📢 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!

The Sars team Pawel Burkhardt @lionlchristiaen had an incredible time in Villefranche during the Åsgard Horizon 2024 meeting. A beautiful setting for an inspiring week 🙏 IMEV-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche Institut français Norge EMBRC-Norway EMBRC-France Universitetet i Bergen

Congratulations to Paula Miramón-Puértolas @miramon_paula, Eudald Pascual & @PRHSteinmetz for a new paper just out in Nature Communications 🤩 The team's beautiful work identifies a cell population giving rise to both germline and neurons in #Nematostella ⤵️ tinyurl.com/3eu556mu Universitetet i Bergen

📢 We are hiring Group Leaders! 🌊 Come join our team Universitetet i Bergen to lead innovative research in molecular, cellular and organismal biology using marine/aquatic organisms! ⌛️ Application deadline Dec. 15. Share this exciting opportunity ⤵️ tinyurl.com/4bwn8u3n EMBL EMBRC (European Marine Biological Resource Centre)

Come join us in #sunnyBergen to work on some cool critters!🐟🪼🐙

I am honoured that my picture has been chosen as the new PNASNews cover to illustrate the work of Joan J. Soto-Angel & Pawel Burkhardt on the #rejuvenation of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis. Check out their article at: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen

Excited to share our new preprint out now on bioRxiv! Read about the effects of PFOA and Gen X on sea urchin larval development, which include defects to skeletal patterning and altered neural development.

The Babonis Lab seeks to hire a Research Associate. Applications are due 15 Dec 2024. For more details and to apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29406.

Monod Conference "Origin of metazoans": fossils, genomes, cell biology, gene regulation, development, and more. Join us in Roscoff for an exceptional speaker line-up and stunning venue! 🗓️Abstract deadline: March 4. Register and share! insb.cnrs.fr/fr/origin-meta…

And... it's live! In situ hybridization has been foundational for sea urchin developmental biology. Yet it is tedious and slow... Here we report a fully automated method to probe more than a hundred genes using a general purpose liquid handler. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d