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The Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen, is an international community of scientists studying the molecular and cellular biology of marine organisms. linktr.ee/michaelsarscentre

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Our News & Views article “Body-plan organizer in comb jellies hints at animal ancestry” now published in @nature.com 🎉 We discuss fascinating work revealing organizer activity in comb jellies & the evolution of animal development. rdcu.be/fsLWq @ruthstyfhals.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Congratulations to @simonhenriet.bsky.social and colleagues for their groundbreaking work on the evolution of intron splicing, now out in @narjournal.bsky.social 👏 They looked in unprecedented detail at the machinery of non-canonical splicing in larvaceans 🧬⤵
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Deployment of non-canonical splicing in tunicate genomes is mediated by divergent U2AF function and changing m6A modification in U1 and U6 snRNA
Abstract. Spliceosomal small nuclear RNA (snRNA) U1 and the U2AF heterodimer play critical functions by recognizing the highly conserved GT and AG dinucleo
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Facility duty this week has been busy, but moments like this make it very rewarding: our benthic ctenophores catching food and releasing their tentacles afterwards. Beautiful little predator doing its thing. 🪼 #Ctenophore #MarineBiology @msarscentre.bsky.social & Aquarium de Paris
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
PhD candidate @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social from the group of @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social presented her work at the #EED2026 conference earlier this month 💡 She shares her experience and discusses a shift in focus towards organismal biology in the context of climate change ⤵
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Studying development in a changing climate: insights from the EED 2026
PhD candidate Chiara Castelletti from the Christiaen group at the Michael Sars Centre attended the 10th European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting, a landmark in the field of evo-...
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This morning, guest speaker Anthony Moss from Auburn University delighted us with all things ctenophore ✨From unexpected feeding behavior to cell organization, he shared the lessons he learned from these fascinating animals 🪼 📸 @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This year's Michael Sars Symposium, co-organized with @cbubergen.bsky.social, brought together computational and molecular biologists - successfully creating new connections across disciplines 🤩 A huge thank you to our fantastic speakers and audience 👏 Discover the highlights below ⤵ #MSS2026
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The Michael Sars Centre and CBU put biology in a changing environment in the spotlight
The 5th edition of the Michael Sars Symposium created a platform for computational and molecular biologists to connect and share their latest work.
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Emily Claereboudt @emclaereboudt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Great week at Cornell University 🇺🇸 for the annual @chemicalecology.bsky.social conference! Excited to present the first results from my MSCA fellowship on sea cucumber chemosensation. 💙 Thanks to @msarscentre.bsky.social, @scienceandtechuib.bsky.social 🇳🇴 and @erc.europa.eu for the support!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Excellent talk this morning by Prof. Inna Sokolova from the University of Rostock 👏 By comparing mollusk species living in intertidal zones, her work aims to uncover the mitochondrial basis of hypoxia resilience 🐌 Thank you for visiting us!
Inna Sokolova presents in front of an audience in a seminar room. On a screen, a title slide in shades of blue and orange reads: "From mitochondria to metabolome: metabolic adaptations in stress-tolerant marine mollusks"
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New preprint from the Burkhardt lab 🚨The work explores the origins of sensory system components by looking at the closest relatives to animals, choanoflagellates ⤵️ Congratulations @smannsaker.bsky.social, @jeffcolgren.bsky.social & @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social!
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Kathrin Garschall @ktgarschall.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thank you #EED2026 for the exciting update on evo-devo! ✨ Super grateful to @eudaldpascual.bsky.social for cohosting and the brilliant speakers of our metabolism session! 🔥 @krittikas20.bsky.social @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social @jorgelazaro.bsky.social and Cristina Gonzalez-Estevez.
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It is easy to think that sea squirts only display simple behaviors and do not significantly interact with their environment 🌊 New research lead by @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, Sissel Norland and @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social proves this assumption wrong 👏⤵
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New study reveals an unsuspected range of behaviors in the sea squirt Ciona
New research on the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis challenges the view that animals living fixed in place have simple behaviors and limited responses to their environment.
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
After an insightful day at #MSS2026 yesterday, we keep the ball rolling with a very informative talk by Line Mariann Grønning-Wang from The Research Council of Norway 👏 She explained the RCN's strategy for funding life sciences, and took part in a roundtable discussion. Thank you for joining us!
