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Danielson Baia Amaral

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On the job market 🏳️‍🌈 Pre-Doc Researcher @GSSIMR and @BazziniLab Molecular Biologist, evolution of gene regulation, insect enthusiast

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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics, I promise, will be a unique experience www.trippus.net/summerschool... 23-26 June 2026 in a hidden Swedish paradise 🇸🇪🫎 We have extended the deadline to May 15 or until availability @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
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Summer School 2026
Come to this beautiful Swedish inland scenario to learn the most advanced technologies to study transcriptional regulation.
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Natasha Shylo @shylonatasha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I suppose it's better late than never to mention that this September I started an Assistant Professor position at Rowan University @rowancsm.bsky.social. We will be doing cool work with chameleons 🦎 to understand early development, especially left-right patterning view.rowan.edu/the-human-pu...
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The puzzle of human development by Rowan University
Rowan University biologist, Natasha Shylo studies human development and asymmetry.
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Guo Huang Lab @UCSF #Recruiting postdocs @guohuanglab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
So proud of this incredible team and all we accomplished this year! We’re looking for 1-2 postdocs to explore evo-devo, organ regeneration, extreme physiology, non-traditional animals, and SUPERMAN 🦸‍♂️! Please spread out news. @isrbio.bsky.social @ahascience.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Exciting genome news! For those interested, there is a prerelease of the Ensembl gene models for the new reference genomes GRCz12tu (GCA_049306965.1) and GRCz12ab (GCA_05204075.1) at ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/database... You can download gff and gtf files there as well as softmasked genomes.
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Index of /pub/databases/ensembl/pre-release/Danio_rerio
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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Celebratory drink with @compbiologist.bsky.social to salute the new year AND to cheer for @yhbioinfo.bsky.social’s new article on cross-species comparison methods out in Nature Methods: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chang Liu @chang-c-liu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We’re excited to share new work on the continuous in vivo evolution of gene libraries towards arbitrary functions. Led by superstar Olek Pisera, our experiments show that gene evolution is highly versatile... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rapid continuous evolution of gene libraries towards arbitrary functions
The emergence and evolution of new gene functions is central to biology, yet experimental tools that allow us to prospectively probe and understand this process are lacking. While systems for continuo...
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Chang Liu @chang-c-liu.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Happy to share the peer-reviewed and updated version of our work on OrthoRep-driven evolution of aaRSs for genetic code expansion with unnatural amino acids. Congrats to Yuichi Furuhata, a true master bioengineer, on leading this excellent work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Directed evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases through in vivo hypermutation - Nature Communications
Genetic code expansion (GCE) enables the incorporation of new amino acids into proteins. Here, authors demonstrate the rapid OrthoRep-driven evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases for GCE, increasing...
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
CUT&ID for simultaneous profiling of protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#NIH modified how next peer review panel will #review #grants grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Emergency Modifications to NIH Peer Review | Grants & Funding
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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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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Attention Junior RNA Scientists - The deadline to apply for RNA Junior Scientist Representative positions with the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social is midnight tomorrow! We are so excited to review your applications and to recruit the next cohort of Jr RNA Scientists Representatives 🤩
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Ricardo Zayas @zayaslab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Please help distribute this announcement for the Ph.D. in Biology Program @stowersinstitute.bsky.social
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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Adrenergic signaling coordinates distant and local responses to amputation in axolotl
The nervous system regulates a systemic response following amputation that primes distant appendages for faster regeneration upon a second injury, a scenario relevant to salamanders in the wild who ex...
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dandergassen.bsky.social @dandergassen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Cracking the code of the non-coding genome via allele-specific genomics? Can we link non-coding elements—like lncRNAs and enhancers—to their protein-coding target genes, and in doing so, connect overlapping non-coding disease variants to their protein-coding counterparts?
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The origin and molecular evolution of the mammalian liver cell architecture www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology
ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
RMBase v3.0: decode the landscape, mechanisms & functions of RNA modifications The Encyclopedia of RNA Epitranscriptome More than m6A "73 RNA modifications of 62 species" bioinformaticsscience.cn/rmbase/ @narjournal.bsky.social 2024 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Braasch Lab @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social will soon post a position to replace manager of our *Ancient Fish Facility* at Michigan State. Looking for aquaculturist excited for unusual 🐟 species (gar, bowfin, paddlefish, polypterus) + zebrafish. Pls send candidates our way (DM or braasch@msu.edu)!
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International Society for Regenerative Biology @isrbio.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sign up for the ISRB Pre-Conference Trainee Meeting is closing tomorrow, 1st July. Don't miss out trainees! morgridge.org/event/isrb-p...
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ISRB Pre-Conference Trainee Meeting - Morgridge Institute for Research
This pre-conference workshop is designed specifically for trainee-level members, including undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs. The event will provide a platform for trainees to share thei...
