For 20 years, #IRBBarcelona has advanced biomedical research to understand human health and create real impact.
This video celebrates the people and ideas behind this great journey.
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This week's #MicroscopyMonday shows the early pupal optic lobe in the fruit fly. 🪰 Some newborn #neurons had key developmental signals altered to understand the effect on the type of neurons they become. 🧠 (Özel Lab)
Happy #FountainDay, Kansas City! ⛲
As fountains across the City of Fountains return for the season, here are a view from our campus.
Would Santiago smile if he were to see this? I like to think he might
@dacolon.bsky.social
This week's #MicroscopyMonday shows regulated cell death in colonies of Vibrio cholerae strains. Bottom panel shows a time lapse of the cell death program. Dead cells are in cyan and live cells in red. 🔬(Mashruwala Lab) #discovery #scisky
#WhatIf we could see disease decades before it begins?
Randal Halfmann, Ph.D., studies how proteins change as we age—and how understanding those changes might one day help scientists detect & prevent diseases earlier.
▶️ Watch a preview. Full video tomorrow.
Learn more: bit.ly/4v1D85W
This beautiful #MicroscopyMonday shows a sea anemone’s tentacle, which contains numerous stinging cells (green) used to ensnare and capture prey. 🔬 (@mgstowers.bsky.social Lab) #SciSky
[Meeting]
African Turquoise Killifish Conference 2026, October 1-3, 2026, MDI Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
The conceptual novelty of the study is that key innate-immune adaptor proteins behave like biological ‘phase-change batteries,’ storing latent energy through metastable supersaturation & releasing it on demand to power rapid, ATP-independent life-or-death signaling
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A new Science Magazine commentary highlights #research from the Halfmann Lab exploring how immune signaling proteins act like a “phase-change battery,” storing energy until cells need to respond. 🔋
Read here: bit.ly/4rUEOv9
Science meets nature at #BIGIDEAS: The Minds of Insects. 🧠
An evening exploring how insects think, adapt, and shape the world around us.
🎟️ Register now—space is limited: bit.ly/4aFHJ5A
Today we welcomed Geraldine Seydoux @hhmi-science.bsky.social) for a #StowersSeminarSeries on “Germ granules: Compartments for RNA regulation or incidental condensates?”
Thanks to the @kkostova.bsky.social Lab for hosting!
On #RareDiseaseDay, we’re highlighting the work of Gerton Lab – studying the genetic roots of rare disorders including Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and Roberts Syndrome.
Discover how fundamental chromosome #biology research is advancing understanding of rare disease: bit.ly/46m55L6
A snail that regrows its entire eye in 30 days 🐌👁
New coverage in SciTech Daily highlights #research from the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab showing that apple snails regenerate camera-type eyes using genes shared with humans.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/4rKrpqn
Congratulations to Investigator Neşet Özel!
Congratulations to Investigator Neşet Özel, recipient of the 2026 Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. 🧠🧬
Learn more about his #research: bit.ly/3MIHaio
Last week at #ScienceOverSpirits, Anand Sasidharan, postdoc in the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab, shared “The hidden mysteries of #regeneration”, and his journey from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere. 🌎 #ResearchSky
#DYK that amyloids form when proteins adopt an unusual shape that templates others to stack into highly stable fibers. They’re linked to neurodegenerative diseases. But they may also be essential for long-term #memory. 🧠
In our latest #BioBasics #PhD student Olivia Kim explains!
🔗 bit.ly/4aEAQjJ
I will be presenting my work @socdevbio.bsky.social
Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar. If you are interested in how the spatio-temporal decay of maternal RNAs regulates embryonic development post-transcriptionally, please do join. @bazzinilab.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social
From lab bench to classroom. 🧪📚
Ian Freed, a postdoc in the Li Lab, studies how gut cells shape immune responses — and mentors the next generation through the @stowersgrad.bsky.social Summer Scholars program, university lectures, and local #STEM programs.
🔗Learn more: bit.ly/4rMTbC9
🚨 Registration is live for this spring's #SRCKC26! Explore how the cis-regulatory code, genomic technologies, and #AI models are reshaping our understanding of development.📍4/22–24 | #KansasCity
Hear from a previous attendee ⬇️
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4rMvVoI
📣Announcing our first awardees of 2026🌠, who are setting out to uncover new knowledge about microbes in extreme environments, host-microbiome interactions, & bacterial defenses. bit.ly/HFAwardees
Hear why our #HFScouts recommended these talented scientists👇 in our 🧵:
4/ Awardee Sukrit Silas is setting out to solve the longstanding challenge of predicting phage-bacteria compatibility🦠. His project could transform how phages are harnessed to fight against antibiotic resistance.
🍾 Congrats Dr. Silas! @gladstoneinst.bsky.social
#HFScout Devaki Bhaya
3/ Can the microbes in our gut change how our genes🧬 are read & used? Awardee Zheng Kuang's bold research question may lead to the discovery of novel host–microbe interactions critical for health & disease.
🎉 Congrats Dr. Kuang! @cmu.edu
🙏 #HFScout Rob Knight
2/ Awardee @archaeon-alex.bsky.social, in collab w/ Co-Is Amy Schmid & Bonnie Baxter,
is taking the lab🔬 to the field -- to uncover how microbes adapt to extreme environmental changes found in the Great Salt Lake!
🥳 Congrats Dr. Bisson! @iubiology.bsky.social
🙏 #HFScout @planaria1.bsky.social
“There is grandeur in this view of life, … and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved”
Charles Darwin, born February 12, 1809
Final day to apply 🚨 Stowers Computational Biology Scholars Program applications close today⬇️
New #research from the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab reveals how #planarian cells coordinate #regeneration across the body using extracellular vesicles to deliver gene-silencing RNAs. 🪱 Published in Science Advances.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4bYJ1tN
