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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 28d

Were you in the old one or did the new one opened already after all? Lost track of it at some point... but would like to try new things.

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Sep 1

Richard should have the original design. Good luck... or i could copy and fax you my shirt... might be worn out a bit over the past 17 years or so...

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 18

Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social

Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node

The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

thenode.biologists.com

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EuroCilia2027 @eurocilia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Have you saved the date for #Cilia2027?
It is going to be in March 2027 at this lake near #Milan. 👇

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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 Neuro Evo Devo meeting

Virginie Courtier organizes a meeting regarding the latest research on development, evolution and neurobiology using as model organisms birds, fishes, butterflies and Drosophila

📆 Tuesday, August 26th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Informations and program 🔗 buff.ly/p3qkFLW

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jul 24

You can even set up a lab in boston tgar way...
www.davidsabatinilab.com

David Sabatini Lab

www.davidsabatinilab.com

Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jul 24

You don't have to marry them...

www.science.org/content/arti...

Despite sexual harassment shadow, biologist David Sabatini lands job at top Czech institute

Institute director says, “He has been punished enough,” but Czech scientists are divided

www.science.org

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · Jul 7

📣 Cilia Lab is growing 📣 - we have 2️⃣ open positions at @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for talented and motivated researchers interested in disease modelling & genetic therapies which target #RareRespiratoryDiseases at their root cause. 🧪🧪#ciliopathies #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia 1/4

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Amy Sater @amysater.bsky.social · Jul 11

NIH needs to hear from us about why in vivo work with animal models is essential for the advancement of biomedical research! Add your comments at the link below (scroll down to comment box):

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

www.fda.gov

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 14

Last chance to tell the NIH if you think animal models are important for biomedical research! 👇👇👇👇

John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 11

The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

www.fda.gov

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jul 13

40 years ago today -They WERE the Champions and they totally Rocked us.
www.openculture.com/2025/07/watc...

Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985)

“The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July ...

www.openculture.com

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 11

The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

www.fda.gov

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 11

Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment.

tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

tinyurl.com

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DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · Jun 23

Issue 5 is all yours to explore!

On the cover: Henrike Berns et al. show a two-headed Xenopus laevis embryo stained for a subset of hindbrain spinal-cord projecting neurons (green), filamentous actin (pink) and nuclei (blue).

bit.ly/4lktg1z

Henrike Berns et al. show a two-headed Xenopus laevis embryo stained for a subset of hindbrain spinal-cord projecting neurons (green), filamentous actin (pink) and nuclei (blue).

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · Jun 19

Xenopus frog study examines gene variant found in a child with mirror-image organ placement & other developmental defects, reveals role of Wnt11

📷 Henrike Berns et al, M. Schmidts &
@walenteklab.bsky.social Uni of Freiburg in & on cover of @dmmjournal.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congrats to Henrike! Not only she has published her WNT11 study in DMM, but she also got the cover and now was selected for the Biomedical picture of the day!
bpod.org.uk
👏👏👏 the image was taken at the 2024 @cshlxeno course btw. #xenopus 👊

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · May 29

Did you know we have a dedicated Jobs Board?

Whether you're looking for your next job, or you have an open position to advertise, do check out our Jobs Board:
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/

#DevBio #StemCells

Screenshot of the Node's Jobs Board. Text reads: Welcome to the developmental and stem cell biology jobs board. The board shows only active job adverts – expired adverts will be moved to the jobs archive.

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jun 18

Welcome. Looking forward to hear more about your science and plans soon.

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Bardin Lab @bardinlab.bsky.social · Jun 13

Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included.

training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · Jun 17

#SaveTheDate and watch out for further updates! 👇

Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jun 16

Save the date 📅! Our TriNational #devbio #stemcell Meeting 2025 will be held in Freiburg on Sept. 19th. As always, participation is free and talks will be selected from early career scientists. Joun us 😊
Info: devstemcell.org/home

@biozentrum.unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @igbmc.bsky.social

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jun 16

Save the date 📅! Our TriNational #devbio #stemcell Meeting 2025 will be held in Freiburg on Sept. 19th. As always, participation is free and talks will be selected from early career scientists. Joun us 😊
Info: devstemcell.org/home

@biozentrum.unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @igbmc.bsky.social

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jun 14

Awesone to be part of this initiative! We'll be studying exciting neuro-mucociliary interactions in #Xenopus! 🥳

HetCCI (SPP 2493) @hetcci.bsky.social · Jun 11

Proud to kick-off #HetCCI, a DFG-funded research consortium in Germany (Priority Programme #SPP2493 on heterotypic cell-cell interactions in epithelia). Follow us if interested in how epithelial cells interact with non-epithelial tissues in different settings! Webpage will follow asap. #cellbiology

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Mass Lab @masslab.bsky.social · Jun 12

Super happy to be part of this initiative! Together with @agvazquez.bsky.social we will be working on the interaction between #Alveolar #Macrophages and #Epithelial #Cells in the #lung
Still time left to apply!! www.linkedin.com/posts/elvira...
#immunosky

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Isolde Ruhdorfer @isolderuhdorfer.bsky.social · Jun 11

Gestern Abend haben in Budapest übrigens rund 15.000 Menschen gegen die Viktor Orbán und dessen Partei protestiert.

"Ich bin hier, weil ich Angst habe", sagte mir eine 18-Jährige. Und wie wichtig es ihr ist, dass Reporter aus anderen Ländern da sind, um darüber zu berichten.

THREAD

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EMBO @embo.org · Jun 10

Are you a research group leader in the #LifeSciences in #Chile? Join us for our first in-person EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders in the country, taking place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from 15–17 October 2025. 🧪

Apply by 15 July:
meetings.embo.org/event/embo-l...

EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders

This course is reserved for group leaders based in Chile and requires participants to attend the 3 full days of the course. Researchers are trained to think about experimental plans and data, t…

meetings.embo.org

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