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Eva Candal

@evacandal.bsky.social
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Developmental neurobiologist interested in evo-devo, neurogenesis, plasticity & neurodevelopmental disorders. Professor @usc.gal #NeuroDevo #EvoDevo #DevBio #sharks #retina

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Fernando Garcia-Moreno @phylobrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵
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Noelia Urbán Avellaneda @antsinthecarpet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎉Preprint out! In our new manuscript, we reveal that, much like us, wake up (proliferation) and sleeping (quiescence) patterns of adult neural stem cells are controlled by the circadian clock machinery. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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PER2- and state-dependent transcriptional programs gate neural stem cell proliferation with niche-specific circadian autonomy
Adult neural stem cells (NSCs) in the mouse brain are predominantly quiescent, with activation tightly regulated to balance neurogenesis and stem cell maintenance. Circadian clocks temporally organize...
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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔬🧪 We're hiring postdocs&engineers at Institut de la Vision in AMAZING Paris 🇫🇷!! Join a dynamic team working at the nexus of retina developmental biology, spatial omics & advanced imaging Ambitious science in a supportive & young inclusive team 🚀 DM me for more info & please share 🙏 #academicsky
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Microglia eat stem cells to keep the retina in shape This Research Highlight showcases work by Rashi Agarwal @rashi-agarwal.bsky.social, Joachim Wittbrodt @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social and colleagues. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our Special Issue on the Extracellular Environment is now complete! #DevSIextracellular. Guest-edited by @hugheslabpenn.bsky.social & @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, it contains 34 articles in total. Explore more here: tinyurl.com/bdr4ymvr
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The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Edited by Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 06/09/2026
705 million euro in ERC Starting Grants has just been awarded to 421 researchers across Europe. In the coming months many will start to hire staff and set up their own research groups. Keep an eye 👀 on the ERC team positions advertised on the #Euraxess website. 👉 buff.ly/7xrOtMp
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.
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RobertoFeuda @robertofeuda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs. Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs + 3 PhDs Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄 magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/... Email me if interested in joining the lab
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Un viaggio all’origine dei sistemi nervosi
Il nuovo progetto GRNevo, finanziato con un grant FIS-3 Advanced da 1,9 milioni di euro, studierà come si formano i neuroni durante lo sviluppo in specie animali molto distanti tra loro: dal moscerino...
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 14/01/2026
New featured article! Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns @emmanning.bsky.social @elsieplace.bsky.social @kchinnaiya.bsky.social @sethblackshaw.bsky.social @thomasdwkim.bsky.social dlvr.it/TQLWh5
Several stages of brain development in a chick embryo
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Dr Dorota SK @drdorotask.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Thank you @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social for highlighting our work! #aging #vision #GreenlandShark
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
#2025Rewind ⏪ Stowers scientists have established the apple snail as a new #research organism for investigating eye #regeneration, which may hold the key for restoring vision due to damage and disease. 🐌Read here: www.stowers.org/news/seeing-...
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ARCUS Aquatic One Health Research Center – USC @arcus-usc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🌊 El proyecto SHOW-IT, en el que participa ARCUS ha sido seleccionado como uno de los 11 proyectos financiados a nivel mundial por la institución BNP Paribas Foundation dentro de su Climate & Biodiversity Initiative 2025, entre 168 propuestas de 21 países 🌍.
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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Interested in neural stem cells and neurogenesis throughout lifespan? Exciting meeting in 2026 in Switzerland!! neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
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Conference: Neurogenesis from development to adulthood in health and disease
The adult brain consists of billions of neurons that show an unimaginable complexity in their structural diversity and functional connectivity allowing for a plethora of brain functions. Notably…
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Roberto Mayor Lab @mayorlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Help us to promote this DevBiol course (in Spanish) ¡Nuevo curso gratuito de Biología del Desarrollo (en español)! Aprende sobre los procesos que dan origen a la vida Cupos limitados → forms.gle/sfSV1GTae2nC... Detalles y programa: drive.google.com/file/d/1-9dd... #BiologíaDelDesarrollo
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Registro "Biología del Desarrollo Sintética: Diseñando la Vida"
Curso Electivo de Verano, dirigido a estudiantes de pregrado Programa: Link Fechas: 5 al 15 de Enero de 2026 Lugar: Santiago de Chile, clases presenciales (Campus Manuel Montt, U. Mayor) Para estudian...
