Benjamin Boumard
@bboumard.bsky.social
Postdoc working on jellyfish 🪼 evodevo genomics at Academia Sinica (Taipei). #ICOB
Former @bardinlab.bsky.social 🪰 #InstitutCurie
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Former @bardinlab.bsky.social 🪰 #InstitutCurie
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The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
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Lophophorata is monophyletic!
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Lophophorata is monophyletic!
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
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I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
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How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵
Check our latest preprint
Check our latest preprint
A toolkit for testing membrane-localising tags across species
Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...
www.biorxiv.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵
Check our latest preprint
Check our latest preprint
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Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
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Apply Now! Tenure-track Faculty Position in Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida's Whitney Lab. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Apply Now! Tenure-track Faculty Position in Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida's Whitney Lab. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
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How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss?
Check it out our new preprint!
THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check it out our new preprint!
THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation.
Multicellular organisms possess conserved safeguard mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of tissue integrity. Exploring these mechanisms has proven instrumental in understanding how tissues robustly...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss?
Check it out our new preprint!
THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check it out our new preprint!
THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I am proud to be a member of the #ISSCR2026 Program Committee and to have helped develop the outstanding program, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. Register to hear the excellent science presented! invt.io/1bxbi6gtbsl @isscr.org
I am a member of the ISSCR 2026 Program Committee
Register now
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October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I am proud to be a member of the #ISSCR2026 Program Committee and to have helped develop the outstanding program, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. Register to hear the excellent science presented! invt.io/1bxbi6gtbsl @isscr.org
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Starting Monday!!! If you are in Paris, feel free to drop in for this exceptional course!
Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included.
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Starting Monday!!! If you are in Paris, feel free to drop in for this exceptional course!
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OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
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"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
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The PhD work of @bboumard.bsky.social officially out in print! Happy to share this issue with our downstairs colleagues in the BDD @frelab.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social
www.cell.com/developmenta...
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila
Boumard et al. demonstrate gap-junction-dependent tissue-scale nucleotide sharing,
which impacts cellular sensitivity to perturbation of nucleotide homeostasis and replication
stress. Drosophila wing ...
www.cell.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The PhD work of @bboumard.bsky.social officially out in print! Happy to share this issue with our downstairs colleagues in the BDD @frelab.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social
www.cell.com/developmenta...
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.
Pls repost 🙏
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...
Pls repost 🙏
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...
Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology
The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.
www.evolbio.mpg.de
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.
Pls repost 🙏
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...
Pls repost 🙏
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...
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Just came back from a great meeting in Tutzing on the biology of basal Metazoa. Excellent talks, fantastic posters and very kind and vital community. Thanks also to our keynote speaker, Cassandra Extavour. She was the highlight of the meeting. Thanks everyone for contributing.
September 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Just came back from a great meeting in Tutzing on the biology of basal Metazoa. Excellent talks, fantastic posters and very kind and vital community. Thanks also to our keynote speaker, Cassandra Extavour. She was the highlight of the meeting. Thanks everyone for contributing.
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First, first-author paper alert!
“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!
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“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!
🦑🧪
Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris
Synopsis. Opsins are G-protein-coupled receptors often expressed in neuronal photoreceptor cells and used for light detection in most animals, including cn
academic.oup.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
First, first-author paper alert!
“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!
🦑🧪
“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!
🦑🧪
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Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians.
doi.org/10.1186/s130...
doi.org/10.1186/s130...
Conservation of bilaterian genome structure is the exception, not the rule - Genome Biology
Species from diverse animal lineages have conserved groups of orthologous genes together on the same chromosome for over half a billion years since the last common ancestor of bilaterians. Although no...
doi.org
August 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians.
doi.org/10.1186/s130...
doi.org/10.1186/s130...
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Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: mg2@stowers.org
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: mg2@stowers.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: mg2@stowers.org
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: mg2@stowers.org
Thanks for sharing our paper 😊🪰!
Boumard, B., Le Meur, G., Aboutine, L., Stefanutti, M., Maalouf, T., El-Hajj, M., Choi, B. J., Bauer, R., Bardin, A. J. (2025). Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in #Drosophila. Dev Cell, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila
Cell proliferation, which underlies tissue growth and homeostasis, requires high levels of metabolites such as deoxynucleotides (dNTPs). The dNTP pool…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Thanks for sharing our paper 😊🪰!
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Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6
August 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6
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NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JUST RELEASED!
Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7
Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.
Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7
Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.
Volume 38 Issue 7 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
academic.oup.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JUST RELEASED!
Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7
Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.
Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7
Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.
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Socially regulated developmental plasticity in the color pattern of an anemonefish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666690v1
July 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Socially regulated developmental plasticity in the color pattern of an anemonefish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666690v1
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Une dynamique évolutive complexe se cache dans la relation entre les poissons-clowns et leurs anémones-hôtes. Plongez dans l’évolution adaptative des poissons clowns 🌊
🤝 @cnrs.fr @oistedu.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @currentbiology.bsky.social
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🤝 @cnrs.fr @oistedu.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @currentbiology.bsky.social
buff.ly/FpaaYKG
Plongée dans l’évolution adaptative des poissons clowns
Derrière la relation bien connue, au sein des récifs coralliens, entre les poissons-clowns et leurs anémones-hôtes, se cache une dynamique évolutive bie
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July 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Une dynamique évolutive complexe se cache dans la relation entre les poissons-clowns et leurs anémones-hôtes. Plongez dans l’évolution adaptative des poissons clowns 🌊
🤝 @cnrs.fr @oistedu.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @currentbiology.bsky.social
buff.ly/FpaaYKG
🤝 @cnrs.fr @oistedu.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @currentbiology.bsky.social
buff.ly/FpaaYKG
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#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Découvrez la dernière publication d'Allison Bardin et de ses collaborateurs ⤵️
🤝 @cnrs.fr @cnrs-paris.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @bardinlab.bsky.social
@bboumard.bsky.social
📕 @cp-devcell.bsky.social | buff.ly/kIfPI0E
🤝 @cnrs.fr @cnrs-paris.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @bardinlab.bsky.social
@bboumard.bsky.social
📕 @cp-devcell.bsky.social | buff.ly/kIfPI0E
July 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Découvrez la dernière publication d'Allison Bardin et de ses collaborateurs ⤵️
🤝 @cnrs.fr @cnrs-paris.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @bardinlab.bsky.social
@bboumard.bsky.social
📕 @cp-devcell.bsky.social | buff.ly/kIfPI0E
🤝 @cnrs.fr @cnrs-paris.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @bardinlab.bsky.social
@bboumard.bsky.social
📕 @cp-devcell.bsky.social | buff.ly/kIfPI0E
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We'll be looking for a postdoc to bring these approaches together, funded for 3+ years. If you are interested please get in touch; if you know someone who might be interested please share this message. 3/3
July 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We'll be looking for a postdoc to bring these approaches together, funded for 3+ years. If you are interested please get in touch; if you know someone who might be interested please share this message. 3/3