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Daniel Medina-Cano

@danielmedinacano.bsky.social
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Postdoc at the Vierbuchen lab (MSKCC), previously PhD at Institut Imagine (Cantagrel/Colleaux lab) /// I do mouse brain organoids to characterize early development and understand what makes each brain unique

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Axel Delamarre @axeldelamarre.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Hello everybody, I am looking for an Engineer (IE) to help me start the lab at LBMC / ENS-Lyon in April. We will investigate chromatin organization during replication in yeast. RT appreciated! To apply: inserm.softy.pro/offre/187863 @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social #NewPI #3DGenome #chromatin #replication
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪 Explainer🧵👇1/n
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Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults
Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🎉 In January, I will join the new "Multimodal AI Across Scales" research area at the @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 🎉 More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available. Feel free to reach out if interested! humantechnopole.it/en/research/
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Research - Human Technopole
Human Technopole’s research is based on a mix of fundamental and translational research. We will host extensive core expertise in basic research in areas relevant for the understanding of human biolog...
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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Lovely little pre-Christmas present to see this out @natcellbio.nature.com! Some 🔥 new results in here since the biorvix incl (1) a new RARE-GFP reporter ✳️🙌, (2) additional NMP quantification 🔢, (3) no neural tube patterning on RA inhibition 🙅 etc. Enjoy! 😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Modelling co-development between the somites and neural tube in human trunk-like structures - Nature Cell Biology
Makwana, Tilley et al. generate human stem cell-based trunk-like structures approximating Carnegie stage 13–14 of development. They use them to model and study the development of the thoracic and lumbar trunk.
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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
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University Assistant/Associate Professor in Control Theory and Systems Biology
Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group
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Santos lab @santoslab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So exciting to see this in print! Ever wondered how embryonic cells know what (fate) to become during early development? In particular when they might see different signaling cues? We investigated this! And a lovely cover from Zoe Ruiz and @oliveringe.bsky.social! www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Combinatorial BMP4 and activin direct the choice between alternate routes to endoderm in a stem cell model of human gastrulation
Inge et al. show that human endoderm originates from two converging developmental routes with distinct dynamics and efficiencies yet similar developmental potential. Combinatorial activin and BMP4 sig...
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François Rousset @francoisrousset.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🚨 We are hiring a group leader in Virology at CIRI ! Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷 Deadline on March 31st 2026
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We moved the AI@MBL course "Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis" to HHMI Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social). Join us for two weeks of intense lectures, exercise, and hands-on project work! Course dates: June 4-18 2026 Application by: January 15 2026 www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis
Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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Alex Pollen @brainevodevo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons - Nature
An analysis of cell-type diversity in brain samples from a variety of mammalian species, both during development and in adult animals, reveals that the TAC3 initial class of striatal interneurons is c...
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Mike Gallagher @geneticsmike7.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
1/ Happy to share important work done with my co-author Andrew Khalil in the labs of Rudolf Jaenisch @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu and David Mooney @harvard.edu @wyssinstitute.bsky.social trying to assess and fix the major problem of transgene silencing in human ESC/iPSC based work
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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social
Airway cells in the human lung
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Ashley Ingiosi @ashleyingiosi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Just a friendly reminder that we’re hiring for the Department of Neuroscience at The Ohio State University!! 🧠 The start of application review has been moved to this Friday, 10/17, but we’ll continue accepting applications until the position is filled! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39081/te...
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Tenure-track faculty positions in Neuroscience - Columbus, Ohio job with The Ohio State University, Dept of Neuroscience | 39081
Faculty studying mechanisms underlying normal nervous system function and/or how these mechanisms and interactions are affected by disease or injury
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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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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!
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Harriet Taylor @harrytaylorcrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Ready to start your own independent research programme? We're inviting applications for early career group leaders in all areas of biology and biomedicine @crick.ac.uk Apply by 27 Nov 2025: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... #EarlyCareerResearchers #GroupLeader #ScienceCareers
