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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader – AI in Biology

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Right back at you Greg !

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Sep 5

An Elmo variant I haven’t seen yet - thanks !

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very excited to share - the ERC StG is a game-changer for us 🙏 We're going to learn the rules for timing control across cell types in the embryo and we think we can tune them too 🎛️ ⏳📈- reach out if you’d like to be involved !

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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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Aug 13

Don’t know what I was expecting, ha. But my world was a lot smaller before I found a home here !

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Aug 13

EMBL is an amazing place to start a lab and bring new direction to your research program (ask me how I know) - come join us in Heidelberg !

Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...

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Camilla Autorino @cami-autorino.bsky.social · Jun 11

🔔 Proud to share the preprint of my PhD work in the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org ✨

“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#devbio #biophysics

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · May 29

We have updated our preprint on GxE and epipstatic interactions in vertebrates, lead authors Bettina Welz and @saulpierotti.bsky.social, a collaboration between my lab, @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social, Felix Loosli and Kiyoshi Naruse's lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Discovery and characterisation of gene by environment and epistatic genetic effects in a vertebrate model

Phenotypic variation arises from the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. However, disentangling these interactions for complex traits remains challenging in observational cohorts such...

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kausthubh.bsky.social @kausthubh.bsky.social · May 15

I attended the exciting symposium organized by @floravincent.bsky.social @mwdorr.bsky.social, @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & Susanna Coelho

LOTs of takeaways from the Symposium (from biology to climate change)

🚨Here are a few important ones in my listicle below 👇

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · May 21

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thanks for all the great discussions - @msarscentre.bsky.social is a one-of-kind research environment ! and very sunny in my limited sampling..

Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · Apr 25

How does temperature impact development? 🌡️ Michael Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social from @embl.org shared his integrated approach to revealing the relationship between temperature stress and developmental rate in fishes 🐟🐠 Thank you for a great talk and discussions! 👏

A man faces an audience in a seminar room, speaking. On a screen behind him, a slide with an image of a fish embryo, and the caption "you could just record developing embryos..."

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · Apr 25

How does temperature impact development? 🌡️ Michael Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social from @embl.org shared his integrated approach to revealing the relationship between temperature stress and developmental rate in fishes 🐟🐠 Thank you for a great talk and discussions! 👏

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Seungsoo Kim @seungsookim.bsky.social · Apr 25

I am hiring for a research technician role in my new lab at UC Irvine studying how transcription factors control cell identity. If you know any graduating undergrads or postbacs looking for a position, please spread the word! Apply by May 9 for full consideration. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09594

Junior / Assistant Specialist: Kim Lab, Developmental & Cell Biology

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · Apr 19

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · Mar 29

EMBOMtg Paris May 6-9
@aydoganlab.bsky.social @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social @mwdorr.bsky.social @beyerlab.bsky.social @franckp.bsky.social @janereznick.bsky.social @olmedo-lab.bsky.social @perez-carrasco.bsky.social
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Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights

Like choreography, development consists of a highly ordered suite of steps and transitions. Modifying developmental tempo can affect final size and composition of tissues, as well as their plasticity…

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Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social · Feb 11

Want to start an independent research group? ...with core funding, outstanding facilities & a curiosity-driven culture? Join us at @embl.org

We are recruiting across research themes, inc (epi)genomics, human dev bio, predictive modelling & neurobiology👇

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Group Leader - Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated scientist to establish and lead an independent research laboratory at the EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome. EMBL provides a unique environmen...

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Jan 16

Still time to submit an Abstract for the @embl.org symposium on the Wild Frontiers of Model Systems !
If you’re into unconventional, non model systems, bringing more ecology in our understanding of biological processes, Lab-field interface this is for you.
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#protistsonsky

Wild frontiers of model organisms

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Tobias Jores @tobiasjores.bsky.social · Jan 8

📢Job alert! #joboffer #plantscijobs
Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...).

Please share!

artwork by Sayeh Gorjifard (@lampoona.bsky.social)

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Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his) @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social · Dec 23

Xmas teaser: Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc to study "The Hallmarks of Thermal Adaptation" in Aquatic Chordates as part of the EIPOD-LinC program www.embl.org/about/info/p... and the partnership between @embl.org and @msarscentre.bsky.social.

EIPOD-LinC Fellowship Programme – Postdoctoral Programme

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Dec 19

Fish friends and beyond - I’m co-organizing a conference and it’d be great to see you there. Check it out!

Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Dec 4

Join us for a brand new EMBO/EML Symposium on 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' in April 2025 ❗
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
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Wild frontiers of model organisms

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · Dec 10

Behind in posting, but thinking back to sunnier months…we had a great scientific retreat on theory in biology, trajectories, timing and environmentally-sensitive growth with our friends in the Vu lab and S. Werner. Thanks to Soham for the excellent photo!

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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · Dec 4

Join us for a brand new EMBO/EML Symposium on 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' in April 2025 ❗
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n

Wild frontiers of model organisms

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Jeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social · Nov 26

Out now in Dev Cell! scRNAseq trajectories describe the cascade of gene expression as cells differentiate, but turning them into a clear understanding of the underlying biology of a cell type's development remains challenging. authors.elsevier.com/c/1k9qj5Sx5g... (1/)

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