Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMarina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Sad to be saying goodbye to Drosophila, but excited to get this work out on bioRxiv! If you are interested in the interplay of tissue flows and cool ways to mess them up, this read is for you :) Thanks to colleagues and co-authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 13012
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDEMBL @embl.org · 02/03/2026📢 Last call for the EMBL International PhD Programme summer recruitment! This is a fully funded PhD programme fostering creative approaches to questions in the molecular life sciences. Join us promoting scientific excellence throughout Europe. Apply now! www.embl.org/about/info/e... 0108
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDNeuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation @netrf.org · 06/02/2026🚨 NETRF 2026 RFAs are now open! New this year: dedicated funding for #translationalimmunotherapy, alongside our broad support for NEN research. 🗓 LOIs due March 16, 2026 📍 Apply via Proposal Central Learn more ➡️ ow.ly/7Jmr50YaqYP #neuroendocrinecancer #GrantOpportunities 012
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMonica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... 29194
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Transitions in development – an interview with Alejandro Torres-Sánchez We caught up with Alejandro @torres-sanchez.bsky.social from @embl.org Barcelona to talk about his path to becoming a group leader, ongoing collaborations and addressing gender imbalance in the lab. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... 1166
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDParc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 24/10/2025#ScienceWithAView is back for Season 2 5️⃣ new episodes, each featuring 2 experts, to take you through the latest #PRBB research in cancer, genetics, Alzheimer’s, startups, and the connections between diet and mental health. 📅New episode every Thursday in November 131
Talya Dayton, PhD @talyadayton.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Our EMBL Barcelona lab is at #EESOrgan 2025! @embl.org For the latest on #organoid models of #neuroendocrine #lungcancer don't miss posters 109 & 133 TODAY by Andrea Garcia & Heleen Jüngen TOMORROW see posters 68, 80, 168, and 208 by Noah Candeli, Andrés Marco, Marina Cuenca, & Jackie Severino 062
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMarina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Happy to present for the first time my postdoc project, characterizing airway organoid architecture at the EMBO organoid conference #EESOrgan Stop by on Friday on poster #80! @events.embl.org 1304
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMaria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Pre-print alert 🚨 We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria? The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...biorxiv.orgInnate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum disrupt the blood-brain barrierPlasmodium falciparum accumulation at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a hallmark of cerebral malaria, a life-threatening complication. Conversely, the contribution of the immune response to vascular ... 14216
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDpaveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 11/08/2025@cuencam15.bsky.social synthesizes what was said today about using lightsheet in research based on her experiences in prior courses, in my lab and now at EMBL Barcelona. #LISH25 #LoPaT_alumni 192
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMaria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025We are happy to show one ourt first exciting papers. We have developed a blood-brain barrier model to study the disruptive effects caused by the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. First, congratulations to the fearless @liviapiatti.bsky.social and @alinabatzi.bsky.social rdcu.be/ezBl7rdcu.bePlasmodium falciparum egress disrupts endothelial junctions and activates JAK-STAT signaling in a microvascular 3D blood-brain barrier modelNature Communications - Here the authors show that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt endothelial barrier and activate JAK-STAT and interferon type response in a 3D blood-brain barrier... 27222
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMarina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · 24/07/2025🚨 Deadline extended! You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social 1/3lightsheetchile.clLight-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop 2026 – lightsheetchile 197
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMaria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Pre-print alert 🚨: We have developed 2D and 3D stable iPSC endothelial-differentiation models through dox inducible ETS expression. We demonstrate endothelial identity and used these models for studying malaria pathogenesis research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 23212
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDParc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 26/06/2025🎙️ ¿Podrán los miniórganos del laboratorio sustituir a los modelos animales? En este capítulo del #PRBBPodcast #AbsolutosyRelativos, @talyadayton.bsky.social ( @embl.org ) nos habla de cómo usa organoides para estudiar órganos humanos bajo estrés. 🧫🧠 🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj 151
Talya Dayton, PhD @talyadayton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Want to help shape a young & dynamic research group while using #organoids to ask how #chromatin dynamics, #cell_state, & the #exposome contribute to #neuroendocrine #cancer? Apply for a postdoc position in our lab @embl.org Barcelona! #cancer_models. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d... 03015
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDpaveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The @embo.org practical course on #lightsheet #microscopy is back! Join us in #Dresden for 2 weeks with #your #samples, try the complete line-up of #lightsheet microscopes, tackle big data image analysis, sample prep, OA hardware & much more Apply now! Repost 🙏 meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsmmeetings.embo.orgLight sheet microscopyLight sheet microscopy is a technology that enables near-isotropic imaging of large biological specimens over time. It opens new avenues to study biological processes with unprecedented imaging speed… 15338
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDKristina Stapornwongkul @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab! Thankful for any retweet! 🫶 imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980imba.onlyfy.jobsResearch TechnicianIMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is one of the leading biomedical research institutes in Europe focusing on cutting-edge functional genomics and stem cell technologies. IMBA is located at t... 15041
Talya Dayton, PhD @talyadayton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025@cuencam15.bsky.social we’re excited to see you on bluesky and even more excited that you’ve joined the lab! Watch this space! 040
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMarina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · 31/01/2025-Recently started my postdoc with @talyadayton.bsky.social at EMBL Barcelona, where I will explore the role of neuroendocrine cells in the growth of human lung organoids, with a tissue mechanics twist. 3/3 061
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMarina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Camila Weiss (@cweissg.bsky.social ) submitted this curious amphipod we captured with Jose Palma and imaged in Chile during the EMBO Developmental Biology Practical Course. Go ahead and look at all the selected images and vote for your favourite! focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v... 1164
