The new academic year started and we welcome our newcomers to the OCTO-team 🥳 Our enthusiastic students can’t wait to uncover the secrets of octopus neurodevelopment 🐙🧠 @EveSeuntjens @alielagoz95 @Markyma18464729

🚨 job alert 🚨 How about switching to the embryonic development of the phylum of Chordophona? Come to my lab and study the affect of add9 chords on the vibrations in my models ranging from ukulele to guitars. #bandcall #rock #science #nerd #musicians #fusion

The review we wrote on 3D genome evolution in spiralians is out! It was a lot of fun writing this. We have lots to learn from this clade! academic.oup.com/bfg/advance-ar…

New paper out of our lab!

Today @EveSeuntjens gave a fascinating talk on her pioneering work setting up the Octopus vulgaris as a model to study brain development. After meetings and facility tours, Prof. Seuntjens joined our annual Halloween Cake Competition! Thank you for spending the day with us.🙏Universitetet i Bergen

We hope our work attracts the eye of evodevo, neuro and devbio people alike! We are grateful to our funding The Company of Biologists European Research Council (ERC) , and the continuous support from our home institution QM_SBBS Hope you like our sand worms ⌛️🪱 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy to see this finally out! We, Adrian Ranga lab, wondered how neural tube organoids achieve floor plate (FP) patterns in the absence of established morphogen gradients as is the case in-vivo? We found “position” to bring order to chaos. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

Sharing my latest research about octopus neural progenitor determination at the LBI meeting 🐙💻👨‍🔬🥼🔬🧬 Leuven Brain Institute SeuntjensLab

Excited to share my data about regulomics of the developing octopus at the LISCO event in Leuven 🐙🧬 Thank to everyone for winning the best oral presentation 🥳

Congrats Gregor Diensthuber 😊💻🧬

The octopuses are on their way 🐙

Time for an octoparty 🐙🎉

Did neurons evolve twice? Our work on the ctenophore syncytial nerve net and the beautiful work from Darrin Schultz, @SebasNajle, Arnau Sebé Pedrós & many others covered in Scientific American Scientific American. With comments from Arendt Lab, @TelfordLab & Leslie S. Babonis 🤩. scientificamerican.com/article/did-ne…

We are hiring and have a 4-year PhD position available at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen. Topic: Functional characterization of ctenophore neurons. Reposts are highly appreciated! Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen European Research Council (ERC) #ctenophores jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Check out our updated single cell atlas of Nematostella, by alison cole: doi.org/10.1186/s12983… It was completely remapped on the new chromosome scale genome and gene annotation (PMID: 38092765), but also contains new data and analyses. Great work, Alison!

Very happy to see our methods paper on FISH in Nematostella out (including all our little tricks and advices) Thanks to Fabian, James Gahan and Henriette for such a lovely collaborative effort on writing this up!

Very excited to be part of the #CephNeuro2024 at the inspiring campus of Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)! 4 days to learn about and present our state of the art research on alien brains 🐙

Congratulations Caroline 😊🎣

POV reminiscing about the good old milestones for your PhD project from 2 years ago #phd #phdlife #science

The octoteam is getting ready for #EED2024 🐙✈️🇫🇮 @EveSeuntjens @alielagoz95 Maxence Lanoizelet Mark Lassnig Marie Van Dijck