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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 8d

Adhesion without glue: Clemens Schaber @uni-kiel.de talks at the LifeSci Faculty @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today, showing how chitinous hairs of spiders can adhere to surfaces, inspiring biotechnological applications. More at doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 8d

Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social presenting at @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today on the remarkable world of eye muscles in dipteran flies. Check out the original description of fruitfly eye movements here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 8d

A day of Neurosciences & Developmental Biology today at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social kicked off by "spider-man" Friedrich Barth @oeaw.bsky.social, emeritus professor and founder of the original Neurobiology Dept at @univie.ac.at

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 14d

Timing matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams.
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Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Innere Uhr zählt: Chronobiologin über Prüfungsleistung - Aktuell nach eins vom 24.09.2025

Eine italienische Studie mit über 100.000 mündlichen Prüfungen zeigt: Zwischen 11 und 13 Uhr sind Studierende am leistungsfähigsten. Chronobiologin Kristin Teßmar-Raible erläuterte im Studio, wie die ...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Erratum: it should have been "copepod", not "krill", and it's not the same... sorry, Sören :-)

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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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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share that senior postdoc Sören Häfker @awi.de just secured one of the highly competitive @erc.europa.eu ‬ @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERCStG grants to pioneer work decoding the molecular clockwork driving rhythmicity of krill in the #marine #foodweb! More on BICLOPS here: bit.ly/4lYpBq0

A composite picture showing a microscope image of the North Atlantic krill Calanus finmarchicus (left) and researcher Soeren Haeckel (right)

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Jul 15

Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Jun 25

Exciting news - Elly Tanaka, director of @imbavienna.bsky.social , received the #Wittgenstein award of the @fwf-at.bsky.social today, Austria's top research award. Congratulations to Elly, and thanks so much for being not only a great scientist, but also a wonderful role model!

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · Jun 25

Today, the @fwf-at.bsky.social honors Elly Tanaka, IMBA's Scientific Director, with the Wittgenstein Award – the premier research award of Austria - for her groundbreaking discoveries in the field of regenerative biology. Congratulations, Elly!

More on the award: imba.science/43Y93sC

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · May 27

Excited to welcome @mariacocurullo.bsky.social to the Tessmar-Raible lab, who secured a prestigious #MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship to explore how monthly timing shapes brain #plasticity in Platynereis dumerilii — and how light pollution at night may disrupt it.

#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN

A composite image, contrasting the natural moonlight over the sea on the left side with a coastline producing strong artificial light on the right side.

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · May 7

Note that our University actively supports grant writing for this programme for pre-selected expressions of interest. To be eligible, please send expressions of interests and CVs, preferrably by May 16! Templates and more at bit.ly/MSCAUniVie Check out our recent work rdcu.be/ek091 and rdcu.be/ek1ab

Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · May 7

Interested to join our Vienna lab for #Postdoc research into regenerative plasticity or biological 3D printing? The Raible group bit.ly/RaibleUniVie invites expressions of interests for Marie-Skłodowska-Curie #MSCA postdoc fellowships - an excellent opportunity for mobility to and within Europe!

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Chema Martin @chemamd.bsky.social · May 7

🚨We’re proud that The Genetics Society @gensocuk.bsky.social supports the upcoming UK EvoDevo meeting. Register for only £5 and submit your abstracts before June 1st!

Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Apr 29

🚀 We are proud to launch the new "Ambassadors for the ERC" initiative, together with @ercgrantees.bsky.social !

We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7

🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved!

#Amb4ERC

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 30

Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social will serve as one of the Ambassadors for the ERC @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social. #Amb4ERC aim to advocate for the importance of fundamental research across Europe. See bit.ly/4jOulOq and aerg.eu/ambassadors

Ambassadors for the ERC network launched

The European Research Council (ERC) and the Association of ERC Grantees (AERG) launched the new Ambassadors for the ERC network on 28 April 2025.

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thanks to Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social from @uniofgalway.bsky.social for giving a great talk at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @univie.ac.at today, introducing the remarkable reproductive system of #Hydractinia and fascinating research into sex determination; more at doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 6

At the end of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, the organizing committee gave out the presentation awards to six happy winners. Many thanks to @gfeev.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes and the subsequent networking meeting!

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

The final presentation of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is given by Joanna Jachowicz @jjachowicz.bsky.social from @imbavienna.bsky.social, shedding light onto the mechanisms by which long #RNAs expressed from the “dark genome” can become switches for developmental control.

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

Nikhil @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social from @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social concludes the late afternoon session of #DevStem2025 with a careful analysis of mitotic waves in early #zebrafish development, their regulation by cell geometry & impact on zygotic #transcription. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

At #DevStem2025, Theresa Maxian from Sandra Haider’s group at #MedUniWien now discusses the emergence of cell types in human placental development, capitalizing on #scRNAseq and various staining techniques. More on placental biology in the recent publication doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

Congratulations on this achievement!

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

Kick-off of the late afternoon session at the #DevStem2025 meeting. Sanjay Narayanaswamy @sanjay-n.bsky.social from @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social lab discusses germ layer biology in #Nematostella, exploring a powerful gastruloid system. For a primer on gastruloids, see doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

Sabrina Villar Pazos from Sofia Grade’s lab @imbavienna.bsky.social closes the first afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social with research testing the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of Huntington's disease.

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

The afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is continued by Helena Bragulat-Teixidor from the @shotarootsuka.bsky.social lab, using high-resolution EM and CLEM to interrogate the junctions btw. nuclear envelope and endoplasmitic reticulum. Read more at doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · Apr 4

The afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has begun. First speaker: Lidija Milojković from Noelia Urbán’s lab @imbavienna.bsky.social, presenting on the interplay of molecular pathways regulating #quiescence and activation of adult neural #StemCells in the mammalian CNS.

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