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Flavio Zolessi
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Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Facultad de Ciencias, Udelar, Uruguay. PI, Cell Biology of Neural Development group. #development #retina #neurulation #zebrafish
Member of IBRO-LARC @ibroorg.bsky.social
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Flavio Zolessi @fzolessi.bsky.social · Nov 19
Being new to this network, a presentation is in order. This will eventually become a thread. I first want to acknowledge these guys, the members of the Cell Biology of Neural Development group, of which I am privileged to be the current PI. #neurodevelopment #retina #neurulation #zebrafish #chick
The current members of the Cell Biology of Neural Development (CBDN) group, at Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR, Uruguay. From left to right, top-down: Lucía Veloz (PhD student), Camila Davison (Associate Researcher), Gonzalo Aparicio (@gaparicio.bsky.social, PhD student), Magela Rodao (PhD student), Lucía Mustto (Master student), Santiago Bosch (Master student, recently finished), me, Agustín Siciliano (undergraduate student). Image taken a couple of weeks ago, at the XX Meeting of the Uruguayan Society for Neuroscience.
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ibroorg.bsky.social
⏰ Only 2 days left to complete your application for the Seeding Neuroscience #Grants!
Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your emerging #neuroscience society or thematic network
https://ibro.org/grant/seeding-neuroscience-grants/

Deadline: 15 Oct

#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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sebioldev.bsky.social
The importance of model organisms for research and training www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology
As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.
www.nature.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
fzolessi.bsky.social
Recent publication from a great collaboration with my friends in Cuernavaca, México: The Smarce1 subunit of the BAF complex performs distinct, stage-specific functions during zebrafish retinal development doi.org/10.1016/j.ne.... Support @ibroorg.bsky.social, publish in @ibrojournals.bsky.social
Severe microphthalmia and retinal layering defects in the smarce1-/- zebrafish mutant.
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social
Mechanical conditions preventing live cell extrusion during primary neurulation in amniotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.668972v1
August 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Interested in Science Communication? Love #devbiol? Apply for the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComms Interns Program!

www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...
Society for Developmental Biology | SDB Science Communication Internship
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August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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ibrojournals.bsky.social
📣 Call for #PAPERS!
Share your work in #IBRO #Neuroscience Reports’ special issues on early career #research and on perspectives from #AfrAbia! 🧠🌍

Learn more: www.ibroneuroreports.org/call-for-pap...

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August 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Are you a woman #neuroscientist eager to share your research and inspire others on stage? 🎤
Join the WWN Speaker’s Bureau - a public platform designed to help event organizers find expert speakers in neuroscience.

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August 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
fzolessi.bsky.social
Preprint alert! Just from the oven, the adventures of a young theoretical biophysicist (Santi Bosch) in a usually strictly wet lab (BCDN): how is it that extreme forces in amniotes primary neurulation do not break the highly dynamic neuroepithelium apart?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mechanical conditions preventing live cell extrusion during primary neurulation in amniotes
During primary neurulation in amniote embryos, the neural plate gives rise to the neural tube in a process requiring the coordination of forces at different scales throughout a geometrically complex t...
www.biorxiv.org
August 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
fzolessi.bsky.social
The Virtual Special Issue of Neuroscience celebrating the 30th anniversary of @socneurouy.bsky.social is completed, and with a cover! Find it and read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
@ibroorg.bsky.social @ibrojournals.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Mañana viernes!!
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fzolessi.bsky.social Flavio Zolessi @fzolessi.bsky.social · Jul 17
El próximo viernes 25 de julio, a las 10 AM, en el Salón de Seminarios 1, de Facultad de Ciencias, Gonzalo Aparicio hará la defensa pública de su Tesis de Doctorado (PEDECIBA Biología). Los esperamos!
July 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
fzolessi.bsky.social
El próximo viernes 25 de julio, a las 10 AM, en el Salón de Seminarios 1, de Facultad de Ciencias, Gonzalo Aparicio hará la defensa pública de su Tesis de Doctorado (PEDECIBA Biología). Los esperamos!
July 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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blockintheback.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 Tol2kit announcement! We have rebuilt the wiki that was corrupted a few months ago! We’re in the process of also linking it to the original address. Please visit us here:
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
Thank you for your patience!!
#zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing
tol2kit for kwan lab
tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
fzolessi.bsky.social
Happy to share the last article of the Virtual Special Issue of Neuroscience @ibrojournals.bsky.social devoted to the 30th anniversary of @socneurouy.bsky.social: the editorial! Coauthorship shared with Ana Silva and Nathalia Vitureira. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL%7Eq_6z...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🚨 Call for proposals! We’re putting together the #IBRO2027 Scientific Program Committee—and we want your input! Do you know someone who would bring valuable perspective & expertise? Submit your proposals by 30 May: buff.ly/kD3n8nf

