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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)

@walenteklab.bsky.social

(he/him) Cilia & mucociliary epithelia development, self-organization, and human airway diseases. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ opinions own & plenty. Lab link: uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en.html

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Were you in the old one or did the new one opened already after all? Lost track of it at some point... but would like to try new things.

10.09.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Richard should have the original design. Good luck... or i could copy and fax you my shirt... might be worn out a bit over the past 17 years or so...

01.09.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social

18.08.2025 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Have you saved the date for #Cilia2027?
It is going to be in March 2027 at this lake near #Milan. πŸ‘‡

11.08.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“’ Neuro Evo Devo meeting

Virginie Courtier organizes a meeting regarding the latest research on development, evolution and neurobiology using as model organisms birds, fishes, butterflies and Drosophila

πŸ“† Tuesday, August 26th
πŸ“ Institut Jacques Monod

Informations and program πŸ”— buff.ly/p3qkFLW

28.07.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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David Sabatini Lab

You can even set up a lab in boston tgar way...
www.davidsabatinilab.com

24.07.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Despite sexual harassment shadow, biologist David Sabatini lands job at top Czech institute Institute director says, β€œHe has been punished enough,” but Czech scientists are divided

You don't have to marry them...

www.science.org/content/arti...

24.07.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ Cilia Lab is growing πŸ“£ - we have 2️⃣ open positions at @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for talented and motivated researchers interested in disease modelling & genetic therapies which target #RareRespiratoryDiseases at their root cause. πŸ§ͺπŸ§ͺ#ciliopathies #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia 1/4

07.07.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

NIH needs to hear from us about why in vivo work with animal models is essential for the advancement of biomedical research! Add your comments at the link below (scroll down to comment box):

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

11.07.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last chance to tell the NIH if you think animal models are important for biomedical research! πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

14.07.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985) β€œThe last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July ...

40 years ago today -They WERE the Champions and they totally Rocked us.
www.openculture.com/2025/07/watc...

13.07.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

11.07.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment.

tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx

11.07.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Henrike Berns et al. show a two-headed Xenopus laevis embryo stained for a subset of hindbrain spinal-cord projecting neurons (green), filamentous actin (pink) and nuclei (blue).

Henrike Berns et al. show a two-headed Xenopus laevis embryo stained for a subset of hindbrain spinal-cord projecting neurons (green), filamentous actin (pink) and nuclei (blue).

Issue 5 is all yours to explore!

On the cover: Henrike Berns et al. show a two-headed Xenopus laevis embryo stained for a subset of hindbrain spinal-cord projecting neurons (green), filamentous actin (pink) and nuclei (blue).

bit.ly/4lktg1z

23.06.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Xenopus frog study examines gene variant found in a child with mirror-image organ placement & other developmental defects, reveals role of Wnt11

πŸ“· Henrike Berns et al, M. Schmidts &
@walenteklab.bsky.social Uni of Freiburg in & on cover of @dmmjournal.bsky.social
➑️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

19.06.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to Henrike! Not only she has published her WNT11 study in DMM, but she also got the cover and now was selected for the Biomedical picture of the day!
bpod.org.uk
πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ the image was taken at the 2024 @cshlxeno course btw. #xenopus πŸ‘Š

18.06.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the Node's Jobs Board. Text reads: Welcome to the developmental and stem cell biology jobs board. The board shows only active job adverts – expired adverts will be moved to the jobs archive.

Screenshot of the Node's Jobs Board. Text reads: Welcome to the developmental and stem cell biology jobs board. The board shows only active job adverts – expired adverts will be moved to the jobs archive.

Did you know we have a dedicated Jobs Board?

Whether you're looking for your next job, or you have an open position to advertise, do check out our Jobs Board:
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/

#DevBio #StemCells

29.05.2025 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome. Looking forward to hear more about your science and plans soon.

18.06.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included.

training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

13.06.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

#SaveTheDate and watch out for further updates! πŸ‘‡

17.06.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Save the date πŸ“…! Our TriNational #devbio #stemcell Meeting 2025 will be held in Freiburg on Sept. 19th. As always, participation is free and talks will be selected from early career scientists. Joun us 😊
Info: devstemcell.org/home

@biozentrum.unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @igbmc.bsky.social

16.06.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Awesone to be part of this initiative! We'll be studying exciting neuro-mucociliary interactions in #Xenopus! πŸ₯³

14.06.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super happy to be part of this initiative! Together with @agvazquez.bsky.social we will be working on the interaction between #Alveolar #Macrophages and #Epithelial #Cells in the #lung
Still time left to apply!! www.linkedin.com/posts/elvira...
#immunosky

12.06.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gestern Abend haben in Budapest ΓΌbrigens rund 15.000 Menschen gegen die Viktor OrbΓ‘n und dessen Partei protestiert.

"Ich bin hier, weil ich Angst habe", sagte mir eine 18-JΓ€hrige. Und wie wichtig es ihr ist, dass Reporter aus anderen LΓ€ndern da sind, um darΓΌber zu berichten.

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11.06.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders This course is reserved for group leaders based in Chile and requires participants to attend the 3 full days of the course. Researchers are trained to think about experimental plans and data, t…

Are you a research group leader in the #LifeSciences in #Chile? Join us for our first in-person EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders in the country, taking place at the Pontificia Universidad CatΓ³lica de Chile from 15–17 October 2025. πŸ§ͺ

Apply by 15 July:
meetings.embo.org/event/embo-l...

10.06.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Multiple Postdoc and PhD positions in developmental biology, genetics, bioinformatics and mathematical modeling - Walentek Lab - Freiburg, Germany University Freiburg Medical Center is a leading institution in biomedical research in the heart of Europe with close associations to other institutions and centers in the tri-national Eucor area (Germ...

We are hiring #postdocs and #phd students in the areas of #devbio #cellbio #Bioinformatics #mathematics #modeling.

This is the full add with details:
euraxess.de/jobs/346670

This our lab homepage:
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en....

27.05.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right.
 
Portrait of Pleasantine Mill to the left, text to the right
 
100 extraordinary biologists

Pleasantine Mill

Pleasantine Mill is coordinating a JCS Special Issue, was recently interviewed on the Node as the 2025 BSDB Wolpert Medal winner and co-organised the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting. Pleasantine is a Group Leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, UK, investigating disease models and mechanisms of ciliopathies.

#100biologists #biologists100

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Pleasantine Mill to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Pleasantine Mill Pleasantine Mill is coordinating a JCS Special Issue, was recently interviewed on the Node as the 2025 BSDB Wolpert Medal winner and co-organised the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting. Pleasantine is a Group Leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, UK, investigating disease models and mechanisms of ciliopathies. #100biologists #biologists100

We are highlighting Pleasantine Mill, 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert Medal winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week. Pleasantine is also coordinating a @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue and co-organised the 2024 @dmmjournal.bsky.social‬ Journal Meeting. #100biologists
@cilialab.bsky.social

03.06.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Finally spring... πŸ₯³

30.05.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments | Molecular Systems Biology imageimagehu.MAP3.0 integrates mass spectrometry experiments to identify human protein complexes. Using this resource, this study characterizes covariation of complexes, identifies mutually exclusive ...

Very excited that our work describing hu.MAP3.0 is published in @molsystbiol.org. Here we use machine learning to integrate >25k mass spectrometry experiments to place ~70% of human proteins into 15k protein complexes.

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

29.05.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Plant Biology - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Department of Biology - English

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology.

🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social

We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement.

#AcademicJobs

29.05.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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