COS Heidelberg

The #GfE2026 poster prizes go to Amulya Hejjaji (@amulyavhejjaji.bsky.social), Snigdha Bhardwaj (from @cosheidelberg.bsky.social) & Kaisa Pakari (@kpakari.bsky.social) for research on hematopoietic stem cell niche, cell adhesion in chimerism, and congenital disorders of glycosylation, respectively

The German & Spanish societies for Developmental Biology jointly award the José A.Campos-Ortega Prize shared between Lauren Saunders @lsaunders.bsky.social @cosheidelberg.bsky.social (in absence) & Noelia Antón Bolaños @bolanosanton.bsky.social @umcutrecht.bsky.social at the awards ceremony #GfE2026

Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on the cell biology of nucleus by Stefanie Rosa from @uppsalauni.bsky.social

Universität Heidelberg verteidigt Status als Exzellenzuniversität – Rektorin Frauke Melchior: „Großartige Gemeinschaftsleistung hat zum Erfolg geführt“ www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
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Today is the day! Make sure to not miss today's SPARK@COS Lecture with Per Ahlberg.

While Silurian stem osteichthyans seize the cover of Nature, it’s a beautiful evening in Heidelberg. My first visit, here to give two lectures. A lovely city!

Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst Volume EM and connectome reconstruction of the apical organ of a ctenophore combined with high-speed imaging reveals a neuronal coordination of balancer cilia in the gravisensory organ.

In @eLife: Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108420
Version of record of our ctenophore nerve-net connectome paper.

Our preprint on the first genome-scale resource for the tuber crop T. tuberosum is now online. Thanks to my co-authors and everyone involved. @cosheidelberg.bsky.social | @greenrobust.de | @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de | @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social

New week, new HUPs member spotlieght!

👋🏻 Meet Jules Duruz, General Executive. He studies the behaviour of small marine invertebrates to better understand nervous system evolution. He values building a supportive, interdisciplinary postdoc community and especially enjoys HUPs networking events.

Two days of stimulating discussions with colleagues from @rdplab.bsky.social and @igflyon.bsky.social about science and life. Thanks for all the hospitality and engagement!

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!

Greenland, here it is again. This time with something really exciting!

New year - new round of SPARK@COS

Starting off with the 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗞@𝗖𝗢𝗦 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 on 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟲𝘁𝗵 with Per Erik Ahlberg from Uppsala University, Sweden.
He's taking us on an exciting journey to Greenland's mountains. Join us to discover what awaits.

We just moved to Bilbao after 16 year living in Heidelberg. I am grateful for the many friends and colleagues that I made during these incredible years. I look forward to the new challenges and opportunities, and to build new bridges between these two inspiring cities

We wish you all the best for your new life in Bilbao! Fantastic to see you thrive. Your contributions to COS were outstanding on all levels and we are sad that we lose an outstanding colleague.

1st German Fish Model Research Meeting | German Fish Model Research Meeting Discover the 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting—uniting global experts on zebrafish, cavefish, killifish, medaka & more. Join us to collaborate, share breakthroughs, and advance fish biology resea...

#Zebrafish 🐟 meeting klaxon🧨 The registration period for the 1st German Zebrafish Meeting (16-18 Sept) is open www.germanfishmeeting.org with Sessions on Development, Pharma, Behavior, Omics, and more. Deadline for Abstracts at the end of April. Hope to see y'all there! 🧪 (1/n)

Stimulating visit of students from Seoul National University (SNU) at COS, IMSEAM and central research facilities this week in the context of their Global Leadership Program. Exciting case of international student exchange @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

A Scalable, High-Throughput Optomotor Response Pipeline for Quantitative Analysis of Vision Using Infinity-Pools The optomotor response (OMR) provides a robust readout assay for evaluating visually guided locomotion and has been widely applied to various animal models. We present a scalable, high-throughput OMR ...

New preprint from the @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social. The group developed an "infinity pool" setup to test visual acuity and swimming behavior in medaka.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!

Did you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...

BioRevolution IV - Evolutionary Cell Biology meets Neurosciences. YouTube video by Faculty of Biosciences Heidelberg University

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Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!

Comparison of Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference Background: Causal structure learning offers a promising approach to studying gene regulation in cells, aiming to provide deeper mechanistic insights than purely association-based methods. Theoretical...

A new lab preprint is up: Work led by our MSc student Jan Sprengel comparing Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference from single cell CRISPR perturbation screens 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

„Großartige Ermöglichungs- und Ermutigungspreise“: Jan Lohmann erhielt den Lautenschläger-Forschungspreis für Spitzenforscher – Als herausragender Wissenschaftler in einer frühen ... www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #preis #biologie #medizin

A rare opportunity to experience the grandeur of the Alte Aula of Universität Heidelberg, on the occasion of the award of the Lautenschläger prize to Jan Lohmann of @cosheidelberg.bsky.social Thanks @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy for letting me tag along!

Inaugural lecture to the faculty of Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) and Simon Wiegert (@simwieg.bsky.social) - bridging green and red biology.

A genome-scale single-cell CRISPRi map of trans gene regulation across human pluripotent stem cell lines Feng et al. present the first genome-scale CRISPR interference perturbation map with scRNA-seq readout across many genetic backgrounds in human pluripotent cells, pioneering population-scale CRISPR pe...

Happy to see this out now in Cell Genomics: A genome-scale single-cell CRISPRi map of trans gene regulation across human pluripotent stem cell lines: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Very proud that Freddy Igiebor has won a DBG Master thesis prize with his work in my lab on phyB photobody meory function!😃
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