Rafath Chowdhury

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳

We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution.
🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research
www.echinox.org

Merci :)

Many thanks to the Deeva team (@darras-sebastien.bsky.social‬, @agnesroure.bsky.social). And also the amphioxus team (@hector-escriva.bsky.social)‬ from @biom-banyuls.bsky.social for all these spawning nights... and the beers 🙂!

Towards functional genetics in the European amphioxus: efficient CRISPR/Cas9 editing reveals Ascl1/2.1 requirement for peripheral nervous system development. Amphioxus, or cephalochordates, have a key phylogenetic position among chordates and serve as pivotal invertebrate models for investigating the evolut…

Happy to share my last paper from my PhD work with the Deeva team! We establish new tools in European amphioxus: fertilized egg microinjection, F0 CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis & show Ascl1/2.1 is required for epidermal sensory neurons formation in amphioxus.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.

Deadline: 30/09/25👇

Congrats !!!!

Presentation unité de recherche Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins (BIOM) L’unité de recherche « Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins (BIOM) » a pour objectif d’étudier selon une approche évolutive les mécanismes de développement et d’adaptation des organismes. Cet ob...

We have a new website at #BIOM. It is still young, but after many years, we are now visible in the net!!!! biom.obs-banyuls.fr.

If you like snowflakes, check our new preprint about axial patterning in brittle stars ⭐

We looked at the expression of anteroposterior patterning genes in Amphipholis squamata juveniles, and compared it with existing data from other classes

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@lowelab.bsky.social

Job alert!

We are seeking a research technician and lab manager to join our lab and an ERC funded project. If you'd like to work with beautiful insects in beautiful Barcelona, don't hesitate and contact us:
www.mayflyecoevodevo.com/joinus

Happy to share our Slow cooked work together with @mcgregorlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social , @nuneslab.bsky.social sky.social and Saad Arif and the collaboration of @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, Fernando Casares & @laurensr.bsky.social and many other friends
rdcu.be/d8whP

Congratulations Naoyuki, Birthe and team 🧪👩‍🔬🪸🐳