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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Roman’s article in Laborpraxis explores microfluidics for multiplexed super-resolution imaging and its potential integration with Flamingo (in German): tinyurl.com/laborpraxis @romantsukanov.bsky.social #Flamingo #microfluidics #SuperResolution #microscopy #DNAPAINT #multiplexing

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Flamingo at #DZG2026 in Münster: Torben presents cleared tissue imaging of crustacean heart #morphology. @tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social #Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

By combining DNA sequencing of museum specimens with newly collected specimens & detailed anatomical analyses, an int'l team led by the University of Göttingen has discovered 10 extraordinary new worms species. Paper published in journal: @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social. Read more here: shorturl.at/XHVKY

Large purple barrel sponge on a coral reef, its ruffled, porous surface forming concentric folds around a single large central opening (osculum).

Tangled mass of thin, curly white fibers with fine hair-like protrusions on a dark background, shown in extreme close-up to highlight their coiled texture and delicate structure.

Small white segmented marine polychaete (Cladosyllis) with numerous feathery lateral parapodia along a curved body and a rounded head, annotated with labels "an", "dc", and "pa" on a black background for anatomical identification.

Close-up of a white, cup-shaped sea sponge with fibrous walls and many round pores revealing its inner chamber, attached to a dark underwater surface.

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shape the future of light: PhD opportunities in photonics in the Huisken lab. Excellent research network. Apply through the Max Planck School of Photonics. Deadline 1 Dec 2026. www.photonics.school/ #LSFM #lightsheet #Flamingo

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Do wild-caught embryos develop in the same way as embryos cultured in the lab? This summer, Beke and Mette visited Luis at IMEV in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, to start exploring this question in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii. #Platynereis #annelid #Flamingo #lightsheet #cell-lineage

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Mette Handberg-Thorsager @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Unique PhD opportunity with Luis @lbezarescalderon.bsky.social on marine invertebrate larvae in the great scientific environment of @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social in beautiful Villefranche-sur-Mer.

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Huisken Lab outing to watch the total solar eclipse!

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The final day of IPC15 was a fascinating insight into the world of EvoDevo & genomics. Two invited speakers Elaine Seaver and Toru Miura provided a backdrop for a series of fascinating talks.

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Mette Handberg-Thorsager @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Back from the International Polychaete Conference at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt! A big thanks to the organisers and everyone who made #IPC15 such an enjoyable and inspiring meeting. I learned a lot about polychaete biodiversity. @etilic.bsky.social #annelids #polychaete

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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

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Lena Schindler @lena-schindler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I am thrilled to share my PhD work with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... A fun collaboration with Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Adrián Aguirre-Tamaral, @bart-smeets.bsky.social , Jef Vanghel and Tom Belpaire! Read the story in the comments below ⤵️

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Mette Handberg-Thorsager @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Beautiful movie of zebrafish development - previous work from @huiskenlab.bsky.social

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Huisken lab is at #EED2026! @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social & @bekeloh.bsky.social will show how we use #Flamingo #light-sheet microscopy to address biological questions in the annelid #Platynereis, with imaging of the developing nervous system as an example (Platy Satellite Meeting & Poster P146).

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Check out our 2026 subject collection, showcasing recent papers in @dev-journal.bsky.social on evolutionary developmental biology: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti... It has been curated to support the 2026 Euro-Evo-Devo conference in Glasgow, UK. #EED2026

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Lowe Lab @lowelab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

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Mette Handberg-Thorsager @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Always a pleasure to discuss annelid biology and live imaging of annelid development with Martin-Duran and Dumollard labs. @qmul.bsky.social @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social #LSFM #lightsheet #Flamingo #Platynereis #Owenia

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Allan Carrillo-Baltodano @allancarbal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Very cool to have @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social Silvia Caballero and Daniel González and @uni-goettingen.de @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social visiting @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Sharing ideas and data for future collaborations. Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday #EvoDevo

Photo with participants of the springboard between QMUL, Villefranche dev bio lab and Gottingen, taken from a roof, with the background of some London buildings

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Mette Handberg-Thorsager @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Great PhD opportunity in the Huisken lab investigating cardiac conduction using light sheet microscopy.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

we're on the cover!

