Chromatin analysis of adult pluripotent stem cells reveals a unique stemness maintenance strategy | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Nice to see wrinkly placozoans on the cover of Cell. Beautiful design by Sebastián R. Najle and Xavier Grau-Bové🌾.

A new *platinum* Octopus vulgaris genome is out 🥳🐙 This Hi-C heatmap says it all. Thanks to the magic of Darrin Schultz Dalila Destanovic tyler_alioto Nando Jessica Gómez-Garrido Ruth Styfhals, the EASI-Genomics funding & Giovanna Ponte, Oleg Simakov, Graziano Fiorito & CNAG

Please spread the word: a PhD position to dig into the origin of neurons by characterising ctenophore neuropeptides! Involves work with cool marine animals😉! Deadline - January 8. University of Bristol Biological Sciences findaphd.com/phds/project/f…

How would a starfish wear trousers? ⭐️👖 Science has an answer

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals the brain evolution of web-building spiders nature.com/articles/s4155…

Excited to share our latest preprint on the stony coral Astrangia poculata! We present a suite of tools to manipulate gene function including gene knock-in positioning Astrangia as a powerful model for coral development and evolution. More here 👇: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

"Good gtf files are all alike; each bad .gtf is broken in its own way." - Anna Karenina principle for genome annotation files Please, give GeneExt a try and let us know whether it works with your favorite genome! github.com/sebepedroslab/…

We are proud to present all things #ctenophores at the first 2024 Ocean Science Bar 🤩 Come listen to our very own Ruth Styfhals and Alexandre Jan on Thursday 25 January at 7.00 pm at the Statsraaden Bar ⬇️ Free and open for all! @SDGBergen Universitetet i Bergen tinyurl.com/ctenotalk

Ctenophores think different! Beautiful session by Ruth Styfhals and Alexandre Jan at the Ocean Science Bar Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen 🙌🫧

📢 Registration is open!! We are thrilled to announce registration for the 'Nordic Developmental Biology Societies & Michael Sars Symposium Joint Meeting' on May 28-31, 2024 is open! Organized in collaboration with Swedish Developmental Biology Organization SWEDBO & FSDB Universitetet i Bergen ✨REGISTER HERE ➡️ tinyurl.com/NDEVMSS24

Very excited to share this new paper, fruit of a great collab with Silvia Mercurio, out in preprint! 🎉 We set up new methods for in vitro culture and gene/protein detection in the feather star A. mediterranea and used them to investigate its development. ⭐️ Tweetorial below!

Cephalopods are an incredible clade of animals and much of their biology is a mystery. I'm thrilled to share our new preprint, led by Gabrielle Coffing, describing an amazing discovery--ZZ/ZO karyotypes in cephs and the oldest sex chromsome found to date biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Biological systems are complex. Sometimes, removing just one tiny piece can be catastrophic… Can we study this with single cell analysis? Read our new bioRxiv (or this X-plainer) to find out! Please RT/RP! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations Caroline Zandecki et al !! Beautiful work 🐡🐟

Ecstatic to share with you the #Pint24 line-up for the #Bergen festival!!! See you at Stereo Bar 13-15th of May from 19:00-21:30 🥳🍻 Pint of Science Norway #scicomm #science #pint24NO

Wrap up Embryology course 2024 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) with the recapitulation of the early 19xx group pic with “super sciency serious face”

So happy I get to do more cool things with ctenophores 🪼 together with Alexandre Jan & Pawel Burkhardt Michael Sars Centre

Our lab's revised paper published in Nature Communications Multiplexed volumetric CLEM enabled by scFvs provides insights into the cytology of cerebellar cortex nature.com/articles/s4146… Congrats to Xiaomeng's et al. MCB_Harvard!