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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu

@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social
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Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics 🔬🧬🧪🧫🐭🤖. Former UCSF, MPI Freiburg, Bilkent Uni & METU. Diversity is power. www.molgen.mpg.de/Genome-Regulation…

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Raquel Fueyo @fueyoraquel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Want an efficient way to delete cis-regulatory elements in stem cells? 🧬 Our lab just published a methods paper in JoVE's collection on 2D/3D Stem Cell-Based Models of Early Mammalian Development. shorturl.at/QB1xo Thank you @ancheldjs.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute!
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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‼️ Postdoc position open. We study how protein metabolism controls time. If you’re excited by this question, we’d love to hear from you! We’re looking for a motivated & collaborative researcher with a strong track record. 📅 30 September 2026 📢 Please share Apply here 👇👇
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Babraham
The lab investigates the molecular mechanisms that control biological timing in mouse and human stem cells (Azzi & Rayon, Curr Opinions 2024; Nakanoh et al., Dev Cell 2026). The central aim of this ex...
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Tamer Onder @tameronder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨 Excited to share our latest preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ! We’ve developed a rapid & highly efficient method to generate human 8-cell-like cells (ri8CLCs) for modeling early human embryogenesis and ZGA. 📖 Read the full paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪👇
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Rapid and efficient generation of human 8-cell-like cells for embryo modelling
8-cell blastomeres of human embryos possess broad lineage potential and undergo major zygotic genome activation (ZGA), yet experimental access to this transient cell state remains limited. Rare 8-cell...
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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu
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Welcome - AP Recruit
University of California, San Francisco Online Faculty Recruitment
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Niakan Lab @niakanlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate (Fixed Term)
We seek a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the laboratory of Professor Kathy Niakan. We are based in the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (LCTR), in the Department of Physi...
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sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Open position in our lab for a research engineer. The applicant must hold a PhD in life sciences and have demonstrable experience in molecular biology and biochemistry. For more info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Research Engineer (M/F), genome stability, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I have been thinking since yesterday about why I find the 1% thing so, so disturbing. It's a visceral reaction of 'just no', which goes beyond the general yuck towards the enshittification of/via AI. I have finally put my finger on it: it is the feeling you get when
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Ferenc Mueller @ferencmueller.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Join is in Budapest in October! For the 6th time, all things epigenetics, gene and genome regulation and more. A fantastic opportunity to present, to talk to speakers and colleagues in a friendly, informal setting at a great location. Please note, travel grant deadline will expire soon.
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Lara Krüger @lara-kruger.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As someone who(se students) is waiting for reviewer reports for 5 months, I am willing to pay a lot more than this for a fast and legitimate report. However the question rather is: why don't we reimagine the scientific evaluation process altogether?
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️
Flier for the Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar 2027 on Developmental Biology, held at the Renaissance Touscany Il Ciocco Resort in Italy, January 17-22 2027. List of speakers, organizers, and tag line of Organizing Principles of Growth, Form, and Regeneration Driving Transformative Applications.
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
totally
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Very excited to share our newest findings! A very long team effort pursued by multiple team members -to frantically reproduce everything over and over-, we show mTOR-Polycomb synergy at promoters of developmental master regulator TFs in ESCs prior to their expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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MC Gambetta @mcgambetta.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hello all, our lab is recruiting a PhD candidate to study how 3D genome folding impacts gene regulation in development. We're located at the Center for Integrative Genomics department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Please email me if interested. #PhDPosition, #PhDOpportunity
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Very excited to share our newest findings! A very long team effort pursued by multiple team members -to frantically reproduce everything over and over-, we show mTOR-Polycomb synergy at promoters of developmental master regulator TFs in ESCs prior to their expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Meng Zhu @zhumeng123.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Cambridge → Boston → Cambridge again: I’m thrilled to return to Cambridge(UK) to open my lab at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge!🥳 (mzhulab.com) We study how dev timing shapes and being shaped by plasticity, evolution & ageing. 🚩Hiring at all levels: pls email me if interested!📩
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Meng Zhu Lab
We study how development measures time and how timing matters in development, evolution and ageing.
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Watch out for this 💥💥 new lab at the FMI! So proud of you Julia!
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Nicolas Rivron @nicolasrivron.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hi all! 👋 leeboratory.bsky.social and I are recruiting a VIP³ postdoc to join our teams and decode the genetic logic of how blastoids transit to the post-implantation stage. MolBio, genetics and computational approaches. If this sounds like you (or someone you know), we’d love to hear from you! 🚀
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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
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Species-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regeneration
Why mammals cannot regenerate limbs like amphibians do presents a long-standing puzzle in biology. To uncover the underlying differences, we compared amputation responses of embryonic mouse (Mus musculus) and Xenopus laevis tadpole limbs. Lowering ...
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Joshua Frenster @joshifrenster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🥳 I am happy to share our latest manuscript published in @natcellbio.nature.com We use #Gastruloids to study #CellCompetition during early mammalian development and find not only that this is highly pronounced in our system but also tightly restricted in time. (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mosaic gastruloids reveal a temporal restriction for developmental cell competition - Nature Cell Biology
Frenster et al. utilize mosaic mouse gastruloids as a model of cell fitness and competition, identifying a temporal window between primed pluripotency and early gastrulation during which cell competit...
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Peeps, give credit where credit is due. You'll never grow by stomping on other people.
