Borrell Lab

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#ScienceJobs Great opportunity to cutting edge science with a really great mentor!!

I guess genes have something to do on how big brains are. Genes do determine and change brain folds, as shown by a number of different studies from multiple labs worldwide.

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.

📢 We are seeking a Head of the Human Brain Organoid Core Facility as part of our Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence 2023–2026 program.
This is a prestigious leadership opportunity in advanced neuroscience research! 👇
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ENHORABUENA Rafael 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 super orgullosos de ti ❤️

🎉 Enhorabuena al recién nombrado hoy Dr. Rafael Soler Ortuño por su defensa de #TesisIN y felicitaciones a su director de Tesis, el Dr. Víctor Borrell @borrell-lab.bsky.social 🎉
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Excellent seminar. Thanks for sharing your exciting science with us!!

Thanks to #PremiosReiJaumeI for enabling visits from the outstanding award jury to research centers across the Comunitat Valenciana. At @neuroalc.bsky.social, we were honored to welcome:
@ardemp.bskyverified.social ( #NobelPrize 2021) & Erika Pastrana (Editorial Director @natureportfolio.nature.com)

Could be, although we suspect that newborn neurons that are transcriptomically very similar (clustered) may be epigenomically distinct.

Hoy ha arrancado @pintofscience.es y #Alicante es una de las ciudades que participa 🙌
No te pierdas las charlas de los investigadores del @neuroalc.bsky.social 👇👀
#PINT25ALC

Benchmarking cerebellar organoids to model autism spectrum disorder and human brain evolution While cortical organoids have been used to model different facets of neurodevelopmental conditions and human brain evolution, cerebellar organoids have not yet featured so prominently in the same cont...

New preprint alert 📣
#Cerebellum, organoid, autism & brain evolution 🧪 🧫🧠🧬
Collaboration with G. Testa; fruit of years of work by smart students, led by postdoc Davide Aprile. Organoids to understand better the developmental basis of autism (focus: CHD8) & sapiens brain evolution (focus: CADPS2) 🧵

¡Muy orgullosos de acompañar a Félix Leroy @leroyfelix.bsky.social en la entrega del premio Alberto Sols al mejor trabajo científico! 👋👋
🎉Enhorabuena por este merecido reconocimiento 🎉
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It has been an absolute pleasure for our lab to attend #ECCN2025 for the first time this year.

We had meaningful discussions and learned a lot from a vibrant community tackling tough questions on brain evolution and development! Super excited for what lies ahead!

I'm still processing all the amazing interactions and possibilities this meeting brought. Different fields and expertise converging in a common interest: brain evolution. It was fantastic. Thanks to the organizers @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social ( Nerea Moreno, Fernando and Zoltan)

It was a real treat to host @franzelab.bsky.social. Such exciting and thought provoking findings!! Thanks for your visit 👏🏻👏🏻

It was a real treat to host Kristian Franze. Such exciting and thought provoking findings!! Thanks for your visit 👏🏻👏🏻

Today, Dr. Kristian Franze from @fau.de offered us a fantastic #SeminarsIN about the chemo-mechanical regulation of brain development.
Great talk, thank you! 👏👏
@borrell-lab.bsky.social @csic.es @umh.es @dicv.csic.es

Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social showing us how to enable birdsong precision and speed through gene regulatory co-option at #ECCN2025

@borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Over 200 experts gather in Alicante for the 11th European Conference of Comparative Neurobiology - IN From May 6 to 8, 2025, the San Juan Complex in Sant Joan d’Alacant hosted the 11th European Conference on Comparative Neurobiology (ECCN2025). This

Over 100 scientists gathered in Alicante for #ECCN2025 to explore how nervous systems evolve across species. The 11th European Conference on Comparative #Neurobiology featured cutting-edge research from around the world 👇
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#BrainEvolution @borrell-lab.bsky.social

Pavel Němec taking us on a ride through an impressive number of species across the avian and fish kingdoms in his talk on the evolution of brain neuron numbers in jawed vertebrates. With amazing @kkverkova.bsky.social #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Ornella Bertrand @ornellabertrand.bsky.social takes us on a journey exploring the evolutionary history of the mammalian brain – how behaviour and adaptation have shaped its structure over millions of years in her talk (and poster) at #ECCN2025
@borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social takes us into the intricate world of connections, unraveling the multiscale principles of neuronal path-finding
at #ECCN2025
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How can the brain make new connectivity pathways when traditional ones are disrupted? Fantastic talk by @laurarosefenlon.bsky.social showing us how Marsupials reveal the evolutionary diversity of neocortical development. @rsuarezsaa.bsky.social
#ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

#ECCN2025 posters were all absolutely fantastic!
🥳 Congrats to best poster&flash talk awardees @giacomogattoni.bsky.social @rsuarezsaa.bsky.social @kkverkova.bsky.social Anh T Trihn
Kindly sponsored by BBE Karger, organised by amazing Nerea Moreno-García
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Carmen Falcone @carmenfalcone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk at #ECCN2025 on Varicose projection astrocytes: from evolution to neuroinflammation

@borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

It’s been great to have you here 👏🏻👏🏻

Brought a bit of #glia to this great evolutionary meeting.

It was fun to be part of this session, together with Bradley Colquitt and Auguste von Bayern, chaired by the amazing @k4tj4.bsky.social 🤩

Thanks @borrell-lab.bsky.social and the other organizers for the invitation!

#ECCN2025

Many thanks to @borrell-lab.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social for organising #ECCN2025 and bringing together such a variety of research and species! I truly enjoyed the experience! Stay tuned for the next edition #ECCN2028 in Leuven! (Or Tenerife, still have to decide hehe)