A poster in tones of blue with white text and pops of pink that reads:
Michael Sars Symposium 2026
Living systems in a variable ocean
In collaboration with the Computational Biology Unit, UiB
June 4, 2026, Media City Bergen
SPEAKERS
Anne-Claude Gavin, Université de Genève
Christian Jørgensen, Dept. of Biological Sciences, UiB
Matthew Rockman, New York University
Isabella Graf, EMBL Heidelberg
Tom Michoel, Computational Biology Unit, UiB
Anthony Mathelier, NCMBM, University of Oslo
Susanna Röblitz, Computational Biology Unit, UiB
Boris Lenhard, Imperial College London
Jonas Brandenburg, Michael Sars Centre, UiB
ORGANIZERS
Lionel Christian, Michael Sars Centre, UiB
Nathalie Reuter, Computational Biology Unit, UiB
Below the text are the logos for the Michael Sars Centre, CBU, University of Bergen, EMBL with the mention 'Partners of', and the hashtag MSS2026
We are thrilled to announce that registration is now open for the Michael Sars Symposium 2026, co-organized with @cbubergen.bsky.social 🙌 Join us on June 4 in Bergen for a day of fantastic talks, with a focus on living systems in a variable ocean 🌊
🔗 tinyurl.com/joinMSS2026
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Sterk avkastning i 2025 | Norges Bank Investment Management
Norway’s oil fund yielded NOK 2362 billions in 2025, enough to DOUBLE the current budget of Norwegian Research Council for the next 214 years. 🤷♂️
www.nbim.no/no/nyheter-o...
29.01.2026 07:36 —
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📡🧵 Excited to release an updated version of our preprint: Zebrahub-Multiome: Uncovering Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics During Zebrafish Embryogenesis
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doi.org/10.1101/2024...
A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!
23.01.2026 00:08 —
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In this month's Creature Column, we feature the ascidian tunicate Ciona, a model for marine systems life sciences.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
18.12.2025 20:25 —
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Thrilled to share the preprint from my PhD! 🥳 Where I characterised epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Big thanks to my supervisor @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social and coauthors @noahbruderer.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social at🇳🇴 @msarscentre.bsky.social ⬇️🧵
16.12.2025 12:33 —
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The tunicate Ciona - Nature Methods
The ascidian tunicate Ciona, one of the closest relatives of the vertebrates, inhabits shallow temperate waters in the worldwide ocean. A unique combination of simple stereotyped embryogenesis, regula...
Very happy to see this piece on the Tunicate Ciona published. Grateful to @alexandrejan.bsky.social and @chiaracastelletti.bsky.social for the Illustrations, and to @natmethods.nature.com for the opportunity to showcase our ever emerging model organism www.nature.com/articles/s41...
08.12.2025 18:33 —
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Re-upping this with a Bluetorial in a shameless act of self-promotion. 1/n
15.11.2025 08:15 —
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» What is the macromolecular composition of the cell?Cell Biology by the Numbers
Vignettes that reveal how numbers serve as a sixth sense to understanding our cells
Crowding more proteins per cytoplasm unit volume would hamper processes such as diffusion, which is already about ten fold slower inside the cell than in pure water.
Source: book.bionumbers.org/what-is-the-...
10.11.2025 12:57 —
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Intestinal villus cells extrude living, following a calcium pulse. Unlike from extruding apoptotic cells, Ca2+ messaging stops at the first neighbors! #FluorescenceFriday
Part of our TrepatLab preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Video by @ronjahoutekamer.bsky.social @gloerichlab.bsky.social
07.11.2025 14:40 —
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💡Just presented our new paper at the @iccv.bsky.social BioImage Computing workshop: cubic: CUDA-accelerated 3D Bioimage Computing. We introduce a simple way to add GPU acceleration to scikit-image–based bioimage processing pipelines by swapping import statements. 🧵
1/6 #iccv2025
23.10.2025 18:01 —
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Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
09.10.2025 15:27 —
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Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
05.10.2025 10:35 —
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🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods!
📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking
🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration
Let’s dive in! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
25.08.2025 09:06 —
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Introducing the Michael Sars Visitors Program
The Michael Sars Centre is launching a Visitors Program designed to foster scientific exchange and collaborations across disciplines.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Michael Sars Visitors Program! ✨🧪 To spark new connections, we are opening our doors to visiting researchers who wish to conduct a project in #SunnyBergen. Applications are open, help us spread the word!
