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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
@walenteklab.bsky.social
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(he/him) Cilia & mucociliary epithelia development, self-organization, and human airway diseases. 🏳️‍🌈 opinions own & plenty.
Lab link: uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en.html
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kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social
We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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labonnelab.bsky.social
#xenopus 🐸❤️
socdevbio.bsky.social Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 8d
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
xenbase.bsky.social
Ran et al. generated a retinal regeneration model and a tumor model using targeted integration in X. tropicalis (PNAS). Kagawa et al. provide a step-by-step protocol for knock-in targeted integration in X. laevis (DGD). www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
mayorlab.bsky.social
Help us to promote this DevBiol course (in Spanish)
¡Nuevo curso gratuito de Biología del Desarrollo (en español)!
Aprende sobre los procesos que dan origen a la vida
Cupos limitados → forms.gle/sfSV1GTae2nC...
Detalles y programa: drive.google.com/file/d/1-9dd...
#BiologíaDelDesarrollo
Registro "Biología del Desarrollo Sintética: Diseñando la Vida"
Curso Electivo de Verano, dirigido a estudiantes de pregrado Programa: Link Fechas: 5 al 15 de Enero de 2026 Lugar: Santiago de Chile, clases presenciales (Campus Manuel Montt, U. Mayor) Para estudian...
forms.gle
October 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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harnoslab.bsky.social
For all Xenopus lovers: the CSHL Xenopus Course is coming in 2026! 🐸

Led by the awesome @walenteklab.bsky.social & Rachel Miller. Don’t miss it! 💪 #frogpower
October 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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karenjliu.bsky.social
Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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eurocilia.bsky.social
Have you saved the date for #Cilia2027?
It is going to be in March 2027 at this lake near #Milan. 👇
August 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
ijmonod.bsky.social
📢 Neuro Evo Devo meeting

Virginie Courtier organizes a meeting regarding the latest research on development, evolution and neurobiology using as model organisms birds, fishes, butterflies and Drosophila

📆 Tuesday, August 26th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Informations and program 🔗 buff.ly/p3qkFLW
July 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
cilialab.bsky.social
📣 Cilia Lab is growing 📣 - we have 2️⃣ open positions at @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for talented and motivated researchers interested in disease modelling & genetic therapies which target #RareRespiratoryDiseases at their root cause. 🧪🧪#ciliopathies #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia 1/4
July 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
NIH needs to hear from us about why in vivo work with animal models is essential for the advancement of biomedical research! Add your comments at the link below (scroll down to comment box):

www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
jbwallingford.bsky.social
Last chance to tell the NIH if you think animal models are important for biomedical research! 👇👇👇👇
jbwallingford.bsky.social John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 11
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!

www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
labonnelab.bsky.social
40 years ago today -They WERE the Champions and they totally Rocked us.
www.openculture.com/2025/07/watc...
Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985)
“The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July ...
www.openculture.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
jbwallingford.bsky.social
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!

www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
jbwallingford.bsky.social
Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment.

tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
tinyurl.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
dmmjournal.bsky.social
Issue 5 is all yours to explore!

On the cover: Henrike Berns et al. show a two-headed Xenopus laevis embryo stained for a subset of hindbrain spinal-cord projecting neurons (green), filamentous actin (pink) and nuclei (blue).

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Henrike Berns et al. show a two-headed Xenopus laevis embryo stained for a subset of hindbrain spinal-cord projecting neurons (green), filamentous actin (pink) and nuclei (blue).
June 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
bpodaily.bsky.social
Xenopus frog study examines gene variant found in a child with mirror-image organ placement & other developmental defects, reveals role of Wnt11

📷 Henrike Berns et al, M. Schmidts &
@walenteklab.bsky.social Uni of Freiburg in & on cover of @dmmjournal.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
June 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
walenteklab.bsky.social
Congrats to Henrike! Not only she has published her WNT11 study in DMM, but she also got the cover and now was selected for the Biomedical picture of the day!
bpod.org.uk
👏👏👏 the image was taken at the 2024 @cshlxeno course btw. #xenopus 👊
June 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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the-node.bsky.social
Did you know we have a dedicated Jobs Board?

Whether you're looking for your next job, or you have an open position to advertise, do check out our Jobs Board:
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/

#DevBio #StemCells
Screenshot of the Node's Jobs Board. Text reads: Welcome to the developmental and stem cell biology jobs board. The board shows only active job adverts – expired adverts will be moved to the jobs archive.
May 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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bardinlab.bsky.social
Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included.

training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
June 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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cibss.bsky.social
#SaveTheDate and watch out for further updates! 👇
walenteklab.bsky.social Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jun 16
Save the date 📅! Our TriNational #devbio #stemcell Meeting 2025 will be held in Freiburg on Sept. 19th. As always, participation is free and talks will be selected from early career scientists. Joun us 😊
Info: devstemcell.org/home

@biozentrum.unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @igbmc.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
walenteklab.bsky.social
Save the date 📅! Our TriNational #devbio #stemcell Meeting 2025 will be held in Freiburg on Sept. 19th. As always, participation is free and talks will be selected from early career scientists. Joun us 😊
Info: devstemcell.org/home

@biozentrum.unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @igbmc.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
walenteklab.bsky.social
Awesone to be part of this initiative! We'll be studying exciting neuro-mucociliary interactions in #Xenopus! 🥳
hetcci.bsky.social HetCCI (SPP 2493) @hetcci.bsky.social · Jun 11
Proud to kick-off #HetCCI, a DFG-funded research consortium in Germany (Priority Programme #SPP2493 on heterotypic cell-cell interactions in epithelia). Follow us if interested in how epithelial cells interact with non-epithelial tissues in different settings! Webpage will follow asap. #cellbiology
June 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
masslab.bsky.social
Super happy to be part of this initiative! Together with @agvazquez.bsky.social we will be working on the interaction between #Alveolar #Macrophages and #Epithelial #Cells in the #lung
Still time left to apply!! www.linkedin.com/posts/elvira...
#immunosky
June 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
isolderuhdorfer.bsky.social
Gestern Abend haben in Budapest übrigens rund 15.000 Menschen gegen die Viktor Orbán und dessen Partei protestiert.

"Ich bin hier, weil ich Angst habe", sagte mir eine 18-Jährige. Und wie wichtig es ihr ist, dass Reporter aus anderen Ländern da sind, um darüber zu berichten.

THREAD
June 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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embo.org
Are you a research group leader in the #LifeSciences in #Chile? Join us for our first in-person EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders in the country, taking place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from 15–17 October 2025. 🧪

Apply by 15 July:
meetings.embo.org/event/embo-l...
EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders
This course is reserved for group leaders based in Chile and requires participants to attend the 3 full days of the course. Researchers are trained to think about experimental plans and data, t…
meetings.embo.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM