🌊 Exciting #PhDPosition in #PlanktonEcology at the University of Koblenz, Germany!
Work on marine protists with a mix of 🔬 wet lab and 💻 bioinformatics in a 3-year, 60% position.
📅 Apply by 20 May 2026
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Link: tinyurl.com/yu27knau
#Protists #MicrobialEcology #PhD #Ecology
Do you want to know when your favorite species activates its genome?
Just input its genome size (🧬 in bp) and egg volumen (🥚 in um3) here!
ZGA_onset = -2.37 * log10(gDNA/EggVol) + 11.74
Now published. Congrats to Soham and all co-authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
@embl.org
We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student Soham Basu! @embl.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The version of record is here @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳
Happy for this collaboration with @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social and Stephan Schneider
At #EED24 in Helsinki we met. Instead of competing, we got our 2 stories togheter into a bigger one
#EvoDevo
#DevBio
Does it at least go against it a tiny bit in this (in your opinion)? Isn’t there flow of information from the protein sequence to DNA sequence?
Reminder: PhD position in my lab is open for two more weeks.
How do germ cells use their own private transcription factors? Come help us find out.
Fully funded. Deadline May 1.
Flyer attached — please boost! 🙏
Finally published at long last (at least in the pre-view version). Explore the wild and woolly world of archaeal histones! Interactive archaeal histone graph incluced rdcu.be/fdFjv. Congratulations to first author Shawn Laursen
Novel cell and tissue dynamics drive the unusual biology of the catch tentacle, an inducible organ of aggression found in the sea anemone Metridium senile www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
That Nucleus looks bananas! Any good reference on that? I’d be very intrigued about what’s going on there.
Last day to submit an abstract! This is a meeting aimed at all career stages, but especially geared on early career scientists (PhD/postdoc), don't feel you need to have a perfectly polished story to present!
Hands up if you love chromatin & structural biology 🙋♂️
On Friday April 24th we will be joined by @kjarmache.bsky.social from NYU for his webinar 'Chromatin-Modifying Complexes in Gene Activation and Silencing'.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@activemotifusa.bsky.social
Event image card: Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos Date: 7 – 9 September 2026 Location: University of Warwick, UK
One month until early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social & @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium HDBI's 2026 Meeting on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme biologists.com/meetings/dev... and register by 8 May www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
We are looking for a postdoc to join us on the quest for understanding RNA Pol II destruction machines! If you are curious why more than 80% of Pol II are removed from genes, check out the post below:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Congratulations, it’s a very nice story!
Our latest publication is now out at Genome Biology!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We uncover a unique association between a H3K27me3 reader complex and active transcription.
A thread with our key findings: (1/8)
#TEsky #Polycomb #transcription #smallRNAs
Are you chromat-in or chromat-out? 🧬
Less than 2-weeks left to submit your abstract for this years @aicc-ireland.bsky.social symposium in @ucddublin.bsky.social ! We will be choosing talks & posters from these abstracts to present - with some fantastic prizes available.
Registration link below 👇
MBE Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life
MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research.
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life
Guest Editors:
Davide Pisani
Anja Spang
#evobio #molbio #phylogenetics
Undaria pinnatifida gametophyte
Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Image of a planarian, from Wiki.
Do you do a PhD on Chromatin in this cool critter?
Work with @jordisolana.bsky.social @seanflynn.bsky.social, Magda Strauss and myself @lsiexeter.bsky.social on developing #singlecell #chromatin analyses to better understand pluripotency #planarians.
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
Apply now to join us in December for our workshop "Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective". This will be an intimate meeting (30 people total) and we hope will be a great place to discuss this topic.
Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them.
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Chromatin plays a central role in gene regulation, but chromatin systems are only known for a few model species. This study analyses chromatin regulatory landscapes in brown algal lineages to elucidate their structural organization and evolution 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Only 1 weeks to apply (April 7) for the joint Master program on "Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology" in Vienna.
studieren.univie.ac.at/en/admission...
Cool program with hands-on experience taught by leading scientists in PopGen, EvoDevo, Evolutionary Systems Biology.
Spread it!
May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk
It’s a pity other countries don’t adopt this idea. Maybe something to consider for our new funding agency @researchireland.ie ?
🧵 CTCF is essential for embryonic development, but why has remained unclear. By combining gastruloids with a temporal degron system, we uncovered a surprising dual function — and it changes how we think about CTCF's role in development. 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our SPECIAL ISSUE on MOLECULAR EVOLUTION & ECOLOGY is out!
Editorial: @yehumoran.bsky.social, @berndpulverer.bsky.social et al
Reviews on Asgard archaea, epimutations, giant-virus/host dynamics, smartphone analogy for animal origins…
…& many related primary articles
link.springer.com/journal/4431...
Today the EMBO Journal special issue on molecular ecology and evolution is finally published.
It was a pleasure coordinating this collection together with @berndpulverer.bsky.social and many outstanding authors.
Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cover art by @munafomarzia.bsky.social