26.06.2025 13:13 —
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🚀🔬🦠 Releasing 🤖Cellpose-SAM🤖, a cellular segmentation algorithm with superhuman generalization 🦸♀️. Try it now on 🤗 huggingface.co/spaces/mouse...
paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @computingnature.bsky.social 1/n
03.05.2025 19:12 —
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Conserved proteins link sensory input and metamorphosis in a marine chordate
Anoctamins play a key role in sensory perception in mammals. A new article by the Chatzigeorgiou group reveals their dual role in perception and larval metamorphosis in the chordate Ciona.
📣 New article out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🤩 Zonglai Liang and colleagues from the @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social group reveal a dual role for Anoctamins in sensory perception & metamorphosis in #Ciona larvae 🧪 Take a peek behind the scenes ⤵️
25.04.2025 11:58 —
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Scientist, Spatial Molecular Cartography (Jacobo/Royer Group - Biohub SF)
San Francisco, California, United States
🧬🔬🧪 We are seeking a Scientist to push the limits of spatial transcriptomics in zebrafish! Come join us!
#MolBio #SpatialTranscriptomics #DevelopmentalBiology #ScienceJobs 🧫🐟🔍
job-boards.greenhouse.io/chanzuckerbe...
15.04.2025 18:27 —
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A man in a dark jumper stands similing in front of an audience in a seminar room. On a screen behind him, a slide that says 'optics' and 'biology', with a fluorescent microscopy image of a fish embryo, code, and a piece of equipment.
Loïc Royer @loicaroyer.bsky.social presented today the impressive work of his team @czbiohub.bsky.social in optical engineering and developing analysis tools to explore vertebrate development 🐟🧪 Thank you for an inspiring and visually stunning talk! 🤩
28.03.2025 15:49 —
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Picture of Loic Royer and Boah Bruderer in front of the first slide
We are in for a mindblowing treat today at @msarscentre.bsky.social with @loicaroyer.bsky.social from @czbiohub.bsky.social hosted by @noahbruderer.bsky.social for a seminar on “Building a virtual embryo, a single cell at a time”.
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Now read Brave New World, mate it with the Orwellian distopia et voila: a beautiful 2025!
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Graphical abstract of BioChatter
Applying LLMs to biomedical research today can go one of two ways: we either use a closed-source web app, or we get coding ourselves. Many researchers lack training for the latter, so their only choice is the former. We want to change that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A poster in tones of blue and green. At the bottom, the logos of the Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen, and EMBL with the mention "partner of" above. In the bottom right corner, the hashtag MSS2025. The following text is on the poster:
Michael Sars Symposium 2025
Decoding signals and unveiling architectures, from molecules to organisms
June 6, 2025, Media City Bergen
Speakers:
Georgia Rapti (EMBL Heidelberg)
Ryan Hibbs (University of California San Diego)
Ida Helene Steen (University of Bergen)
Jingwei Xu (ETH Zürich)
Ross Waller (University of Cambridge)
Christopher Lowe (Stanford University)
Yuhong Wang (Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen)
Ioannis Riziotis (The Francis Crick Institute, London/GSK)
Paola Laurino (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
We are excited to announce that registration for the Michael Sars Symposium 2025 is now open! 🤩 Join us on June 6th at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks 🧪 #MSS2025
✨Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz
29.01.2025 08:55 —
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Search is changing, using LLMs to reliably query your own data and public data bases will become the norm. Amongst other tools we use @langchain.bsky.social to drastically reduce hallucinations of LLMs.
22.01.2025 14:35 —
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I’m delighted to share that I will be starting my lab @univmiami.bsky.social in Spring 2025! We will study cellular and developmental biology in non-bilaterian animals – cnidarians, ctenophores, placozoans, and sponges – to explore early animal evolution.
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Find me at #CBIAS2024 in London!
Come to chat about image-to-single-cell morphology and how morphosnaker 🧊🐍🧊 can help.
Also come to play around with our virtual embryo.
#morphosnaker #singlecell #morphology
25.11.2024 13:15 —
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