Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
@walenteklab.bsky.social
(he/him) Cilia & mucociliary epithelia development, self-organization, and human airway diseases. 🏳️🌈 opinions own & plenty.
Lab link: uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en.html
Lab link: uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en.html
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Final reminder: abstract deadline today for the @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 meeting! Don’t miss it :)
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bsdb.org/meetings/
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bsdb.org/meetings/
I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!
Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!
bsdb.org/meetings/
March 23-26, 2026 - UK
Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!
bsdb.org/meetings/
March 23-26, 2026 - UK
January 16, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Final reminder: abstract deadline today for the @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 meeting! Don’t miss it :)
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bsdb.org/meetings/
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bsdb.org/meetings/
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Join us on Monday at 15:00 CET for the first @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Plenary meeting of 2026!
Hugues Roest Crollius will present an update on the progress of the French marine #genomes ATLASea programme
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/atlasea... #biodiversity #genomics
Hugues Roest Crollius will present an update on the progress of the French marine #genomes ATLASea programme
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/atlasea... #biodiversity #genomics
ATLASea: progress on sequencing marine biodiversity
Join us for the first ERGA Plenary meeting of 2026! On Monday, January 19, at 15:00 CET, Hugues Roest Crollius will present an update on the progress of the ATLASea program, which aims to unlock the p...
www.erga-biodiversity.eu
January 15, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Join us on Monday at 15:00 CET for the first @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Plenary meeting of 2026!
Hugues Roest Crollius will present an update on the progress of the French marine #genomes ATLASea programme
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/atlasea... #biodiversity #genomics
Hugues Roest Crollius will present an update on the progress of the French marine #genomes ATLASea programme
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/atlasea... #biodiversity #genomics
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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Congratulations, @bioimagearchive.bsky.social! This pubic data repository has received @elixir-europe.org’s CDR and EDD status! Great recognition for a great resource! 🎉
Learn more🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/bioimag...
Learn more🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/bioimag...
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Congratulations, @bioimagearchive.bsky.social! This pubic data repository has received @elixir-europe.org’s CDR and EDD status! Great recognition for a great resource! 🎉
Learn more🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/bioimag...
Learn more🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/bioimag...
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Thanks for sharing @poldresden.bsky.social it was fun talking with @elisecutts.bsky.social for @quantamagazine.bsky.social 🐸⚡️🔬
🎉PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social was recently featured in an exciting news piece about bioelectricity research by Quanta magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social.
Curious? Check it out below! ⚡👨🔬
Curious? Check it out below! ⚡👨🔬
Bioelectricity is used by epithelial tissues to single out and kill sick or struggling cells. This process, merciless as it might seem, helps keep you alive. @elisecutts.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bi...
January 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Thanks for sharing @poldresden.bsky.social it was fun talking with @elisecutts.bsky.social for @quantamagazine.bsky.social 🐸⚡️🔬
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Interested in chromatin and super-resolution microscopy? Looking for a postdoc position?
Join the MPI-NAT! 👇
Join the MPI-NAT! 👇
January 12, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Interested in chromatin and super-resolution microscopy? Looking for a postdoc position?
Join the MPI-NAT! 👇
Join the MPI-NAT! 👇
Tomorrow folks, it's cilia time!
Just over a week to our FIRST event for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣- 13/01/2026 15:00-17:30 GMT. What better way to fire up those neural circuits than dipping into the latest breaking #Cilia and #Centrosome science 🧪? Free and open to everyone- /1
We must have been #ExtraNice this year- our #cilia & #centrosome 🧪 community- 🎅 Santa just dropped the 1st session of 2026 line-up @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposia- www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... See you on the other side! Happy Holidays!
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Tomorrow folks, it's cilia time!
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BSCB NextGen kicks off tomorrow at 14.00 BST. Don't forget to register your place!
Happy New Year from the BSCB! We're very excited to announce 'BSCB NextGen', a new monthly online seminar series aimed at ECRs in Cell Biology.
The series kicks off on 13th January
For full details and how to register see:
bscb.org/announcing-b...
