Christopher Thomas
@ovarylab.bsky.social
Repro biologist | Group leader at the Marseille Developmental Biology Institute, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université 🇫🇷 He/him.
We use #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚
https://www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/team/control-and-dynamics-o
We use #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚
https://www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/team/control-and-dynamics-o
Pinned
💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
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📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
January 23, 2026 at 6:41 AM
📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
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Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
January 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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🎆 Happy new year and our first 2026 issue is out!
Cover: #epiblast development
👉Perspective: biological clocks
👉Review: #mitosis #CellDeath #inflammation
🔬 #chromatin #cancer #Bcells #Tcells #autophagy #organoids #mechanobiology #TranscriptionFactors #Xist & more!
www.nature.com/ncb/volumes/...
Cover: #epiblast development
👉Perspective: biological clocks
👉Review: #mitosis #CellDeath #inflammation
🔬 #chromatin #cancer #Bcells #Tcells #autophagy #organoids #mechanobiology #TranscriptionFactors #Xist & more!
www.nature.com/ncb/volumes/...
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
🎆 Happy new year and our first 2026 issue is out!
Cover: #epiblast development
👉Perspective: biological clocks
👉Review: #mitosis #CellDeath #inflammation
🔬 #chromatin #cancer #Bcells #Tcells #autophagy #organoids #mechanobiology #TranscriptionFactors #Xist & more!
www.nature.com/ncb/volumes/...
Cover: #epiblast development
👉Perspective: biological clocks
👉Review: #mitosis #CellDeath #inflammation
🔬 #chromatin #cancer #Bcells #Tcells #autophagy #organoids #mechanobiology #TranscriptionFactors #Xist & more!
www.nature.com/ncb/volumes/...
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Deadline today!
Please apply for the @cshlxeno course:
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Frogs: A biologist’s best friend
YouTube video by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Deadline today!
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Starting the year socially with a “Winter Before Work” coffee tasting hosted by @centuri-ls.bsky.social ☕️❄️
January 13, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Starting the year socially with a “Winter Before Work” coffee tasting hosted by @centuri-ls.bsky.social ☕️❄️
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Great first international lab outing at #Fertility2026 in Edinburgh! 🙌🏼🏴
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Great first international lab outing at #Fertility2026 in Edinburgh! 🙌🏼🏴
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
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Good start for 2026: Our work on mucociliary progenitors and how FOXI1 regulates them as well as ionocyte specification is now out and open access.
tinyurl.com/Bowden-Engel...
Congrats to all authors and thanks to @dfg.de @cibss.bsky.social @sfb1453.bsky.social @for5547.bsky.social for support!
tinyurl.com/Bowden-Engel...
Congrats to all authors and thanks to @dfg.de @cibss.bsky.social @sfb1453.bsky.social @for5547.bsky.social for support!
Foxi1 regulates multipotent mucociliary progenitors and ionocyte specification through transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms
The transcription factor Foxi1 regulates ionocytes across species and organs and it is associated with several human diseases, but its function in epidermis remains unclear. This study shows that low ...
tinyurl.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Good start for 2026: Our work on mucociliary progenitors and how FOXI1 regulates them as well as ionocyte specification is now out and open access.
tinyurl.com/Bowden-Engel...
Congrats to all authors and thanks to @dfg.de @cibss.bsky.social @sfb1453.bsky.social @for5547.bsky.social for support!
tinyurl.com/Bowden-Engel...
Congrats to all authors and thanks to @dfg.de @cibss.bsky.social @sfb1453.bsky.social @for5547.bsky.social for support!
Great first international lab outing at #Fertility2026 in Edinburgh! 🙌🏼🏴
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Great first international lab outing at #Fertility2026 in Edinburgh! 🙌🏼🏴
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social
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Don't forget to register for our upcoming Spring Meeting: 'Molecules to Morphogenesis'
Get your abstracts submitted by the 16th of January!
bsdb.org/meetings
Get your abstracts submitted by the 16th of January!
bsdb.org/meetings
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Don't forget to register for our upcoming Spring Meeting: 'Molecules to Morphogenesis'
Get your abstracts submitted by the 16th of January!
bsdb.org/meetings
Get your abstracts submitted by the 16th of January!
bsdb.org/meetings
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Another pine pollen for #FluorescenceFriday! It seems that this year too, I still won't get tired of colour coding my microscopy 🧡💜💙💚❤️
January 9, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Another pine pollen for #FluorescenceFriday! It seems that this year too, I still won't get tired of colour coding my microscopy 🧡💜💙💚❤️
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New study from Chou, McCartney et al. @cmu.edu demonstrates coregulation of #actin filament assembly/bundling and #microtubule nucleation/organization during #Drosophila #oogenesis, highlighting the coordinated regulation of the #cytoskeleton required during #development. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
January 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM
New study from Chou, McCartney et al. @cmu.edu demonstrates coregulation of #actin filament assembly/bundling and #microtubule nucleation/organization during #Drosophila #oogenesis, highlighting the coordinated regulation of the #cytoskeleton required during #development. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
January 6, 2026 at 8:13 AM
💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
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Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
January 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
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There is still over a week left to apply.
Please send your documents to maik.bischoff@uni-muenster.de
Please send your documents to maik.bischoff@uni-muenster.de
Join us to study developmental cell biology with a focus on cell migration and morphogenesis.