#conference #neuroscience @thebalelab.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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socneurouy.bsky.social
Llegó el momento!
Este miércoles comienza el IV Congreso Nacional de Biociencias, organizado por la Sociedad Uruguaya de Biociencias (SUB)
Como en otras oportunidades, en el marco de ese evento realizaremos las XXI Jornadas de la SNU

+ info:
sociedadneurociencias.uy/jornadas-2025/

Los esperamos!
May 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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socneurouy.bsky.social
‼️ Mañana ‼️
Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial 🧠💻

🗓️ Martes 27/5 17:15
📍 Espacio Colabora

Exponen:
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Pamela Guevara, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Diego Fernández Slézak, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Mañana en el Espacio Colabora 👇
Asistencia libre!
socneurouy.bsky.social Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social · May 26
‼️ Mañana ‼️
Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial 🧠💻

🗓️ Martes 27/5 17:15
📍 Espacio Colabora

Exponen:
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Pamela Guevara, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Diego Fernández Slézak, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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socneurouy.bsky.social
sociedadneurociencias.uy/2025/05/15/m...

Organizan:
Álvaro Cabana. Facultad de Psicología, UdelaR @almadana.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa. Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR @lentobio.bsky.social
Sociedad de Neurociencias de Uruguay @socneurouy.bsky.social
Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial – Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay
sociedadneurociencias.uy
May 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Mesa abierta: Neurociencias e Inteligencia Artificial

🗓️ Martes 27/5 17:15
📍 Espacio Colabora

Exponen:
Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Paola Guevara, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Diego Fernández Slézak, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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the-node.bsky.social
Have you noticed the rotating header images on our site? They're winners of a competition we ran in 2021. Thank you @gaparicio.bsky.social @rorylcooper.bsky.social @zebrafish007.bsky.social @ebardot.bsky.social & Markus Schliffka for the images!

Give us a visit: thenode.biologists.com
Collage of the five different header images, shown from top to bottom. Image descriptions: 1. Zebrafish lymphatics by Daniel Castranova. Lymphatic vessels shown in blue and neutrophils shown in orange in the head of a double transgenic juvenile zebrafish. 2. Catshark by Rory Cooper. Cleared and alizarin and stained hatchling catshark embryo. 3. Preimplantation mouse embryos by Markus Schliffka. Different stages of mouse preimplantation development from the zygote to the blastocyst, with nuclei in cyan and actin in grey. 4. Zebrafish retina by Gonzalo Aparicio. Retina from a 72hpf zebrafish embryo. Photoreceptor marker shown in red, while gfap:eGFP (a Muller cell marker) is shown z-depth pseudo-coloured. 5. Mouse embryo by Evan Bardot. Cleared E12.5 embryo labelled with antibodies against Cntn2 (green) and ColIV (magenta). Generated in Collaboration with James Muller.
April 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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🚨 Nuevo llamado 🚨
¿Quieren sumarse a nuestro equipo docente?
Se abrió un llamado a concurso de pruebas para 1 cargo efectivo de AYUDANTE (Grado 1) de la Unidad Académica de Histología y Embriología

📆Inscripciones hasta el 3 de julio de 2025

www.histoemb.fmed.edu.uy/noticias/202...
April 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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crisprscan.bsky.social
First seen in Biorxiv and now published and updated with more data in @naturecomms.bsky.social. With this work we have further enhanced CRISPR-Cas RNA targeting in vivo using transient approaches such as RNP or mRNA-gRNA in zebrafish embryos as vertebrate model. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enhanced RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas technology in zebrafish - Nature Communications
CRISPR-Cas13 RNA-targeting systems comprise an invaluable set of tools in the fields of basic and applied sciences. Here, Moreno-Sánchez, Hernández-Huertas, and Nahón-Cano et al. enhanced the use of t...
www.nature.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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izfs.bsky.social
Early registration, abstract submissions, and workshops proposals are all open for the 19th IZFC! Be sure to review the key dates and deadlines on our website for early registration and submissions! www.izfs.org/education/19...
February 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
fzolessi.bsky.social
It is with great joy that we are receiving @valetornini.bsky.social these weeks, who came to the land of her ancestors for scientific networking. Looking forward to her talk tomorrow at Facultad de Ciencias, Udelar. Will she dare to give her talk in Spanish? Yes, she will! @socneurouy.bsky.social
Flyer announcing Valerie Tornini's seminar, this Tuesday 18th, at Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. The invitation is made jointly by Sección Biología Celular and Laboratorio de Neurociencias.
February 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM