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The Hassan Brain Development Team

@hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
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We study the genetic control and molecular regulation of brain development - and a little bit of function - in fly, mouse and human stem cell models

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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A conversation between Alan Rodrigues and Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social on the YouTube Conceptual Biology Forum channel about how living systems self-organise and consequences to our understanding of brain development, function, health and disease. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6qZ...
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Neuronal systems: bridging ontogeny and function | Bassem Hassan | CBF Dialogues 004
YouTube video by Conceptual Biology Forum
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We are excited and proud to share that the super talented @maheandria.bsky.social will be starting her own lab as an assistant professor and group leader at @neuropsi.bsky.social this fall 🥳🍾
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A conversation with @bassemh.bsky.social on Mark Mattson's Brain Ponderings podcast: youtu.be/fdb8LE91pEc?... Also at open.spotify.com/episode/2LcO...
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Bassem Hassan: Normal Functions of the Amyloid Precursor Protein in the Developing and Adult Brain
YouTube video by BRAIN PONDERINGS podcast with Dr. Mark Mattson
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Ania Chrzanowska and @bassemh.bsky.social discuss why it is informative to think about neuronal circuit function from a developmental perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Building brains, shaping behaviors: How developmental approaches illuminate the analysis of circuits and behavior
Developmental processes define the parameters of neural circuits and restrict the range of possible behaviors. Here, we briefly highlight how the deve…
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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an den ehemaligen Einstein Visiting Fellow Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social 🎉
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Justin Kumar @flyeyelab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The 2026 Visual System Development GRC and GRS are fast approaching. Jeremy Kay, Kristen Kwan, Robert Johnston, and I have built an exciting program that we hope you will enjoy. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting this summer in beautiful Maine. Register and RT!
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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I owe this “career award” to everyone who has been part of @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social over the years ❤️
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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
On post-translational modifications & their contribution to help shape human cortical development 🧠 Jawdat Sandakly covers a recent #preprint from Julien Pigeon and colleagues @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social. #DevBio #Neuroscience Read the #preLight ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/p...
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Post-translational Tuning of Human Cortical Progenitor Neuronal Output - preLights
On post-translational modifications and their contribution to help shape human cortical development
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Please check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.
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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Temporal control of neurogenesis” A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏 @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @borrell-lab.bsky.social
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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social tomorrow at #SeminarsIN 🙌 He is a world leader in the study of genetic regulation of brain development. Don’t miss it! @borrell-lab.bsky.social @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A wonderful collaboration with @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social and @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social labs
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Our latest: Julien Pigeon and colleagues discover a mechanism linking post-translational modification of transcription factors to remodeling the chromatin landscape to regulate human cortical neurogenesis
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Post-translational Tuning of Human Cortical Progenitor Neuronal Output
The striking expansion of the human neocortex is driven by the ability of radial glial cells (RGCs) to prolong neurogenesis without exhausting their progenitor pool, thereby producing more neurons, pa...
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...
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Heterozygous pathogenic variants in the splicing factor SF1 lead to a large spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders | Bassem Hassan
Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder.
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
For those who understand Arabic 😊 A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في ...
الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في تخصص علم ا...
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Iryna Mohylyak @mohylyak.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Excited to share our latest paper in Nature Communications! We uncovered a dev-time transcriptional program (via Mirana → Pink1) that shapes mitochondria & circuit wiring. Disrupt it early, and neurons miswire — even if the gene recovers later!
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social Register early because places go fast!
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Temporal transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial morphology primes activity-dependent circuit connectivity - Nature Communications
This study investigates the developmental transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial quality control. Authors identify the Drosophila factor Mirana, homologous to mammalian TZAP, as a key temporal re...
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Neural Development GRC 2026 @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
👋🏻 Bluesky!
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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social! 🧠🪰🐭🐙🐸🦎🧒🏻🧫🧪🧠
image of web page for Neural Development GRC - go to https://www.grc.org/neural-development-conference/2026/
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Congrats to the fantastic @maheandria.bsky.social on this well deserved recognition from French Academy of Science
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maheandria.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This journey began in Berlin with @bassemh.bsky.social and Robin Hiesinger, and continued at @institutducerveau.bsky.social in @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social , with the generous support of @frm-officiel.bsky.social . Grateful to the von Kleist & Stoeckli Labs and all co-authors!
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 07/05/2025
A temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circuits in Drosophila 🧪🧠 @bassemh.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster - Nature Neuroscience
The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circu...
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New from the lab: @maheandria.bsky.social and colleagues in collaboration with the Hiesinger, Stoeckli and von Kleist labs dissect the sequential emergence of axonal targeting during development in today's issue of Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010
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Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster
Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...
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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Hot off the press: The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010
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Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster
Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Anna CHRZANOWSKA, PhD, postdoc in The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social is organizing a trainee-led symposium @institutducerveau.bsky.social June 2-4 Spread the word! nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/
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Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning Paris Brain Institute, June 2-4th 2025 Applying machine learning and other models to decode behavioral parameters from neural activity is now a standard …
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Margarete Diaz Cuadros @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Can't miss opportunity for anyone interested in developmental timing!! See you in Paris⏳️
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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Join us in Paris 6-9 May 2025 for the #EvoDevoTempo conference (2nd edition) with a fantastic line up of speakers confirmed!! Organized by @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social and me. Please RT to spread the word meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...
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Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights
Like choreography, development consists of a highly ordered suite of steps and transitions. Modifying developmental tempo can affect final size and composition of tissues, as well as their plasticity…
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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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EMBO Workshop on Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Second edition of the EMBO workshop on Developmental Timing across species. Second edition organized by @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and Margerete Diaz-Cuadros Cool speakers & fun networking activities. More details coming soon.Save the date: May 6-9 2025!
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The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is the Blue Sky account of the Hassan Brain Development lab. Let's connect!
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