More info about our research:
www.bischofflab.com
Job posting and application details:
focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology...
#Science #CellBio #DevBio #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #PhDPosition #Drosophila
More info about our research:
www.bischofflab.com
Job posting and application details:
focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology...
#Science #CellBio #DevBio #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #PhDPosition #Drosophila
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
There is still over a week left to apply.
Please send your documents to maik.bischoff@uni-muenster.de
Please send your documents to maik.bischoff@uni-muenster.de
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We have an open PhD position here in Marseille - please spread the word :)
Deadline for application is 28th of January!
Deadline for application is 28th of January!
Are you passionate about the mathematics of data science, computational geometry and topology and want to apply your skills to a beautiful biological question?
Come do a PhD with us!
You will help us understand of how boundaries are established and maintained in early heart development.
Come do a PhD with us!
You will help us understand of how boundaries are established and maintained in early heart development.
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 PM
We have an open PhD position here in Marseille - please spread the word :)
Deadline for application is 28th of January!
Deadline for application is 28th of January!
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Please apply for the @cshlxeno course:
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Frogs: A biologist’s best friend
YouTube video by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Please apply for the @cshlxeno course:
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
April 7 - 21, 2026
Application Deadline: January 16.
youtu.be/T6wu7XYOP3E?...
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Interested in the biophysics of organoids? We just published a review in Dev Cell—take a look! dlvr.it/TPyTb8 #Organoids #Biophysics
Biophysics of organoids
In this review, Weichselberger, Moore et al. discuss how physics-based approaches
illuminate organoid development and homeostasis by integrating mechanical, chemical,
and informational processes. They...
dlvr.it
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Interested in the biophysics of organoids? We just published a review in Dev Cell—take a look! dlvr.it/TPyTb8 #Organoids #Biophysics
💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
January 6, 2026 at 8:13 AM
💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!
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Happy New Year from the McKey Lab! The work hasn’t stopped and we are excited for all the new discoveries this year. 🔬🧬🧫
In the meantime - check out this beautiful immunofluorescent image taken by our very own (and very talented) Courtney Diamond! ⭐
In the meantime - check out this beautiful immunofluorescent image taken by our very own (and very talented) Courtney Diamond! ⭐
January 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Happy New Year from the McKey Lab! The work hasn’t stopped and we are excited for all the new discoveries this year. 🔬🧬🧫
In the meantime - check out this beautiful immunofluorescent image taken by our very own (and very talented) Courtney Diamond! ⭐
In the meantime - check out this beautiful immunofluorescent image taken by our very own (and very talented) Courtney Diamond! ⭐
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Happy to announce that the work is now published and openly available in ACS Nano! Congratulations!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
@insermpacacorse.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
@insermpacacorse.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr
Multivalent Interactions between Chaperone and Ribosome-Nascent Chain Complex Revealed by High-Speed AFM and MD Simulations
Trigger Factor (TF) is a primary ATP-independent molecular chaperone in bacteria that engages nascent polypeptide chains emerging from the ribosomal exit tunnel to assist their folding. However, the r...
pubs.acs.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Happy to announce that the work is now published and openly available in ACS Nano! Congratulations!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
@insermpacacorse.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
@insermpacacorse.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr
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👉 Answer :
🔬 #Mifobio2025
@felixrico.bsky.social's lecture is online !
🎤 "Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues"
📹 👉 youtu.be/4X8LiAKMsKg
@univ-amu.fr @inserm.fr @dynamo-lab.bsky.social
#AtomicForceMicroscopy
🔬 #Mifobio2025
@felixrico.bsky.social's lecture is online !
🎤 "Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues"
📹 👉 youtu.be/4X8LiAKMsKg
@univ-amu.fr @inserm.fr @dynamo-lab.bsky.social
#AtomicForceMicroscopy
Felix RICO : mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues.
YouTube video by GDR Imabio - CNRS
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
👉 Answer :
🔬 #Mifobio2025
@felixrico.bsky.social's lecture is online !
🎤 "Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues"
📹 👉 youtu.be/4X8LiAKMsKg
@univ-amu.fr @inserm.fr @dynamo-lab.bsky.social
#AtomicForceMicroscopy
🔬 #Mifobio2025
@felixrico.bsky.social's lecture is online !
🎤 "Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues"
📹 👉 youtu.be/4X8LiAKMsKg
@univ-amu.fr @inserm.fr @dynamo-lab.bsky.social
#AtomicForceMicroscopy
🪺🪺
Birds lay eggs in a diverse array of colors, patterns, sizes, and shapes.
After looking at nearly 50,000 eggs from more than 1400 bird species, researchers in Science found that egg shape is related to flight ability.
Learn more on #NationalBirdDay: https://scim.ag/3YUZkQc
After looking at nearly 50,000 eggs from more than 1400 bird species, researchers in Science found that egg shape is related to flight ability.
Learn more on #NationalBirdDay: https://scim.ag/3YUZkQc
January 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th!
Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply.
#PHD #CENTURI
Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply.
#PHD #CENTURI
January 5, 2026 at 8:34 AM
The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th!
Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply.
#PHD #CENTURI
Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply.
#PHD #CENTURI
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A planetary atlas of plankton 🪐
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org
January 4, 2026 at 11:35 AM
A planetary atlas of plankton 🪐
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org