For all the vision folks who are planning to go to DC SfN this year: we now have a Vision pre-meeting!!!

🧠 There’s still time to register👇 and join the YPI community for a full day of neuroscience, skills, trainings, strategies, discussions, networking and resilience building - by the beach 🏖️! @fens.org satellite event!
youngpisymposium2026.com

Excited to share our new article, ‘Mechanical regulation of cuboidal-to-squamous epithelial transition in the Drosophila developing wing’, now online in Current Biology.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

There’s also a great accompanying Dispatch:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

#MatrixMechanics #DevBio

New preprint from our lab! We integrate proteomics-informed candidate selection with targeted spatial transcriptomics and protein-level validation to identify astrocytic VCAM1 as a novel regulator of hippocampal synapses.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Only 5 days left to apply to this PhD position in our team at Exeter!

Annonce officielle de l’IGFL pour le recrutement du poste cité ci-dessus

L’IGFL recrute un•e Professeur•e des Universités en biologie moléculaire (CNU 64), UCBL Lyon 1.
Enseignement L2-M2 (Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire) + projet en biologie moléculaire des eucaryotes au sein de l’IGFL.
Détails: shorturl.at/K5Dno
#Recrutement #BiologieMoleculaire

Deadline approaching to apply for a PhD position in Exeter 🧠. 👇 Are you interested in cell-type diversity, glia and neudevelopmental disorders?

Mammalian cells form hibernating disomes akin to those in bacterial cells - but connected via ribosomal RNA

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

co-first with: @andschwarz.bsky.social

with: @lea-dietrich.bsky.social, @sgiando.bsky.social, @erin-schuman.bsky.social and many more

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#MolBio 🧪

New preprint from the lab on synapse development in the nascent neocortical hierarchy!

Using mice that label MAGUK proteins developed by Seth Grant we find key differences in the laminar maturation of association and sensory motor cortices, including delayed, cortex-wide maturation of L1 synapses.

Very happy to share that @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social and I have received a British Council Springboard grant 🎉 Looking forward to developing new collaborative projects on RNA processing across species!

Distinct roles for MNK1 and MNK2 in social and cognitive behavior through kinase-specific regulation of the synaptic proteome and phosphoproteome - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Distinct roles for MNK1 and MNK2 in social and cognitive behavior through kinase-specific regulation of the synaptic proteome and phosphoproteome

Happy to share the first paper from the lab, now out in Molecular Psychiatry! This was really a collaborative effort from a fantastic team, including key contributions from @dariabunina.bsky.social and @landthalerm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Exeter rising-star @hiwwright.bsky.social leading the way in bridging population-scale WGS datasets for federated meta-conditioning across genetically-inferred ancestries. Haplotype effects are rife across the chromosomes: reference panels and LD matrices struggle with the rarest of variation!

We are recruiting a postdoc to join a Wellcome Trust-funded project at LSI-Exeter, investigating the role of neural-pancreas dynamics in maintaining glucose homeostasis. 🐟🔬🧠
@lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet #postdocjobs

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Fin-ally together: the first UK zebrafish meeting Summary: The inaugural UK Zebrafish Meeting 2025 brought together over 150 UK researchers to share scientific advances and discuss strategies for strengthening the national zebrafish research communit...

To keep up the momentum in strengthening our UK #zebrafish community, ECRs at @lsiexeter.bsky.social prepared this meeting review of #UKZF2025 🐟
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

PhD studentship: Building Brain Cir | University of Exeter The University of Exeter’s Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for a faculty-funded PhD studentship to commence on September 21st 2026 or as soon as possible therea...

📣 Funded PhD studentship in developmental neuroscience in my lab @exeter.ac.uk 🧠🧑‍🎓

Join us to decode RNA processing in developing mammalian cortical circuits! All info + apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

⏳Deadline: 28th Feb 2026 | Please share!

#PhD #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment #RNASky

Subcellular depletion of importin β1 impairs presynaptic local translation and spatial memory Axonal localization of importin β1 is required for presynaptic functions that support spatial memory tasks.

Very happy to share our new paper in #ScienceSignaling revealing that importin β1 isn’t just important for nuclear transport or neuronal growth.

We now show it is key for presynaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, local translation, and memory!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

European Synapse Meeting 2026 21-23 October 2026, Leuven, Belgium Supported by VIB Training & Conferences

Announcing the 10th edition of the European Synapse Meeting in Leuven, October 21-23, 2026. Registration will open soon. Hope to see you all in Leuven this fall! All info: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...

If you’re looking for a great PhD opportunity on 🧠 development and a top-notch supervisor, look no further than Giselle’s project! 👇🏻

In preprints: the deep evolutionary roots of Cajal-Retzius cells Vertebrates show a striking diversity of brain size and morphology. Mammals, in particular, have an especially large cerebral cortex, presenting with a characteristic six-layered structure that is bel...

We're happy to highlight two very exciting preprints from @idoiaeu.bsky.social and @matosches.bsky.social about the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Find our perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social here:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

For those working in psychiatric genomics and related disciplines: join us next Wednesday as we discuss accurate and trusted science communication.

I will cover how researchers can get involved in lending their expertise to educate and combat misinformation, and introduce @authentisci.bsky.social.

Lots of exciting PhD projects available through @swbiodtp.bsky.social

If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged

Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...

Multiple BBSRC funded PhD projects available via SWBio

with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.

📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join our growing team @exeter.ac.uk!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑‍🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
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I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have a fully funded PhD studentship exploring glial cell development with techniques ranging from molecular neuroscience to system biology.

tinyurl.com/2jxezabw

Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro

#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology

Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT

neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...

WTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Research Associate - Project Manager - Brain Organoid Platform | King's College London

We are recruiting for a Research Associate / Project Manager to help us build and run a Brain Organoid Platform at King’s College London, as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Neurodevelopment Cluster! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/125125-...

Local translation of circular RNAs is required for synaptic activity and memory Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are enriched in synapses and implicated in cognitive processes, and recent studies have shown that circRNAs can encode micropeptides, which suggests that there may be novel sy...

How do neurons deal with fitting large regulatory proteins into small spaces to control plasticity and memory? By generating micropeptides via local translation of circRNAs, of course! Here’s to shedding new light on the ‘dark’ proteome in the brain.

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...