Christoph Budjan

We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl.org @embldbunit.bsky.social

Apply here:
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It’s always a bit awkward to write about personal experiences. I tried to touch on what Pride means to me and ended up reflecting on heteronormativity, passing, and allyship. Thank you @slefkopoulos.bsky.social for the great opportunity! @ucph.bsky.social
#LGBTQIA+ #PRIDE #Diversity

Two new preprints from the @arjunraj.bsky.social‬ on #gastruloids. Both excellent. Exploring the relationship between macroscopic reproducibility v microscopic heterogeneity. Stunning experiments and much to think about
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Human embryo research: how to move towards a 28-day limit The decades-old limit on how long human embryos can be grown in culture is under debate. A new road map outlines how to extend the length of culture responsibly.

A new call to revise the limit to culture human embryos, currently not allowed beyond 14 days (start of gastrulation) to 28 days www.nature.com/articles/d41....
There is no new argument here to add to earlier calls but, as often in this argument, certain caveats are glossed over….. . 🧵

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

A few reflections on the Barcelona @PRBB #gastruloid meeting
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Finally, thank you to Andre, Joshi and Ulla for organizing. Looking forward to the next one!

One important takeaway for me was a push especially in human gastruloids to make this system more reproducible and data comparable across labs by connecting and sharing detailed protocols, reagent info etc. Looking forward to more interactions in the future.

I had an amazing time attending the gastruloid meeting in BCN! It felt great connecting with other people in the field and seeing many familiar faces. Lots of exciting science with #gastruloids being used to address many open questions from basic to translational.

There's increasing evidence that in organoid/embryoids conditions of cells at start of experiments is crucial/ determines outcome. Much to be learnt still. Taking advantage of mouse #gastruloids, two groups explore this here. Important work to calibrate the field www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you are eager to deepen your knowledge on #organoids and explore research from both academia and industry?

Join #BaCell3D 2025! Beyond an excellent scientific program, you will have the chance to benefit from tailored workshops for scientists, engaging poster sessions and networking events!

Great opportunity to work on super exciting projects using gastruloids with a brilliant, supportive mentor!

Great opportunity for Boston folks interested in learning image analysis and automation using ImageJ/Fiji

Intriguing study showing decoupling btw morphogenesis and patterning in gastruloids. An observation that many people in the field have known but great to see this tackled in a systematic and quantitative manner. See also related papers by @amartinezarias.bsky.social and @viktri08.bsky.social labs

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Beautiful evolution of human gastruloids to human TLS to study co-development of neural tube and somites! #gastruloids #TLS #SCEM

Comprehensive review on extraembryonic tissues during mammalian development by @srinivas-lab.bsky.social - looks like required reading for everyone interested in mammalian development, including #SCEM folks! Congrats and thanks to @shifaant.bsky.social & @cwhanna.bsky.social

Congrats!

Anyone working with single nuclei data should read this paper! (single cell too, but for nuclei data it's essential)

If I could only have one QC metric for single nuclei data, it would be spliced pct / intronic fraction (I think it's more useful even than number of UMIs 🤯).

#SingleCell

Welcome to the #devbiolwriteclub Bluesky Boot Camp! I’ll be posting here regularly with thoughts and exercises to help scientists become better writers. Let’s start by managing expectations: I will NOT help you write better. I WILL help you become a better writer. 🧵 1/10

Let's get the discussion rolling with a starter pack that will grow over time!
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#gastruloid #stembryo #gastruloids

Thanks for putting this list together! Would you mind adding me as well?

Gastruloid meeting Barcelona 20-21.03.2025 Dear all, The lab of Alfonso Martinez Arias is organizing a gastruloid meeting at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), in Barcelona (Spain), on March 20th-21st, 2025 (Thursday afternoon and...

🚨 The Gastruloid Meeting will take place in Barcelona, Spain on March 20-21st 2025. Registration will be free but mandatory. Please let us know if you plan on attending, using this link:
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(Pre-registration is closing soon)
Spread the word! #gastruloid #conference

Always worth a look: roundup of recent #bioimageanalysis preprints by @focalplane.bsky.social

Interesting work on generating heart and skeletal muscle in mouse #gastruloids extending prior work from Rossi/Lutolf’s cardiac gastruloid model

It was a fun discussion on the present of #DevBio #StemCells and #NotInTheGenes w/ @viktri08.bsky.social shorturl.at/P1rlz Very happy we got a chance to touch on the situation of students and postdocs in labs. Thank you @c_n_george and #ScienceWithAView

Well characterized, reliable human iPSCs for (almost) free! Highly recommended

All of the CoB journals and community sites are now on here - go follow them!

Excited to dive into this comprehensive review by Elowitz, Schier, and colleagues on DNA recording methods! These approaches, combined with single-cell and spatial sequencing, have advanced to a point where they're starting to deliver transformative insights. #DNArecording #SingleCell #Review

This seems like an elegant solution if you want to share a self-hosted archive of your past tweets