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Sergi Roig Puiggros

@sroig.bsky.social
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Developmental Neurobiology Postdoc - University of Geneva

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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We face great challenges, but our resolve is greater & vision clearer for the future of neuroscience. The @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social network is stronger than ever. Thanks co-organizers, speakers @tjryan.bsky.social, @drosostalis.bsky.social, @anne-schreiter.bsky.social, & our core ➡️ participants!
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Outstanding new study tracking the changes in Purkinje neuron dendritic architecture during primate evolution, documenting an increase in dendritic compartmentalization in the human lineage Study by @auroraferrell.bsky.social @neurosilas.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪🧠 #cerebellum
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Cerebellar Purkinje cells change dendritic architecture during primate evolution
Vertebrate evolution has driven adaptive remodeling of brain regions impacted by changing sensorimotor demands. The cerebellum--a hindbrain area mediating associative learning and predictive coding--i...
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Scatter plot showing that Fast & Fair peer review reached first decision with reviews much faster than conventional peer review: mean 5.5 versus 37.7 working days. Most Fast & Fair manuscripts met the 7-working-day target, while conventional manuscripts were slower and more variable, up to 116 working days.
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Bernardo Rodríguez Martín @bernardo-rodriguez.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
📢📢 Job opening between the Bioinformatics Unit and my group (REPBIO) at @crg.eu Interested in contributing to our efforts to leverage long-read sequencing technologies for human genome research? Join us in Barcelona: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Please repost😊
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Bioinformatician | CRG Online Recruitment Portal
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Zayna Chaker @zaycha.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Amazing comparative study from @djabaudon.bsky.social lab between mus musculus and Acomys (spiny mouse) brain development!
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 02/06/2026
Loving this new preprint -- such a clever way to examine the question of the importance (or not!) of sensory experience in shaping cortical development. I wish we could have cited this in our discussion on altricial/precocial animals last year.
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Felix Schmidtner @felixschmidtner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
still fascinated by the barrel cortex
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Excellent new preprint by @sroig.bsky.social @djabaudon.bsky.social & collaborators on the prenatal assembly of functional cortical circuits. Great discussion of maturation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧠
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Sergi Roig Puiggros @sroig.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thrilled to shared our new preprint with @djabaudon.bsky.social ! Led by Ilaria Morassut, we explored "the extent to which early brain maturation requires interactions with the outside world". This wouldn't have been possible without our incredible collaborators, specially the @lanevol.bsky.social 🧵
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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🦈🧠2 JOB OFFERS in the brand-new Neuroshark group starting at the Institute of Neuroscience Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI)? Lab manager: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Bioinformatician: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Curious about the lab but not your profile? Feel free to contact me
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Lab manager job | Idoia Quintana Urzainqui
JOB OPPORTUNITY 🦈 🧠 🔬. We are looking for a Lab Manager to help establish a new group studying shark embryos to understand the origin of the vertebrate brain. Reach out if this motivates you. We’re ba...
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Nikos Konstantinides @nkonst4.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Registration is still open for the Young PI Neuroscience Symposium. Whether you're a young PI or a "seasoned" postdoc, you can never invest too much in building community; especially in, let’s say, turbulent times. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
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Gabriel Santpere @santperelab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Broad collaboration produces high-resolution atlas of developing human brain
In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and collea...
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JB Manent @jbmanent.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Apply for a PhD position with us at @inmed.bsky.social and join @neuromarseille.bsky.social PhD program! Our proposed PhD project is about excitability change and #epilepsy in cortical malformations 🧠🔥🧪🎓 More details below 👇🏻 www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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PhD position - Investigating the molecular bases of pathogenic excitability changes in cortical malformations - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Sergi Roig Puiggros @sroig.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Relating to our recently published paper in @natneuro.nature.com! 🔥🚨 Find here a research briefing that we wrote w/ @djabaudon.bsky.social trying to reach a broader neuroscience audience! Enjoy the reading! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maëlle Guyoton @maelleguyoton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Delighted to have contributed to this thorough and collaborative piece of work with amazing colleagues and friends! 🧠🚀
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Sergi Roig Puiggros @sroig.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'm very excited to finally see this one out in @natneuro.nature.com ! It has been an incredible journey alongside extremely talented people! Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy the reading! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function - Nature Neuroscience
Even when neocortical neurons form in abnormal locations, they retain their identity and function, revealing that brain circuit formation can be guided by intrinsic developmental programs rather than ...
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Great @natneuro.nature.com study by @sroig.bsky.social @djabaudon.bsky.social @jbmanent.bsky.social & colleagues, showing “equivalent circuits can emerge in different spatial configurations, allowing diverse brain architectures to converge on similar functional outcomes” 🧪🧠🧬
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Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function - Nature Neuroscience
Even when neocortical neurons form in abnormal locations, they retain their identity and function, revealing that brain circuit formation can be guided by intrinsic developmental programs rather than ...
