Angelo Iulianella
@aineurolab.bsky.social
Developmental neurobiologist at Dalhousie University. All things Nature, Cosmos, & Science. www.iulianellalab.com
#neuroscience, #DevBio, #EvoDevo, #NeuroDev, #cytoskeleton 🧠 🧪
Opinions are mine. 🇨🇦
#neuroscience, #DevBio, #EvoDevo, #NeuroDev, #cytoskeleton 🧠 🧪
Opinions are mine. 🇨🇦
Pinned
As many scientists are fleeing the former bird app, I’ll reintroduce myself. I’m a professor in developmental neurobiology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. I study how neurons are born and migrate during the formation of the 🧠. #devbio #neuroscience #evodevo #cytoskeleton
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I'm thrilled to be able to share this new paper from post-doc Camilla Teng @xsciteng.bsky.social and our collaborators in the Leslie-Clarkson lab @emorygenetics.bsky.social on mechanisms of tissue fusion and cleft lip url: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Actomyosin contractility and a threshold of cadherin cell adhesion are required during tissue fusion | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press
Teng et al. investigate the cellular basis for tissue fusion during mammalian lip formation. They demonstrate that actomyosin contractility drives fusion,
rupress.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm thrilled to be able to share this new paper from post-doc Camilla Teng @xsciteng.bsky.social and our collaborators in the Leslie-Clarkson lab @emorygenetics.bsky.social on mechanisms of tissue fusion and cleft lip url: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Reposted by Angelo Iulianella
I'm curious as to why @bylinetimes.bsky.social are running tech corporation talking points, including pushing them out to hundreds of thousands of people.
Here's my recent post breaking down why this line is so profoundly misleading:
ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
Here's my recent post breaking down why this line is so profoundly misleading:
ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I'm curious as to why @bylinetimes.bsky.social are running tech corporation talking points, including pushing them out to hundreds of thousands of people.
Here's my recent post breaking down why this line is so profoundly misleading:
ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
Here's my recent post breaking down why this line is so profoundly misleading:
ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
Reposted by Angelo Iulianella
The CSMB is concerned that, despite new investments, Federal Budget 2025 weakens rather than strengthens Canada’s research ecosystem.
Sustainable research funding is essential for innovation and competitiveness.
Read more: csmb-scbm.ca/csmb-stateme...
#CSMB #Budget2025 #ResearchCanada #Science
Sustainable research funding is essential for innovation and competitiveness.
Read more: csmb-scbm.ca/csmb-stateme...
#CSMB #Budget2025 #ResearchCanada #Science
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The CSMB is concerned that, despite new investments, Federal Budget 2025 weakens rather than strengthens Canada’s research ecosystem.
Sustainable research funding is essential for innovation and competitiveness.
Read more: csmb-scbm.ca/csmb-stateme...
#CSMB #Budget2025 #ResearchCanada #Science
Sustainable research funding is essential for innovation and competitiveness.
Read more: csmb-scbm.ca/csmb-stateme...
#CSMB #Budget2025 #ResearchCanada #Science
Reposted by Angelo Iulianella
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“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
June 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Grant submitted. Time for walk @dalhousie.bsky.social, leaves blanketing the ground. The cloudy calm before the hurricane fuelled weather tomorrow.
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Grant submitted. Time for walk @dalhousie.bsky.social, leaves blanketing the ground. The cloudy calm before the hurricane fuelled weather tomorrow.
We are looking for graduate students to start in the summer or autumn 2026. Open to students with BSc or MSc degrees.
Come explore the maritime region of Canada and do developmental and cellular neuroscience.
Please see attached poster. Appreciate reskeets. #DevBio, #Neuroscience 🧪
Come explore the maritime region of Canada and do developmental and cellular neuroscience.
Please see attached poster. Appreciate reskeets. #DevBio, #Neuroscience 🧪
October 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We are looking for graduate students to start in the summer or autumn 2026. Open to students with BSc or MSc degrees.
Come explore the maritime region of Canada and do developmental and cellular neuroscience.
