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Stem Cells, Regeneration & Evolution @stemdevevo.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow !!

Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 1d

📢 PhD Thesis defense

📅 October 8th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Tomorrow, Zoé Velasquillo Ramirez @zoevel.bsky.social, ( @stemdevevo.bsky.social Lab will defend her PhD thesis "Unraveling regeneration success in Platynereis dumerilii through a single-cell RNA-seq approach"

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 5d

#Institutionnel 🧬 | En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche ATLASea a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés !

#PEPR #France2030

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ATLASea : déjà 100 génomes marins séquencés !

En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche ATLASea a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 2d

🪱 Planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea) ✨ Planarians can regenerate a complete body from tiny fragments thanks to their amazing pluripotent stem cells (neoblasts) 🧬 A star of regeneration and stem cell biology
📸 Image by Rachel Gandee #ModelMonday #DevBio

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Antoine Molaro @antoinemolaro.bsky.social · 2d

Hello World! It took a minute, but much improved version (thank you peer review) of Joris paper is out
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 2d

Mordier, @antoinemolaro.bsky.social et al. applied phylogenomic approaches to characterize the evolutionary trajectories and selective forces shaping mammalian Schlafen genes.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf172

#genome #evolution

Recurrent Evolutionary Innovations in Rodent and Primate Schlafen Genes

Abstract. SCHLAFEN proteins are a large family of RNase-related enzymes carrying essential immune and developmental functions. Despite these important role

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · Nov 24

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

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Roger Mansuy @roger-mansuy.bsky.social · 7d

La plus célèbre des primatologues, Jane Goodall, vient de s'éteindre à 91 ans.

L'occasion de réécouter son interview par @natachatriou.bsky.social en 2022 pour @sciencecqfd.bsky.social

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Jane Goodall, un singe peut en cacher un autre

Les travaux de la primatologue Jane Goodall ont bouleversé les sciences de la nature, non seulement en ce qui concerne nos connaissances sur les animaux et notre rapport à eux, mais elles ont aussi pe...

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Stem Cells, Regeneration & Evolution @stemdevevo.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a « first day » for many of us !
1st day as a PhD student and monitor for Remi and 1st day as research director for Eve

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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 8d

📢 PhD Thesis defense

📅 October 8th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Next week, Zoé Velasquillo Ramirez @zoevel.bsky.social , ( @stemdevevo.bsky.social Lab will defend her PhD thesis "Unraveling regeneration success in Platynereis dumerilii through a single-cell RNA-seq approach"
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 19d

📣 "Nous misons sur de multiples interactions entre les équipes de recherche"

📃 Retrouvez l'interview de @vdoye.bsky.social, Directrice de l'
@ijmonod.bsky.social pour la Fondation Bettencourt Schueller qui présente l'institut et son mode de fonctionnement

🔗 www.fondationbs.org/magazine/sci...

« Nous misons sur de multiples interactions entre les équipes de recherche »

L’Institut Jacques Monod – Unité Mixte du CNRS et de l’Université Paris Cité – est aujourd’hui l’une de

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 14d

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sigolène Meilhac @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social · 14d

New publication | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plasticity of ventricle position after heart looping in heterotaxy with right isomerism

The left/right position of ventricles needs to be maintained after heart looping, an unexpected step affected in heterotaxy.

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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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Stem Cells, Regeneration & Evolution @stemdevevo.bsky.social · 16d

Very soon !

Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 16d

📢 PhD Thesis defense

📅 October 8th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Zoé Velasquillo Ramirez @zoevel.bsky.social , ( @stemdevevo.bsky.social Labwill defend her PhD thesis "Unraveling regeneration success in Platynereis dumerilii through a single-cell RNA-seq approach"

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 19d

Day 19 - Depths. blood belly comb jelly (Ctenophora), helmet jellyfish (Cnidaria). Animals in the deep sea are some of the most beautiful, particularly the jellies with bodies like abstract portraits that move ethereally in the abyss. Here are two drawings of jellies you can find in the deep sea.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 18d

Me: *checks news*

Me, 20 minutes later: *transforms into tiny crab, floats way on jellyfish*

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Aurelie Hintermann @aurhin.bsky.social · 21d

Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 21d

Tortoise/Turtle (order Testudines): Shells of many species of turtles and tortoises are intricately marked and coloured, yet are incredibly perfectly designed by nature to blend precisely with their natural habitats. Superb photos taken by Casey Leone. Top row, from left to right:
#turtle #turtles

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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 22d

Predatory tunicates at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

#TunicateTuesday #MarineLife #Invertebrates #DeepSea #Megalodicopia #MBARI #MontereyCanyon #Photography #WestCoast

Two predatory tunicates that are white tubular gelatinous creatures that stretch into the water with mouths that behave similarly to what you would find with a Venus flytrap. They are on rocks and additional rocks can be seen behind them in an aquarium.

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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 23d

Very excited to share an excellent review from @teresa-urli.bsky.social, published one week before her PhD defense! We did a deep dive into the fascinating biology of the variant Polycomb complex, PRC1.6 (1/5) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Epigenetic relay: Polycomb-directed DNA methylation in mammalian development

In mammals, repression of germline-specific gene expression is essential for preserving somatic cell identity and preventing disease. Germline gene silencing is often dependent on the presence of prom...

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Jason Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 26d

There is always room for wonder.

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 26d

Feels like the world is burning so time for weird jellyfish facts 🧵

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 24d

www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/trans...

Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Xenotransplants Get IND Clearance for Clinical Trials

Plus updates from eGenesis CEO Mike Curtis, PhD, on the dialysis-free progress of two patients with end-stage kidney disease that received xenotransplants.

www.insideprecisionmedicine.com

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Stem Cells, Regeneration & Evolution @stemdevevo.bsky.social · 27d

Felicitations Laurent !

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Charlotte Wright @charlottewright.bsky.social · 27d

How many chromosomes can an animal have?

In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly

The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that this extraordinary karyotype is ...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 29d

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates

Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Abstract deadline: 30 September

EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin

Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

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