Herzlichen Glückwunsch an den ehemaligen Einstein Visiting Fellow Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social 🎉

I want to thank my friend, colleague and long term collaborator the social media-less Prof. Robin Hiesinger for nominating me and look forward to many more years of exciting intellectual exchanges and experimental collaborative work

Such a pleasure and an honor to be among the 10 recipients of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize in the context of the Global Minds Initiative headed by Minister Dorothee Bär. A… | B... Such a pleasure and an honor to be among the 10 recipients of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize in the context of the Global Minds Initiative headed by Minister Dorothee Bär. A grea...

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Target-independent retinotopy in Drosophila / Curr. Biol., Feb. 3, 2026 (Vol. 36, Issue 5) YouTube video by Cell Press

Check out this amazing video summarising the recent discovery from Robin Hiesinger's lab on target-independent formation of retinotopic maps in the fly's visual system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZP...

So well deserved Fiona!

I owe this “career award” to everyone who has been part of @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social over the years ❤️

I am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.

It was areal pleasure to visit and exchange with colleagues about the beautiful science being done. Thank you for having me!

Thank you for the invitation. Really looking forward to the visit.

Julien Pigeon and colleagues show how conserved processes can be fine tuned to result in species-specific patterns of brain development. Thanks to @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social for a great collaboration
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Looking forward to this exciting meeting

Heterozygous pathogenic variants in the splicing factor SF1 lead to a large spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders | Bassem Hassan Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder.

Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...

Donate to Aide pour deux familles à Gaza, organized by Ghayda Hassan Bonjour à tous et toutes (english below) Je m’appelle Dre. Ghayda et je suis psycholo… Ghayda Hassan needs your support for Aide pour deux familles à Gaza

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الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في ... الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في تخصص علم ا...

For those who understand Arabic 😊
A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative.

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Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development
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Register early because places go fast!

Temporal transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial morphology primes activity-dependent circuit connectivity - Nature Communications This study investigates the developmental transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial quality control. Authors identify the Drosophila factor Mirana, homologous to mammalian TZAP, as a key temporal re...

Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social
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“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain.
Discover more in The Brain’s Secret.

#Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement

I may starve to death before I am able to graduate in Gaza My only dream is to take the tawjihi exam so I can continue my education. Is this too much to ask?

One can only hope that history will judge harshly all those who are complicit in or remain silent in the face of genocide
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image of web page for Neural Development GRC - go to https://www.grc.org/neural-development-conference/2026/

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social!
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Israel is destroying the subsistence of Gaza's population, from agriculture to fishing More than 95% of farmland has been damaged or lies in areas inaccessible to farmers, as the Palestinian enclave suffers from famine.

There is only one name for that: this is a crime against humanity. Israel is governed by monsters.

Mercedes Sosa - Sólo Le Pido a Dios (con León Gieco) YouTube video by Rio Grande Records

"Solo le pido a Dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente"

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The brain on time: links between development and neurodegeneration - PubMed Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons. In this Spotlight, we explore the idea that genetic forms of neurodegenerative disorders might...

Intriguing! If true, this would be further evidence in support of the concept of developmental origins of neurodegenerative disorders pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37184296/

This was a really exciting and fun conference organized in a lovely setting. It was a pleasure to be part of it. Thanks for having me and congratulations to the organizers for putting it together. I hope it’s the first of many!

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms?

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Very much looking forward to the next 3 days of frontier neurobiology!

Just drop me an email bassem.hassan@icm-institute.org if you want the full text PDF

While I applaud Europe taking a step to fund bringing scientific excellence to Europe, the ERC’s current success rates at 10% for Europe based scientists is statistically at lottery levels. The total ERC budget should double across the board aiming at doubling funding rates.

Fantastic opportunity for neuroscience research.
The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders.
750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025.
www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...

Thank you for accepting the invitation to speak and I’m very glad you enjoyed the meeting

Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster - Nature Neuroscience The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circu...

A temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circuits in Drosophila 🧪🧠

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