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Bassem Hassan
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It was areal pleasure to visit and exchange with colleagues about the beautiful science being done. Thank you for having me!
neuroalc.bsky.social Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 11d
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Temporal control of neurogenesis”
A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏
@csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @borrell-lab.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
bassemh.bsky.social
Thank you for the invitation. Really looking forward to the visit.
neuroalc.bsky.social Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 13d
We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social tomorrow at #SeminarsIN 🙌
He is a world leader in the study of genetic regulation of brain development.
Don’t miss it!
@borrell-lab.bsky.social @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Julien Pigeon and colleagues show how conserved processes can be fine tuned to result in species-specific patterns of brain development. Thanks to @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social for a great collaboration
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October 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Looking forward to this exciting meeting
October 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...
Heterozygous pathogenic variants in the splicing factor SF1 lead to a large spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders | Bassem Hassan
Latest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Donate to Aide pour deux familles à Gaza, organized by Ghayda Hassan
Bonjour à tous et toutes (english below) Je m’appelle Dre. Ghayda et je suis psycholo… Ghayda Hassan needs your support for Aide pour deux familles à Gaza
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September 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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For those who understand Arabic 😊
A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative.

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الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في ...
الحلقة الأولى من بودكاست "مقابلات مع علماء عرب حول العالم" متاحه للإستماع الآن 🎙️ 🧠 🔬 .. ضيفي للحلقة الأولى هو الدكتور باسم حسن (Bassem Hassan)، قائد فريق في معهد باريس للدماغ في فرنسا في تخصص علم ا...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
Registration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development
@neuraldevgrc.bsky.social
Register early because places go fast!
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social
labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Temporal transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial morphology primes activity-dependent circuit connectivity - Nature Communications
This study investigates the developmental transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial quality control. Authors identify the Drosophila factor Mirana, homologous to mammalian TZAP, as a key temporal re...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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expeditions.bsky.social
“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain.
Discover more in The Brain’s Secret.

#Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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One can only hope that history will judge harshly all those who are complicit in or remain silent in the face of genocide
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I may starve to death before I am able to graduate in Gaza
My only dream is to take the tawjihi exam so I can continue my education. Is this too much to ask?
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August 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social!
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image of web page for Neural Development GRC - go to https://www.grc.org/neural-development-conference/2026/
July 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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edouardmachery.bsky.social
There is only one name for that: this is a crime against humanity. Israel is governed by monsters.
Israel is destroying the subsistence of Gaza's population, from agriculture to fishing
More than 95% of farmland has been damaged or lies in areas inaccessible to farmers, as the Palestinian enclave suffers from famine.
www.lemonde.fr
June 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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r3rt0.bsky.social
"Solo le pido a Dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente"

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Mercedes Sosa - Sólo Le Pido a Dios (con León Gieco)
YouTube video by Rio Grande Records
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June 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Bassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms?

@nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social
Fantastic opportunity for neuroscience research.
The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders.
750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025.
www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...
ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize | Fondation ROGER DE SPOELBERCH
Each year, the Foundation awards the ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize to a laureate for a clinical or fundamental scientific research project in the field of neurodegenerative diseases and certain psychiatri...
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May 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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natneuro.nature.com
A temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circuits in Drosophila 🧪🧠

@bassemh.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social

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Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster - Nature Neuroscience
The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circu...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
New from the lab: @maheandria.bsky.social and colleagues in collaboration with the Hiesinger, Stoeckli and von Kleist labs dissect the sequential emergence of axonal targeting during development in today's issue of Nature Neuroscience:
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Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster
Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Hot off the press:
The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience:
rdcu.be/ek010
Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster
Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...
rdcu.be
May 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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@maheandria.bsky.social and I challenge the notion of a static and deterministic definition of a (neural) cell type and argue for its replacement by a multi parametric probabilistic definition in this perspective
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Toward a probabilistic definition of neural cell types
A classical view of cell type relies on a definite set of stable properties that are critical for brain functions. Single-cell technologies led to an …
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May 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
Anna CHRZANOWSKA, PhD, postdoc in The Hassan Brain Development Team
@hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social
is organizing a trainee-led symposium @institutducerveau.bsky.social June 2-4

Spread the word!

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Nencki Open Lab
Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning Paris Brain Institute, June 2-4th 2025 Applying machine learning and other models to decode behavioral parameters from neural activity is now a standard …
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April 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
bassemh.bsky.social
I contend that the genome does not encode a mean and an error around it. It encodes a distribution. I would suggest that even evolutionary selection is on phenotypic distributions. The mean is just an emergent property of the distribution, and thus not in and of itself interesting to understand.
April 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Registration deadline is soon! Don’t miss this wonderful meeting 👇🏽
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Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights
Like choreography, development consists of a highly ordered suite of steps and transitions. Modifying developmental tempo can affect final size and composition of tissues, as well as their plasticity…
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March 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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institutducerveau.bsky.social
Journée portes ouvertes : le saviez-vous ? Les mouches drosophiles sont des modèles de choix pour les scientifiques. En effet, leur cerveau fonctionne selon les mêmes principes physiologiques que le cerveau humain.
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Last few days to apply!
Post-doctoral position 3 years Wellcome funded in UK
To investigate how experience shapes the brain
Drosophila neurogenetics, imaging, behaviour
Deadline 19/3/25
Pls RP.
#drosophila
#postdoc
#jobs
Apply here

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Research Fellow in Neurogenetics to investigate how experience shapes the brain - School of Biosciences - 98709 - Grade 7
A Research Fellow with experience in behavioural neurogenetics of Drosophila is sought. The aim of the project is to investigate how experience and behaviour shape the brain throughout life, the impac...
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March 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM