Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026So proud of my team. Talented, hardworking, growing every day. Being there for them is my biggest joy. Harnos Lab 2026 🐸 😍 🥳 040
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026🐸 Amphibians take over Europe!! 📍 Prague. July 3–5, 2026. The European Amphibian Conference 2026 is coming: 3 days of cutting-edge science, bold ideas, iconic speakers, and serious frog & axolotl energy ✨ 👉 Register. Submit. Be there. Do not miss it. amphib-conf2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en 074
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026A new Master is born 🎓 Kristýna finished her Master’s degree in the Harnoš lab 🔬 Our fourth Master - congratulations 🚀 040
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Welcome to Brno 🇨🇿 Our two new exchange students, Alba Macipe Feito and Ana Moreno Llorente 🇪🇸 They will study molecular and cell signalling for the following four months 🔬 Good luck and godspeed 🚀 010
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labJan Mašek @maseklab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Together with @harnoslab.bsky.social, we compiled what is known about direct interactions of Wnt and Notch components, and advanced the testable framework of how the crosstalk could allow for a more polarized cellular response to one pathway or the other. 111
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Why do we lose so much talent in academia? Let’s talk about it – openly, together, responsibly. NEXT TUESDAY AT 5:30 PM. PI Forum Brno #7 | Feb 3 @ CEITEC MU For all PIs, PhDs & researchers in Brno. Chaired by @fabianlab.bsky.social 042
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026New Paper Alert! 1982: WNT discovered 1990s: NOTCH enters the stage 2000s: “Let’s study pathways separately.” 2025: “Actually, they talk to each other.” Welcome to the era of WNT-NOTCH crosstalk Great collaboration with Mašek lab (CZ) and G. Collu (US) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...royalsocietypublishing.orgDecoding ‘Wntch’: the intertwined Wnt and Notch pathways in development and diseaseAbstract. Multicellularity emerges from the ability of cells to undergo functional differentiation. One of the key mechanisms that enables this coordinatio 084
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 11/01/2026When you urgently need the restroom but get lost in a Xenopus development poster instead… 🐸🧠 Thanks to my lab heroes Lorena & Douglas for representing the #DaysOfOpenDoors at Masaryk University #frogpower #MUNI 030
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧪🐸 PhD position open in the Harnos Lab (Masaryk University, Brno)! We study cell migration, WNT/PCP signaling, mitochondria & energy in Xenopus. Start: June 2026 (flexible) Apply by Feb 28, 2026 📩 harnos@sci.muni.cz #PhDposition #CellBiology #Mitochondria #Xenopus #WNT #PCP 054
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Just published a #BehindThePaper blog post about our new paper on PRICKLE3 and WNT/PCP signalling! 🧬 Check out the story behind the science and what we learned along the way 👇 communities.springernature.com/posts/behind...communities.springernature.comBehind the Paper: How PRICKLE3 Found Its Place in WNT/PCP SignallingBehind every research paper, there is a long story that is usually invisible to the reader. Our paper is no exception. What began as a focused cell biology project gradually developed into a broad, co... 040
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026With @fabianlab.bsky.social — first author and last author in their natural habitats. #IKEA_Biology #SameOffice_SameChallenges #Pat&Mat 192
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026🚀 Check out the newly improved Harnos Lab webpages! Our research on cell polarity, development, and migration - now with a fresh look. 👉 ueb1.sci.muni.cz/ofiz/en/harn... #CellPolarity #DevelopmentalBiology #Xenopus #WntSignalingueb1.sci.muni.czHarnos Lab - Section of Animal Physiology and Immunology——– What we work withWe study early Xenopus frog embryos: a powerful model for developmental biology. 🐸 Why frogsTheir embryos are large, develop outside the body, and are ideal for live imaging and e... 011
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 29/12/2025🔥 New paper out! PRICKLE3 is not just another PRICKLE. It stabilizes VANGL, blocks CK1ε phosphorylation, suppresses RNF43, and rewires WNT/PCP signaling across species. Big mechanism. Big fun. 🐸🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comPRICKLE3 protects VANGL proteins from CK1-mediated phosphorylation and RNF43-mediated degradation - Communications BiologyWe mapped PRICKLE1–3 interactomes and identified PRICKLE3 as a key WNT/PCP regulator that stabilizes VANGL via CK1ε–RNF43 control, revealing a PRICKLE3-specific mechanism shaping polarity across verte... 050
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Milé @msmtcr, když příště nebude sedět JEDNO číslo v Letter of Intent s hlavním projektem a celý projekt je kvůli tomu AUTOMATICKY vyřazen bez jakéhokoli upozornění, stačil by nám jeden krátký email k opravě. Místo toho: žádné review, a měsíce či roky práce v pr... myslím pryč. 000