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A new study from the MBL reveals that activating a group of neurons in the axolotl brain is essential for tail regeneration. The findings point to the possibility that a comparable group of neurons impacts regenerative responses in mammals. Read more: bit.ly/4kxcfRp 📷: Dee Sullivan
An axolotl in a clear tank
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Register below! ⬇️
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
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Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome - Nature
The physical organization of the genome in non-bilaterian animals and their closest unicellular relatives is characterized; comparative analysis shows chromatin looping is a conserved feature of ...
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International Society for Regenerative Biology @isrbio.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 3: The Americas 🚨 Join us on May 16th at 12pm US East Coast Time. Featuring Dr. Sarah McMenamin from @bostoncollege.bsky.social and Dr. Erica Crespi from @wsupress.bsky.social. Find all details at isrbio.org/event-6181293
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Kamena Kostova @kkostova.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🚨New paper alert!🚨 Our latest work uncovers how cells detect and destroy defective ribosomes before they cause harm. A key quality control pathway with implications for development and disease. #ribosome #qualitycontrol Check it out in Molecular Cell: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2MA3vVUP...
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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🐠 New pre-print from the lab! 🐠 Neural microexons fine-tune protein function - but how do they impact arousal states and underlying neuronal signaling pathways? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Check out our latest pre-print by @tahneema.bsky.social et al, @upf.edu @crg.eu. 🧵👇 1/9
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Neural microexons modulate arousal states via cAMP signalling in zebrafish
Arousal states, often dysregulated in neurodevelopmental disorders, shape how organisms perceive and respond to their environment. Here, we show that srrm3, a master regulator of neural microexons, is...
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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today’s most transformative medicines exist because of fundamental discoveries that were made without regard to practical outcome. Their relevance to therapeutics only appeared decades later. This article provides some compelling examples. 🔽
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Steffi (she/her) @sillysciencelady.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
In this review, I write about why it is important to study synaptonemal complex protein evolution and highlight this with a few key examples of conserved features and unique adaptations.
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From conservation to adaptation: understanding the synaptonemal complex’s evolutionary dynamics
The synaptonemal complex (SC) is structurally conserved across eukaryotes and is essential for a proper progression of meiosis. Despite this conservat…
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Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) @zfinmod.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
[Announcement] Make your new lines findable in ZFIN and save time during publication revisions by registering new mutant/transgenic lines prior to publication. Submit new mutant/transgenic lines using this form: zfin.org/action/nomen... #zebrafish
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ZFIN Submit a Proposed Mutant/Transgenic Line Name
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
That's dramatic (and cool): "archaea species can also form multicellular tissue–like structures when compressive forces are applied... ... These results establish multicellularity as a feature of all three domains of life" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Featured image with Julia Peloggia de Castro Taken late at night by @jupeloggia.bsky.social, the image depicts a zebrafish embryo with active mitochondria labelled. Find out about Julia and the story behind the image from the Node-FocalPlane image competition: thenode.biologists.com/featured-ima...
The image depicts a zebrafish embryo at 9 hours post-fertilisation on a lateral view. Cells are stained with MitoTracker, which labels active mitochondria, and cell membranes are labelled in cyan with a EGFP transgenic membrane tag. Image was taken using a 20x objective on a spinning disk confocal microscope.
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Extended abstract submission for TALK considerations close April 6 - and don't forget to register! Getting a healthy number of attendees will ensure that the meeting can keep going in the future. Come join us in Albuquerque! #SWSDB2025 #devbio @socdevbio.bsky.social
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RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
RNA 2025 will feature Plenary & Concurrent oral scientific sessions & poster presentations that cover both traditional and emerging topics in RNA science. To be considered for a Poster presentation, your abstract must be submitted no later than March 31st! #RNA25 www2.rnasociety.org/conferences/...
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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hypotheses are not theories.
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Come to Tokyo March 2026 for the limb conference! Honored to be sharing the keynote space with Cliff Tabin and Ken Poss.
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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Aug 27-22, 2025 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... Deadline is March 31, 2025. #VeniceEvoDevo
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Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems
Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …
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Tetsuya Nakamura @nakamuralab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A fish specialist position in Nakamura lab is still open. Great opportunity to learn fish husbandry, genetics, and evodevo with zebrafish, skates, and some other unique fish. Thanks RT!!
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🧪 @dev-journal.bsky.social has an opening for a Reviews Editor. If you love #devbio, and have an interest in publishing and #scicomms, this could be the role for you. Full details at bit.ly/42eiTpa 📆 Application deadline is 31 March 2025 #careersinpublishing #editor
A picture of the staff at The Company of Biologists in a staircase.
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Stowers Grad School @stowersgrad.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Predoc @dbmrl.bsky.social highlights the exceptional support and resources at our #GradSchool, from mentorship to career development. Read this Q&A to learn why they believe our #PhD in #Biology program stands out. Read here: bit.ly/4jYv3cW
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Predoc Profile: Q&A with Stowers Graduate School Predoctoral…
"It is unlike anything I have experienced before and much different than what I hear from my friends pursuing grad school elsewhere."
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