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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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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 09/10/2025
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍
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SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se · 08/10/2025
We’re launching a major #recruitment call for staff scientists in #ComputationalBiology, #DataScience, and #AI to strengthen Sweden’s life science research. 🧪🖥️ Positions are based at SciLifeLab sites across Sweden’s leading universities. Learn more and apply ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...
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SciLifeLab launches major recruitment call for staff scientists in computational biology, data science and AI
Computational methods and artificial intelligence on large-scale molecular data are transforming the study of biological systems and processes, ranging from molecular structures and cellular processes...
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Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute @cruk-mi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We are recruiting! Visit www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/careers/ for full details of all current vacancies, including: 🥼New Group Leaders [Apply by 2nd November] 🧪Postdoctoral Researchers with @sylvaindelaunay.bsky.social & @clausjorgensen.bsky.social ⚛️ #MassSpectrometry Technologist More below 👇
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
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Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.
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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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Audrey Desgrange @audreydsg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ventricle position can be remodeled after heart looping! In a model of heterotaxy we uncovered a new asymmetric morphogenesis process during which the heart reorients its chambers. So grateful to all the authors for their expertise and input during this long (but fun) ride 💪 Read more here ⬇️
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 25/09/2025
Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social www.libd.org/careers/ Links to individual positions in the thread below.
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Careers at LIBD | Medical Research Jobs | Lieber Institute
View our career opportunities with Lieber Institute for Brain Development including investigators, medical research jobs, scientists, & lab techs
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Noonan Lab @noonanlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Out in Cell Genomics: A comprehensive analysis of the cell-type-specific effects of CHD8 loss of function on gene expression in the embryonic and juvenile mouse cortex. Thread 🧵: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Cell-type-specific dysregulation of gene expression due to Chd8 haploinsufficiency during mouse cortical development
Yim et al. use single-cell transcriptomics to elucidate the molecular outcomes of Chd8 haploinsufficiency in the mouse cortex. Their results provide insight into dynamic, cell-type-biased transcriptio...
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Kevin Bender @neurobender.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
SCN2A loss is strongly linked to neurodevelopmental delays and, at times, seizure. In an amazing collaboration with @nadavahituv.bsky.social, led by Serena Tamura, Andrew Nelson, and Perry Spratt, we leveraged CRISPR activator approaches to rescue this loss. rdcu.be/eGU0W
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CRISPR activation for SCN2A-related neurodevelopmental disorders
Nature - Using SCN2A haploinsufficiency as a proof-of-concept, upregulation of the existing functional gene copy through CRISPR activation was able to rescue neurological-associated phenotypes in...
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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Effie Apostolou lab @efapostolou29.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Honored and excited to be among the speakers in the upcoming #KSEpigenetics26 symposium! Thank you @kjarmache.bsky.social and @ckadoch.bsky.social for the invitation. Follow the link to register 👇👇👇
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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Very excited to have this back-end-of-an-embryo cell-neighbour-analysis image from our latest paper featured as today's Biomedical Image of the Day! Congrats to first author and ace image-analyst Matthew French bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
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BPoD | Following Fate
Following Fate - Biomedical pictures for September 2025.
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Martin Kampmann @kampmann.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n
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Ollie Inge @oliveringe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
1/7 Really happy to see my PhD work published in ✨Developmental Cell✨ today! We find human endoderm is specified by two developmental trajectories 🔀, and the choice between alternate routes is dictated by the combinatorial BMP4/Activin signalling. www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Combinatorial BMP4 and activin direct the choice between alternate routes to endoderm in a stem cell model of human gastrulation
Inge et al. show that human endoderm originates from two converging developmental routes with distinct dynamics and efficiencies yet similar developmental potential. Combinatorial activin and BMP4 sig...
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Pedro Rocha @pedroprocha.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Please repost We are looking for postdocs to join our lab at NIH. Apply: www.nichd.nih.gov/research/atNICHD/Investigators/rocha/apply Learn more about training at NIH : www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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WHAT WE OFFER
Fully-funded fellowships up to five years  Opportunity to start your own research program or lead ongoing projects.
Large, diverse and extraordinary scientific network at the NIH/Bethesda campus. 