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Emily Claereboudt @emclaereboudt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Was wonderful to chair this first session at #MSS2026! I am still always surprised by how stimulating these symposium days are! 🧠⚡️ Thanks to the organizers @msarscentre.bsky.social & @cbubergen.bsky.social!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are ending #MSS2026 on a high note with two beautiful talks👏 Isabella Graf @isabellagraf.bsky.social @embl.org on the subtleties of sensory systems, and Susanna Röblitz @cbubergen.bsky.social on modelling rare gene expression events. A huge thanks to our speakers and engaged audience! 🙏
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For our first #MSS2026 session after lunch, the focus was on digitizing gene regulation 💻 Three fantastic talks from Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social @ncmbm.bsky.social, Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social and Tom Michoel from @cbubergen.bsky.social 👏
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For our second #MSS2026 session on life history and evolution, Matthew Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social delighted us with tales of dimorphism in worm larvae, and Christian Jørgensen from @unibergen.bsky.social explored the wide concept of phenotype 🌍
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We started very strong with the first #MSS2026 session, as Anne-Claude Gavin, Deirdre Lyons @scrippsocean.bsky.social and @jmbrandenburg.bsky.social put cell biology in context 🔬 Fascinating insights on lipid transport, mollusc diversity and ascidian development in a changing ocean 👏
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#MSS2026 is on 🙌 Co-organizers @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and @nathaliereuter.bsky.social welcomed attendees to the 5th edition of our Symposium, a fantastic collaboration with @cbubergen.bsky.social. And we were honored to have Prof. Rein Aasland @reinoslo.bsky.social give the opening remarks 👏
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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Glad to attend and speak at the Michael Sars Symposium 2026 #MSS2026 co-organized by @msarscentre.bsky.social and Computational Biology Unit, Bergen at University of Bergen. Looking forward to a great day of science. @ncmbm.bsky.social @embl.org @nordicembl.bsky.social
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Last but not least in our #MSS2026 speaker lineup reveal, our very own Jonas Brandenburg @jmbrandenburg.bsky.social will be sharing his work on the effect on temperature on development at the single-cell level in the sea squirt Ciona 🌊 We are ready and excited for a great day tomorrow 🤩
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Living systems in a variable ocean
Transcriptomic and cellular basis of developmental thermal stress in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis
Jonas Brandenburg
Michael Sars Centre, UiB
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Less than a week before we kick-off #MSS2026 🤩 On Thursday, Susanna Röblitz from @cbubergen.bsky.social will present how innovative modelling approaches can reveal how rare gene expression events shape cellular phenotypes. We are looking forward to a day of exciting talks! ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026
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Living systems in a variable ocean
Markov state modelling of stochastic gene expression
Susanna Röblitz
Computational Biology Unit, UiB
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One week to go before #MSS2026 🤩 We look forward to hearing about @borislenhard.bsky.social’s latest work on the long-range regulation of developmental genes, and the evolutionary origins of these regulatory systems 🧬More information here ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026 @cbubergen.bsky.social
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Living systems in a variable ocean
Long-range transcriptional regulation of multicellular processes: genomic organisation and evolutionary origins
Boris Lenhard
Imperial College London
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fish can help us map the complex interactions between genes and the environment 🐟 Today, Prof. Jochen Wittbrodt from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social shared his impressive work on elucidating the genes affecting variable traits using inbred medaka lines. Thank you for a fantastic talk!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New preprint from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab 🤩 @annaferraioli.bsky.social and colleagues show similarities between the nervous systems of contemporary and fossil comb jellies, suggesting that their neural architecture may have been conserved over time ⌛
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Today is the last day to register for #MSS2026 ⏰ Join us for an exciting talk by Matthew Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social from @nyu.edu, who will present his work on the genetics of developmental dimorphism in marine worms 🪱 ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026
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Living systems in a variable ocean
The genetic architecture of larval evolution
Matthew Rockman
New York University
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It's a wrap on the Jacques Monod Conference on Developmental regulation #CJM26 🙌 The Sars delegation @jmbrandenburg.bsky.social, @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social, @noahbruderer.bsky.social, Max Jordi Makem Pekouankouang and @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social had a great time in #SunnyRoscoff ☀️
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Congratulations to Brian Wehner @euplokamis.bsky.social for a great popular science talk at the Bergen Pint of Science Festival! A PhD candidate in the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab, Brian applied his neurobiology expertise to a relatable topic - the science of tickling 🪶
A man in a green short and blue jeans stands on a stage decorated with orange curtains, in front of a projector screen. On the screen, an opening slide with the title 'The science of tickling', the name 'Brian Wehner' and a cartoon image of a character in a diving suit tickling a laughing shark.
