Our mission is to amplify early-career voices, foster collaborations, and help create a research environment that is supportive and welcoming to all.
We host symposia and webinars aimed at career guidance, networking, and sharing trainee research. We’re here to help you grow and thrive! 🐠🎊
📣Hello! We are the Young Researcher Committee (YoRC) of EZS/IZFS! 🧬🐟
We’re an international community of graduate students, postdocs, and early-career scientists passionate about connection, collaboration, and opportunity in zebrafish research.
I am delighted, humbled, proud, and grateful to let you know that I became a professor for life today.
I am very aware of the privilege that this position now brings to my life. I will do my best to pay forward the kindness and support of the people who got me here.
Congratulations Anna! Its great to have you in Cologne!
Our research group leader Daniel Wehner was featured on FrankenFernsehen, sharing insights into his research about spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish (in German only).
ICYMI
Looks amazing. So sad I couldn't be there.
Thank you Franken Fernsehen for featuring our work at @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social and MPZPM (in german only): www.frankenfernsehen.tv/mediathek/vi...
Logo for the Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS). There's two silhouettes of fish that are swimming (one blue, one black)
Hello, Bluesky community! ZDMS promotes the study, research & use of zebrafish disease models throughout the world while fostering diversity among the zebrafish community. We also advocate for public awareness of the importance of the field & offer informed opinions. Give us a follow, for more! 🐟👩🔬
Looking for a mpeg1:BFP line (or any equivalent blue reporter) available in Europe to combine with GFP and mCherry.
Any leads, labs, or repositories would be greatly appreciated! RTs welcome 🙏🔬
#zebrafish sperm. image credit: Marcos Cardozo
Bridging the gap (axonal regeneration in zebrafish recorded live!)
Bridging the gap (axonal regeneration in zebrafish recorded live!)
The EMBO Practical Course "Spinal cord injury models" in Rio de Mouro, PT, 1–8 June 2026 aims to standardize protocols and support #EarlyCareer researchers working in #SpinalCordInjury.
Deadline: 1 April
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-spinal-cord
#EMBOSpinalCordInjury #EMBOevents #training 🧪
There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Still time to apply until January, 19th!
Our team participated in the Long Night of Science #NdW25 at #MPZPM, a major outreach event in Germany. We presented how light - in particular polarization microscopy - reveals stress built-up inside materials. 🔬🧫
Excited to see our latest work featured on YouTube by Biosapiens_vms channel. youtube.com/watch?v=nfZq...
Thank you!
Professor Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), He headed the division “Cell Physics” at MPL and the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM).
With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
Congratulations to everyone involved, especially the two joint first authors, Nora and Thomas! Thanks also to the four reviewers for their helpful comments, which improved the manuscript.
#SCI, #Brillouin, #regeneration, #zebrafish, #AFM, #fibroblasts, #neutrophils
cthrc1a+ fibroblasts release pro-inflammatory and immunosuppressive cytokines to induce and subsequently resolve the acute inflammatory phase, thereby establishing a lesion microenvironment with regeneration-permissive mechanical properties.
We describe the identification of a transient population of cthrc1a+ fibroblasts with a less differentiated, non-fibrotic profile that possess dual functions in modulating inflammation.
We show that, unlike mammals, the regulatory interplay between fibroblasts and immune cells is required for axon regeneration after spinal cord injury in zebrafish.
Paper accepted 🤩. Stay tuned for news on #fibroblasts in #SCI and #regeneration.
Thank you Richard!
