Borrell Lab

Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT

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Un año más en lo más alto 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Felicidades a mis colegas Carlos, Juan, Angela, Salvador y Félix 👍🏻👍🏻

👏 Congrats to @neuroalc.bsky.social researchers named in Stanford’s ranking of the world’s most cited scientists: Carlos Belmonte, @borrell-lab.bsky.social , @jlerma1.bsky.social , Salvador Martínez, @nietoangela.bsky.social & @neuroviana.bsky.social , outstanding global impact in neuroscience!

📅 Hoy es el Día Mundial de la Investigación en #Cáncer, una jornada para visibilizar la ciencia frente a este conjunto de enfermedades 

🔬 Te contamos algunas de las investigaciones oncológicas del #CSIC para mejorar la salud de las personas

#WorldCancerResearchDay 🧵👇

Congratulation! Denis & team. Excellent work! Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Cell-extrinsic controls over neocortical neuron fate and diversity Cell-extrinsic cues are key for neocortical cell identity and diversity.

Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This therapy builds on research from Carlos Belmonte, @neuroviana.bsky.social and colleagues, who showed how corneal cold receptors drive tear production and identified TRPM8 as a target. Once again showcasing the international nature of scientific progress.

Join us if you want to learn about #microglia!

Sharing our newest study led by the incredibly talented @federicamosti.bsky.social investigating new molecular mechanisms of human brain development. We discover a human-specific enhancer HAR1984 that influences chromatin looping to promote cortical size and folding! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

My quote of the day

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

The Confocal Room

#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! 👇
in.umh-csic.es/es/ofertas/t...
@csic.es @umh.es @sommalliance.bsky.social

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 🎉
@umh.es @csic.es @dicv.csic.es

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 🎉
@csic.es @umh.es @dicv.csic.es

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