New preprint by @O_Tolstenkov and Sissel Norland on the behavioral repertoire of the benthic ascidian Ciona intestinalis. doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.28.6… To our surprise (since Ciona adults are sessile and do not have a centralized nervous system like the larvae) Ciona adults have 1/2

Elevated DNA damage without signs of ageing in the short-sleeping Mexican cavefish offers a unique model to study sleep, DNA repair, and ageing. elifesciences.org/articles/9…

📢Check out our latest #preprint list on FocalPlane This list focusses on the latest research on bioimage analysis and data management. Let us know if there are any preprints that we should add to our list and send us recommendation for the next one! focalplane.biologists.com/20…

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @BristolBioSci @BristolUni 🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.  Check out the details! 👇 findaphd.com/phds/project/fu… #Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience

@luciamanni10 updating the status of @jpioceans Deuteronoise project why all the community of EU funded projects in noise and marine ecosistems.

🪸3 days after spawning, these tiny Galaxea larvae are on a mission: to find the perfect place to settle and begin their life as coral polyps. Off they go!✨ #coralreproduction #coralspawning #marinescience #coralreef #coral #marinebiology #CoralSymbiomiXLab

Deadline tomorrow for applications to this PhD position looking at cool collective mito dynamics! Here's a few pics of the neighbourhood to help convince you to apply

Having difficulties segmenting your 3D🔬 datasets ? You can try the CellposeSAM plugin🧑‍💻directly in MorphoNet in one click ! No python required 😌

Our paper about the interplay between heat stress, viral and antiviral response in sea anemones and #corals 🪸 is finally out! #OpenAccess Collaboration between my lab, @maozfine and @reefgenomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Exciting news! Our NSF-funded project Imaging-PHD will make microscopy data more reproducible & shareable by standardizing how hardware info is captured. Thrilled to get started with our amazing multi-institutional team! 🔬🚀 nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar…

Very interesting results and a technical breakthrough in gene silencing in Trichoplax: Dissecting a peptidergic signaling pathway in Trichoplax adhaerens by gene silencing: Current Biology cell.com/current-biology/ful…

論文が @NatureComms から出ました。ウニの双子（一卵性双生児）がどのようにして正常な個体を作り上げるのか？という疑問に答えた論文です。博士課程の元学生で現在アメリカでポスドクをされている鈴木さんの論文です。ひたすらウニを切る大変な作業でした。　→以下解説 1/ nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Collaboration work on the computer modeling and simulations for growing cell/lumen assembly, led by Dr Tanida (UTokyo) @c100percent , with Prof Sano, Prof Nonomura, Dr Fuji and their HFSP teams, @RivelineLab @Honigmann_Lab Prof Grapin-Botton’s lab.

#ArticleIRBio Evaluating the impact of an increase in sea water temperature on the palmerolides of the Antarctic benthic tunicate Synoicum adareanum Author: Andrea Prófumo, Conxita Avila , Adele Cutignano 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.… @Conxita_LAB 👇

⌛Less than 2 weeks left to apply! We are looking for 1-2 new Group Leaders to launch ambitious, internationally recognised research programmes! All the info can be found 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo… 📅Deadline Sept 8th, 2025!

When Shanduo Chen joined my lab three years ago, he could barely speak English and had little prior experience with genes and proteins. But he was determined, hardworking, and had the rare combination of a critical mind and deep curiosity. Over time, he learned to communicate confidently in English, dove into molecular biology and embryogenesis, and mastered all the techniques in our lab. He worked through two projects before finding the one that truly clicked, and within a year he produced this beautiful paper, “Skeletogenic Expression of Integrin Alpha, Talin and Npnt Genes and Npnt Role in Sea Urchin Skeletogenesis”, just published in JezB! Beyond science, Shanduo is also a very talented artist, contributing illustrations to other lab papers and to my presentations. I am very proud of Shanduo and this achievement, and I wish him the best of success in his PhD journey! #SeaUrchin #DevelopmentalBiology #Biomineralization #MolecularBiology #ProudMentor onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Postdoc position opening! Theoretical biological physics at Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. I am now particularly interested in some aspect of phase separation in a far-from-equilibrium condition, which can be relevant for various biological processes.