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The Hassan Brain Development Team
@hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
We study the genetic control and molecular regulation of brain development - and a little bit of function - in fly, mouse and human stem cell models
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Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Temporal control of neurogenesis”
A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏
@csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @borrell-lab.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social tomorrow at #SeminarsIN 🙌
He is a world leader in the study of genetic regulation of brain development.
Don’t miss it!
@borrell-lab.bsky.social @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
October 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our latest: Julien Pigeon and colleagues discover a mechanism linking post-translational modification of transcription factors to remodeling the chromatin landscape to regulate human cortical neurogenesis
Post-translational Tuning of Human Cortical Progenitor Neuronal Output
The striking expansion of the human neocortex is driven by the ability of radial glial cells (RGCs) to prolong neurogenesis without exhausting their progenitor pool, thereby producing more neurons, pa...
www.biorxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...
Heterozygous pathogenic variants in the splicing factor SF1 lead to a large spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders | Bassem Hassan
Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder.
www.linkedin.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Excited to share our latest paper in Nature Communications! We uncovered a dev-time transcriptional program (via Mirana → Pink1) that shapes mitochondria & circuit wiring.
Disrupt it early, and neurons miswire — even if the gene recovers later!
September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development
@neuraldevgrc.bsky.social
Register early because places go fast!
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social
labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Temporal transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial morphology primes activity-dependent circuit connectivity - Nature Communications
This study investigates the developmental transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial quality control. Authors identify the Drosophila factor Mirana, homologous to mammalian TZAP, as a key temporal re...
www.nature.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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👋🏻 Bluesky!
Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social!
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July 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social!
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July 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Congrats to the fantastic @maheandria.bsky.social on this well deserved recognition from French Academy of Science
It is a Great Honour to receive the 'Les Grandes Avancées en Biologie' award 🏅 from the @academiesciences.bsky.social and to share our work during this fabulous day celebrating Science. Thank you!
@hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social @frm-officiel.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This journey began in Berlin with @bassemh.bsky.social and Robin Hiesinger, and continued at @institutducerveau.bsky.social in @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social , with the generous support of @frm-officiel.bsky.social . Grateful to the von Kleist & Stoeckli Labs and all co-authors!
May 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
New from the lab: @maheandria.bsky.social and colleagues in collaboration with the Hiesinger, Stoeckli and von Kleist labs dissect the sequential emergence of axonal targeting during development in today's issue of Nature Neuroscience:
rdcu.be/ek010
Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster
Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...
rdcu.be
May 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Hot off the press:
The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience:
rdcu.be/ek010
Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster
Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...
rdcu.be
May 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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May 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Anna CHRZANOWSKA, PhD, postdoc in The Hassan Brain Development Team
@hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
is organizing a trainee-led symposium @institutducerveau.bsky.social June 2-4

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nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/
Nencki Open Lab
Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning Paris Brain Institute, June 2-4th 2025 Applying machine learning and other models to decode behavioral parameters from neural activity is now a standard …
nenckiopenlab.org
April 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Can't miss opportunity for anyone interested in developmental timing!! See you in Paris⏳️
December 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Join us in Paris 6-9 May 2025 for the #EvoDevoTempo conference (2nd edition) with a fantastic line up of speakers confirmed!!

Organized by @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social
@vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social
@bassemh.bsky.social and me.

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meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...
Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights
Like choreography, development consists of a highly ordered suite of steps and transitions. Modifying developmental tempo can affect final size and composition of tissues, as well as their plasticity…
meetings.embo.org
December 20, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Second edition of the EMBO workshop on Developmental Timing across species.
Second edition organized by
@trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and Margerete Diaz-Cuadros

Cool speakers & fun networking activities.
More details coming soon.Save the date:
May 6-9 2025!
December 1, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 5:07 PM