Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt@qoto.org

Application for participation now open for the Janelia "Neuropeptide Signaling: Bridging Cell Biology, Neurophysiology, and Behavior" #meeting in April 16 - 19, 2023.
Deadline: Jan 18
https://www.janelia.org/you-janelia/conferences/neuropeptide-signaling-bridging-cell-biology-neurophysiology-and-behavior
#Neuropeptide #Neurophysiology #Neuroscience

Beautiful illustration from postdoc Margot Riggi (@MargotRiggi on Twitter) depicting a cross-section of Asgard archaea with actin filaments within. Based on recently published work from the Pilhofer Lab: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05550-y

Come and work with us
at Turku Bioimaging

two open positions:
- Coordinator for Turku BioImaging (https://abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index.php?jid=624&key=&o=A_RJ&rspvt=8gj242uqwo84scww0wwcww4ck4gk4sw)
- Project coordinator in bioimage analysis (https://abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index.php?jid=623&key=&o=A_RJ&rspvt=8gj242uqwo84scww0wwcww4ck4gk4sw)

#microscopy #jobs #science

Our “year in review” editorial to close 2022

See our editor picks of the year (there were many more!) & read about life at the journal in 2022

Huge thanks to all of our Academic Editors, authors and reviewers for supporting @PLOSBiology

Happy Xmas everyone! Nonia out
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Synapses continue to be the most mysterious and perhaps most unknown component of nervous systems. First, synapses were found to pass viral-like capsids to postsynaptic neurons [1]. Now, synapses are found to mediate the transfer of vesicles with proteins in them (exosomes) among neurons [2], with selectivity e.g., to excitatory but not inhibitory neurons.

[1] Pastuzyn et al. 2018 on the Arc gene https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867417315040

[2] Schiapparelli et al. 2022 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(21)01802-7

Let's get #SciArt flowing into Mastodon!
What are some of your #SciArt (science-themed art) works you want to highlight? I will boost.

After trying many different media over the years (including drawing, embroidery etc) I found love in pottery. Now I make pottery pieces that highlight underappreciated organisms. Here are some examples of #worms, #jellyfish, #instects, #spiders etc. These are all boxes with lids!

'Why some animals can regenerate while many others cannot remains a fascinating question. Even amongst planarian flatworms, well-known for their ability to regenerate complete animals from small body fragments, species exist that have restricted regeneration abilities or are entirely regeneration incompetent. Towards the goal of probing the evolutionary dynamics of regeneration, we have assembled a diverse live collection of planarian species from around the world.'

#Regeneration #preprint #Planaria

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.520916v1

The revised version of our paper on the desmosomal #connectome of the #Platynereis larva is now out
https://elifesciences.org/articles/71231
by Sanja Jasek et al.
#volumeEM #rstat

RT Please RT: The IBDM is seeking new group leaders. Your chance to contribute to shaping tomorrow’s research in the field of developmental biology in the south of France
https://twitter.com/ibdmmarseille/status/1604856743028482048?s=12&t=adoef7IDztz-AvagLDDvOQ

Applications for the Embryology Course at the MBL Woods Hole are open! If you or someone you know wants to learn Developmental Biology from very cool people and get your hands on over 100 species (from sponges, jellyfishes, small worms, big worms, through fishes, frogs, chicken, or mice), apply! Scholarships are always available, lodging and food included. If you have any Q about it, reach out to me #DevBio #DevBiol #Embryology #Microscopy #CellBio #BlackInBio #FirstGen

https://www.mbl.edu/education/advanced-research-training-courses/course-offerings/embryology-concepts-and-techniques-modern-developmental-biology

Our review with Stefan Gründer and Audrey Ortega Ramírez is out:

"Neuropeptides and DEG/ENaC ion channels: a relationship from mammals to cnidarians"

where we conclude based on structural comparisons and the #phylogeny of #neuropeptide systems that the interaction of DEG/ENaC channels with neuropeptides has diverse structural bases and many origins.

https://doi.org/10.1113/JP282309

Neuro-evo conference at HHMI Janelia on May 15-18, 2023. Join us for the third edition!

Application deadline: Jan 27 (11:59 p.m. EST) 2023.

Apply here: https://www.janelia.org/you-janelia/conferences/neuro-evo-a-comparative-approach-to-cracking-circuit-function-iii

"Historically, with the study of the most convenient animal models —from the giant axon of the squid and the lobster's stomatogastric circuits to Aplysia's synapses and C. elegans' circuits — neuroscientists revealed some of the operating principles of the nervous system, which were then found to apply broadly across phyla. The third instalment of this meeting will once again bring together neuroscientists working on a broad diversity of animal models in an effort to compare circuits across phyla as a means to crack their function."

#NeuroEvo #Janelia #HHMI #conference #science #academia #neuroscience #DevBio #connectomics #connectome

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