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Eva Candal

@evacandal.bsky.social

Developmental neurobiologist interested in evo-devo, neurogenesis, plasticity & neurodevelopmental disorders. Professor @usc.gal #NeuroDevo #EvoDevo #DevBio #sharks #retina

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Un viaggio all’origine dei sistemi nervosi Il nuovo progetto GRNevo, finanziato con un grant FIS-3 Advanced da 1,9 milioni di euro, studierΓ  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 β€” to decolonise scientific language πŸ˜„
magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/...
Email me if interested in joining the lab

13.01.2026 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
Several stages of brain development in a chick embryo

Several stages of brain development in a chick embryo

New featured article!

Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns

@emmanning.bsky.social @elsieplace.bsky.social @kchinnaiya.bsky.social @sethblackshaw.bsky.social @thomasdwkim.bsky.social

http://dlvr.it/TQLWh5

14.01.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social for highlighting our work! #aging #vision #GreenlandShark

11.01.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#2025Rewind βͺ Stowers scientists have established the apple snail as a new #research organism for investigating eye #regeneration, which may hold the key for restoring vision due to damage and disease.

🐌Read here: www.stowers.org/news/seeing-...

30.12.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌊 El proyecto SHOW-IT, en el que participa ARCUS ha sido seleccionado como uno de los 11 proyectos financiados a nivel mundial por la institución BNP Paribas Foundation dentro de su Climate & Biodiversity Initiative 2025, entre 168 propuestas de 21 países 🌍.

22.12.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, Ido! 🦈🀩

22.12.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🀍

22.12.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0
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Conference: Neurogenesis from development to adulthood in health and disease The adult brain consists of billions of neurons that show an unimaginable complexity in their structural diversity and functional connectivity allowing for a plethora of brain functions. Notably…

Interested in neural stem cells and neurogenesis throughout lifespan?

Exciting meeting in 2026 in Switzerland!!

neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...

02.12.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Registro "BiologΓ­a del Desarrollo SintΓ©tica: DiseΓ±ando la Vida" Curso Electivo de Verano, dirigido a estudiantes de pregrado Programa: Link Fechas: 5 al 15 de Enero de 2026 Lugar: Santiago de Chile, clases presenciales (Campus Manuel Montt, U. Mayor) Para estudian...

Help us to promote this DevBiol course (in Spanish)
Β‘Nuevo curso gratuito de BiologΓ­a del Desarrollo (en espaΓ±ol)!
Aprende sobre los procesos que dan origen a la vida
Cupos limitados β†’ forms.gle/sfSV1GTae2nC...
Detalles y programa: drive.google.com/file/d/1-9dd...
#BiologΓ­aDelDesarrollo

26.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘ƒSniffing out olfactory neurogenesis

New β€˜Show and tell’ post on the Node from Sriivatsan G Rajan and Ankur Saxena @saxenalab.bsky.social:
thenode.biologists.com/sniffing-out...
#zebrafish #devbio #neurogenesis

22.10.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zebrafish embryo undergoing gastrulation. Credit to Dr. Gopi Shah at EMBL. #ZebrafishZunday πŸ§ͺ

19.10.2025 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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Interested in cell migration and developmental biology-check out this PhD opportunity!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

10.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

07.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
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We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship

06.10.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city!
https://www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

#postdoc

06.10.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dual Bmp-negative feedback loops modulate function of both AER and ZPA to buffer and constrain postaxial digit number | PNAS Several lines of evidence indicate that posterior (postaxial) digit number in tetrapod vertebrates is constrained to the pentadactyl state by inter...

transport yourself to the late 90s with this really cool paper on digit number regulation by Shh and BMP, ZPA and AER. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

26.09.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

19.07.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
Stellenausschreibung ID 12080

We have a job opening for postdoc with expertise in bioinformatics and a strong interest in regeneration. We work on (successful) spinal cord regeneration in the zebrafish. Get in touch if that’s something that would interest you!

www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

22.05.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Perturbed cell cycle phase-dependent positioning and nuclear migration of retinal progenitors along the apico-basal axis underlie global retinal disorganization in the LCA8-like mouse model

by Seo-Hee Cho et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

23.05.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our work on lineage tracing with somatic epimutations is finally out in @nature.com!

Check out the thread by @larsplus.bsky.social below.

EPI-clone is a revolutionary technique for lineage tracing and it will immediately impact how we trace clones everywhere.

Detailed protocols coming out soon!

21.05.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm still processing all the amazing interactions and possibilities this meeting brought. Different fields and expertise converging in a common interest: brain evolution. It was fantastic. Thanks to the organizers @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social ( Nerea Moreno, Fernando and Zoltan)

17.05.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms?

@nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social

19.05.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PTEN regulates starburst amacrine cell dendrite morphology during development Neurons are subject to extensive developmental regulation to ensure precise subtype-specific morphologies that are intimately tied to their function. Starburst amacrine cells (SACs) in the mammalian r...

With all the chaos and destruction of academic research going on in the US right now, it feels a little weird to post this. But....

New preprint from the lab is now live: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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09.05.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application formπŸ‘‡Thanks for RT πŸ™πŸ¦‘
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

15.05.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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GRS Developmental Biology 2025 Image gallery - the Node The 2025 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) was held on March 29-30 2025. This year, the GRS co-chairs Ana R. Hernandez Rodriguez and

One of the reasons I love #DevelopmentalBiology is that it's so visually engaging. I had the pleasure of organising an image competition at the GRC last March, and share this passion. You can now check out these images on @the-node.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...

15.05.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification - Nature Multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH) together with deep-learning-based nucleus segmentation enabled the construction of a highly detailed and informative spatially res...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

14.05.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We recently wrote a review about neuroimmune interactions in retinal repair. We dive into the literature regarding immune influences in Muller glia reprogramming, cell transplantation, and axon regeneration. Hopefully its useful, free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-FL4pAsj...

11.05.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Many thanks to @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social for organising #ECCN2025 and bringing together such a variety of research and species! I truly enjoyed the experience! Stay tuned for the next edition #ECCN2028 in Leuven! (Or Tenerife, still have to decide hehe)

09.05.2025 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration - npj Regenerative Medicine npj Regenerative Medicine - Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration

My buddy @karenecheverri.bsky.social just published her latest (with a minor assist from yours truly) on how tail regeneration in #axolotls relies on brain activity. Specifically neurons in the telencephalon that project to the hypothalamus. #regeneration #cutemascot www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.05.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0