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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)

@walenteklab.bsky.social
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(he/him) Cilia & mucociliary epithelia development, self-organization, and human airway diseases. 🏳️‍🌈 opinions own & plenty. Lab link: uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en.html

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m wondering microscopy peeps whether it is time for an open letter to @healthcare.nikon.com head office about this #GenerativeAI creation- @reitergroup.bsky.social @christlet.bsky.social @simoncleary.bsky.social and community? (It’s blocked more tags sorry folks…)
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
great opportunity!
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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cngratulations to @JoanaESaraiva and Sandra from the lab on their new review @embojournal.org we discussed few points about the coordination of cell state transitions in #embryos and #regeneration Also welcome @joanaesaraiva.bsky.social to BlueSky! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Esther Pearl @drejpearl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Looking forward to joining the panel for the ‘Rigorous by design: Strengthening research that involves animals’ webinar from the @nationalacademies.org. Register to hear about improving the reliability of results by carefully planning and reporting your experiments. 👇
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Muriel Perron @murielperron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🐸Our protocol chapter is out in Xenopus: Methods and Protocols, edited by C. Beck (@frogsquisher.bsky.social)! Induce & monitor rod degeneration/regeneration in live tadpoles and assess Müller glia regenerative responses link.springer.com/protocol/10.... @neuropsi.bsky.social
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Esther Pearl @drejpearl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do you work with Xenopus? Want to know the latest best practices in housing and husbandry? Want tips for implementing reduction and refinement? Check out the new Xenopus protocols book 👇
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.
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Xenbase @xenbase.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Xenopus Resources and Emerging Technologies (XRET) Meeting: October 2-5, 2026 at MBL, Woods Hole, MA Registration now open! www.eventsquid.com/event.cfm?id... #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs
The image shows the sign of the Marine Biologiacal Laboratory (MBL) located at Woods Hole, Massachusetts USA. There is an announcement for the Xenopus Resources and Emerging Tecchonologies (XRET) Meeting to be held on October 2-5, 2026.
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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Postdoc and Tech post! 3-yr BBSRC project studying cell biology of Wnt signaling: advanced imaging, genome editing and embryology. Apply now! work with Matthias Krause and Karen Liu labs. @matthias-krause.bsky.social Tech: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/155666-... Postdoc: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/155745-...
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Research Assistant | King's College London
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Xenbase @xenbase.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Dr. Helen Willsey, Associate Proffessor at the University of San Francisco shares her insights and experiences in an interview with Ingrid Tsang, Reviews Editor at Development. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs
The image shows a cartoon logo of a frog designed for the laboratory of Helen Willsey, Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Inset is a photo of Dr. Willsey herself wearing nitrile gloves holding a Xenopus frog in her aquatic animal facility. In the background is an image of the nervous system of a Xenopus frog tadpole visualized by fluorescence microscopy.
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cilia alert! Last year Juyeon Hong described a new domain in 9+2 cilia called the EDT, the extreme distal tip. Now, she's found a new protein required for its assembly, but only in non-mammalian vertebrates. A cool evo-cell / protein evolution story in @cellreports.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2xvdskx6
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Xenbase @xenbase.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lots of fantastic Xenopus research at the SDB meeting in Las Vegas. Consider publishing your research in the Society of Developmental Biology's official journal, Developmental Biology. Publication free for SDB members! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/deve... #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs
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Xenbase @xenbase.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The deadline for talk consideration for the 2026 Midwest SDB meeting has been extended to August 14th. Please register and submit your abstracts! www.midwestsdbincincy.org #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs #MWSDB26
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Save move!
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Matthew Taliaferro @jmtali.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Excited to share our newest work! We asked whether RNA molecules need to be in a specific place in the cell to do their job. We found that a single RNA must reach the midbody, the structure that pinches two dividing cells apart, for cell division to finish efficiently. 🧵⬇️
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wow, congrats! #cilia ftw
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Thanks to the organizers of the Europ. Amphibian Conf. 2026 in Prague Charles University, V. Krylov, J. Harnos, R. Sindelka, V. Soukup. 3 days of exciting and beautiful #xenopus, #axolotl, #salamander science. In a wonderful city! 💚
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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Peer review is unpaid. Click "claim credit" for a review and that record enters a database owned by Clarivate, the company that also sells the impact factor. Your free labour becomes their inventory, and once anonymised, raw material for profit. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/who-owns-y...
academicrenewal.substack.com
Who owns your peer review?
The reward for reviewing has quietly become an asset on someone else's balance sheet.
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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚀 Job alert: We’re starting a new Facility – and you can lead it! The MPI-IE & @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social are hiring a Head of Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics to launch and lead a brand-new Core Facility in Freiburg 🇩🇪. Once-in-lifetime-chance. Details ⬇️ jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/b...
