John Gurdon was a true giant:
- founder of cell reprogramming;
- founder of molecular embryology;
- unabashed advocate for basic research;
- advisor to numerous successful trainees/PIs;
- gentle human that touched so many.
In dark times with science under attack, let his vision be a guiding light.

🧬 If you’re at #NotchMeetingXIII, don’t miss Poster #36 by our talented PhD student @fabioturetti.bsky.social from the @maseklab.bluesky.social He’s presenting “CK1α-Dependent Phosphorylation of NOTCH1 Is Required for Transcriptional Activity of N1ICD.”
Come by, say hi, and chat Notch signaling! 🔬✨

If you’re around at the #NotchMeetingXIII poster session today, come by to check out Poster #9! 🧬✨
@anna_frontino will be there presenting our shared work on how Jagged1 variants shape liver vascular and biliary development.
Stop by to say hi and chat Notch!

Grateful to the Company of Biologists and @dmmjournal.bsky.social for awarding me a Travel Grant to attend Notch Meeting XIII, starting today in Athens! 🇬🇷
Excited to share our latest work and connect with the amazing Notch community. #DMMgrants #NotchMeeting2025 #NotchSignaling #Notch #Liverdisease

The new Department of Functional Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine is looking for scientists at any level. 👉 mpi-muenster.mpg.de/780013/profil

🖥️ STIM, a new tool developed at Janelia & @mdc-berlin.bsky.social‬, aligns sections of irregularly spaced 2D spatial transcriptomics data & renders them as images to reconstruct 3D volumes of gene expression, allowing researchers to see how all genes are expressed & organized in 3D tissue. 🧬

N35 :)

If you wanna discuss Notch signaling and liver diseases with pronounced vascular phenotypes be sure to pass by my poster n37. #TCTeAC

#TCTEAC @svobodalab.bsky.social

"Fun" with slugs!!!
Only at #TCTeAC

When you’re expected to dance your walk up song
#theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC

Punk alternativeconference
#Theconferencetoendallconferences
#TCTeAC

@itaiyanai.bsky.social is rocking the first special Night Science. His challenge was to explain his science to a 16 year (and a 16 year old was provided)
#theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC

And so it begins!!!! @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social
#TCTeAC

Excited to share our latest work, published today in Nucleic Acids Research:

"Mapping effective microRNA pairing beyond the seed using abasic modifications" - led by a former PhD student, now graduate of the lab, Dr David Kosek, in collaboration with Katja Petzold.

👉 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Hot off the press! 🧬🔬

We developed in utero nano-injection to label & trace the mouse neural plate and otic placode using next generation single cell lineage tracing. We couple progenitors to mature cell types in the CNS & resolve the lineages of cells in the hearing organ:

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Huge congratulations!!! 🎉Amazing work as always.

Man... If only my results looked as good as Homer does in this picture 😅

Check out the new paper from our lab that is now out @EmboMolMed
A very nice collaboration that I was lucky to be a part involving development biologists, hepatologists and immunologist. For more about the paper check the nice recap 👇

x.com/JanMasekLab/st…

If you are around at the #IVBM2024, come and stop by poster 02.081 where I will present my joint project with @anna_frontino94 introducing two new mouse strains with mutations in Jag1 from patients with ALGS and biliary atresia that have pronounced vascular phenotypes.

#IVBM2024 is about to start! Thank you @DMM_Journal for granting me with one of the #DMMgrants to allow me to be present at @IVBM2024

Dunno what this cult's about, but I, too, salute it