Anna Czarkwiani

Amaaaazing! Huge congrats!!!

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!

Is this jargon?

I think the taboo of the challenges of academic environments is very slowly, glacial pace really, but starting to be talked about more openly even in the news here in Germany at least. I'm sure your experience would be relatable to more people than you think... It's brave to open up about them.

🥳 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

Porträtfoto von Dr. Anna Czarkwiani.

#ERCStG für Anna Czarkwiani: 🎉 Dr. @aniaczark.bsky.social von @crtd-tud.bsky.social wurde mit einem renommierten Starting Grant von @erc.europa.eu ausgezeichnet. Die Postdoktorandin erforscht die Biologie des Schwerkraftsinns & damit verbundene Erkrankungen.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Granty ERC również dla Polaków w zagranicznych ośrodkach Rozdane w czwartek granty ERC Starting trafiły także do sześciorga polskich naukowców pracujących w zagranicznych ośrodkach: w Niemczech, Austrii, Szwajcarii i Francji. Zajmą się mobilnością społeczną...

Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️

@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social

Thank you to all the many people who helped me with my proposal and a special shout-out to my first ever research assistant Sarah Sonnenberg. To the wonderful, encouraging and supportive people I met along the way.

I can't wait to start this new adventure. (4/4)

I am so grateful to the encouraging people at @cmcb-tud.bsky.social , the @tudresden.bsky.social and especially the EPC and the Graduate Academy, without which none of this would have been possible. I think I've used almost all the available career support services there are on offer. (3/4)

A huge thank you goes to my mentors past and present. A special thank you to Paola Oliveri, who taught me how to be a scientist and always cheered me on. (2/4)

Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true.
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)

Thanks Cagri!

Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death Brain plasticity, the brain’s inherent ability to adapt its structure and function, is crucial for responding to environmental challenges but is usual…

The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔
Not cell loss, but water loss!
Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯

Check the paper!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social

Congratulations Brigitte, a wonderful recognition!

That's awesome news, Jan, gratulacje!!!🎉🎉🎉

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Long-term live imaging, cell identification and cell tracking in regenerating crustacean legs Live imaging allows tracking cellular behaviours and cell fates during the entire course of leg regeneration, spanning approximately one week, in a crustacean model.

In the latest paper, @cagricevrim.bsky.social, @berylbiologist.bsky.social‬ & Ko succeeded in imaging the entire course of leg regeneration and @mlrusciano.bsky.social‬ & @almazan.bsky.social developed HCR to identify specific cell types after imaging. elifesciences.org/articles/107... 4/6

Amphiura filiformis ❤️

A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration Nature Communications - Accorsi et al. show that the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata has eyes similar to humans and can fully regenerate them. They then developed genetic tools to establish these...

Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level

CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess

It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates

rdcu.be/ezw0t

A career in science requires a thick skin | EMBO reports EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

A career in science requires a thick skin | EMBO reports www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Thick skin doesn't mean no heart. Great article ❤️

Notice of Award for a R21 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NOA day!! 🎉

Excited to continue this project to advance tools for studying limb regeneration.

We have openings for a Research Tech as part of this funding, so please send great applicants our way! 🧪

🚨 #JobAlert. please share: The DRESDEN-concept Genome Center (DcGC) 🧬 @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for the new Head of Facility!

🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11

More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8

@tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

The forgotten half of scientific thinking | PNAS The forgotten half of scientific thinking

“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.”

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Visitors to the axolotl exhibit, Long Night of Science #LNoS are the BEST!!! @crtd-tud.bsky.social

Yes please! 🙏

The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 16 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc.

The call opens on 1st June.

More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...

#VBCPostDoc

Schroedinger's probe, it will work but only if you don't image it

Huge congratulations Leo and team!! Awesome story!

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!

Looking so much forward to this meeting! This meeting promises to be to the field of biomedicine what Evo Devo was to developmental biology.