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International Society for Regenerative Biology @isrbio.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
⏰ One week to go! ISRB Webinar | Zone 2 (Europe, West Asia, Africa): 🗓 July 14, 2026 at 16:00 Europe/Berlin 🎤 Eric Röttinger, PhD 🎤 Ulrich Technau More info: isrbio.org/webinars
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“There is no doubt that oil, gas and coal companies already bear a disproportionate share of the blame yet have a financial incentive to further disrupt the climate. These perverse incentives will continue unless their generous government subsidies are replaced with windfall taxes.” #ClimateCrisis
theguardian.com
Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot
The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production
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Girish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Had a lot of fun revisiting my old love for E-cadherin, writing this In Preprints article. Thanks Daniel @yosoyden.bsky.social for commissioning the article :) Also also, this is my second such article so far! (more yey's for me)
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🌳Like a glowing tree in the making ✨ The embryonic mouse kidney is already building an intricate network of tubules 🩵 while interstitial cells 🟡 help shape the surrounding landscape 🔬💧Proof that even future plumbing can be beautiful 📷 Image by Ewa Langner #FluorescenceFriday
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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
PhD position in my group for entry in October 2026. Round 3 of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social BBSRC competition. Please RT👇 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership
What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry - Zurich, Switzerland job with ETH Zurich | 12861386
The Department of Biology at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned tenured professorship at the Institute of Biochemistry
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Takashi Fukaya @fukayalab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We have an open professor position at my institute, the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo! www.iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp/recruiting/2...
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International Society for Regenerative Biology @isrbio.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📢 New ISRB Webinar | Zone 2 (Europe, West Asia, Africa): 🗓 July 14, 2026 at 16:00 Europe/Berlin 🎤 Eric Röttinger, PhD 🎤 Ulrich Technau More info: isrbio.org/webinars
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Why do you ruin it with such an ai generayed image...
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My image "The phases of gastrulation" made it to the top 10 in this year #YEN2026 image competition! I took this video of a gastrulating 🐸 embryo while testing a new microscope in the lab. One of the rare #devbio theme videos I got. Check out the others here: thenode.biologists.com/results-of-t...
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Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We're very excited to announce the official launch of the Journal of Regeneration. Together with the amazing team from @pensoft.net and my two co-EICs Loriano Ballarin and Buki Rinkevich, it is such a pleasure to share this new platform for bringing together the regeneration biology community.
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Journal of Regeneration
 Journal of Regeneration is an international peer-reviewed, Open Access journal aiming to provide a platform for the dissemination of research results on regeneration and tissue repair across phy...
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Over the same period (2018-2025), biomedical papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were."
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Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#Kapitalismus. Kaum ein Phänomen hat die Menschheitsgeschichte zuletzt so stark geprägt. Wo ist der Kapitalismus entstanden? Und wie konnte er so mächtig werden? Am 14. Juli 2026 diskutiert @svenbeckert.bsky.social an der @uni-freiburg.de über sein neues Buch. 👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/buchdi...
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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hitzerekord in der Stadt - wer sich detaillierter über Innenstadt und Temperaturen informieren findet ein Interview mit @envmet.bsky.social hier: uni-freiburg.de/messstatione...
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Messstationen dokumentieren Hitzerekord im Freiburger Stadtgebiet – Universität Freiburg
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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
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University of Freiburg
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Uh! Exciting Killifish work by the awesome Phil Abitua!
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It was a great pleasure to host Aaron Zorn and Christina James-Zorn (cincinnatichildrens.org @xenbase.bsky.social) here @uni-freiburg.de / @cibss.bsky.social / @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social for a great talk and res. paper annotation. Thanks so much! ❤️🐸🔬
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Barriga Lab @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Heart Morphogenesis, ECM… interesting!
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Amy Sater @amysater.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is horrifying - (reposting for @akifuzman.bsky.social)
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Didn't expect it, but today I was at the place where the prototype of capacitors was invented 🤯
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...
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Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology - the Node
Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.
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Roberto Mayor Lab @mayorlab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please help us to promote these nice photos and the EMBO Developmental Biology course (deadline 30 July) biodesarrollo.unab.cl
biodesarrollo.unab.cl
Aims
- The main objective of the course is to provide students with state-of-the-art approaches for imaging development, with a particular focus on nervous system development across different animal models...
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Only FIVE DAYS LEFT to register for the 2026 Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting! Great speakers! Tons of talks selected from abstracts! Workshop with Scott Fraser! Workshop with Rashmi Priya! Redwoods trees! 🧬🐸🐟🪰🐭🪱🍃🔥🔬. @devbiol.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
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Xenbase @xenbase.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
sorry, here are working links for the 2nd Asian Xenopus Conference: www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... 2026.xenopus-asia.org #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Cool stuff on basal bodies and #cilia!
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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Excited 😊
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Roberto Mayor Lab @mayorlab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl
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Esther Pearl @drejpearl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Looking for a way to make teaching experimental design more interactive? Join me, Gillian Currie and Sarah Morgan for the online Reproducibility and the Experimental Design Assistant Train-the-Trainers course 👇
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️
Flier for the Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar 2027 on Developmental Biology, held at the Renaissance Touscany Il Ciocco Resort in Italy, January 17-22 2027. List of speakers, organizers, and tag line of Organizing Principles of Growth, Form, and Regeneration Driving Transformative Applications.
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