The series kicks off on 13th January
For full details and how to register see:
bscb.org/announcing-b...
January 12, 2026 at 11:36 AM
BSCB NextGen kicks off tomorrow at 14.00 BST. Don't forget to register your place!
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As Julie Packard prepares to retire, a look at her amazing legacy that shaped the Monterey Bay Aquarium and its global impact.
🌊🦑🧪
#scicomm
www.montereycountynow.com/news/cover/a...
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#scicomm
www.montereycountynow.com/news/cover/a...
As Julie Packard prepares to retire, a look at her legacy that shaped the Monterey Bay Aquarium and its global impact.
Explore Julie Packard's 41-year legacy shaping the Monterey Bay Aquarium, ocean conservation, and global impact.
www.montereycountynow.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:41 AM
As Julie Packard prepares to retire, a look at her amazing legacy that shaped the Monterey Bay Aquarium and its global impact.
🌊🦑🧪
#scicomm
www.montereycountynow.com/news/cover/a...
🌊🦑🧪
#scicomm
www.montereycountynow.com/news/cover/a...
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@dfg.de Solange die DFG selber keine sicheren AI tools anbietet oder zertifiziert, darf mMn niemand AI nutzen um anderer Leute wissenschaftliche Anträge zu begutachten. Gegen die Bestätigung der Firmen "merken" sich die Modelle sehr wohl den input und generieren Antworten die Urheberrechte angreifen
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 PM
@dfg.de Solange die DFG selber keine sicheren AI tools anbietet oder zertifiziert, darf mMn niemand AI nutzen um anderer Leute wissenschaftliche Anträge zu begutachten. Gegen die Bestätigung der Firmen "merken" sich die Modelle sehr wohl den input und generieren Antworten die Urheberrechte angreifen
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Is your New Year’s Resolution to design more reliable experiments? Join me at my #LoveMethods26 Experimental Design Assistant workshop. You will have time to design your own experiment, with me on hand to answer questions and give you support. Register here: nc3rs.org.uk/events/love-...
January 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Is your New Year’s Resolution to design more reliable experiments? Join me at my #LoveMethods26 Experimental Design Assistant workshop. You will have time to design your own experiment, with me on hand to answer questions and give you support. Register here: nc3rs.org.uk/events/love-...
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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!
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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?...
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
Rpgrip1l and Cep290 transition zone proteins regulate Moap1 in vitro and in vivo. Congrats to all authors, incl. PhD student Sandra Hägele. And thanks to @sfb1453.bsky.social and @for5547.bsky.social and @dfg.de for support and input! Of course also thanks to #Xenopus 🐸
January 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Rpgrip1l and Cep290 transition zone proteins regulate Moap1 in vitro and in vivo. Congrats to all authors, incl. PhD student Sandra Hägele. And thanks to @sfb1453.bsky.social and @for5547.bsky.social and @dfg.de for support and input! Of course also thanks to #Xenopus 🐸
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And some more exciting findings on #cilia and #proteasomal as well as #cell_death control from a collaboration led by C. Gerhardt and T. Pfirrman lab niw on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
The primary cilium controls programmed cell death via its proteasome-regulating function
Primary cilia are tiny cellular protrusions of nearly every vertebrate cell controlling multiple cellular processes, such as proliferation, differentiation, migration etc. Their dysfunction results in...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
And some more exciting findings on #cilia and #proteasomal as well as #cell_death control from a collaboration led by C. Gerhardt and T. Pfirrman lab niw on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
Tubulin controls the number of microtubules!
January 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Tubulin controls the number of microtubules!
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
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!
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#taxtherich
Vermögenssteuer
Erbschaftsteuer
und in Nachhaltigkeit investieren, nicht in Lobbies.
Ist eigentlich einfach.
Vermögenssteuer
Erbschaftsteuer
und in Nachhaltigkeit investieren, nicht in Lobbies.
Ist eigentlich einfach.
@oxfamgb.bsky.social: "The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026", while "the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget". www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
#taxtherich
Vermögenssteuer
Erbschaftsteuer
und in Nachhaltigkeit investieren, nicht in Lobbies.
