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Lori O'Brien @llobrienlab.bsky.social · 5d

Sharing this excellent review now out from postdoc Sarah McLarnon! Lots of useful info on 3D imaging, quantification of imaging data, and how this has been applied to the kidney. And since it's #FluorescenceFriday, sharing a figure with our own imaging data!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Figure from our review paper showing various fluorescence microscopy images of cells and structures of the kidney

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 5d

"She's my world, she's so rad
And she's the best ride I ever had
She's my life, she's so bad
And she's the best ride I ever had"

youtu.be/qIEF9E46bI0?...

Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 7d

This week at @instcardregffm.bsky.social we celebrate that the one and only Lukas Rehr handed in his master thesis. He explored the role of ageing on the cardiac ECM and microvasculature. All the best for the future! 💃🏻✊🏻
@goetheuni.bsky.social
@cpi-exstra.bsky.social

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Susanne Fleig @sfleig.bsky.social · 7d

Good coffee, good science!

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 7d

When people in the lab know you too well...

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Vanessa Coelho-Santos @vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social · 14d

The #VCOELHOSANTOSLAB is recruiting a research fellow to join the project "BarriersReveal – Unveiling sex-specific patterns in the neonatal brain barriers".

More info & application submission: apply.uc.pt/IT137-25-363

Application deadline: October 13, 2025

@ucoimbra.bsky.social #neonatalbrain

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Mauricio Rocha @rocha-lab.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pls spread the word! We have a postdoc position available in the Rocha Lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social. Join our team to study mechanisms underlying robust organ development using zebrafish embryos and human organoids.

mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine @mpi-muenster.bsky.social · Jul 10

We are looking for a #Postdoc with a great interest in biological robustness to lead a project investigating the self-correction capabilities of the developing nervous system. Join us at the @rocha-lab.bsky.social Rocha lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social!

jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 16d

And the Microvasculature and Extracellular Matrix in cardiac ageing and disease Spain Tour 2025 comes to an end with a visit to @cicbiogune.bsky.social. Thank you very much for having me, it has been a blast 💃🏻
@instcardregffm.bsky.social
@cpi-exstra.bsky.social
@sfb1531.bsky.social

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GOETHE @jwvgoethe.bsky.social · 17d

It is Sunday. Act accordingly.

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 19d

Por cierto, ¡Vivan las cañas en La Fuentona!

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 19d

@leahvanicek.bsky.social and I are back at the @instcardregffm.bsky.social after a fantastic week visiting @jldelapompa-cnic.bsky.social at @CNIC. Always a pleasure to collaborate with them and a real joy to reconnect with so many good old friends!💃🏻🫀🤘🏻
@cpi-exstra.bsky.social
@sfb1531.bsky.social

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 19d

Oi, vascular biology @bsky.app, look who joined the party -> @leahvanicek.bsky.social. If you are into cardiac pericytes, ageing and disease, you can't miss her :) (or rather, because. Who doesn't like cardiac pericytes?)
@instcardregffm.bsky.social
@cpi-exstra.bsky.social
@goetheuni.bsky.social

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De la Pompa Lab @jldelapompa-cnic.bsky.social · 20d

This week we had @gluxan.bsky.social and @leahvanicek.bsky.social from @instcardregffm.bsky.social . They flew from Frankfurt am Main to Madrid as red kites do around this time each year, and brought great science under their wings! Looking forward to learning about how your projects develop!

Leah showed really interesting data regarding HFpEF and pericytes...

...Guille showed how important ECM and stiffness are for microvasculature and ageing...

... and they worked hard to collect MANY samples in our lab.

And this is a red kite, because they are majestic and fly from Central Europe to the Iberian Peninsula in autumn

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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 26d

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Computational image analyst (m/f/d)

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de

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De la Pompa Lab @jldelapompa-cnic.bsky.social · Jul 15

Postdoc ad

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · 27d

Woohoo! Fantastic speakers 💃🏻💃🏻 Looking forward to meeting y'all there :)

EVBO @evborg.bsky.social · 27d

🍂 Kicking off the fall seminar series! 📢 EVBO seminar, Tue 16th of September: Profs. Lena Claesson-Welsh & Hellmut Augustin. Don't miss it!

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Guille Luxán @gluxan.bsky.social · Sep 8

At the @sfb1531.bsky.social retreat with @cbodemer.bsky.social presenting our latest data and cool future plans. We are having fun interacting with colleagues and designing new and exciting collaborations 💃🏻💃🏻
@instcardregffm.bsky.social
@dzhk.de
@cpi-exstra.bsky.social
@goetheuni.bsky.social

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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

QKI ensures splicing fidelity during cardiogenesis by engaging the U6 tri-snRNP to activate splicing at weak 5ʹ splice sites

During organogenesis, precise pre-mRNA splicing is essential to assemble tissue architecture. Many developmentally essential exons bear weak 5'splice sites (5'SS) yet are spliced with high precision, ...

www.biorxiv.org

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GOETHE @jwvgoethe.bsky.social · Sep 7

It is Sunday. Act accordingly.

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Carmen Ruiz de Almodóvar @ruizdealmodovar.bsky.social · Sep 3

As an public outreach platform, linked to our Institute of Neurovascular Cell Biology at UKBonn, the Immunosensation Cluster ‪ @immunosens.bsky.social, and our ERC Consolidator grant @erc.europa.eu‬, together with artist Paula Urrutia @sciart-is-cool.bsky.social, we have created NeuVa ART Lab.

What is NeuVa ART Lab?

www.ukbonn.de

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Captain it’s Wednesday @wednesday.bsky.social · Sep 3

Captain it's Wednesday

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Karina Yaniv @karinayaniv.bsky.social · Aug 21

Happy to see our work, led by @ivanbassi.bsky.social, out today in @jem.org! #Zebrafish help us find new treatments for a #rare_disease affecting #lymphatic vessels! Congrats to all authors and thanks to #MDBRide4Rare, #ODC_UPenn, @erc.europa.eu for support @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social

Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · Aug 21

Bassi et al. @karinayaniv.bsky.social @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social use #zebrafish to help identify new treatments for a severe lymphatic malformation. rupress.org/jem/article/...

#CardiovascularBiology #HumanDiseaseGenetics

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · Aug 24

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

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Stefanie Dimmeler @stefaniedimmeler.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 Excited to share that our latest study on the role of inflammatory activation in endothelial cells during the infarct response is now published in Circulation Research!

Huge thanks to all co-authors—especially Lukas, Till, Simone, and Ariane—for driving this project forward.

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