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
👃Sniffing out olfactory neurogenesis New ‘Show and tell’ post on the Node from Sriivatsan G Rajan and Ankur Saxena @saxenalab.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/sniffing-out... #zebrafish #devbio #neurogenesis
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Zebrafish embryo undergoing gastrulation. Credit to Dr. Gopi Shah at EMBL. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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Holly Lovegrove @lovegrovelab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Interested in cell migration and developmental biology-check out this PhD opportunity! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
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Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
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Cristina Pujades @cristinapujades.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025
Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city! www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman #postdoc
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
transport yourself to the late 90s with this really cool paper on digit number regulation by Shh and BMP, ZPA and AER. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Dual Bmp-negative feedback loops modulate function of both AER and ZPA to buffer and constrain postaxial digit number | PNAS
Several lines of evidence indicate that posterior (postaxial) digit number in tetrapod vertebrates is constrained to the pentadactyl state by inter...
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
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Becker Group at CRTD @beckergroup.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We have a job opening for postdoc with expertise in bioinformatics and a strong interest in regeneration. We work on (successful) spinal cord regeneration in the zebrafish. Get in touch if that’s something that would interest you! www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#DBfeature 👁️ Perturbed cell cycle phase-dependent positioning and nuclear migration of retinal progenitors along the apico-basal axis underlie global retinal disorganization in the LCA8-like mouse model by Seo-Hee Cho et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli @alejofraticelli.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Our work on lineage tracing with somatic epimutations is finally out in @nature.com! Check out the thread by @larsplus.bsky.social below. EPI-clone is a revolutionary technique for lineage tracing and it will immediately impact how we trace clones everywhere. Detailed protocols coming out soon!
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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I'm still processing all the amazing interactions and possibilities this meeting brought. Different fields and expertise converging in a common interest: brain evolution. It was fantastic. Thanks to the organizers @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social ( Nerea Moreno, Fernando and Zoltan)
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms? @nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
With all the chaos and destruction of academic research going on in the US right now, it feels a little weird to post this. But.... New preprint from the lab is now live: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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PTEN regulates starburst amacrine cell dendrite morphology during development
Neurons are subject to extensive developmental regulation to ensure precise subtype-specific morphologies that are intimately tied to their function. Starburst amacrine cells (SACs) in the mammalian r...
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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology
Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.
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Ana Hernandez Rodriguez @analiahr.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
One of the reasons I love #DevelopmentalBiology is that it's so visually engaging. I had the pleasure of organising an image competition at the GRC last March, and share this passion. You can now check out these images on @the-node.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...
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GRS Developmental Biology 2025 Image gallery - the Node
The 2025 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) was held on March 29-30 2025. This year, the GRS co-chairs Ana R. Hernandez Rodriguez and
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Xuyu Qian @qianxuyu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification - Nature
Multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH) together with deep-learning-based nucleus segmentation enabled the construction of a highly detailed and informative spatially res...
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Levi Todd @levi-todd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We recently wrote a review about neuroimmune interactions in retinal repair. We dive into the literature regarding immune influences in Muller glia reprogramming, cell transplantation, and axon regeneration. Hopefully its useful, free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-FL4pAsj...
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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Many thanks to @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social for organising #ECCN2025 and bringing together such a variety of research and species! I truly enjoyed the experience! Stay tuned for the next edition #ECCN2028 in Leuven! (Or Tenerife, still have to decide hehe)
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My buddy @karenecheverri.bsky.social just published her latest (with a minor assist from yours truly) on how tail regeneration in #axolotls relies on brain activity. Specifically neurons in the telencephalon that project to the hypothalamus. #regeneration #cutemascot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration - npj Regenerative Medicine
npj Regenerative Medicine - Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration
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Sharks International 2026 @sharks-int.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🦈 Blotched Fantail Ray (Taeniurops meyeni) Interested in learning more about chondrichthyan research, management advances, and explore new opportunities for collaboration? Join us at the world’s largest shark, ray, and chimaera conference from 4-8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka!