Please see attached poster. Appreciate reskeets. #DevBio, #Neuroscience 🧪
Come explore the maritime region of Canada and do developmental and cellular neuroscience.
Please see attached poster. Appreciate reskeets. #DevBio, #Neuroscience 🧪
Reposted by Angelo Iulianella
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Dinosaur with hooves? Remarkable fossil find, including detailed skin impression, from Alberta. Hooves are eg of convergent evolution. But for what, fast, efficient, locomotion?
Scientists discover dinosaur 'mummies' with hoofs like a horse | CBC Radio
It’s been more than 60 million years since duck-billed dinosaurs roamed around what is now known as western North America.
Or, more accurately, since they clomped around. On their hoofs.
www.cbc.ca
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Dinosaur with hooves? Remarkable fossil find, including detailed skin impression, from Alberta. Hooves are eg of convergent evolution. But for what, fast, efficient, locomotion?
Thanks for the feature!@anatomyorg.bsky.social
@brchfx.bsky.social
@canacn.bsky.social
@dalfaculty.bsky.social
#DevBio
@brchfx.bsky.social
@canacn.bsky.social
@dalfaculty.bsky.social
#DevBio
Meet Dr. Angelo Iulianella! @aineurolab.bsky.social "My interests are varied, perhaps a bit too varied, but my curiosity is always tickled by some new facts revealed to me by my fellow members at the AAA."
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#AAA #FacesofAnatomy
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Thanks for the feature!@anatomyorg.bsky.social
@brchfx.bsky.social
@canacn.bsky.social
@dalfaculty.bsky.social
#DevBio
@brchfx.bsky.social
@canacn.bsky.social
@dalfaculty.bsky.social
#DevBio
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🎆 Join us for an unmissable finale to 2025! 🎆 We're thrilled to bring our #cilia & #centrosome community together 25/11/2025 15:00-17:45 GMT! Our 53rd @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium schedule is live: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... /1
October 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🎆 Join us for an unmissable finale to 2025! 🎆 We're thrilled to bring our #cilia & #centrosome community together 25/11/2025 15:00-17:45 GMT! Our 53rd @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium schedule is live: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... /1
It’s Friday. And today I’m thinking of rivers in a time of dryness. And @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s new book “Is A River Alive”. As I read, I think about Peter Gabriel’s lament:
“Living river, carry me on
Living river, carry me on
River, river, carry me on
To the place where I come from”.
“Living river, carry me on
Living river, carry me on
River, river, carry me on
To the place where I come from”.
October 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s Friday. And today I’m thinking of rivers in a time of dryness. And @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s new book “Is A River Alive”. As I read, I think about Peter Gabriel’s lament:
“Living river, carry me on
Living river, carry me on
River, river, carry me on
To the place where I come from”.
“Living river, carry me on
Living river, carry me on
River, river, carry me on
To the place where I come from”.
Reposted by Angelo Iulianella
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Happy Saturday everyone. I got a joke for you:
Why do bees have sticky hair?
Because they use honeycombs!
Why do bees have sticky hair?
Because they use honeycombs!
October 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy Saturday everyone. I got a joke for you:
Why do bees have sticky hair?
Because they use honeycombs!
Why do bees have sticky hair?
Because they use honeycombs!
Reposted by Angelo Iulianella
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Interesting to know that John Maynard-Smith, like John Gurdon, went to Eton College, are both were made to feel that science was not for them. Fortunately for us, they decided to not listen to their masters at the college and contributed brilliantly to biology.
October 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Interesting to know that John Maynard-Smith, like John Gurdon, went to Eton College, are both were made to feel that science was not for them. Fortunately for us, they decided to not listen to their masters at the college and contributed brilliantly to biology.
Well, this is interesting.
Well-exercised male mice appear to pass fitness to their male offspring
Surprising epigenetic effect relies on snippets of RNA packaged within sperm
www.science.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Well, this is interesting.
Philip nicely summarizes recent findings from Sebé-Pedrós and colleagues that the origin of multicellular life may come down to extrusions of DNA topology, juxtaposing far-flung genomic regions in the spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression.
