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Alexandre Paix

@alexandrepaix83.bsky.social
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Biological Engineering and Developmental Biology scientist Algae genetics, genome engineering across biological models, promoting alternative organisms with collaboration and mentoring. Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen @MPI_bio

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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What is one of the differences between an interesting non-mainstream model and a model with huge potential? Genetic tools and microscopy. Great work from the Amro Hamdoun lab, and first author Yoon Lee. Glad to have modestly contributed.
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Janelia is built for this moment. Starting today, we're taking on 2 big bets: cracking how a vertebrate brain generates behavior, & building AI-in-the-Loop Discovery — a new way of doing biology. Tiny transparent fish + one of neuroscience’s biggest questions? Let's go: hhmi.news/2BigBets
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A bit late, but plasmids for cloning-free PCR donors for endogenous gene Knock-In in fish are available on Addgene www.addgene.org/browse/artic...
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Addgene: Cloning-Free Targeting of Endogenous Loci to Generate Fluorescent Reporters in Medaka.
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Huge congrats to first author Soham Basu and Ikmi lab members, and all the co-authors. Sea anemones also need to release pressure www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mesoglea biogenesis reveals a cryptic aboral valve for pressure regulation in cnidarian morphogenesis
A pressure-release valve at the aboral pole of a sea anemone redefines body openings as hydraulic regulators, not just guts.
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
C. Elegans had been a crucial model for my growth as a scientist. After my PhD in a limited genetically tractable model, I learnt genetics in a great worm lab. Since then, these lessons have been applied to non-mainstream models, always keeping in mind C. Elegans as an example
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Amazing collaboration with Jordi van Gestel group and EMBL colleagues, or how great work is done when the right persons meet . And congrats to the first author Mireia Garriga-Canut. Bringing straightforward genetic tools to Dictyostelids, and Cas9 RNP optimization link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Unlocking CRISPR-Cas9 editing for widely diverse Dictyostelid species - Molecular Systems Biology
Dictyostelids are a species-rich clade of cellular slime molds that are widely found in soils and have been studied for over a century. Due to a lack of genome editing methods, most molecular research...
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 01/01/2026
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I like that Development journal does these interviews, specially when it is about good scientists and good people journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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The people behind the papers – Agnès Roure and Sébastien Darras
In animals, species-specific organs and nervous systems are patterned from the developing neuroectoderm by conserved canonical Wnt signals. However, how these developmental trajectories diverged throu...
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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Thinking about a PhD and excited by algal development and evolution? 🌿🧬 Our IMPRS program has an open doctoral position in the department of Susana Coelho. More projects will be posted soon, so keep an eye on the page—or browse the current list here: lnkd.in/gEMXNQY6 Deadline: 19 January 2026
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Pleased to be again a trainer for the EMBO Practical Course: C. elegans, from genome editing to imaging. Register if you want to learn about (one of) the best model organism for genetics and imaging www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EMBOCelegans
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C. elegans: from genome editing to imaging
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Happy to share our last protocol for efficient endogenous gene tagging in Medaka. We hope this will encourage genetic and imaging approaches in other non-conventional fish models. A big thank you to all co-authors, and congrats to the first author Simon Knoblich bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 04/04/2025
Have you used our datasets, atlases, protocols, cell lines, and other #OpenScience resources in your research or classroom? Tell us about it! Share your story with us at bit.ly/opensciences... Select stories will be shared on our social media channels during #OpenScienceWeek.
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Our effort to extend genome editing across species just got a new member. This time, not a marine organism, nor a vertebrate, but the beautiful Dictyostelium discoideum and other Dictyostelids. In collaboration with van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Selection-free CRISPR-Cas9 editing protocol for distant Dictyostelid species
Dictyostelids are a species-rich clade of cellular slime molds that are widely found in soils and have been studied for over a century. Most research focusses on Dictyostelium discoideum , which – due...
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Alexandre Paix @alexandrepaix83.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Finally decided to migrate from X to Bluesky
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