Bassem Hassan

I owe this “career award” to everyone who has been part of @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social over the years ❤️

I am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.

It was areal pleasure to visit and exchange with colleagues about the beautiful science being done. Thank you for having me!

Thank you for the invitation. Really looking forward to the visit.

Julien Pigeon and colleagues show how conserved processes can be fine tuned to result in species-specific patterns of brain development. Thanks to @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social for a great collaboration
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Looking forward to this exciting meeting

Heterozygous pathogenic variants in the splicing factor SF1 lead to a large spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders | Bassem Hassan Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder.

Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...

Donate to Aide pour deux familles à Gaza, organized by Ghayda Hassan Bonjour à tous et toutes (english below) Je m’appelle Dre. Ghayda et je suis psycholo… Ghayda Hassan needs your support for Aide pour deux familles à Gaza

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الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في ... الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في تخصص علم ا...

For those who understand Arabic 😊
A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative.

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Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development
@neuraldevgrc.bsky.social
Register early because places go fast!

Temporal transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial morphology primes activity-dependent circuit connectivity - Nature Communications This study investigates the developmental transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial quality control. Authors identify the Drosophila factor Mirana, homologous to mammalian TZAP, as a key temporal re...

Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social
labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain.
Discover more in The Brain’s Secret.

#Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement

I may starve to death before I am able to graduate in Gaza My only dream is to take the tawjihi exam so I can continue my education. Is this too much to ask?

One can only hope that history will judge harshly all those who are complicit in or remain silent in the face of genocide
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image of web page for Neural Development GRC - go to https://www.grc.org/neural-development-conference/2026/

Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social!
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Israel is destroying the subsistence of Gaza's population, from agriculture to fishing More than 95% of farmland has been damaged or lies in areas inaccessible to farmers, as the Palestinian enclave suffers from famine.

There is only one name for that: this is a crime against humanity. Israel is governed by monsters.

YouTube video by Rio Grande Records Mercedes Sosa - Sólo Le Pido a Dios (con León Gieco)

"Solo le pido a Dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente"

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The brain on time: links between development and neurodegeneration - PubMed Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons. In this Spotlight, we explore the idea that genetic forms of neurodegenerative disorders might...

Intriguing! If true, this would be further evidence in support of the concept of developmental origins of neurodegenerative disorders pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37184296/

This was a really exciting and fun conference organized in a lovely setting. It was a pleasure to be part of it. Thanks for having me and congratulations to the organizers for putting it together. I hope it’s the first of many!

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

Very much looking forward to the next 3 days of frontier neurobiology!

Just drop me an email bassem.hassan@icm-institute.org if you want the full text PDF

While I applaud Europe taking a step to fund bringing scientific excellence to Europe, the ERC’s current success rates at 10% for Europe based scientists is statistically at lottery levels. The total ERC budget should double across the board aiming at doubling funding rates.

Fantastic opportunity for neuroscience research.
The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders.
750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025.
www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...

Thank you for accepting the invitation to speak and I’m very glad you enjoyed the meeting

Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster - Nature Neuroscience The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circu...

A temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circuits in Drosophila 🧪🧠

@bassemh.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social

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Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...

New from the lab: @maheandria.bsky.social and colleagues in collaboration with the Hiesinger, Stoeckli and von Kleist labs dissect the sequential emergence of axonal targeting during development in today's issue of Nature Neuroscience:
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Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...

Hot off the press:
The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience:
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Toward a probabilistic definition of neural cell types A classical view of cell type relies on a definite set of stable properties that are critical for brain functions. Single-cell technologies led to an …

@maheandria.bsky.social and I challenge the notion of a static and deterministic definition of a (neural) cell type and argue for its replacement by a multi parametric probabilistic definition in this perspective
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nencki Open Lab Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning Paris Brain Institute, June 2-4th 2025 Applying machine learning and other models to decode behavioral parameters from neural activity is now a standard …

Anna CHRZANOWSKA, PhD, postdoc in The Hassan Brain Development Team
@hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
is organizing a trainee-led symposium @institutducerveau.bsky.social June 2-4

Spread the word!

nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/

Steve Kerr’s dad, Malcolm Kerr, was president of my Alma Matter, AUB. He was a principled man who was assassinated on the AUB campus for defending academic freedom and it was a privilege to have gone to AUB with a scholarship bearing his name. It’s nice to see his son espousing the same principles.