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Happy to share our contribution to this new work led by @michalis-averof.bsky.social! @bekeloh.bsky.social and @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social tested membrane tags in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii — many reached the cell membrane, and several also label the developing nervous system in the larvae.

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Honored to have two images from our lab selected among the Top 5 Research Images of the Year in Göttingen 🎉 The images will be exhibited in Forum Wissen until 10 April 2026. www.forum-wissen.de/event/resear... #ForumWissen #ScienceIsAlsoArt

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Research Images of the Year! Opening and Exhibition – Forum Wissen

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Abstract submission and registration for the *10th Euro Evo Devo Meeting 2026* at University of Glasgow (June 8-12, 2026) is open. Early bird deadline: March 5, 2026. More info: www.evodevoconference26.com #conference

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New Huisken lab member: We’re excited to welcome Roman Tsukanov (@romantsukanov.bsky.social)! With expertise in super-resolution microscopy using DNA-PAINT, Roman will combine this technology with light sheet fluorescence microscopy. Exciting times ahead! #SuperResolution #DNApaint #lightsheet #LSFM

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Uni Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de · 16/01/2026

Lichtblattmikroskope erstellen 3D-Scans von Geweben und Organen – erzeugen bei großen Proben aber unscharfe Bilder. Forschende haben eine Plattform entwickelt, die diese Hürde überwindet. Mehr erfahren: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html... #MBexC #UMG @mbexc.bsky.social @huiskenlab.bsky.social

Hörschnecke eines menschlichen Innenohrs sichtbar gemacht mit dem neuartigen Lichtblatt-Fluoreszenzmikroskop © Adaptiert nach Aakhte, M. et al., Nature Biotechnology, DOI: 10.1038/s41587-025-02882-8; lizensiert nach CC BY 4.0

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Enjoying a Glühwein at the Christmas market - yearly Huisken lab tradition 🎄

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ben Gallusser @bengallusser.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Trackastra is part of the brand-new TrackMate v8. It is the first deep-learning-based ("AI") drop-in replacement for TrackMate's regular LAP-Track algorithm. Tracks out of the box for many types of datasets (bacteria, fluorescent nuclei, phase contrast cell culture etc), zero parameters to tune 🤖

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Trackastra integration in TrackMate.

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Studying cochlear neuroanatomy demands imaging the entire cochlea at subcellular resolution. In our recent study (tinyurl.com/isotropicLSFM), we recorded the cochlea at isotropic resolution across the whole organ, laying the groundwork for what follows… #lightsheet #isotropic #cochlea

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Happy to see our paper “Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue” in @natbiotech.nature.com – with Tobias Moser’s lab from @unimedizin-goe.bsky.social and @janwenzel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microscopy #lightsheet

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🪱Ekin Tilic @etilic.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026 #IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

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Bardin Lab @bardinlab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc... @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.

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Jordi Cayuso @jordicayuso.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

📢 We are growing! 📢 The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr... #ZebrafishJobs #DevBio

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Generation of Zebrafish Models for CASK Related Disorders

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Final version of our paper on ciliary metachronal waves out now in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/scia... This is the main thesis work of my PhD student Rebecca Poon, who caught many #platnereis larvae and tirelessly ablated them with a laser. THREAD

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Huisken lab @huiskenlab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Our image of a sea squirt oozoid (Thalia democratica) was selected as an Image of Distinction in Nikon Small World. Imaged with the Flamingo microscope by @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social at @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Salp sample courtesy of Alexandre Alie. nikonsmallworld.com/

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Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It is publication day of my book in Spanish. 'El árbol de la vida!'

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Mette Handberg-Thorsager @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Great PhD opportunity in photonics in our lab.

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📑 EvoDevo Papers @evodevo-papers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

You can now search the entire EvoDevo Papers database (~1.8k posts). Check it out on the website evodevo.brunovellutini.com or read more here: brunovellutini.com/posts/evodev... #EvoDevo #DevBio #EvoBio

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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Join us 15 October to hear from two early-career researchers, @osvaldoics.bsky.social & Yinan Wan, working on development across scales. Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @amjeve.bsky.social. 📅 15 October, 09:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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