We have at long last published our very first lab's paper!

Starting up this adventure of building a lab in late 2019 has been the absolute hardest thing I've done. But I'm pretty proud of my team and how far we've come and what we worked to overcome.

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In this interview, we caught up with Marco Podobnik Marco Podobnik, the 2024 GfE PhD award winner, who studied pigment pattern diversification in Danio fish species🐟

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Also: If you are interested in volunteering to review for DB in your area of expertise, please register below. Journal editors may call upon you to review if they find a suitable manuscript matching your publication history/areas of expertise.😀🔬🖥️
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‼️Thrilled to share that our latest paper from Bronner Lab revealing the unexpected existence of sympathetic neurons in jawless vertebrates is now out in nature ! nature.com/articles/s4158…

JOIN US! We're seeking a new PhD student in beautiful Melbourne🇦🇺 University of Melbourne. Join our diverse, supportive team of physicists, neuroscientists, and mathematicians as study how #zebrafish brains perceive the world. Deadline: May 9th. Details👇. Please RT

New #Research from Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen Sara Wighard shows nematodes can evolve cannibalistic behaviour & double their size when stressed. Learn more about genetic adaptations' implications on nematode social dynamics & resource competition Science Magazine twtr.to/Crz2n #evolution

Are #choanoflagellates , #filastereans , #ichthyosporeans & #corallochytreans truly the best models for exploring animal origins?

While these lineages have been so far pivotal to address the origin of animals (and they surely will continue to be!!), eDNA has revealed that there…

Please spread the info. Our lab will have available projects! Get in contact if interested. #biophysics #zebrafish #morphogenesis

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I am excited to share our first paper on efficient genome editing using modified Cas9 proteins in zebrafish, which emerged during my bachelor thesis. Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

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Registrations and abstract submissions for the International Workshop on Chondrichthyan Development and Genomics 2024 are now open! More info: armi.org.au/international-…

Thank you very much for this award. Extremely honored, I but want stress the significant contributions to the story by all my colleagues I worked with over the years. So sorry that Osnabruck is now too far away for me to be there. Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen Universität Tübingen

Risking eternal damnation for breaking Lent, but totally worth it to hawk this interview with Richard Harland for the Spemann-Mangold Centenary later this year. Left his lab over 20 years ago and he's still my most trusted advisor, and a friend. Enjoy.

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There is a certain magic in the question what defines an animal, a plant, or a mushroom that keeps naturalists passionately debating for centuries. For me the molecular perspective is a particularly fascinating story and it is a tale of ancient genes.

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You are grad student, postdoc or PI and want to start using #zebrafish as a model?
This Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) international summer course is for you! Deadline for application 27th March! Financial support available.

1/13 🚨🚨 I am so excited to present our new paper, six years in the making. Here, we provide the first strong evidence that there is a molecular mechanism behind the origins of living fossil lineages! #biology #science #paleontology academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s4158… Bo Xia

Please check out our recent perspective paper, “Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology.” A huge thanks to the 50 scientists who traveled to California to discuss the future of #DevBio and who contributed to this paper! 1/ journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

📢New preprint alert 📢
Somite-independent regeneration of the axolotl primary body axis. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This is the combined effort of a fantastic group of people over many years. Read below to see why you should care⬇️ 1/8

New study online in Developmental Cell led by Kazu Ando -- a screen for regulatory sequences acting as silencers during tissue regeneration. Thanks to lab coauthors jianhong ou, John Thompson, Jack Welsby, Sushant Bangru, & Jingwen Shen, & our great collaborators Xiaolin Wei & Yarui Diao.

Marie Curie PhD fellowship available in our team: Combine single-cell transcriptomics, 3D electron microscopy & transgenesis to identify new cell types, their morphologies, molecular profiles and functions. Exciting network of 12 labs across Europe.
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