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Rodrigo Young
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Developmental biologist studying eye formation at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.
https://zebrafishucl.org/young-lab
#zebrafish #eye #devbio
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cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
📢Drive Your Own Project on the Genomics of Aging!

Ready to launch an independent research program?

The teams of Juan Tena and @jrmarmor.bsky.social are seeking visionary candidates for the prestigious #ComFuturo iAGE call!

📍CABD, Sevilla

Deadline:January 9th, 2026

🔗 fgcsic.es/en/convocato...
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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burgesslab.bsky.social
Wrote a big review with my friend and colleague @varshneylab.social on the state-of-the-art in CRISPR used experimentally in vivo. We wanted to focus on their use in experimental vertebrate animals (apparently passé now but we persist).
CRISPR-based functional genomics tools in vertebrate models - Experimental & Molecular Medicine
Recent advances in DNA sequencing have allowed scientists to gather vast amounts of genetic data, but understanding what those sequences actually do requires additional tools that allow scientists to ...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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amandajcarr.bsky.social
Excited to be offering a new Macular Society funded UK PhD studentship at @ucleye.bsky.social with Giulia De Rossi. The project will investigate a new therapeutic target for fibrosis in age-related macular degeneration. Deadline for applications is 14th July. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Understanding and targeting fibrosis in neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding and targeting fibrosis in neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
rodrigoyoung.bsky.social
I'm very lucky to work with these great young scientists!
younglab.bsky.social Young lab @UCL @younglab.bsky.social · Jun 16
@mmaftei.bsky.social @smikulamrstakova.bsky.social and @aitorbg.bsky.social from our lab showed their research at the @ucleye.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Early Career Researcher meeting. They all did fantastic and Aitor was awarded the best poster prize… congratulations Aitor! #devbio #zebrafish #science
June 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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burgesslab.bsky.social
GRCz12tu is available on Genbank. This will be one of two genomes that will be considered "reference" genomes, there will also be a GRCz12ab assembly coming. It has entered the NCBI annotation pipeline and will also go into the Ensembl annotation pipeline.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...
Danio rerio genome assembly GRCz12tu
- Danio rerio
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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valetornini.bsky.social
We're growing and recruiting! Please share this open position in our lab at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (www.torninilab.org) for a Staff Research Associate I (SRA I) position - jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/6546
Tornini Lab | UCLA
Tornini Lab @ UCLA - Genetics of vertebrate neurodevelopment
www.torninilab.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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dev-journal.bsky.social
This Primer completes the "40 years of the homeobox" subject collection. You can check out the full collection of review-type articles published throughout 2024:
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/collection/10249/40-years-of-the-homeobox

#DevBio
40 years of the homeobox A large family of developmental genes share a 180 bp DNA sequence, called the homeobox, which encodes a DNA-binding domain. This year, 2024, marks the 40th year since the discovery of the homeobox in 1984, a landmark that fundamentally impacted several fields including genetics, developmental biology, neuroscience and evolution. To celebrate this anniversary, Development has commissioned a series of articles from leaders in the field demonstrating the impact of the homeobox discovery on different disciplines. These review-type articles will be published throughout 2024, starting with an introductory Editorial and collated here. We hope you find these articles interesting and we welcome your future submissions detailing how this remarkable family functions in development, stem cells and regeneration.
December 18, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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markmiodownik.bsky.social
40 fully funded PhD scholarships available at UCL - www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Research Excellence Scholarship
UCL’s prestigious Research Excellence Scholarship (UCL-RES) aims to attract outstanding scholars to undertake doctoral research at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 7, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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deevybee.bsky.social
New blogpost:
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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mvargam.bsky.social
The World Science Forum just started in Budapest and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences asked me to conduct interviews with some of the leading participants.
Home | World Science Forum
worldscienceforum.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
Even though there are great #devbio and #biophysics starter packs, I felt #morphogenesis & #organogenesis was missing as a subfield :D

Far from complete or full. Tell me if you want to be added!
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November 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
rodrigoyoung.bsky.social
… for those looking for a lab to do a PhD
November 16, 2024 at 8:55 PM