Ist eigentlich einfach.
Vermögenssteuer
Erbschaftsteuer
und in Nachhaltigkeit investieren, nicht in Lobbies.
Ist eigentlich einfach.
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Why genome sequence nudibranchs? 🌈🧬
Because these vibrant sea slugs hide some of the ocean’s most extraordinary biological tricks.
From toxin evolution and chemical defenses 🧪 to symbioses, pigmentation, and extreme metabolic adaptations, nudibranch genomes reveal how life innovates in the sea. 🌊
Because these vibrant sea slugs hide some of the ocean’s most extraordinary biological tricks.
From toxin evolution and chemical defenses 🧪 to symbioses, pigmentation, and extreme metabolic adaptations, nudibranch genomes reveal how life innovates in the sea. 🌊
January 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Why genome sequence nudibranchs? 🌈🧬
Because these vibrant sea slugs hide some of the ocean’s most extraordinary biological tricks.
From toxin evolution and chemical defenses 🧪 to symbioses, pigmentation, and extreme metabolic adaptations, nudibranch genomes reveal how life innovates in the sea. 🌊
Because these vibrant sea slugs hide some of the ocean’s most extraordinary biological tricks.
From toxin evolution and chemical defenses 🧪 to symbioses, pigmentation, and extreme metabolic adaptations, nudibranch genomes reveal how life innovates in the sea. 🌊
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
Happy to share that our improved preprint
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
Target of rapamycin (TOR) is a conserved protein kinase and an important signalling hub in eukaryotes. The moss Physcomitrella ( Physcomitrium patens ) is a model organism for plant physiology, develo...
www.biorxiv.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Happy to share that our improved preprint
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional Characterization of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) Signalling in Physcomitrella
has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab)
Join us for a 📢 #CIBSS / SFB 1381 Joint Seminar
🗓 13 Jan 2026 | 12:00–13:00
👉 @jmathony.bsky.social (#uniheidelberg)
🎙 Engineering stimulus-controlled proteins through modular domain recombination
📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1
🔗 kurzlinks.de/4mlv
#SynBio #ProteinEngineering
🗓 13 Jan 2026 | 12:00–13:00
👉 @jmathony.bsky.social (#uniheidelberg)
🎙 Engineering stimulus-controlled proteins through modular domain recombination
📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1
🔗 kurzlinks.de/4mlv
#SynBio #ProteinEngineering
January 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Join us for a 📢 #CIBSS / SFB 1381 Joint Seminar
🗓 13 Jan 2026 | 12:00–13:00
👉 @jmathony.bsky.social (#uniheidelberg)
🎙 Engineering stimulus-controlled proteins through modular domain recombination
📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1
🔗 kurzlinks.de/4mlv
#SynBio #ProteinEngineering
🗓 13 Jan 2026 | 12:00–13:00
👉 @jmathony.bsky.social (#uniheidelberg)
🎙 Engineering stimulus-controlled proteins through modular domain recombination
📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1
🔗 kurzlinks.de/4mlv
#SynBio #ProteinEngineering
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Dear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy
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January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Dear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy
@dfg.de Solange die DFG selber keine sicheren AI tools anbietet oder zertifiziert, darf mMn niemand AI nutzen um anderer Leute wissenschaftliche Anträge zu begutachten. Gegen die Bestätigung der Firmen "merken" sich die Modelle sehr wohl den input und generieren Antworten die Urheberrechte angreifen
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 PM
@dfg.de Solange die DFG selber keine sicheren AI tools anbietet oder zertifiziert, darf mMn niemand AI nutzen um anderer Leute wissenschaftliche Anträge zu begutachten. Gegen die Bestätigung der Firmen "merken" sich die Modelle sehr wohl den input und generieren Antworten die Urheberrechte angreifen
That sounds really interesting.
strong evidence of convergent genome evolution across the animal kingdom suggesting that, in large part, adaptation to life on land is predictable, linking genes to ecosystems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌐🧬🌍
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
That sounds really interesting.