Nikos Konstantinides
@nkonst4.bsky.social
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Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698497v1
I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
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Re-upping this as the deadline for abstract submission if so close ❗️🧪🧬🔬
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
Jacques Monod Conference alert ❗️Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 in Beautiful Roscoff
Pass the word, Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en and see you there. 😎🧪🔬🧬
Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 in Beautiful Roscoff
Pass the word, Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en and see you there. 😎🧪🔬🧬
Accueil | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr
January 30, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Re-upping this as the deadline for abstract submission if so close ❗️🧪🧬🔬
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
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Latest work from the lab by Aude Nommick et al., in which we propose a "size-scaling" model for microtubule force exertion that regulates centrosome centration vs decentration during embryo development!
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Latest work from the lab by Aude Nommick et al., in which we propose a "size-scaling" model for microtubule force exertion that regulates centrosome centration vs decentration during embryo development!
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@ijmonod.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill?
Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes.
Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes.
Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits - Nature
Noradrenergic circuits support and balance aggressive behavioural states in predatory nematodes, distinguish predatory from non-predatory nematode species and are associated with the evolution of comp...
www.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill?
Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes.
Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes.
Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
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✍️ New preprint from the Konstantinides Lab (@nkonst4.bsky.social )
📃 Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📃 Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
✍️ New preprint from the Konstantinides Lab (@nkonst4.bsky.social )
📃 Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📃 Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
If you’re a young PI (or senior postdoc) heading to FENS, this one’s for you! It’ll be a lot of fun—and honestly, I can’t think of a better moment in one’s career to have a strong peer network.
📣 Our website is live and registration is NOW OPEN for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona!
Navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists!
youngpisymposium2026.com
Check out our program and join us!
Navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists!
youngpisymposium2026.com
Check out our program and join us!
Young PI Symposium 2026
Visit the post for more.
youngpisymposium2026.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM
If you’re a young PI (or senior postdoc) heading to FENS, this one’s for you! It’ll be a lot of fun—and honestly, I can’t think of a better moment in one’s career to have a strong peer network.
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Calling all senior postdocs and you g PIs for this wonderful symposium in Barcelona! Register and let's connect!
📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab?
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
Young PI Symposium 2026
Visit the post for more.
youngpisymposium2026.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Calling all senior postdocs and you g PIs for this wonderful symposium in Barcelona! Register and let's connect!
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yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social
navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists!
youngpisymposium2026.com
navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists!
youngpisymposium2026.com
Young PI Symposium 2026
Visit the post for more.
youngpisymposium2026.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social
navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists!
youngpisymposium2026.com
navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists!
youngpisymposium2026.com
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Step into a Europe-wide community of neuroscience leaders. Junior & mid-career group leaders: apply by 30 Jan to become a FENS-Kavli Network Scholar and connect, collaborate, and contribute to shaping neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
January 12, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Step into a Europe-wide community of neuroscience leaders. Junior & mid-career group leaders: apply by 30 Jan to become a FENS-Kavli Network Scholar and connect, collaborate, and contribute to shaping neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
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⚡️Funded PhD position in my lab in Exeter 🧠 @exeter.ac.uk If you are interested in brain development, cell-type diversity, neuroglia, subcortical structures and neurodevelopmental disorders, check out this opportunity. Deadline 28 Feb.
Please RT🙏. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Please RT🙏. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
PhD Funding: Subcortical brain deve | University of Exeter
The University of Exeter’s Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for a PhD studentship to commence on September 21st, 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
www.exeter.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
⚡️Funded PhD position in my lab in Exeter 🧠 @exeter.ac.uk If you are interested in brain development, cell-type diversity, neuroglia, subcortical structures and neurodevelopmental disorders, check out this opportunity. Deadline 28 Feb.
Please RT🙏. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Please RT🙏. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅
Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Genetic sex of enteric neurons enables ovarian relaxin to gate maternal gut plasticity
Animals must align intestinal plasticity and feeding with reproductive state, yet the checkpoint that gates these adaptations is unknown. Here we show that an ovary-to-enteric-neuron axis gates the on...
www.biorxiv.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:32 PM
📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅
Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698497v1
January 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
Reposted by Nikos Konstantinides
I'm very excited to finally see this one out in @natneuro.nature.com ! It has been an incredible journey alongside extremely talented people! Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy the reading! 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function - Nature Neuroscience
Even when neocortical neurons form in abnormal locations, they retain their identity and function, revealing that brain circuit formation can be guided by intrinsic developmental programs rather than ...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I'm very excited to finally see this one out in @natneuro.nature.com ! It has been an incredible journey alongside extremely talented people! Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy the reading! 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very happy for this @ejneuroscience.bsky.social editorial on the importance of diverse research animals in neuroscience. We make the case that embracing a plurality of model organisms enriches the field and accelerates both basic and translational research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Very happy for this @ejneuroscience.bsky.social editorial on the importance of diverse research animals in neuroscience. We make the case that embracing a plurality of model organisms enriches the field and accelerates both basic and translational research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🏃 A heads-up for the #FENS community!
#FENS will take part in the Brussels 20K, with a dedicated team running and walking in support of FENS activities! 🌟
👉 Find out more information here: buff.ly/49gkN7D
👉 Team registration form: buff.ly/dGwCs6K
Stay tuned for more updates!
#FENS will take part in the Brussels 20K, with a dedicated team running and walking in support of FENS activities! 🌟
👉 Find out more information here: buff.ly/49gkN7D
👉 Team registration form: buff.ly/dGwCs6K
Stay tuned for more updates!
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🏃 A heads-up for the #FENS community!
#FENS will take part in the Brussels 20K, with a dedicated team running and walking in support of FENS activities! 🌟
👉 Find out more information here: buff.ly/49gkN7D
👉 Team registration form: buff.ly/dGwCs6K
Stay tuned for more updates!
#FENS will take part in the Brussels 20K, with a dedicated team running and walking in support of FENS activities! 🌟
👉 Find out more information here: buff.ly/49gkN7D
👉 Team registration form: buff.ly/dGwCs6K
Stay tuned for more updates!
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come check out what we're cooking here! 📣 early career neuroscience researchers in europe 📣 this will be prior to FENS 2026 in Barcelona - have a look 😎
📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab?
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
Young PI Symposium 2026
Visit the post for more.
youngpisymposium2026.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
come check out what we're cooking here! 📣 early career neuroscience researchers in europe 📣 this will be prior to FENS 2026 in Barcelona - have a look 😎
Reposted by Nikos Konstantinides
📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab?
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
Young PI Symposium 2026
Visit the post for more.
youngpisymposium2026.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📢Are you a young PI or senior postdoc in neuroscience looking to embark on the challenging journey of starting your own lab?
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
📆Then save July 5, 2026 in your calendar and join us in Barcelona for the second Young PI Symposium.
youngpisymposium2026.com
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New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths.
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Butterflies and moths have played historically important roles in developing our understanding of both ecology and evolutionary biology, and neuroethology. In...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths.
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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Share and apply!
📢 Calls are now open for the #FKNE PhD Thesis Prize 2026 and #FKNE Mentoring Prize 2026! Two great opportunities to spotlight excellence at #FENS2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸
🔗 Learn how to submit your application or nomination : buff.ly/xMhQy3k
Read more below 👇
🔗 Learn how to submit your application or nomination : buff.ly/xMhQy3k
Read more below 👇
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Share and apply!
Congrats Bassem - very well deserved!
I am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Congrats Bassem - very well deserved!
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I’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social
We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science.
Take part or share:
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv...
Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science.
Take part or share:
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv...
Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social
We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science.
Take part or share:
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv...
Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science.
Take part or share:
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv...
Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
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Apply for a PhD in Paris!! A project to come and work with me and my team at the GutSense lab included in the list! 🪰🧠⛽
📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back!
Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute.
📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026.
👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...
Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute.
📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026.
👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...
The DIM C-BRAINS international PhD program opens its 2026 call for applications. | Paris Brain Institute
The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back. Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by the Institut du Cerveau. Applicati...
parisbraininstitute.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Apply for a PhD in Paris!! A project to come and work with me and my team at the GutSense lab included in the list! 🪰🧠⛽
Cool preprint from the lab of Raouf Issa at ESPCI in Paris with a small contribution from our lab at @ijmonod.bsky.social
Padmanabhan et al found that a specific set of Drosophila dopamine neurons, which is already active in embryos and stays functionally important for locomotion throughout life.
Padmanabhan et al found that a specific set of Drosophila dopamine neurons, which is already active in embryos and stays functionally important for locomotion throughout life.
Lifelong maintenance of locomotion by embryonically active dopamine neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.28.691140v1
December 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Cool preprint from the lab of Raouf Issa at ESPCI in Paris with a small contribution from our lab at @ijmonod.bsky.social
Padmanabhan et al found that a specific set of Drosophila dopamine neurons, which is already active in embryos and stays functionally important for locomotion throughout life.
Padmanabhan et al found that a specific set of Drosophila dopamine neurons, which is already active in embryos and stays functionally important for locomotion throughout life.
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Having witnessed many HHMI labs during my postdoc, my impression was that many of them struggled to even productively spend all their money.
At some point it seems logical that you just hit diminishing returns; systematic studies have come to the same conclusion. www.science.org/content/blog...
At some point it seems logical that you just hit diminishing returns; systematic studies have come to the same conclusion. www.science.org/content/blog...
Research output as a function of grant support: The scatter matters
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Having witnessed many HHMI labs during my postdoc, my impression was that many of them struggled to even productively spend all their money.
At some point it seems logical that you just hit diminishing returns; systematic studies have come to the same conclusion. www.science.org/content/blog...
At some point it seems logical that you just hit diminishing returns; systematic studies have come to the same conclusion. www.science.org/content/blog...
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***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)
PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation.
See
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
See
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
PhD candidate in biology — theoretical and statistical modeling (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)
Paris in the top-5 bike-friendly cities in the world ❤️ www.paris.fr/pages/paris-...
Paris rentre dans le top 5 des villes cyclables
La capitale française décroche la 5e place mondiale dans l’index international des villes cyclables du cabinet Copenhagenize. Paris est en 2e position pour la qualité de son infrastructure cyclable.
www.paris.fr
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Paris in the top-5 bike-friendly cities in the world ❤️ www.paris.fr/pages/paris-...