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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our proposal for a ‘universal’ nomenclature for rod and cone types based on their evolutionary lineages that will equally apply to all vertebrate species is now out! Have a look and please consider adopting the system :)
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Modern sharks as our best mirror to our jawed common ancestor – @idoiaeu.bsky.social talks about the catshark embryo as a model to study the origin and evolution of the vertebrate telencephalon at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social
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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Two days to speak at this interesting conference. Looking forward to exchange and keep learning about brain evolution. And share what sharks are teaching us! 🦈 🧠 eccn2025.umh.es
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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...
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loretamedinah.bsky.social @loretamedinah.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Happy to share a short commentary I wrote remembering Professor Rudolf Nieuwenhuys rdcu.be/ejuRl which was published by Brain Structure and Function @springernature.com , within the collection Rudolf Nieuwenhuys: Neurofascination link.springer.com/collections/...
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Fascinated by brain evolution
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Amazing upcoming conference for brain evo-devo enthusiasts: #ECCN, May 6-8, Alicante. See the fantastic program and register here eccn2025.umh.es with keynotes @laurarosefenlon.bsky.social @alainchedotal.bsky.social ,Gilles Laurent, Henrik Kaessmann Registration deadline next week – Spread the word!
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SFBD_BioDev @sfbd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Do you like Dev Bio ? Yes ! Do you like French Dev Bio ? Yes !! The SFBD (French Society for Dev Bio) is here to promote research in embryology and post-embryonic development, growth, differentiation, regeneration, teratology and genetics on all multicellular organisms using any kind of methology
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Becker Group at CRTD @beckergroup.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Our search is still open - if you have a keen interest in biological questions and skills in bioinformatics and are looking to build your profile in #regeneration, check out our advert below and please don't hesitate to get in touch and discuss the role and opportunity with me!
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Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli @alejofraticelli.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
EMBO workshop on Single Cell Lineage Tracing! Sept 18-21, 2025 in Girona, Spain. Registration is OPEN!!!!! Tons of opportunities for talks are available (incl. full length ones). meetings.embo.org/event/25-lineage-tracing @perielab.bsky.social @idoamitlab.bsky.social #EMBOlineagetracing
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Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Great to see our chicken wing image featured on the cover of @plosbiology.org 🐣🔬! To learn more about how these feathers develop, check out the full article here ⬇️🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @lanevol.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social
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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Evo-devo Bluesky - say you want to root a tree spanning telost fish (eg medaka) and mammals (eg human) what’s the best outgroup? A shark? Whats the most complete / best annotated shark? Or Ciona?
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Aida Rodrigo @aidarodrigo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Interested in biological research beyond the standard? Join us in Edinburgh for the EMBO Workshop exploring how unconventional vertebrate models are becoming engines for biomedical research! 🦇 🐿️ 🦌 🐒 🦍 🐹🧍‍♀️ 🚨 Abstract submission deadline: 11 April 2025 🚨 meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...
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Beyond the standard: Unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine
The use of a handful of model organisms has proven essential for scientific discovery and to unlock new therapeutics to combat human disease. As society looks to the future, the gateway to new scient…
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Gareth Fraser @garethjfraser.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
New Pre-Print Alert! "Teeth Outside the Jaw: Evolution and Development of the Toothed Head Clasper in Chimaeras." We use fossil evidence, development and CT scans through ghost shark ontogeny to describe the emergence of the tenaculum! 👻🦈🦷 @karlycohen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
CT scan of the head clasper (tenaculum) from the Spotted Ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei), compete with its rows of shark-like teeth! Our paper features fossil reconstruction art (of Helodus simplex) by Ray Troll - https://www.trollart.com/
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