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Merry Christmas from the Harnoš Lab 🎄🐸 See you in an exciting 2026! ✨ 050
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025New paper out in Sci Rep 🎉 Xenopus + azoles + developmental biology 🐸 A great collaboration with Veterinary University Brno. Read it here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41350377/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govDevelopmental toxicity of fluconazole and 1,2,4-triazole in Xenopus laevis - PubMedFluconazole (FLU) is a widely used antifungal agent frequently detected in surface waters because of its extensive use in medicine, agriculture, and personal care products.Despite concerns about its persistence and developmental toxicity in aquatic species, its effects on amphibians remain poorly un … 162
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025🔥 BIG NEWS! 🔥 Thrilled to share that I have been selected as one of the MUNI Junior Star 2026 awardees! ⭐️ Huge congratulations to all fellow awardees — and thank you, MUNI, for this incredible opportunity! 🙌 Let’s make science shine. 💫 #MUNIJuniorStar #Science #Research #ProudMoment 260
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Preparing for my big talk at the GAMU Annual Conference 2025! Grateful for the opportunity to share our science and the achievements of the Harnoš Lab. Vamos! 🚀🐸 030
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025MAGA — Make AMPHIBIANS Great Again! 🐸 We just wrapped up the 2nd Czech Amphibian Friends meeting: great interactions, strong science, midnight swimming, and exciting collaborations ahead. Big plans for 2026 — stay tuned! Vladimir Krylov, we missed you! Proud to help organize this event. 040
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Our PhD student Šárka is now giving a chalk-talk presentation on her Prickle and neurulation work in front of her fellow students — and she is doing great! Go, Šárka! 🐸💪 #MUNI #PhDretreat #Xenopus #frogpower 050
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025How do you make a group of scientists really busy? Organize a scientific speed-dating session! Three minutes per pair — the clock is brutal. Happy to host this one! 🔬⏱️😄 #PhDretreat #MUNI 130
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Honored to give a talk about Xenopus at the prestigious IMG courses in Prague today! Excited to introduce this amazing frog model to new audiences. 🐸 #FrogPower 040
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labPeter Fabian @fabianlab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A proper hashtag#WoodstockBio2 welcome for @odedrechavi.bsky.social — complete with the YMCA song (yes, really 😄). With @harnoslab.bsky.social we couldn’t resist celebrating a scientist who truly embodies fun and courage in science. #science #FabianLAB, @paveltomancak.bsky.social 🙏 1204
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025It’s fantastic to meet Oded Rechavi at my home institution! 🔥 Great chat about his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, where his team used DNA analysis to reveal that some fragments came from different animals and regions — rewriting what we thought we knew about the oldest Bible. 📜🧬 050
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025It’s my greatest pleasure to co-organize this event! 🚀 PIs from Brno: come join us and see what this supportive initiative is all about! 🙌 #BrnoScience #YoungPIs #Networking 010
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Just finished an amazing EMBO Lab Leadership course! 50% of my excitement comes from the inspiring lecturers Aiden and Petra, and the other 50% from meeting 14 brilliant young PIs — the next generation of leading scientists in Europe. 020
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025For all Xenopus lovers: the CSHL Xenopus Course is coming in 2026! 🐸 Led by the awesome @walenteklab.bsky.social & Rachel Miller. Don’t miss it! 💪 #frogpower 041
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Just wrapped up my first-ever poster presentation in BOTH English & Spanish 🎉 A truly fantastic experience! Learned that it’s not the poster itself that matters, but how we speak about science 🧪✨ Viva México! 🇲🇽 0100
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025🇲🇽 Hola, buenos días from México! The VI Neurobiological Conference has just kicked off. Excited to step out of my comfort zone and represent not only our lab at Masaryk University, not only Brno, not only Czechia… but maybe even Europe! 🌍 Greetings from the heart of wild & central Mexico!🧠 141
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Today I start the first lecture of my course Developmental defects (Bi1152en) at Masaryk University 🎓 My favorite part: to show how scientists in Mexico 🇲🇽 in 18–19th century were sometimes ahead of European colleagues, who were the “flagship” of science at that time. @jbwallingford.bsky.social 060