Working at NIH offers the possibility of living in a diverse, liberal and vibrant city: Washington DC
Or in a calm residential area with great schools and good affordable housing: Bethesda and Rockville.
 
WHO YOU ARE
You share our enthusiasm for epigenetics, gene regulation, nuclear organization and mouse development. You have PhD-experience in one or more of the following: mouse development, mouse genetics, epigenetics, or computational biology.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I will be giving a talk in a month in Paris at the 'Gastrulation Reloaded meeting'. About neurons. Mwahahahah 🧪 #DevBio
A snippet of the program showing th Wednesday, October 15 schedule.

Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification
9:00 am - 10:15 am
9:00 am	Anna Katarina Hadjantonakis
9:25 am	Redefining endothelial origins: Lateral mesoderm progenitors are dual lateral/paraxial competent cells at mid gestation mouse embryo stages, Anahi Binagui-Casas
Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
9:50 am	Philip Abitua
Coffee Break 10:15 am - 10:45 am
Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification 10:45 am - 12:00 pm
10:45 am	 Jesse Veenvliet
11:10 am	In vivo cell lineage tracing reveals early segregation of trunk neural crest from caudal epiblast, Ashley Libby
Briscoe Lab, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
11:35 am	 Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish Joaquin Navajas Acedo (yours truly)
Schier Lab, Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
bioRxiv bat signal. We had a huge influx of submissions around Labor Day and now have a backlog. If any affiliates are available to screen, we'd be eternally grateful!
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Juliane Glaser @julianeg.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🥳 Very grateful for the support of the ERC Starting Grant for my newly established lab! We will study how transposable elements contribute to mammalian embryonic development. We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social
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Species-specific Rates of Fatty Acid Metabolism Set the Scale of Temporal Patterning of Corticogenesis through Protein Acetylation Dynamics
Developmental processes display temporal differences across species, leading to divergence in organ size and composition. In the cerebral cortex, neurons of diverse identities are generated sequential...
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 29/08/2025
Research team @nadlerlab.bsky.social, A. Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social, B.Drobot @hzdr.bsky.social, M. Hof @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social develops approach to visualize lipids in cells & uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell. @nature.com www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
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Fat microscopy: Imaging lipids in cells
Dresden research team develops novel imaging approach to visualize individual lipids in cells and uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell.
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Daniel Medina-Cano @danielmedinacano.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Thank you so much, Laura!!!!
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
“A mouse organoid platform for modeling cerebral cortex development and cis-regulatory evolution in vitro” Nice work by @danielmedinacano.bsky.social @tvierbuchen.bsky.social @em6wong.bsky.social @stadtfeldlab.bsky.social 🧪🧫🧠 www.cell.com/developmenta...
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A mouse organoid platform for modeling cerebral cortex development and cis-regulatory evolution in vitro
Medina-Cano et al. report a new protocol for the reproducible generation of cerebral cortical organoids from mouse epiblast stem cells, which recapitulate the developmental tempo, cytoarchitecture, an...
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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!
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Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Open rank faculty search in my department. Please re-post!
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Daniel Medina-Cano @danielmedinacano.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Thank you, Oliver!
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Emily Wong @em6wong.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Congrats to Tommy and team, especially to PhD student Veronika Petrova who led the work on our end. Great to see it out! @victorchang.edu.au
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Daniel Medina-Cano @danielmedinacano.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Thank you so much, Zayna!!! Fingers crossed
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Daniel Medina-Cano @danielmedinacano.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
… my work with the Stadtfeld lab @stadtfeldlab.bsky.social‬ on the role of OTX2 during definitive endoderm and anterior gut development is also out (tinyurl.com/3unwh3eb)! Thank you so much to all collaborators, and I’ll be more than happy to discuss these protocols with anyone interested!
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Daniel Medina-Cano @danielmedinacano.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I'm really happy to announce that my two main postdoctoral works have been published in the same issue of Developmental Cell! First, the final form of the mouse cortical organoid protocol (tinyurl.com/bddfmx8n), which I recently presented at Development presents (tinyurl.com/36udcpme) and…
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