in the human developing cortex.

Here, José shows the building blocks of the developing cortex at 10pcw with SOX2 (apical progenitors), CTIP2 & TBR1(neuronal markers), NESTIN (radial glial fibers), and DAPI.

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · May 14

Professor Corinne Houart, Professor Paolo Deluca, and Dr Darren Williams opens our annual #IoPPNFestival.

This year, our theme is 'Bridging disciplines: brain to behavour', reflecting our disciplinary research at the IoPPN

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · May 14

The #IoPPNResearchFest is here! Join us for rapid-fire talks by IoPPN staff on the latest research in psychiatry, psychology + neuroscience, from the power of belief, neurotrauma and more.

Follow us and @thementalelf.bsky.social for highlights and key messages.

#AcademiaSky

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · May 7

🎧 Bridging Disciplines: Highlights from the 2025 IoPPN Research Festival

The final episode of the 2025 #IoPPNfestival podcast is now live. It features Dr Darren Williams from @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Listen now wherever you get your pods!

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Darren Williams - Bridging Disciplines: Highlights from the 2025 IoPPN Research Festival

YouTube video by Mental Elf

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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · May 9

It has been an absolute pleasure for our lab to attend #ECCN2025 for the first time this year.

We had meaningful discussions and learned a lot from a vibrant community tackling tough questions on brain evolution and development! Super excited for what lies ahead!

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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · May 8

Excited to study brain evo-devo in cephalopods? We are looking for a postdoc to join our team to understand how octopus manages to grow a large brain 🐙

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Corinne Houart @cohouart.bsky.social · May 8

@houartlab.bsky.social first time at the comparative neuro conference. Fantastic #ECCN2025 meeting! The mix of ‘old’ and new technologies brings the field a new edge and the potential for new understanding of brain evolutionary mechanisms. Exciting!

Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · May 6

Differences in neurogenesis across species appear since the earliest stages of development, as shows @cohouart.bsky.social
#ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social

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Corinne Houart @cohouart.bsky.social · May 8

Dkk genes dynamically expressed in the zebrafish nervous system, some in very discreet brain populations (watch this space for brain images).
Malik Missaoui is using genetics to follow behaviour of endogenous proteins and crack their local functions.
@mrc-cndd.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · May 6

🎣 Fishing for Dkk in #zebrafish 🎣

In the lab, PhD student Malik Misssaoui looks for the expression patterns of the dkk genes in zebrafish. Dkk proteins are modulators of wnt singalling, and changes in their expression levels have been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers.

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Corinne Houart @cohouart.bsky.social · Apr 22

My lab’s weekly offering of beautiful images of amazing biology across species.
This week is a #zebrafish ‘kiss and cross’ of the left and right first axons of the optic nerve. Let’s see what next week is preparing for us!
@houartlab.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social
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Houart Lab @houartlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

The first retinal ganglion cell axons reaching each other in the formation of the optic nerves in a #zebrafish embryo!

Image taken by @matthewbostock.bsky.social

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