Mette Handberg-Thorsager

Happy to see our paper “Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue” in @natbiotech.nature.com – with Tobias Moser’s lab from @unimedizin-goe.bsky.social and @janwenzel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microscopy #lightsheet

The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026
#IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida

polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.

📢 We are growing! 📢
The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#ZebrafishJobs #DevBio

Final version of our paper on ciliary metachronal waves out now in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/scia...

This is the main thesis work of my PhD student Rebecca Poon, who caught many #platnereis larvae and tirelessly ablated them with a laser. THREAD

Our image of a sea squirt oozoid (Thalia democratica) was selected as an Image of Distinction in Nikon Small World. Imaged with the Flamingo microscope by @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social at @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Salp sample courtesy of Alexandre Alie.

nikonsmallworld.com/

It is publication day of my book in Spanish. 'El árbol de la vida!'

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction The conference brings together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral biology, computational scie...

Huisken lab is attending Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction. Learn about our research...

@spp2205.bsky.social @sfb1528.bsky.social @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social

@uni-goettingen.de events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

Great PhD opportunity in photonics in our lab.

You can now search the entire EvoDevo Papers database (~1.8k posts). Check it out on the website evodevo.brunovellutini.com or read more here: brunovellutini.com/posts/evodev...

#EvoDevo #DevBio #EvoBio

🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.

PhD Position in Multimodal imaging of biological matter Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

PhD Position in Multimodal imaging of biological matter #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Join us 15 October to hear from two early-career researchers, @osvaldoics.bsky.social & Yinan Wan, working on development across scales.

Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @amjeve.bsky.social.

📅 15 October, 09:00 BST (UTC+1)

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hi Emmanuel. Could you please add @huiskenlab.bsky.social to the LISH starter pack? Thanks!

For Zebrafish, we imaged vascular morphogenesis and the extracellular matrix with Vipin Balan, Joaquin Abugattas Nunez Del Prado, and Li-Li Li.

In Hydra, we visualized tissue dynamics during regeneration with Emma Martinelli.

The Huisken lab is now on Bluesky @huiskenlab.bsky.social - follow us for updates on our activities!

We brought our Flamingo microscope to the light sheet microscope course in Dresden (#LISH25). We captured extensive time-lapse recordings and are excited to share highlights from our experiments with Hydra and Zebrafish.

Figure showing sagittal sections of a cephalochordate and a hemichordate highlighting potentially homologous structures

My review of the evidence (morphological, embryological and molecular) for the deuterostomes clade is now available. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Yesterday me and my lab celebrated #20years @mpi-cbg.de. There is a lot to say about that but the pictures from the event tell it better. Thanks city of #Dresden for the nice fireworks. That was unexpected. 10 more years or so? #LoPaTs 💕

Congratulations Bruno!

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!

With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠

#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem ...

After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1

We'll be looking for a postdoc to bring these approaches together, funded for 3+ years. If you are interested please get in touch; if you know someone who might be interested please share this message. 3/3

Proud to present the peer-reviewed version of our Cell Type Allometry paper, out today in Science Advances!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are animals of different sizes made of the same cell types?

Here’s an update of the main points and revision items

(with memes!)

Thread 👇🧵

🎉 Excited to share our new work: “Adhesion-driven tissue rigidification triggers epithelial cell polarity”, now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social !

A huge thank you to @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social, Bernat, @crisp-c.bsky.social, Adrián, and everyone involved! 🙌

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