Gaspar Jekely @jekely@qoto.org

Not only did we have a great meeting - but we also got a cool catch of protists in the ponds around!

Thx @Dey_Gautam & @EelcoTromer & @Co_Biologists

The movies are below in the comments!
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RT @Co_Biologists
Thank you to organisers Gautam Dey @Dey_Gautam
& Eelco C. Tromer @EelcoTromer and all attendees for a great Workshop on Genotype to Phenotype: Bridging Comparative Genomics and Cell Biology.
https://biologists.com/workshops
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https://twitter.com/Co_Biologists/status/1593179044027461636

Hello World @ mastodon !

🚨Please RT: There is an open 3-year postdoc position open for a bioinformatician in my lab at Sars Centre in Bergen.
Project on gene expression & chromatin accessibility changes in quiescent cells. Deadline: 25th November.
More info & apply at: https://tinyurl.com/yc43x7mc

"The controlled expression of one cellular feature -- the cilium -- was likely critical during early animal evolution. Two key transcription factors, RFX and FoxJ1, coordinate ciliogenesis in animals but are absent from the genomes of most other ciliated eukaryotes, raising the question of how the transcriptional regulation of ciliogenesis has evolved."

#CellBiology #CIlia #evolution #Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.11.515474v1

#Introduction to #ScienceMastodon

I am a #Cilia #Islet #Biologist and endocrinologist at WashU in St Louis.
#PrimaryCilia because it is the center of the cell and my world.
Unafraid to challenge convention and do difficult experiments (because we don’t know better).
Also #Microscopy because seeing is believing. 

#Cilia #cell #center #cytoskeleton #betacell #signaling #diabetes

Image credit #WUCCI and Alex Polino

For neuroscientists attending #sfn22: don’t miss the poster by Mitya Chklovskii’s group describing the completion status of the whole brain #connectome of the fairy wasp #Megaphragma, of expected completion early in 2022. Find the poster tomorrow Monday morning, number 328.16 / YY35.

Mitya kindly shared the poster image publicly elsewhere.

This tiny #wasp is famous for being the size of a large paramecium (a unicellular organism) and for enucleating the vast majority of its central neurons while pupating. The adult has less that 10,000 neurons in its central brain yet it isn’t missing any organ or body part. See the paper that jumpstarted this effort:

Polilov AA. The smallest insects evolve anucleate neurons. Arthropod structure & development. 2012 Jan 1;41(1):29-34. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1467803911000946

#neuroscience #connectomics

I'm very fortunate to be a co-organiser of "Dynamic Cell V", the latest in the Biochemical Society and BSCB meeting series showcasing the activity of living cells from all kingdoms of life. The details are: 17 to the 20 April 2023, Loughborough University (UK). Registration will open at https://biochemistry.org/events/dynamic-cell-v/

Job ad: Group Leader position in computational neurobiology https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/job-description/51111

Place: VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium.

Notice there are many other advertised job positions at that same research center, including lab tech, postdocs, #electronmicroscopy experts (#vEM), #proteomics specialists, administrative, and more: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/job-list

#neuroscience #science #academia #job

# Introduction
From the Roscoff Biological Station (#CNRS and #Sorbonne University) as well as visiting prof at NTU Singapore. Developing reference databases for #eukaryote #metabarcoding (18S rRNA).
#microbiology #ecology #RStats
https://pr2-database.org/

Since it proves challenging to find everybody at #mastodon, I thought it would be useful to add a little #introduction to my profile!
I am a neuroscientist, heading the research group Olfactory Coding at the MPI in Jena and interested in olfactory circuits, sensory processing and plasticity in #Drosophila. Key techniques are 2P functional imaging, SSR, anatomical tracing, neuronal reconstructions, neuro-/ optogenetics and diverse behavioral assays to study innate/ learned olfactory behavior.

OK, let's try Mastodon :)
and i pin here our last story about incomplete abscission in the germline.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg2653

Hi Mastodon community! I am a MRC Investigator and group leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh. Very glad to be here...

A certified '#cellbiology on an organismal scale' fanatic- we believe seeing is believing! We ❤️ hacking ways to 'see' biology happen in real time across scales in health and disease!

Imaging addict. Genome wrangler. Developmental biologist at heart.

#cilia #centrioles #genetics #Science #genomesurgery #raredisease