Eve Seuntjens

Did you do your PhD in 2022, 23, 24 or 25 on a cool cell or dev bio topic? Do not forget to apply!!

Traffic jam on my way to teaching the gastrulation class in my dev bio course.

We have a postdoc position available. Please forward to anyone who may be interested.

Postdoc Opening! 🚨
Thrilled to (belatedly!) share that I’ve received @hfspo.bsky.social grant in collaboration with @KatherinaPetrou "Plant-like solar tracking in a photosymbiotic animal."
We are hiring a Postdoc to join the team
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social!
Apply👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO766/r...

Happy to share scHiCAR, an ultra-high throughout (millions of cells), low cost (5 cents/cell including NGS), and trimodal platform for integrated single-cell level analysis of mRNA, open chromatin, and 5-kb resolution looping with ground-truth data the same individual cell.

UNESCO international day of women and girls in science. celebrating four largely overlooked pioneers in science

1/ Today is UNESCO’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGIS

To mark the occasion, Lisa Thomann and Julie Batut highlight four pioneering biologists whose work shaped developmental biology, electrophysiology, and genetics.

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪

The EMBO Women in Science Lectures address issues related to gender and diversity in science.

Find out more and apply here:
https://www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel-and-childcare-grants/women-in-science-lectures/

RETRACTED: Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree Determining whether sponges or ctenophores root the animal tree has important implications for understanding early animal evolution. Here, we examined support for these competing hypotheses by constru...

This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dear Friends of the MBL, I am reaching out with news about the Marine Biological Laboratory's relationship with the University of Chicago. Today, MBL and the University of Chicago announced that, following a 12-year affiliation, MBL will once again be a fully independent organization, effective June 30, 2026. MBL will continue to collaborate closely with the University of Chicago across education, research and graduate training, with the University of Chicago remaining one of MBL's valued academic partners. The University has made extraordinary programmatic, leadership, and financial contributions to the MBL. University leaders, including presidents and provosts, served as active members of the Board of Trustees. We are grateful for this support and look forward to continued academic collaboration. This partnership has fueled significant research collaborations and publications, as well as joint programs established around common research themes. Examples of these include the MBL/University of Chicago Graduate Research Fellowship Program and scientific collaborations that resulted in the development of innovative instruments, enabling high-resolution, three-dimensional visualization of cells and tissues. The outlook for an independent MBL is bright. For example, our efforts in recent years have significantly raised the ambitions of MBL's fundraising. In August of 2025, the Marine Biological Laboratory received an unrestricted gift of $25 million from MBL alumnus Mark Terasaki, the largest private contribution in our 137-year history. Additional substantial funding has been received for graduate training, named positions, facilities, courses, faculty hires, scholarships, and lectureships. Together, these extraordinary investments reflect our donors' confidence in MBL's mission and future and strengthen our financial foundation as we move forward. They build on a commitment MBL made in 2023 to achieve financial self-sufficiency, supported by the expansion of our Bo…

MBL's existing academic programs and collaborations with the University of Chicago are expected to continue as before, including research collaborations, participation by University of Chicago undergraduate and graduate students, and University of Chicago-affiliated courses and programs. The academic links that we have built over the last 12 years will serve both institutions well in the future. There are no significant changes to MBL's budget, staffing levels or operations and MBL will retain full ownership of its endowment. University of Chicago representatives will step down from the MBL Board of Trustees in June 2026, which will otherwise remain the same. I am deeply grateful for your continued engagement and belief in MBL. Your support and connection to this institution make this next chapter possible, and I look forward to sharing more in the weeks ahead as we continue our work together. With appreciation, Nipam H. Patel, Director Marine Biological Laboratory

Interesting news: The Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole (MBL) is once again becoming an independent institution. University of Chicago will remain a partner, but only one of many. MBL is an amazing place for science and science training and I hope it will thrive in this new status.

Un viaggio all’origine dei sistemi nervosi Il nuovo progetto GRNevo, finanziato con un grant FIS-3 Advanced da 1,9 milioni di euro, studierà come si formano i neuroni durante lo sviluppo in specie animali molto distanti tra loro: dal moscerino...

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs.
Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs + 3 PhDs
Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄
magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/...
Email me if interested in joining the lab

Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg. The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.

If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the

"Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples"

at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.

WIth great teachers from Naples […]

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I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!

Thank you @fredcauseret.bsky.social for this nice highlight of our work and @idoiaeu.bsky.social 's!

Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms...

Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l

🚨🚨🚨Places on the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social 2026 Summer School now available! Fantastic opportunity for undergrads to get 1st-hand research experience with world-class facilities at a great campus in the heart of Europe. Details 👇 @vbcscitraining.bsky.social

I am thrilled to share our new open-access paper in Communications Biology!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Huge congrats to PhD student, June Ordóñez (not on bsky), whose beautiful and meticulous work led this project! 👏🔥
@univie.ac.at@fwf-at.bsky.social @vdsee-univie.bsky.social univie.bsky.social

A super detailed protocol + video on Cryo-ExM - Cryo-Expansion Microscopy, led by the labs of our former postdocs @marinelap.bsky.social & @ebertiaux.bsky.social.
Clear, practical, and very useful for anyone doing nanoscale imaging 🚀 app.jove.com/t/68595/expa...

What a nice xmas present! Check this one out if you are into animal behavioral tracking! #OCTRON works really well on animals without a backbone, like 🐙. Happy we could contribute to this story led by @octoscience.bsky.social

I would say it is worth the risk. Rebranding can boost the IF, if we still care about impact factors.

Maybe we should revise policies that push postdocs out of academic research too early. It selects for early achievers that remain in one field and risks losing the highest impact people

Summer internships

Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!

Super fantastic news and so well deserved!! Looking forward to hearing more about your adventures!

For those of you now wondering about @idoiaeu.bsky.social sharkies, mark your agenda’s: on June 5th, 2026 she will be speaking at the @rbscdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting on Cortical development and Neural stem cells in Chateau Colonster, Liège, Belgium. More news to follow!

It was nice catching up with colleagues and celebrating 10 years #EMBRC-BE in a wonderful venue #RBINS in Brussels 🌊

Spot on

Development's Pathway to Independence Programme Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:

Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building

Spread the word...

www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Open postdoc position at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life to contribute to the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, with a focus on spatial transcriptomics.

Apply by January 4
sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

‘Superarm’ helps male octopuses deliver sperm to females Specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing males to find sex organs in the dark

A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3

Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠
Detailed thread below 👇

Benthoplanidae, a new family of benthic ctenophores (Platyctenida), based on morphological and genetic data The benthic ctenophore Benthoplana meteoris (adults left and bottom, planktonic juveniles to the top right), type species for the genus, which in turn is type for the newly erected family: Benthoplan....

As part of his dissertation, @beziostudio.bsky.social leads a recent paper on benthic ctenophores. New family established based on anatomical observations, mitochondrial genome structure, and sequence data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...