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Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his) @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Our own Jonas Brandenburg from @msarscentre.bsky.social now presenting his work using scRNA-seq to characterize the effects of temperatures on embryogenesis in Ciona. #CJM26
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Only one week left to register for #MSS2026 🚨 On June 4th, @isabellagraf.bsky.social from @embl.org will discuss how sensory systems operate near bifurcation points, allowing small input signals to translate into a larger response. Welcome! ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026 @cbubergen.bsky.social
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Living systems in a variable ocean
Exploring critical and bifurcation points across biological contexts: from tuning to function
Isabella Graf
EMBL Heidelberg 
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It was an honor to host a delegation from The Research Council of Norway in our ctenophore facility! A perfect follow-up to great discussions on the future of neurotechnology research hosted by @unibergen.bsky.social 👏 @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This year, #MSS2026 covers a broad range of research fields under one common theme – understanding a variable ocean 🌊 We look forward to a great talk by our colleague Christian Jørgensen from the Dept. of Biological Sciences on the phenotype and its ecology ✨ Join us ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026
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Living systems in a variable ocean
It sounds simple: the phenotype is the gene in its environment
Christian Jørgensen
Dept. of Biological Sciences, UiB
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Continuing our countdown to #MSS2026, it is a pleasure to introduce another speaker on our lineup ✨ Deirdre Lyons from @scrippsocean.bsky.social will be in Bergen on June 4th to present recent progress in establishing mollusc species as genetically tractable models 🐌 Join us! tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026
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Living systems in a variable ocean
The Modern Mollusc: Integrating Embryology and Genomics to Understand an Animal Phylum
Deirdre Lyons
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Very grateful for a spontaneous seminar by Prof. Nathan Palpant from the University of Queensland this morning, on bridging genetics and therapeutics for heart disease 🫀 Thank you for your visit!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Only one month to go before #MSS2026 🙌 On June 4th, Tom Michoel from @cbubergen.bsky.social will share how his team uses computational approaches to untangle cause from correlation in complex biological systems 💻 Click here to find out more and register ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026
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Living systems in a variable ocean
Causal inference in systems genetics
Tom Michoel
Computational Biology Unit, UiB
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#Ctenophore sampling with the lab on a perfect day around #sunnybergen on the R/V Brattström. Always one of the biggest highlights of the year 🤩. @msarscentre.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We are thrilled to welcome Anne-Claude Gavin as a speaker at #MSS2026! We look forward to hearing about her research on the binding properties of lipid transfer proteins 🔬 Click here to find out more and register ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026 @cbubergen.bsky.social
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Living systems in a variable ocean
The molecular machines that transport eukaryotic lipics
Anne-Claude Gavin
Université de Genève
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The Sars relay team completed the Bergen half-marathon in 1h47 this weekend 🤩👏 Congratulations everyone!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We had a full house today for a special guest visiting us all the way from @oistedu.bsky.social 👏 Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Watanabe shared his latest findings on cnidarian neurexins, and what they reveal about the evolution of chemical synapses in animals 🧠 Thank you for your visit!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Have you registered yet for #MSS2026? Join us to hear @amathelier.bsky.social from @ncmbm.bsky.social share his team’s latest work mapping transcription factor-DNA interactions across species, and much more 👏 We look forward to seeing you there! ➡️ tinyurl.com/JoinMSS2026 @cbubergen.bsky.social
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Living systems in a variable ocean
Towards high-resolution mapping of TF-DNA interactions and TF cooperation across species
Anthony Mathelier
NCMBM, University of Oslo
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The outreach station designed by the group of @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social was a must-see at One Ocean Week Family Day yesterday 👏 Many visitors stopped by to try puzzles, observe sea squirts and discuss animal development with our researchers! 1/2
Researchers Sunniva Hegg-Lunde and Anthony Leon show sea squirts to a group of people during a science fair.A close-up of sea squirts in a circular aquarium.A young boy plays with a sea squirt puzzle, with help from a family member. A group picture of the researchers who presented their work at the science fair. They are standing behind their outreach station, information cards about animal development and an aquarium with sea squirts are visible in the foreground.
