I am beyond excited and happy to share that our work is finally out in Developmental Cell as of today🥹🥳 “Mouse neural tube organoids self-organize floorplate through BMP-mediated cluster competition” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Crazy thing about the google AI fiasco: sites like perplexity.ai have been getting the exact same task right, for a while. How is this giant company with quite literally ALL the data worse at it?

🧠🧬✨ Bridging brain hemispheres - the genetics behind agenesis of the Corpus callosum My latest cover design for Cell Stem Cell is hot off the press. Cheers to Catarina Martins Costa and The Knoblich Lab for the wonderful collaboration, check out their paper: t.ly/UgpP8

We are on the cover of Developmental Biology! :) What a sweet feeling! This is the scientific society I "grew up" in as a budding academic. The image shows a developmentally older Platynereis worm struggling to regenerate after bisection. Photo credit: Ryan Null #WormWednesday

So happy to share our new pre-print, which illuminates how SHH+ floor plate cells contribute to spinal cord regeneration in axolotls. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… I couldn't be more proud of lead author Laura Arb and dream partners Emanuel Cura Costa, Osvaldo Chara and Elly Tanaka! 1/14

Our new bioRxiv! The Hydractinia Cell Atlas. Neither the hermit crab, nor the dead mollusc that once occupied the shell, but the colonial cnidarian growing on top. Can we learn more about how this association evolved using single-cell analysis? 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Why does lack of sleep make us feel miserable, and can one stay fit and healthy without sleep (amid deadlines, shiftwork or jetlag)? Our preprint linking sleep, DREAM (complex) and organismal stress responses provides both the answer and the cure🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New wound care behavior in ants! Here we show how ants amputate the leg of injured conspecifics (a first in the animal kingdom)! Interestingly, amputations are not always the best strategy to care for a wound and ants have adapted their treatment accordingly. A 🧵... (1/6)

I m happy to present our latest preprint, and the main work of my PhD-project: "GTestimate: Improving relative gene expression estimation in scRNA-seq using the Good-Turing estimator" In this manuscript we introduce a new normalization method for scRNA-seq data.

#DBfeature 🌊🪱 Developmental stage dependent effects of posterior and germline regeneration on sexual maturation in Platynereis dumerilii by Bria Metzger, Duygu Özpolat bria B. Duygu Özpolat, Ph.D. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What if you could deliver molecular tools directly into oocytes without microinjection? In our new paper, online today Development (doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…), we introduce VitelloTag, a new cargo delivery tool to enable injection-free genome editing. 👇Read on for a short 🧵

Hello new and current graduate students! Today's phrase of the day is "unlearn your hyper-independence" Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. Grad school is hard, but not reaching out when you need help (many categories here) will make it impossible. Use your community.

Can we observe how the injured leg of an animal is regenerated? We have figured out how to do this in the crustacean Parhyale. Over the course of a week, we can record the entire process of regeneration at cell-by-cell resolution. vimeo.com/802413847

We are looking for a PhD student to work with us at COS in Heidelberg as part of our ZooCell Marie Curie Doctoral Network zoocell.eu Please help us spread the advertised opening: thenode.biologists.com/jobs/marie-skl… #PhDResearch #neuroscience