I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...
Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine
New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Philip nicely summarizes recent findings from Sebé-Pedrós and colleagues that the origin of multicellular life may come down to extrusions of DNA topology, juxtaposing far-flung genomic regions in the spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression.
Tunneling nanotubes connecting neuronal dendrites in mammalian brains pass ions, allowing propagation of electrical signals in networked clusters of neurons. Also large enough to pass proteins like beta-amyloid, possible mechanism for spread of neurodegeneration.
Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds
Tubes in mouse and human brains may also influence spread of brain disease
www.science.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Tunneling nanotubes connecting neuronal dendrites in mammalian brains pass ions, allowing propagation of electrical signals in networked clusters of neurons. Also large enough to pass proteins like beta-amyloid, possible mechanism for spread of neurodegeneration.
Reposted by Angelo Iulianella
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
#DevBio 🧪
Our lab’s recent blog on our 12th Annual Developmental Biology Symposium held @dalhousie.bsky.social.
Grateful for the support of an outreach grant from @anatomyorg.bsky.social and organizational support from @brchfx.bsky.social.
Grateful for the support of an outreach grant from @anatomyorg.bsky.social and organizational support from @brchfx.bsky.social.
12th Annual Atlantic Regional Developmental Biology Meeting
We were pleased to celebrate another year of highlighting the outstanding trainee research from universities in the Canadian Atlantic coast region, including the University of New Brunswick, Mount Sai...
www.iulianellalab.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#DevBio 🧪
Our lab’s recent blog on our 12th Annual Developmental Biology Symposium held @dalhousie.bsky.social.
Grateful for the support of an outreach grant from @anatomyorg.bsky.social and organizational support from @brchfx.bsky.social.
Grateful for the support of an outreach grant from @anatomyorg.bsky.social and organizational support from @brchfx.bsky.social.
12th Annual Atlantic Regional Developmental Biology Meeting
We were pleased to celebrate another year of highlighting the outstanding trainee research from universities in the Canadian Atlantic coast region, including the University of New Brunswick, Mount Sai...
www.iulianellalab.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Our lab’s recent blog on our 12th Annual Developmental Biology Symposium held @dalhousie.bsky.social.
Grateful for the support of an outreach grant from @anatomyorg.bsky.social and organizational support from @brchfx.bsky.social.
Grateful for the support of an outreach grant from @anatomyorg.bsky.social and organizational support from @brchfx.bsky.social.
Glad to post our latest preprint, led by former graduate student Sam Moore, with help from Danielle Stanton-Turcotte, Karolynn Hsu, and Emily Witt. We found a surprising role for Mllt11 in hippocampal neurogenesis by controlling radial glial progenitor differentiation to transit amplifiers. #DevBio
Impaired subgranular zone radial glia morphology and transient amplification of neural progenitors in Mllt11-deficient mice leads to increased hippocampal neurogenesis
The mammalian hippocampus derives from the cortical hem region of the forebrain and is one of the two regions in the mammalian forebrain that contains neural progenitors capable of generating new neur...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Glad to post our latest preprint, led by former graduate student Sam Moore, with help from Danielle Stanton-Turcotte, Karolynn Hsu, and Emily Witt. We found a surprising role for Mllt11 in hippocampal neurogenesis by controlling radial glial progenitor differentiation to transit amplifiers. #DevBio
Impaired subgranular zone radial glia morphology and transient amplification of neural progenitors in Mllt11-deficient mice leads to increased hippocampal neurogenesis
The mammalian hippocampus derives from the cortical hem region of the forebrain and is one of the two regions in the mammalian forebrain that contains neural progenitors capable of generating new neur...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Glad to post our latest preprint, led by former graduate student Sam Moore, with help from Danielle Stanton-Turcotte, Karolynn Hsu, and Emily Witt. We found a surprising role for Mllt11 in hippocampal neurogenesis by controlling radial glial progenitor differentiation to transit amplifiers. #DevBio