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDIna Sonnen @sonnenlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025How do embryos ensure precise tissue patterning? It’s all about timing cell divisions! Our new preprint reveals how cell proliferation syncs with signaling oscillations to regulate precision of somite formation and growth. Check the full story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 26916
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDAlejandro Torres-Sánchez @torres-sanchez.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Imagine being an engineer asked to build a material that withstands 100% strain, 150 times per minute—for a lifetime. Now imagine having to build it while it’s already functioning. That’s exactly what the heart does. 2297
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDEMBL @embl.org · 10/03/2025Find out how video games helped scientists visualise limb development. Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪 www.embl.org/news/science... 1309
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDRashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 516260
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDIMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 05/03/2025We are very excited that former Birnstiel Award laureate Kristina Stapornwongkul will return to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social upon starting her own lab at @imbavienna.bsky.social. www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/researc...oeaw.ac.atKristina Stapornwongkul to start research group at IMBADevelopmental biologist Kristina Stapornwongkul, currently a postdoctoral researcher at EMBL Barcelona, will join IMBA as group leader in autumn of 2025. The Stapornwongkul lab will study how the nutr... 2303
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMarina B. Cuenca @cuencam15.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Any master students interested in (live) volumetric imaging techniques, organoid culture, image analysis and/or micro-fabrication could drop me a line? Please share :) 021
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDLucas Sullivan @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Excited to share a recent preprint by Oliver Newsom, where we evaluate the functional contributions of serum for cancer cell proliferation. Inside: A broadly applicable serum-free media, Quantitative lipid uptake characterization, Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation. 44320
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDDaniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 03/02/2025New blog post. Thoughts on this first year of being a new PI gonzales.science/resource-blo...gonzales.scienceYear One in Review — Gonzales LabOne year. What a wild ride. They give you a lump of money, an empty lab space, a course to teach, and a parachute. Before you can even comprehend the purpose of the parachute, you get roundhouse kicke... 65310
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDNicolas Alcala @nalcala.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Inspiring talk from @matthieufoll.bsky.social and Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta about the future of #lung #neuroendocrine #tumor classification and clinical management, and how to use #AI to learn simple morphological features to recognize molecular subtypes #CRCL25 042
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDJessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025The EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome is hiring a Group Leader to work on Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation. This is a fantastic opportunity, please repost! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Rom...embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.comGroup Leader - Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental AdaptationWe are seeking to recruit a highly motivated scientist to establish and lead an independent research laboratory at the EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome. EMBL provides a unique environmen... 23627
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDChristian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I would love to hear your views on this article. I discuss some hurdles I faced when thinking about experiments and projects design. This is something no one formally teaches you. network.febs.org/posts/thinki...network.febs.orgThinking like a scientist: not that trivial 93811
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMaria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 20/12/2024We are very excited to announce a new @events.embl.org conference with a general focus on all infections with the goal to foster discussions across researchers working on multiple pathogens. We couldn't find a conference as such in Europe, so we decided to organize it 😊 www.embl.org/about/info/c... 03117
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDKate Lines @kelines.bsky.social · 07/01/2025🚨 Our white paper from the 1st NET Models meeting is now offically published 👇🏻 eo.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...eo.bioscientifica.com 083
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDDavid D Dayton @daytonwrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The novel I wrote this year is available free as an ebook until the end of the month at www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... Story description on that page. Political junkies may want to give this a look. It's also available on Google Play Books as both an ebook and an audiobook.smashwords.comSmoke & Mirrored Screens: An Alt-History Novel of What Didn't Just HappenKingsley Krock controls the Constitutional Order Patriots Party and plans a nominating coronation in Milwaukee. In Utah, headquarters of the Deseret Church of Jesus Christ of End Times Believers, a se... 073
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDBarriga Lab VHIO @barrigalabvhio.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Hi! I just compiled some of the new Barcelona cancer labs! Many more missing, so let me know if anyone needs to be added! go.bsky.app/AkCGugm 5319
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDJames Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024So exciting! Studying malaria infection in vitro! The human malaria parasite is specific to humans: you can't study the same parasite in animal models. The lab of @mariabernabeu.bsky.social build beautiful human blood vessels in vitro, & do the experiments there: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 283
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDMaria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Thrilled that my first post here is about a great team effort led by Evelien Bunnick, Thomas Lavstsen, and Louise Turner. We identified broadly reactive mAb that inhibit parasite binding to PfEMP1 asaociates with severe maria. www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08220-3nature.comBroadly inhibitory antibodies to severe malaria virulence proteins - NatureTwo broadly reactive and inhibitory human monoclonal antibodies against the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have been characterized, providing insights into immunity, prevention and treatm... 5213
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhDVikas Trivedi @viktri08.bsky.social · 19/11/2024 My first post on @bsky.app. So happy to announce that our work has been published in Development by @biologists.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Also a big thanks for "The people behind the papers" article as well! doi.org/10.1242/dev.... 46014