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Netherlands Cancer Institute @nkinl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We;re hiring Junior Group Leaders! 🔬✨ We’re looking for researchers in immunology, chemical biology, AI in biology, or protein design to launch their own independent groups in our collaborative, international environment. www.nki.nl/news-events/...
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology Join our community & shape the future of research journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape
Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Bravo to our neighbours!
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Interested in the mechanisms of aging and 'rejuvenation'? Our lab at Stanford has a Research Assistant/Lab manager position open!! Apply and join our awesome team! 😎 (please share) careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...
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Life Science Research Professional 1 in School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
The Brunet lab in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University (https://web.stanford.edu/group/brunet/) is seeking an independent and motivated.....
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Is it just me, or has publishing become ultra slow in the last 5 years?
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We wrote a protocol article detailing induction of dormancy in stem cells, embryos, and blastoids. We hope that it is useful to the community. As usual fun to work with @nicolasrivron.bsky.social, Heidar and Dhanur.
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Jean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣 #Job alert! Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo? The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research. Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...
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Section 24 – External Competition – Coordination des instances du Comité National
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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨 1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻 🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions
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Anja Groth @groth-anja.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A few days left to apply for exciting PhD and Postdoc opportunities in wonderful Copenhagen and join our efforts in understanding Epigenetic Cell Memory.
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
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Development's Pathway to Independence Programme
Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So many deserving & familiar faces in this cohort, congratulations everyone! Special congrats to my dear friend @mpercharde.bsky.social and partner in some crimes @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social and the powerhouse @fany-real.bsky.social.
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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨 We are seeking an experienced computer scientist (m,f,d) to lead our Bioinformatics Core Facility But there is more… have the opportunity to develop and lead your own independent research project & build a research team by hiring PhD students and Postdocs. jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/6...
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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate? We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our PhD call is open, take a look! (we are not recruiting this round)
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Wonderful opportunity to work with Martin Howard and my group trying to understand how chromatin influences gene transcription and expression. Integration of theory, modelling, and experimentation. Come and join the team! Please repost! jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
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John Innes Centre
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In preprints: gastruloids get (a)head Wilhelmus A. Brouwer @wesselbrouwer.bsky.social and Luca Braccioli @bracciolilab.bsky.social discuss the #preprint by Balaskas et al. "An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning” journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In Preprints: A new preprint curation initiative from Development
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We are excited to have you join us Raquel and congratulations on your success! No comment on the ☀️ but science is indeed cool @molgen.mpg.de. Raquel is hiring at all levels 👇
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
7 year labiversary of our lab! Now with a new set of young researchers. Proud of what we’ve achieved and excited about the future.
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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility. See below 2 calls👇
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Moreno-Mateos Lab @crisprscan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Glad to share that the website for the MZT EMBO workshop that I organize together with Ana Boskovic (EMBL, Rome), Antonio Giraldez (Yale U) and Melissa Harrison (U Wisconsin) is out: meetings.embo.org/event/26-awa... Please spread the word and join us in beautiful Seville next 4-7 May!
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Awakening the Genome During Developmental Reprogramming: From Embryos to Organoids
This EMBO Workshop explores the gene-regulatory mechanisms that drive developmental reprogramming upon fertilization. It focuses on the interplay of transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and develop…
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Nice work by Hamazaki and Shendure labs showing assembly of A-P human gastruloids following an approach quite analogous to ours (minus hypoxia biology). Sadly our study is not cited 🤔 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dual-patterned pluripotent stem cells self-organize into a human embryo model with extended anterior-posterior patterning
Human gastruloids are a powerful class of stem cell derived models that recapitulate key features of early embryonic development, including symmetry breaking and the emergence of three germ layers. Ho...
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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...
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Computational image analyst (m/f/d)
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a
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Luca Braccioli Lab @ UU @bracciolilab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Ever wondered how to get a gastruloid to grow a head? The Bulut-Karslioğlu lab figured out that by growing different stem cell aggregates in high and low oxygen and later assembling them, you can get gastruloids with a fully formed neural tube. Check out our "In preprints": doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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In preprints: gastruloids get (a)head
A major breakthrough in the field of mammalian embryology is the development of stem-cell based embryo models. Derived from pluripotent stem cells, such as embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent ...
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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🚀 Looking for a Bioinformatician / Data Scientist to join our crew and explore regeneration through single-cell genomics & evolutionary biology! @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social 📩 Questions? Contact us ✉️ 🔗 Apply here: www.mpg.de/25243280/bio...
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Bioinformatician / Data Scientist (m/f/d)
Bioinformatician / Data scientist position in the Aztekin Lab focusing on Structural Regeneration and support the working group together with the other members
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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de · 16/07/2025
How did the bat get its wings? New research from a collaboration between the labs of Stefan Mundlos (MPIMG), Dario G. Lupiáñez, and Francisca M. Real (@cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social) show how genetic programs were reused during the evolution of mammalian flight. --> www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-fl...
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Flying with hands – The evolution of bat wings
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨Symposium alert! 🚨 Next edition of our biennial stem cell symposium is 4th Dec 2025 - focus on metabolism and development. Sponsored by @bsdb.bsky.social. Great lineup of speakers, hosted @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London. Registration is open. www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem...
Poster for Genesis Research Trust / BSDB symposium on metabolism and stem cells
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