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JB Manent @jbmanent.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Very happy to have contributed to this wonderful/tentacular work alongside so many amazing colleagues and friends! It opens up new ways of understanding grey matter heterotopia associated with altered cortical function and #epilepsy in humans. 🧠🧪🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function - Nature Neuroscience
Even when neocortical neurons form in abnormal locations, they retain their identity and function, revealing that brain circuit formation can be guided by intrinsic developmental programs rather than ...
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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cell-extrinsic controls over neocortical neuron fate and diversity
Cell-extrinsic cues are key for neocortical cell identity and diversity.
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Sergi Roig Puiggros @sroig.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Very happy to have contributed to this great story 🧠🚀. It focuses on environment-dependent neuronal identity acquisition in the cortex! Big congrats to Natalia Baumann, Ilaria Morassut and Sabine Fièvre for pushing this w/ @djabaudon.bsky.social. Congrats to all! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cell-extrinsic controls over neocortical neuron fate and diversity
Cell-extrinsic cues are key for neocortical cell identity and diversity.
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Marc A. Marti-Renom @mamartirenom.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Super lab looking for postdoc ... do not miss it! 👇🏼
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Darío Lupiáñez @dariloops.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
How bats developed their wings? 🦇 Turns out they reutilize existing gene programs 🔧 Find out more in our paper @natecoevo.nature.com in collaboration with @fany-real.bsky.social and @stemundi.bsky.social labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene programme in bat wing development - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Single-cell comparison of developing bat and mouse limbs reveals conservation of cell populations and gene expression patterns, and suggests repurposing of genes involved in proximal limb development ...
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Oscar Marín Lab @marinlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
1/10 Our latest research, led by Monika Moissidis, identifies a mechanism regulating the maturation of PV interneurons in the #cortex. This is the story @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... ⬇︎ thread @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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A postnatal molecular switch drives activity-dependent maturation of parvalbumin interneurons
Neuronal activity triggers PGC-1α-mediated transcriptional programs that drive the late maturation of PV+ interneurons, essential for cortical circuit function. PGC-1α partners with ERRγ and Mef2c to ...
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Riccardo Bocchi @bocchiric.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thrilled to co-chair Symposium S08: Developmental Origins of Astrocyte Diversity tomorrow at #GLIA2025! Join us for cutting-edge insights into how astrocytes are born , diversify, and shape brain function. Wed, July 9 | 🕙 10:00–12:00 With @loulierk.bsky.social , Maryam Faiz & @sloanlab.bsky.social
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Riccardo Bocchi @bocchiric.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
✨ Astrocyte diversity starts at the source! 🧬 We uncover how dual radial glia lineages generate distinct astrocyte subtypes in the neocortex — revealed by MERFISH, scRNA-seq & clonal tracing. 📍#GLIA2025 | Poster T10-010A 🧠 w/ @alanzhoujf.bsky.social in Marseille Come talk glia with us!
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Christian Mayer @chr-mayer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Now out in @natneuro.nature.com: Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice. Congrats to first authors @annrosebright.bsky.social, Yana Kotlyarenko, @flo-neuhaus.bsky.social, and thanks to all collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n
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Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice - Nature Neuroscience
Unlike cortical progenitors, ventral telencephalic progenitors retain the ability to generate diverse neuron types during neurogenesis. Here, the authors show that ventral telencephalic progenitor mat...
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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology
Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.
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Sergi Roig Puiggros @sroig.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Very grateful to have been able to present our work at the @corticodevelopment.bsky.social meeting in Naxos! Thanks putting together such a great line of speakers in this amazing location! 🧠☀️🍕
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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Still openings, check it out!
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Esther Klingler @estherkli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🎉 Excited to share that our paper on FCDII is out today! 🙌🏻 Huge thanks to @sbaulac.bsky.social and @sara baldassari for bringing me on board and introducing me to the complexity of somatic mutations. Hope our work helps advance understanding of the disease mechanisms.
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Check out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
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Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome - Nature
The physical organization of the genome in non-bilaterian animals and their closest unicellular relatives is characterized; comparative analysis shows chromatin looping is a conserved feature of ...
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Guille López-Bendito @guillelbendito.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨 We're hiring! A Research Project Manager position is open in our lab at the Institute of Neuroscience (CSIC-UMH, Alicante)! Join us in exploring how spontaneous activity shapes sensory circuits 🧠✨ @glb-lab.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Jobs #ResearchManager 📅 Deadline: May 25
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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...
