Böke Lab

Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open with a deadline of 1 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪

More info here:
https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/young-investigator-programme/
#LifeSciences #research #funding

Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

As several people reached out after the deadline was passed, we have reopened the inscriptions for this fantastic meeting until Feb 10. There are limited spaces left though, so please sign up ASAP. If the seats are all gone, we will close the inscription!

Re-upping this as the deadline for abstract submission if so close ❗️🧪🧬🔬
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis Data from complementary imaging techniques were integrated into a model that resolves the dynamic exocyst ensemble and membrane architecture during exocytosis, an essential cellular pathway. Sec18 med...

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🥳 our #exocyst paper out in @cp-cell.bsky.social, led by Marta, Sebas & @sasmeek.bsky.social in collab with @jonasries.bsky.social, @cmanzo.bsky.social & Castaño-Díez labs #Quantitative_Cell_Biology

Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Prof. Fiona Doetsch has been awarded the 2026 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine!
Her discoveries reveal how neural stem cells support lifelong brain plasticity and repair. 🧠
Read more: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

📣 #Job alert!
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

What tools do we need to start engineering #aging and #longevity ? A🧵about something we've been cooking up in lab with Jeremy Vicencio at the @crg.eu : technology that lets us reach inside living animals and precisely dial multiple proteins' levels up and down. 1/10

The Sudmant Lab & Wilsterman Lab are hiring a postdoc! Come work on the genetics and evolution of the placenta and dissecting genetic adaptations to altitude in deer mice!

Check out more details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

www.sudmantlab.org
www.thewilstermanlab.com

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#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

I feel extremely honoured for this recognition. Thanks go to many people from my lab and colleagues for their trust and support over the years

The Women Biology and Health Workshop was full of great science and truly an inspiring experience. Let's do it again next year 🤩
www.clinicbarcelona.org/en/news/the-...

Our annual PhD call is closing at the end of this week on 30 November. If you're interested in carrying out world-class scientific research in Barcelona, you still have a few days left to submit your application! www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Ahead of TSRM 2025, we talk to Dr Baris Ata about his roles as RBMO Female Reproductive Health & Fertility Section Editor and President of the Turkish Society of Reproductive Medicine, and what delegates can expect from the forthcoming conference.

Read it in the latest Insights: bit.ly/AtaTSRM25

Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader

Closing date 27th November

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

It was a pleasure to open the ASEBIR (Spanish Society for Reproductive Studies)
annual congress this morning! #XIIICongresoASEBIR - EB

Aquesta setmana, a l'IDIBAPS...

El pròxim dimarts, l’#IDIBAPS organitza el Women Biology & Health Workshop, una jornada científica dedicada a posar en valor la recerca en la biologia i la salut de les dones

👉https://f.mtr.cool/omkrbqxjxo

Dario Valenzano at PRBB

Today we had a great EvoMG Seminar by Dario Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social from FLI, who told us about some of their recent aging work using the fascinating short-lived killifish.

Hosted by @mirimiam.bsky.social

evomedgenomics.com/events/exter...

I am honnestly a bit worried by the latest fuss about qed (the IA driven review). While the results are indeed quite impressive (it is very good at listing the claim and finding potential improvement), I don't quite see how this will eventually reduce the reviewing burden or help us

Thinking about doing a PhD with us? We're running an online Q&A session just for you! Hear practical advice directly from our experts in the Training and Academic Office and register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/26a7dc...

New PhD opportunity studying oocyte biology. Excited about this new direction in the lab.

Awakening the Genome During Developmental Reprogramming: From Embryos to Organoids This EMBO Workshop explores the gene-regulatory mechanisms that drive developmental reprogramming upon fertilization. It focuses on the interplay of transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and develop…

Glad to share that the website for the MZT EMBO workshop that I organize together with Ana Boskovic (EMBL, Rome), Antonio Giraldez (Yale U) and Melissa Harrison (U Wisconsin) is out: meetings.embo.org/event/26-awa...
Please spread the word and join us in beautiful Seville next 4-7 May!

I'm speaking at ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, join me Register now

Oh wow - pre-made templates :) - EB
I am happy to present our latest research at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. #ISSCR2026 invt.io/1bxb7uh48oo @isscr.org

Thank you! I had a great time, and even found my way around the building by late afternoon @biozentrum.unibas.ch :)- EB

Is there any data from academia illustrating how short deadlines for things like awards or funding opportunities disadvantage people from groups who tend to take on or are assigned more thankless labor (women), and advantage those who focus more on the work that benefits them (men)?

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

Massive congrats - no need to say but very well deserved :) :) - EB

moonbow last night over our neighborhood

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