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our strategy is evolving 💡 Michael Sars Centre Director @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social shares future plans for studying living systems in the context of a changing ocean, together with collaborators at @cbubergen.bsky.social and the Dept. of Biological Sciences 🌊 Read more below ⤵️
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What future for marine life in a changing world?
As the ocean undergoes rapid anthropogenic changes that impact ecosystems, the Michael Sars Centre’s strategy evolves to study life in context, from molecules to ecosystems.
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Congratulations @simonhenriet.bsky.social, Anthony Leon @evodevofox.bsky.social & colleagues on a new preprint 👏 In an impressive technical feat, the authors performed single-cell RNA sequencing throughout the life cycle of the larvacean Oikopleura dioica 🧬 Read the full story ➡️ tinyurl.com/3bhxsza9
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Laurent Formery @laurentformery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It was awesome to finally visit the @msarscentre.bsky.social! Thanks @emclaereboudt.bsky.social for organizing, and everybody for the great discussions! + I got to experience #SunnyBergen (it’s real) 🤩🌞
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Fantastic talk this morning by @laurentformery.bsky.social @biom-banyuls.bsky.social 🙌 Laurent presented his work on cellular reprogramming and symmetry during sea cucumber metamorphosis ✨ Beautiful images and lots of exciting discussions - thank you for visiting us in #SunnyBergen!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Congratulations @alexandrejan.bsky.social, @joanjsoto.bsky.social and colleagues 👏
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It was a pleasure welcoming Prof. Monica Jordheim from the Department of Chemistry at @unibergen.bsky.social ⚗️ She shared her work on marine natural product chemistry and chemical ecology 🌊 Thank you for an inspiring talk!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We have some exciting guests in the @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social lab facility ✨These beautiful E. esculentus sea urchins collected near Bergen will help guest researcher Antoine Rémond from the @minclab.bsky.social better understand cleavage in echinoderms 🥚
Large pink sea urchins in a tub of water, together with some strands of green algae.
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Fascinating talk this morning by Anette Högström from the Arctic University Museum of Norway 👏 We discovered the secrets held by geological formations in Finnmark, home to the only Ediacaran fossil record in Scandinavia ⛰️ Thank you for a great presentation!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New article from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social group highlighted on the cover of Science Advances 🤩👏 The work, led by @annaferraioli.bsky.social, describes in unprecedented details the structure of the comb jelly's aboral organ (AO) 🧵 1/4
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Ctenophore research points to earlier origins of brain-like structures
New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The findings suggest that an elementary brain may have already appeared in our m...
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Fantastic news 🙌 Deidre Lyons from @scrippsocean.bsky.social joins the Michael Sars Symposium speaker lineup! Register to attend her talk and many more on June 4 ➡️ tinyurl.com/joinMSS2026 Together with @cbubergen.bsky.social, we have prepared a program you won't want to miss! #MSS2026
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Michael Sars Symposium 2026
Living systems in a variable ocean
In collaboration with the Computational Biology Unit, UiB
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen

SPEAKERS
Anne-Claude Gavin, Université de Genève
Christian Jørgensen, Dept. of Biological Sciences, UiB
Matthew Rockman, New York University
Isabella Graf, EMBL Heidelberg
Tom Michoel, Computational Biology Unit, UiB
Anthony Mathelier, NCMBM, University of Oslo
Susanna Röblitz, Computational Biology Unit, UiB
Deirdre Lyons, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Boris Lenhard, Imperial College London
Jonas Brandenburg, Michael Sars Centre, UiB

ORGANIZERS
Lionel Christian, Michael Sars Centre, UiB
Nathalie Reuter, Computational Biology Unit, UiB

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