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labPetra Kompanikova @petrakompanikova.bsky.social · 14/09/2025🔥Shout-out to everyone who taught at our Young Developmental Biologist Workshop @harnoslab.bsky.social, Pavel Kohout from @loschmidtlab.bsky.social, Viktória Parobková from @ceitec.eu, Irina Poverennaya from @meduniwien.ac.at, and Petr Vodička & David Drutovič from IAPG @czechacademy.bsky.social 152
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 13/09/2025🚨 Our collaborative paper on DNA structures in Xenopus oocytes is out! 🎉 Huge thanks to lead author Anirban Ghosh and PI Lukas Trantirek 🙌 #frogpower academic.oup.com/nar/article/...academic.oup.comValidate User 030
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labJohn Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Interested in Science Communication? Love #devbiol? Apply for the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComms Interns Program! www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...sdbonline.orgSociety for Developmental Biology | SDB Science Communication Internship 0108
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Haha, this is what happens when a Xenopus scientist goes to an Indian party! 😅 #frogpower 020
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labV4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Meet fascinating Jakub Harnoš @harnoslab.bsky.social from Masaryk University @masarykuniversity.bsky.social with his talk Wnt-Notch Crosstalk and Its Impact on Embryonic Epidermis Development Using Xenopus #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis 141
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Tomorrow starts Visegrad Group Society for Developmental Biology (V4SDB) conference! 🎉 Today I lead workshop “How to write excellent abstract.” Tomorrow 17:00 my talk about Xenopus 🐸!!! Fantastic Slovakia 🏔️🙏 030
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labJohn Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Woodworth's 1889 paper is a fun read. You can get it for free here: 2/3 www.google.com/books/editio...google.comStudies on the Embryological Development of Euvanessa Antiopa 111
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Fantastic open discussion with the Xenopus community on our needs, support, and how to push this model forward—courses, databases, and beyond. Wow! Grateful & proud to be part of this community. 🐸💚 #Xenopus #ScienceCommunity 011
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 17/08/2025We are starting the biggest world conference about #Xenopus 🐸! All important people in this model organism are here. Tomorrow at 14:00 is my talk — wish me good luck! 🍀 0222
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Very cool PhD offer in Brno! Come to study G4 quadruplexes! www.ceitec.eu/molecular-in...ceitec.euMolecular Insights into the G-Quadruplex–Helicase Interactome and Its Functional ImplicationsDoctoral study program Life Sciences (Faculty of Science, Masaryk University) Research area Nucleic acid structural biology Supervisor Lukáš Trantírek, Ph.D. Consultant Anirban Ghos... 010
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025CK1 conference in Brno kicks off! 🧠 Join us tomorrow for my talk at 9 am on neural tube formation – don’t miss it! 071
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Jazz in Brno! Chilling out after work with some members of @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social lab 🎷🎶 070
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 16/06/2025My two Master students just finished their degree! 🎓🔥 Big congrats to Aneta and Pavla!! Harnoš lab is on fire! 💥👏 #ProudSupervisor #ScienceLife 180
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Happy Father’s Day! Big respect to all single fathers who raise kids with full love and responsibility. 💪 In science, I support equality — 10 of 13 people in my lab are women. No harassment, no gender judgment. Ask them yourself! Be like James! 💥 #FathersDay #Equality 020
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labPeter Fabian @fabianlab.bsky.social · 13/06/2025This might be useful for the #TCTeAC participants 🇨🇿, 🙏 @svobodalab.bsky.social @odedrechavi.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DPH6r8o 72911
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025@fabianlab.bsky.social right now!!! Excitement level 100 !!!! #tcteac 060
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labPeter Fabian @fabianlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025#TCTeAC Masaryk is everywhere 052
Jakub Harnos lab @harnoslab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Living the fantastic experience during Woodstock of Bioscience conference 2! ♥️. Big thanks to organizers!! 🙏 #tcteac @itaiyanai.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social @svobodalab.bsky.social @odedrechavi.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labpaveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 11/06/2025@odedrechavi.bsky.social announces ground breaking new solution for #AI mediated peer review. app.qedscience.com We expect nothing less from #OdedRechavi #TCTeAC 274
Reposted by Jakub Harnos labNatanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Our publishing process needs to be revolutionised @odedrechavi.bsky.social #TCTeAC high-quality AI generated peer review 184