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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Find out more about this exciting initiative from Biology Open in this editorial and the accompanying preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal
Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Peer review completed within 7 days! Paying peer reviewers! Yes, it's possible. Fast & Fair peer review by @biologyopen.bsky.social More innovation from @biologists.bsky.social Details here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal
Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...
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Esther Klingler @estherkli.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📣 Postdoc opportunity ! Our lab is hiring a funded postdoc to explore the development of fear circuits using slice electrophysiology. If you have expertise in this area and are interested about cutting-edge neuroscience, reach out ! 🤗 klinglerlab.org Please share with your network 🙏
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Guille López-Bendito @guillelbendito.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Super proud of this massive work led by Mar Anibal from the lab. Early rescaling of barrel maps is possible and thanks to a transcriptional switch in thalamic neurons! Check it out! @neuroalc.bsky.social
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Riccardo Bocchi @bocchiric.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🌌 The journey into astrocyte diversity doesn’t stop here! Stay tuned for new insights into how their molecular and functional diversity originates during brain development. 🚀 A new story is coming soon—check out our bioRxiv preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dual lineage origins of neocortical astrocytes
Astrocytes represent one of the most abundant cell types in the central nervous system, and play an essential role in nearly all aspects of brain functions[1][1]. Recent studies have challenged the no...
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Riccardo Bocchi @bocchiric.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚀 Think all white matter (WM) astrocytes are the same? Think again! 🌟 Our latest research reveals striking regional differences that challenge existing views on astrocyte diversity and function. 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Astrocyte heterogeneity reveals region-specific astrogenesis in the white matter - Nature Neuroscience
White matter (WM) astrocytes differ significantly from gray matter astrocytes, with WM astrocytes in the forebrain exhibiting unique proliferation capacity, which is absent in cerebellar WM, suggestin...
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 24/02/2025
White matter (WM) #astrocytes differ significantly from grey matter (GM) astrocytes, with WM astrocytes in the forebrain exhibiting unique proliferation capacity 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Astrocyte heterogeneity reveals region-specific astrogenesis in the white matter - Nature Neuroscience
White matter (WM) astrocytes differ significantly from gray matter astrocytes, with WM astrocytes in the forebrain exhibiting unique proliferation capacity, which is absent in cerebellar WM, suggestin...
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Awais Javed @itsmeawais.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Delighted to have this out as a preprint! Thanks to all authors, especially @estherkli.bsky.social and @djabaudon.bsky.social for leading the work. If you are interested in how conserved genes played a part in evolving human brains, give it a read!
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Esther Klingler @estherkli.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
✨ We tend to think of species-specific differences as resulting from the presence of species-specific genes. In our latest work with @djabaudon.bsky.social, we show that building brains is not only about which genes you use, but also about when and where you do. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
🧠Job Opening!🧠 We are opening 2️⃣! positions – bioinformatics / molecular biology – in a project studying how temporal patterns set up connectivity in human brain tissue. @institutimagine.bsky.social. Full details below, contact me for details if interested. And please retweet (re-bluesky?)!
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Julien Ferent @ferentj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📢A position of assistant professor (tenure) in developmental biology with a focus on IPSC/organoid technologies will soon be open to competition for a profile in neurodevelopment or development in my research team affiliated to Sorbonne University (good level in French and qualification required).
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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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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our latest: how to generate the notochord "Timely TGFβ signalling inhibition induces notochord" A thread: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Timely TGFβ signalling inhibition induces notochord - Nature
Through analysis of developing chick embryos and in vitro differentiation of embryonic stem cells, a study develops a method to generate a model of the human trunk with a notochord.
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Sergi Roig Puiggros @sroig.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It was such a great pleasure to attend and participate to the #ChristmasMeeting_IN today! Thanks for the warm welcome and for putting together such a stimulating meeting!
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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
And now Sergi Roig Puiggros from @genevunige.bsky.social shows his work on the location-independent emergence of neocortical circuits. #ChristmasMeeting_IN
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Fekrije @fekrijeselimi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Excited to announce the publication of our team's work suggesting a new framework for understanding hashtag#synapse hashtag#development and diversity in the mammalian hashtag#brain in Nature Neuroscience rdcu.be/d2100 🧵
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Stepwise molecular specification of excitatory synapse diversity onto cerebellar Purkinje cells
Nature Neuroscience - Brain function requires the formation of diverse and specific synapses. The authors show that the molecular code specifying excitatory connectivity on Purkinje cells evolves...
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Oliver Harschnitz @harschnitz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thrilled & immensely honoured to receive the Italian Science Fund (FIS) Starting Grant. We will uncover the mechanisms underlying HSV-1 latency and reactivation in human, disease relevant, cells. Postdoc positions in virology and human stem cell biology @humantechnopole.bsky.social available soon!
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