Inés Fournon Berodia
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Inés Fournon Berodia
@inesfournon.bsky.social
PostDoc from 🇪🇸 working on epithelial dynamics of sea anemones 🪼🪸 at the Michael Sars Centre

Pint of Science City Coordinator in 🇳🇴🍺
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I am still very much processing this!🤩 Feeling extremely happy and grateful to have finished my PhD at the @msarscentre.bsky.social 💜 Thank you to everyone who was part of this 4 year journey!
Congratulations Dr. Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social 🎉🤩 We are very proud of Inés for successfully defending her PhD thesis conducted in the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab. Thank you to opponents @ragkousik.bsky.social & @levayerr.bsky.social for insightful discussions 👏
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🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
rdcu.be
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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What are these?

You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social

see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
October 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Still can’t quite believe it 💫 I’ve received the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science “Jeunes Talents” France 2025 award!
I’m so deeply honored — this recognition means so much to me, both as a scientist and as a woman who loves research. 💙🔬 1/3
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.

That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Fantastic presentation by @malinkjosavik.bsky.social at the Tutzing basal metazoan workshop 👏 She shared her work on starvation and metabolism in Nematostella, conducted in collaboration between the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab and the Dept of Biomedicine @unibergen.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Huge congratulations to postdoc Guillaume Poncelet @guillaumeponcelet.bsky.social who was awarded a UiB Early Idea innovation grant 🤩🎉 Inspired by his work in the @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social lab, he will be developing a new product derived from naturally occurring compounds 🔬 Read more below ⤵️
Michael Sars Centre researcher awarded UiB Idé innovation grant
Guillaume Poncelet, postdoctoral researcher in the Christiaen group, will receive funding from the UiB Idé innovation program to develop a novel product inspired by marine life.
tinyurl.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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HAK-actin™ was developed in the labs of @centriolelab.bsky.social and @dudinlab.bsky.social.

Find out more about HAK-actin™ in the BioRxiv manuscript: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are grateful to @dudinlab.bsky.social for providing the creolimax frangantissima data used in the movie
September 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵
Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates
Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...
www.cell.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Our lab is 2.5 years into #ERC funding✨

Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
Flying into sensory and mesogleal neurons from a ctenophore (comb jelly).
YouTube video by Pawel Burkhardt
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Congrats to all those getting an ~ERCStG today! Also a small reminder that the University of Galway offers a permanent academic position to ERC StG holders so if anyone in the area of Chromosome Biology (broadly defined) is still looking for a home then please reach out!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs.

It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I am still very much processing this!🤩 Feeling extremely happy and grateful to have finished my PhD at the @msarscentre.bsky.social 💜 Thank you to everyone who was part of this 4 year journey!
Congratulations Dr. Fournon Berodia @inesfournon.bsky.social 🎉🤩 We are very proud of Inés for successfully defending her PhD thesis conducted in the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab. Thank you to opponents @ragkousik.bsky.social & @levayerr.bsky.social for insightful discussions 👏
August 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

With @dudinlab.bsky.social
@embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Marine biodiversity: Gone with the wind? Our dispatch out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social

New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
@iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Stretch it, wound it, pull it: ADIP-Diversin polarizes anyway. Characterization of a new mechanosensitive polarity module 🐸

First #preLight from @alinegrata.bsky.social, highlighting #preprint from Chih-Wen Chu, Satheeja Velayudhan, Sergei Sokol and team:
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...
Mechanical cues organize planar cell polarity during vertebrate morphogenesis and embryonic wound repair - preLights
Stretch it, wound it, pull it: ADIP-Diversin polarizes anyway. Characterization of a new mechanosensitive polarity module.
prelights.biologists.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Excited to share our new work on the 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ!

We explored its remarkable cellular diversity and integration with the syncytial nerve net, uncovering connectivity and insights into the evolution of sensory complexes.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Our new paper is out: "The 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ & the evolution of complex integrative centers in animals.

We reveal a remarkable cell type diversity, nerve net condensation, a multilayered circuit & gene expression profiles.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ctenophores
June 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Science communication isn’t just for newspapers. @pintsworld.bsky.social takes research to bars. We made a MediaFutures edition, featuring three researchers sharing work in progress:
Samia Touileb – Bias in LLMs
Yuki Onishi – Eye Gaze in TV Galleries
PeteAndrews – AI Political Co-Pilot
June 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Tonight’s the night! 🍻🧠
Join us at Statsraaden Bar for our spin off event about The Future of Media Technology with @sfiMediaFutures.bsky.social & @pintsworld.bsky.social
Three short talks, relaxed vibe — see you at 19:00! 🎯📺
#Pint25 #Bergen
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
June 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Look at those #DIATOMS

LOOK AT THESE #Microtubules

Congrats to the team

Long-live #UExM #Expansion #Microscopy
Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
June 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM