Today we mourn the passing of our beloved central dogma. It served Crick well. But it is time to let go. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Constructing a nest underwater is no easy task! But shell-dwelling cichlids are expert architects, instinctively transforming empty snail shells into protective nests.

Take a deep dive into the new cichlid research from our Institute!

🔗 Press release: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-04...

🐟+🐚 =🏠 Shell-dwelling cichlids are true underwater architects, instinctively transforming empty snail shells into protective nests. New research shows: They improve with practice, remember what they learned, and adapt to unusual conditions.

🔗 Press release: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-04...

Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social
Bogdan Bintu and team.
Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bacteriophage-Encoded Small RNAs: Emerging Tools for Phage Therapy and Antibacterial Intervention - Aviezer Silverman, Sahar Melamed, 2026 Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that specifically infect bacteria and play a central role in shaping microbial communities and bacterial evolution. Beyond t...

🚨Happy to share our new mini-review on phage-encoded small RNAs and their potential for phage therapy and antibacterial strategies, written with Aviezer Silverman!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#RNA
#phage
@journals.sagepub.com
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
@phagedirectory.bsky.social

An Ocean of Opsins [type-2 rhodopsins] academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

New preprint from the group on the evolution of retinal cell types. Check the summary by Dario @dariotommasini.bsky.social !

A Double International Honor for the Technion: Prof. Debbie Lindell Recognized by Leading Scientific Societies
www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

CONGRATULATIONS Debbie!!! Debbie Lindell was named as one of 63 new Fellows elected to the American Academy of Microbiology asm.org/press-releas...

Congratulations to Debbie Lindell for receiving the 2026 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from
@aslo.org www.aslo.org/aslo-honors-...

Synchronization of behavioral and cardiac dynamics in larval zebrafish Animals reprioritize behavioral goals in response to internal physiological states. Using larval zebrafish, we investigated whether engagement with a …

New paper out : "Synchronization of behavioral and cardiac dynamics in larval zebrafish"

Here, we report a pretty striking relationship between behavioral state and heart rate in larval zebrafish, and then explore the mechanisms that lead to this coupling

bit.ly/4ciYt3R

Have you ever wondered how the brain should represent the sensory world in order to generate behavior? Read our new preprint: work by Shuhong Huang shuhonghuang.bsky.social with our long-standing collaborator James Fitzgerald at Northwestern.

New preprint out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.

a shark with its mouth open is swimming in the water Alt: a shark with its mouth open is jumping out of the water

You love fish? We are looking for you!

We are hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student for our project on the effects of sleep deprivation on brain-heart communication!

Life imaging and behavior in zebrafish.

More information:
ncloud.lin-magdeburg.de/s/g3FeXEnJNb...

What's the relation between voltage and calcium in dendrites? Xiang Wu studied this in CA2 hippocampal pyramidal cells in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Convergent thyroid-ATPase interactions regulate collective behavior in Danionella Zada, Kadobianskyi et al. develop methods for measuring and manipulating gene expression in the schooling glassfish Danionella cerebrum, identifying circadian genes and the thyroid-klf9-atp1a1 pathway as commonly regulated across multiple models of impaired or immature collective behavior.

Convergent thyroid-ATPase interactions regulate collective behavior in Danionella

Engineering a Mechanoresponsive DNA Origami Capsule for Drug Delivery to Narrowed Arteries Since their inception, DNA origami nanostructures (DONs) have attracted great interest for their programmable geometry, nanoscale precision, and biocompatibility. Here, we present mechanoresponsive DO...

Engineering a Mechanoresponsive DNA Origami Capsule for Drug Delivery to Narrowed Arteries pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Glad we could contribute to this interesting work from Yuval Garini's lab. Kudos to Hadas Omer and the team:
Hadeel_Khamis, Zipora Lansky, Netanel Korin, Racheli Boeangiu

Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons - Nature Using two-photon microscopy with a panoramic virtual reality setup, how head direction cells in larval zebrafish integrate visual landmarks and optic flow to track orientation is revealed.

Nature research paper: Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons

go.nature.com/4qP4HwB

Excited to see this preprint out! Siyuan Mei did exceptional work leading this project, and it was a great experience working with the Herz lab. How do zebrafish update their internal compass? They use a multi ring shifter network, similar to flies despite 550M years of divergence. Full thread ⬇️

Congratulations!

Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!

Do direction and orientation preferences form maps in the mouse superior colliculus (SC)?
We examined how motion and orientation tuning are organized in SC neurons and their retinal inputs—and how the retinal topography is transformed by collicular circuits.
tinyurl.com/mr2zt5rm

🧵👇

The Elkouby Lab - Cell and developmental biology of early oogenesis The Elkouby Lab Illuminating unpredicted cellular machineries in gonad development, germ cell production, and reproduction A Journey to Before the Beginning of Life Exploring the Unknown Developing eg...

🥁We are recruiting PhD students/Postdocs with strong proven background in developmental/molecular/cell biology & related areas, for various projects- check out our lab website👇🏼

We offer: competitive stipends, super equipped lab, fun international team!

yanivelkoubylab.com

A study from the Baier Departement, published in Nature in February 2025, has now been selected for the Nature Highlights List 2025.
Congratulations to all the researchers involved on this well-deserved recognition!

👉 Nature Highlights 2025: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@ishainer.bsky.social

Asteroids, antibiotics and ants: a year of remarkable science Highlights from News & Views published in 2025.

Very proud to see our paper selected as one of Nature’s 2025 highlights!
@johanneskappel.bsky.social @jlarsch.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very excited to share this thread on our recent paper! We show how Zebrafish integrate visual navigation signals in aligned topographic maps. Full thread below🧵

Visual motion and landmark position align with heading direction in the zebrafish interpeduncular nucleus - Nature Communications How are various visual signals integrated in the vertebrate brain for navigation? Here authors show that different spatial signals are topographically organized and align to one another in the zebrafi...

(1/n) We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, by Hagar Lavian (@hlavian.bsky.social) and team, revealing how the zebrafish brain integrates visual navigation signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Trojan Horse Gene of the Marine Virus - הטכניון-מכון טכנולוגי לישראל

The Trojan Horse Gene of the Marine Virus www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...