Zayna Chaker

Very nice girls!!!! I did not know you're collaborating :-), Fly or mouse or both? Congrats and looking fw to the great discoveries ahead ;-)

We have posted a Research Assistant (LSRP1) position to work on aging and 'rejuvenation' using mouse models!! 🐭

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Apply and join our awesome lab!! (please share) 😎

Paris Brain Institute Call for Junior Group Leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | Paris Brain Institute The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting outstanding early-career scientists in artificial intelligence, data science, computational neuroscience, and related f...

🧠 The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting early-career scientists to establish their own independent research groups within one of Europe’s most dynamic neuroscience research centers.

👉 More information: parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-b...

#Hiring #AI

Special Issue The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors Alex Hughes (University of Pennsylvania) Rashmi Priya (The Francis Crick Institute) Submission deadline: 1 March 2026. Development call for papers. Image of magenta and teal cells in a jawbone.

Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Guest Editors: Alex Hughes (@hugheslabpenn.bsky.social) & Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social)

Deadline: 1 March 2026

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Today is the kick start of our @igflyon.bsky.social @cosheidelberg.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social common 2-day retreat in Lyon, @ensdelyon.bsky.social ! Very diverse and exciting talks going from plants, algae to animals!

⛈️ In Academia, what do you do when the dream becomes the nightmare?

In this new episode we tackle Power Dynamics

The key takeaway ? Safety First.

🎧 Listen how you can achieve this : www.buzzsprout.com/1356877/epis...

This is not just a podcast episode. It is a survival guide.

#academicsky

A great pleasure today to animate this science outreach event witht colleagues from @igflyon.bsky.social @Déclics in a high school of Lyon @ensdelyon.bsky.social! Such a refreshing morning outside of the lab ☺️

We are hiring!! Lab Assistant II position to work with the killifish! 🐟🐟🐟 This is an amazing model to study aging and 'suspended animation'

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Come and join our fantastic team at Stanford!! 🤩 Please share!

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful!

here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

The Enterarchon: An ancient visceral brain The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is innervated by intrinsic neurites and extrinsic pathways linking it bidirectionally to the central nervous system. T…

🧨 Check out this peeps🧨 I am very happy with the outcome of this thought baby! @neurogut.bsky.social @michaelrera.bsky.social and Mael Lemoine (yes, a philosopher) twisted our brains over preparing this conceptual review! We give you the "Enterarchon" Enjoy it!
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I like the Greek name…

Very nice read!

Such a pleasant moment listening to the original science from @audeber.bsky.social today at @igflyon.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social. Out of the box ideas, Outstanding tools, Out of my comfort zone… Totally great!

Very happy and proud to see @doetschlab.bsky.social awarded the Louis Jeantet prize: a fantastic mentor, scientist and human being!

now or never, submission deadline Jan 19th!

PhD applicants: This is an amazing opportunity with a great and generous mentor AND outstanding brain research questions! Go for it 👇

Genetic sex of enteric neurons enables ovarian relaxin to gate maternal gut plasticity Animals must align intestinal plasticity and feeding with reproductive state, yet the checkpoint that gates these adaptations is unknown. Here we show that an ovary-to-enteric-neuron axis gates the on...

📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅

Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes.
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Congrats Dafni! Big big step I can only imagine :-). I really like the distinction between "competence", "priming", and "triggering", and the way you state it in the abstract is brillant! This ovary-gutNeuron axis makes me wonder whether they are other ovary-XYZneuron communication in the periphery.

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!

Congratulations @nkonst4.bsky.social and team! It’s really a conceptually inspiring study! My new passion is the Cricket brain, si am really curious to look at it in details. Thanks for the very exciting thread! ✌️

🎉 Proud moment for our Center
Pierre Vanderhaeghen received the 2025 Fyssen Foundation International Prize, also awarded this year to Franck Polleux (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) for work on the neurobiological foundations of human cognition. 🧠🏆
Congratulations!
#FyssenPrize #Neuroscience #VIB

Amazing to have @alainchedotal.bsky.social with us today @igflyon.bsky.social in front of a full room of people from all over the @ensdelyon.bsky.social campus! Very happy start of 2026 🤯

The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development Every researcher knows the anticipation and trepidation that come with submitting a paper to a journal. Years of effort have been distilled into a few thousand words and a handful of figures containin...

"revision requests can expand beyond what is feasible...we've been told reviews are unnecessarily harsh... reviews can seem formidable but usually represent constructive critiques"

Interesting reflections and introspection from editors of Development 1/n

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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Happy 2026 everyone- the time has come to apply!
Registration for this exciting Dev Bio conference is until the end of January!

Just finished my first book of the year: a sober, courageous, yet emotional, eye-opening and haunting narrative by an Ukrainian writer, father and staunch pacifist who enlisted the day his country was invaded. A must read for anyone concerned by current world affairs...

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The "Hard Truth" about how hard it is to publish in Development. We wrote this to really drive the point that we are a discerning community journal, and we really want to publish your best developmental and stem cell biology contributions.
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Why greatness cannot be planned with Kenneth Stanley Podcast Episode · Night Science · 12/29/2025 · 32m

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned with Kenneth Stanley.
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@nightsciencepod.bsky.social

Unpopular opinion: biologists are still the ones who understand biology best

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!