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Cnidarian developmental mechanisms group @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Evidence collected by successive lab members over many years that neural cells in the Clytia larva have two origins: From 'i-cells' located in endoderm and by delamination of the gastrula ectoderm. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @annaferraioli.bsky.social

The two proposed neurogenesis pathways during Clytia larval development

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Jase Gehring @skyjase.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is where their lab is yall. stunning

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Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón @lbezarescalderon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our team is recruiting a PhD student to investigate the evolution of pressure sensation in Zooplankton! The project will use marine invertebrate larvae to explore the molecular, cellular, and neuronal mechanisms behind this fascinating sensory system. More details here: bit.ly/3TTeF4Q

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Et si rein et muscles avaient une histoire commune ? Une étude révèle que le rein serait issu d’un tissu embryonnaire à l’origine des muscles ▶️ buff.ly/Qsqlv1H ✍️ Michael Schubert 🤝 @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @imev-mer.fr

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Les origines évolutives du rein se cachent dans les premiers tissus musculaires

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · 13/07/2026

Bravo à Michael Schubert, chercheur @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social récompensé par le titre de "Distinguished Fellow" de la société savante Euro Evo Devo dont il a contribué à la création il y a 20 ans. Il en organisa les meetings de 2006 à 2018. @cnrs.fr @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr

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Allan Carrillo-Baltodano @allancarbal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The worms have arrived at @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social from @sbroscoff.bsky.social Time for experiments! Trip supported by the @britishcouncil.bsky.social #WormWednesday #EvoDevo #DevBio

Styrofoam box containing Owenia fusiformis

Water tank containing Owenia fusiformis worms

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Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón @lbezarescalderon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm recruiting a postdoc and a research assistant in my lab in the south of France for an HFSP-funded project involving choanos. More info: Postdoc: bit.ly/4xxlJTX Research assistant: (EN) bit.ly/4aOwUha (FR) bit.ly/4vcy3av Please share with any potential applicant. Thx!

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Rottinger Lab @rottingerlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A Postdoc position is available in the team at the IRCAN - Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice to work on the impressive stress response/resistance of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Postdoc in biology (M/F)

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Luis Guerra @luisguerra.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Happy to announce that we received the HFSP to study the evolution of TRP channels! bit.ly/4uGmMQ3 This project is a collaboration between Luis Bezares from the @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social LBDV in Viellefranch and the University of Southampton. @unisouthampton.bsky.social

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New Awards 2026 | Human Frontier Science Program

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

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Post Doctoral Associate - Biology

Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...

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LBDV Villefranche @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New from Silvia Caballero, Stefania Castagnetti and friends - Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Cnidarian developmental mechanisms group @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Drawing together findings from several projects over many years, we make a case that neural cell types in the Clytia larva have two embryological origins: i-cells and ectodermal. bioRxiv 2025.11.17.688882; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Separation of the Early gastrula into oral and aboral halves shows that some neural cell tupes derive from aboral ectoderm, and others from i-cells

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Jenifer Croce @croce-urchin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Proud to have been part of this very nice piece of work and this great collaboration. Congratulations to all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system

A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

These are embryos of a jellyfish, made up of cells that are about a fiftieth of a millimetre in size. Their outlines are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Sarah Asaf and @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

What are these? You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

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Jenifer Croce @croce-urchin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Congratulations to Oğuz Akar who was awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy in Cell and Biology yesterday!

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Institut de la Mer de Villefranche/Mer (IMEV) @imev-mer.fr · 25/09/2025

L’imev et des scientifiques @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social mettent l’océan et les cellules au cœur du festival #regarddonssensemble au #ParcPhœnix @cnrs.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr 1/4

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Cnidarian developmental mechanisms group @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Bravo @juliarmateu.bsky.social et @annaferraioli.bsky.social, merci à Richard Copley pour ce travail co-dirigée, et merci aux collaboratrices coralistes Isabelle Domart-Coulon (MNHN, Paris) et Núria Teixidó (LOV, et Ischia Marine Center, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn)

Anti-LWamide staining of the aboral (anterior) end of a Clytia larva

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Researchers from @imev-mer.fr recently visited us for a workshop supported by the French-Norwegian mobility program Åsgard 🌊 Between seminars, lab demos and discussions, new ideas and plans for long-term collaborations emerged 🤩 Read more about this exciting partnership below ⤵️

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Åsgard workshop sparks new collaborations at the Michael Sars Centre

Researchers from the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche and the Michael Sars Centre received support from the French-Norwegian mobility program Åsgard. Through seminars and discussions, participants l...

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Jenifer Croce @croce-urchin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Congratulations to Lou Marchal, the new PhD student of the team, to have obtained a ministerial fellowship !!!!

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Cnidarian developmental mechanisms group @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Interested in visiting Villefranche, Roscoff or Banyuls marine stations? The EMBRC-France (www.embrc-france.fr) 8th Call for Projects is open. Deadline Sept 19 for stays by end of June 2026. Up to 42 person-days per project are covered, with access to EMBRC-France services, accommodation & catering.

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

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CNRS Côte d'Azur @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Cette épopée de grains de pissenlit rescapés d’une explosion nucléaire, réalisée par Momoko Seto, est absolument fascinante ! Christian Sardet du @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social @cnrs.fr a participé à ce fabuleux projet. #Cannes2025 🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Sd...

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Momoko Seto, exploratrice du vivant I Reportage CNRS

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Julia Ramon Mateu @juliarmateu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Excited to finally see my PhD work published! We identified specialized cells in jellyfish and coral larvae with shared features and potentially linked to settlement regulation.

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EMBRC (European Marine Biological Resource Centre) @embrc.eu · 02/05/2025

#OpenCall | 👉 #canSERV open call now live 📢 Among other services & training, cancer scientists can apply to access marine model organisms for their research projects, including ascidians at @imev-mer.fr @embrc-france.bsky.social @szndohrn.bsky.social ⌛ 15 July 🔗 www.embrc.eu/project/cans... 🧪🌊🦑

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Jenifer Croce @croce-urchin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Proud to have been part of this work. Congratulations to everyone!!!

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A chaetognath (arrow worm) stained for tubulin and stained with Hoechst (blue). #fluorescencefriday @Elisabeth.ZIEGER @Michael.Schubert @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social movincell.org/medias/43

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EMBRC France @embrc-france.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

‪ Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! Today we have a image from @HOULISTON.Evelyn : confocal image of an isolated Clytia gonad shows specialized Opsin/Oocyte Maturation Hormone-expressing cells in the ectoderm @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @imev-mer.fr movincell.imev-mer.fr/medias/386

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Jenifer Croce @croce-urchin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Our work on the sea urchin adult nervous system will soon be presented in the context of the Neuroplanete 2025 program organized by the national journal #LePoint in Nice from March 6th to 8th. evenements.lepoint.fr/neuroplanete...

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Programme de Neuroplanète 2025

Découvrez le programme de Neuroplanète 2025 : tous les ateliers, toutes les conférences, pour organiser au mieux votre expérience Neuroplanète

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Tsuyoshi Momose @momotsuyo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’m happy to present our recent paper, Uveira et al., online on eLife as the Reviewed Preprint. We took a comparative cell biology approach to study the evolution of metazoan. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Congratulations, and many thanks, Julie and all the other contributors! Photo T. Momose CC-BY 4.0

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Nathalie Vigier @nathvigier.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today all PhD students of our research federation show their work through short seminars. Topics include biology, biogeochemistry, ecology, chemistry, modeling, … @imev-mer.fr @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social #lov #oceanography Our auditorium is full !

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