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Iva Verbanac

@ivaverbanac.bsky.social
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PhD fellow at EMBL ex master's student at Heidelberg University interested in protists&evodevo

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Bits&Bugs @bitsandbugs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A Syrphid feeding on Spirea
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EMBL PhD Symposium @phdsymposium.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
YOUR WORK STILL DESERVES TO BE SEEN! 👀 Got a poster instead of a talk? You still get to walk people through your work one on one and get direct feedback from your peers. Poster abstract submissions deadline: 1st of October. Link in bio or scan the QR code to submit!
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Iva Verbanac @ivaverbanac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very happy to be a part of this! The nuclear envelope of C. flexa, along with many others, labelled with concanavalin A.
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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Cellularization as a mechanism to build cells. #CellBio #DevBio Supported by @girishkalephd.bsky.social, Anne Ruess highlights a #preprint of @margaridaaraujo.bsky.social et al. @hiralshah.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social #preLight⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...
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Microtubules sustain the fidelity of cellularization in a coenocytic relative of animals - preLights
Cellularization as a mechanism to build cells
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EMBL PhD Symposium @phdsymposium.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Most importantly, if you think your project belongs at our symposium, submit your abstract by September 9th and share your ideas, research, and expertise with us at EMBL Heidelberg! 🧬✨ Sign up on our website and learn more about the schedule and our invited speakers! phdsymposium.embl-community.io
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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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EMBL PhD Symposium @phdsymposium.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🔈Our symposium poster is out!! We prepared 3 days of exciting program: 🧬 Day 1 - Hight Throughput Methods ⚙️ Day 2 - AI and Industry 🤖 Day 3 - Robotics Sounds fun? Visit our website and sign up! phdsymposium.embl-community.io
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Jana Helsen @helsenjana.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am starting my lab at the University of Geneva next January! Incredibly excited to soon be joining the MOCEL department as an Asst. Professor. The lab will use evolutionary cell biology to study chromosomes, centromeres & speciation 🧬🔬🌱 Intrigued, want to join or collaborate? 🔗 helsenlab.org
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Helsen lab | chromosome and centromere evolution
The Helsen lab at the University of Geneva explores how centromeres and chromosomes evolve, diversify, and function across eukaryotes. Discover our latest publications, research team, and open positio...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic
A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.
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Phil Abitua @ohnolog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil
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EMBL PhD Symposium @phdsymposium.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We’re proud to announce the registration for the 28th annual EMBL PhD Symposium for students in life science is now open! ⚙️🧬 Register now on our website, check out the invited speakers, and discover the exciting talks featured in this year’s program. phdsymposium.embl-community.io
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Bits&Bugs @bitsandbugs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Check out the iNaturalist Observation: www.inaturalist.org/observations... & don't forget to Checkout the Wikipedia page for Gonioctena fornicata! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonioct...
This is the Focus Stacked Image Climbing the StemAnother Angle
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Ali Shaib @alishaib.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy. Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us. Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thanks to @jeyantvo.bsky.social for talking with me about the ethics of using AI to communicate with animals, research I did with @marriah.bsky.social and published in Topoi link.springer.com/article/10.1... Fun conversation!
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Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication - Topoi
There is currently much scientific and public interest in using machine learning to uncover the meaning of animal signals, which could ultimately lead to two-way communication systems between humans a...
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Deepa Rajan, PhD @deeparajan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story Led by@margaridaaraujo.bsky.social, in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma ▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC #ProtistsOnSky
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New paper out! Here's a puzzle: phototrophy, the ability to use light for energy, is one of life's great innovations. It evolved early and transformed the biosphere. But it evolved 2x. Why not just once, why not more? Our work suggests the answer is priority effects. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Priority effects inhibit the repeated evolution of phototrophy - npj Complexity
npj Complexity - Priority effects inhibit the repeated evolution of phototrophy
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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
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Life of P.I. @lifeofpi-hd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Now online! Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes
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Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes
An imaging resource of over 200 microbial eukaryotic species provides a glimpse into the remarkable universe of cytoskeletal diversity.
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Neural Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst 🤩. @kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025
New insights into neurotransmitter evolution from a GPCR screen in Trichoplax, a neuron-less animal. with Yanez-Guerra et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… Trichoplax has tryptamine, tyramine, and phenethylamine receptors […] [Original post on biologists.social]
Synthesis pathway of
placozoan monoamine receptor agonists compared to the acetylated versions
of the compounds that activate human melatonin receptors
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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Heidelberg Open Lab @openlabhd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Join us on the kick-off meeting! Learn more about our initiative and join us to create a community of life scientists in Heildeberg to share skills & knowledge!
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Heidelberg Open Lab Kick-off Meeting
We are happy to invite you to the first meeting of Heidelberg Open Lab! Heidelberg Open Lab will be a node of the Nencki Open Lab project. It is a grassroots initiative aiming to create local scien…
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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Happy to share our Slow cooked work together with @mcgregorlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social , @nuneslab.bsky.social sky.social and Saad Arif and the collaboration of @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, Fernando Casares & @laurensr.bsky.social and many other friends rdcu.be/d8whP
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Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
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Roux Lab, Geneva @rouxlab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Yamini @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social changed the topology of Hydra to show that actin orientational defects of Hydra induce the full program of head regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Thrilled to see #choanoflagellates on the cover of Science Advances🤩. Our latest work "Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals" out now. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👏 @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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