Christopher Thomas

Christopher Thomas

@ovarylab.bsky.social

Repro biologist | Group leader at the Marseille Developmental Biology Institute, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université 🇫🇷 He/him. We use #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚 https://www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/team/control-and-dynamics-o

1,132 Followers 538 Following 74 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Applications open for the CENTURI Hackathon for Quantitative Biology 2026!

🧬💻 Join us in Marseille (June 5–7) for a weekend of coding at the interface of CS & life sciences.

📝Apply by May 6: centuri-livingsystems.org/application-...

Event Details: centuri-livingsystems.org/hackathon-20...

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Three more weeks to apply and join us in Barcelona!

Help us understanding how oocytes regulate proteostasis and fertility!

Find here more detailed information on the call:
recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Please spread around your communities!

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Always nice to have a different and fresh perspective! Thanks very much Dr Francesca Duncan, @nuduncanlab.bsky.social, for your visit and your amazing feedback. Hopefully the first of many meetings between UCD and NU/Buck!

#ovarianbiology #oocyte #collaborativeScience

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Welcome lunch for Léa De Araujo, our new engineer. Great to have you with us, Léa! 🙌🏼🎉

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We are one of the potential host labs for a Lecturer position in Molecular Genetics & Genomics — please share, and get in touch for more info! 🧬📣

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Welcome lunch for Léa De Araujo, our new engineer. Great to have you with us, Léa! 🙌🏼🎉

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We are one of the potential host labs for a Lecturer position in Molecular Genetics & Genomics — please share, and get in touch for more info! 🧬📣

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It's great to have a great team with great humor. 🤣

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Mice Against Ticks | Join the Fight Against Lyme Disease Mice Against Ticks is a community-guided project working to stop Lyme disease with Lyme-immune white-footed mice. Explore our research, local partnerships, and vision for reducing tick-borne illness.

So proud this multi-year effort is finally out. Led by my exceptional collaborator Joanna Buchthal, who put her blood, sweat, and literal tears into making a real impact for communities impacted by Lyme disease. bit.ly/MAT-tracking

More papers soon.

Learn more & support: miceagainstticks.com

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New preprint @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social by Harshath Amal and colleagues from our lab @uni-muenster.de shows how a BMP #morphogen gradient is translated into graded junctional permeability by tuning adhesion and actomyosin contractility in #Drosophila
See tinyurl.com/yhbwd9xh
@sfb1348.bsky.social

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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

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We‘re looking for a motivated Master student to join our team!

Do you want to optogenetically control metabolic activity to see how metabolism affects patterning and morphogenesis? 💡🧫🧬🔬

Then please apply!
#optogenetics #metabolism #devbio #hESCs

Please RT. Thank you!🙏

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Upcoming keynote seminars at IBDM: shorturl.at/YvsbN

We’re delighted to welcome our next speaker:

👉 Meritxell Huch (MPI-CBG)
🗓️ Fri 13/03/2026 · 11:30
📍 Amphi 12
🧫 Tissue-Derived Organoids: Where We Stand and Where We Go

Event page: shorturl.at/XJ4Wz

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🧬 The Department of Biology at @univ-amu.fr will soon recruit a lecturer in Molecular Genetics & Genomics (Eukaryotes).

🧪 Apply with an eligible team: Bertrand; Delacour; Kodjabachian; Libé-Philippot; Mann; Schaeffer; Thomas.

Details: lnkd.in/eFS8qQpU

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Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones?
www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...

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Hybrid female sterility due to cohesin protection errors in mouse oocytes Misregulation of chromosome cohesion during female meiosis serves as a reproductive isolating barrier in mice.

Another announcement! 📣 Our work on hybrid incompatibility in cohesin protection in 🐭oocytes is published!! Congrats Warif El Yakoubi and Eddie Pan!!🎉 We found hybrids with cohesion errors in two distinct genus.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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To turn spatial data into a 3D object, check our protocol (open source, napari plug-in). @guignardlab.bsky.social @adrianobolondi.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social
For example, if you have spatial RNA-seq as sections, you can align them automatically to analyse directly in 3D.
bio-protocol.org/e5607

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📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

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Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

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🎆 Happy new year and our first 2026 issue is out!
Cover: #epiblast development

👉Perspective: biological clocks
👉Review: #mitosis #CellDeath #inflammation
🔬 #chromatin #cancer #Bcells #Tcells #autophagy #organoids #mechanobiology #TranscriptionFactors #Xist & more!

www.nature.com/ncb/volumes/...

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Deadline today!

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Starting the year socially with a “Winter Before Work” coffee tasting hosted by @centuri-ls.bsky.social ☕️❄️

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Great first international lab outing at #Fertility2026 in Edinburgh! 🙌🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social

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Foxi1 regulates multipotent mucociliary progenitors and ionocyte specification through transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms The transcription factor Foxi1 regulates ionocytes across species and organs and it is associated with several human diseases, but its function in epidermis remains unclear. This study shows that low ...

Good start for 2026: Our work on mucociliary progenitors and how FOXI1 regulates them as well as ionocyte specification is now out and open access.
tinyurl.com/Bowden-Engel...
Congrats to all authors and thanks to @dfg.de @cibss.bsky.social @sfb1453.bsky.social @for5547.bsky.social for support!

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Great first international lab outing at #Fertility2026 in Edinburgh! 🙌🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social

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Don't forget to register for our upcoming Spring Meeting: 'Molecules to Morphogenesis'

Get your abstracts submitted by the 16th of January!

bsdb.org/meetings

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Another pine pollen for #FluorescenceFriday! It seems that this year too, I still won't get tired of colour coding my microscopy 🧡💜💙💚❤️

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New study from Chou, McCartney et al. @cmu.edu demonstrates coregulation of #actin filament assembly/bundling and #microtubule nucleation/organization during #Drosophila #oogenesis, highlighting the coordinated regulation of the #cytoskeleton required during #development. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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Fluorescence microscopy image of an ovarian follicle (light blue/magenta), with a bright central oocyte.

💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷

Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬

🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!

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