Early days of de novo genome assembly

#Turing it not the only way. Cells are discrete interacting units. Abdel Rahman Abdel Fattah Adrian Ranga on the DV patterning of neural tube throufg Floor plate driven #SelfOrganization cell.com/cell-reports/f…

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Pregnancy triggers transient olfactory neurogenesis a.k.a New mums make new neurons to smell their babies 🐭 How cool is that 😎 ⁦Science Magazine⁩ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨Preprint live on bioRxiv🚨 Excited to share my first preprint co-led with Anne Ramat. We set out to study the link between germ granule opposing functions in translation & their higher-order organization using super-resolution STED and suntag👇 bit.ly/40Wd0La

So excited and proud of my amazing PhD bay-mate @angelytavasco is giving her PhD exit seminar on the evodevo of adaptive head morphology in ants! 🐜🐜🐜

Won't be attending American Society for Cell Biology next week but if you are coming to Boston and want to catch up or talk EvoDevo hit me up and we can grab coffee!

Come find me at ASCB #cellbio2023 ! I’ll be the one drinking out of the Development water bottle like the interdisciplinary traitor who loves free conference swag that I am 😆

My bench

I hope the prime minister is aware that salaries of postdoctoral researchers have reached such a low level in this country that this law would make it impossible for UK scientists to employ international experts It would be a huge own goal!

Finally out. Congratulations to all the authors!!

Can metabolic processes instruct cell fate decision making during embryonic development? In our new preprint, we show an important role of glycolytic activity for the development of endoderm and mesoderm through the regulation of Nodal and Wnt signalling. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Want to study how to build a mammalian embryo? Come join our #BBSRC DTP PhD program to study the mechanics of embryogensis together with my colleague Osvaldo Chara. More details here: nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/our-rese…. #stembryos

Come join our lab! We are actively recruiting a research assistant to help push forward our large-scale cell biology approaches. This is a great opportunity to learn, grow, train, and contribute to an exciting project. Repost/apply today. wibr.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WIBR-Car…

It's been a while, but never too late to share exciting updates from the Desplan Lab! 🧵

Ok. This is an absolute #breakthrough and #tourdeforce by @steinaerts lab. Designing functional enhancers has been a dream of the scientific community for decades. Now AI fed with the right data cracked the cis regulatory code. Respect 🤠➡️🎩

Expecting 80% of students outside of QC to learn intermediate French is about as unrealistic as expecting immigrants to know French in 6 months. But, of course, neither is serious. It is just a way for the CAQ to urinate on the anglophones and allophones they clearly despise.

Want to keep up with the lab, play some mouse video games, and see what we're up to? Check out our website (hamilos.wi.mit.edu), where we post new games and science updates periodically! Our first game is now live and takes about 20 min to play-- hamilos.wi.mit.edu/human-studies

As fast as Rat dck brings us together, UMAP race science tears us apart....

Born to Rule… or Work! 🐜 In Pharaoh ant colonies, your future is set before you hatch! Embryos decide early whether they’ll become royals (queens or reproductive males) or workers. Royals keep their germ cells—the cells needed for reproduction—while workers lose theirs during