Daniel Medina-Cano
@danielmedinacano.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Vierbuchen lab (MSKCC), previously PhD at Institut Imagine (Cantagrel/Colleaux lab) /// I do mouse brain organoids to characterize early development and understand what makes each brain unique
Pinned
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I'm really happy to announce that my two main postdoctoral works have been published in the same issue of Developmental Cell! First, the final form of the mouse cortical organoid protocol (tinyurl.com/bddfmx8n), which I recently presented at Development presents (tinyurl.com/36udcpme) and…
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Hello everybody,
I am looking for an Engineer (IE) to help me start the lab at LBMC / ENS-Lyon in April.
We will investigate chromatin organization during replication in yeast.
RT appreciated!
To apply: inserm.softy.pro/offre/187863
@lbmcinlyon.bsky.social
#NewPI #3DGenome #chromatin #replication
I am looking for an Engineer (IE) to help me start the lab at LBMC / ENS-Lyon in April.
We will investigate chromatin organization during replication in yeast.
RT appreciated!
To apply: inserm.softy.pro/offre/187863
@lbmcinlyon.bsky.social
#NewPI #3DGenome #chromatin #replication
December 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hello everybody,
I am looking for an Engineer (IE) to help me start the lab at LBMC / ENS-Lyon in April.
We will investigate chromatin organization during replication in yeast.
RT appreciated!
To apply: inserm.softy.pro/offre/187863
@lbmcinlyon.bsky.social
#NewPI #3DGenome #chromatin #replication
I am looking for an Engineer (IE) to help me start the lab at LBMC / ENS-Lyon in April.
We will investigate chromatin organization during replication in yeast.
RT appreciated!
To apply: inserm.softy.pro/offre/187863
@lbmcinlyon.bsky.social
#NewPI #3DGenome #chromatin #replication
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While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults
Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.
www.science.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
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🎉 In January, I will join the new "Multimodal AI Across Scales" research area at the @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 🎉
More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available.
Feel free to reach out if interested!
humantechnopole.it/en/research/
More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available.
Feel free to reach out if interested!
humantechnopole.it/en/research/
Research - Human Technopole
Human Technopole’s research is based on a mix of fundamental and translational research. We will host extensive core expertise in basic research in areas relevant for the understanding of human biolog...
humantechnopole.it
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🎉 In January, I will join the new "Multimodal AI Across Scales" research area at the @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 🎉
More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available.
Feel free to reach out if interested!
humantechnopole.it/en/research/
More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available.
Feel free to reach out if interested!
humantechnopole.it/en/research/
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Lovely little pre-Christmas present to see this out @natcellbio.nature.com! Some 🔥 new results in here since the biorvix incl (1) a new RARE-GFP reporter ✳️🙌, (2) additional NMP quantification 🔢, (3) no neural tube patterning on RA inhibition 🙅 etc. Enjoy! 😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Modelling co-development between the somites and neural tube in human trunk-like structures - Nature Cell Biology
Makwana, Tilley et al. generate human stem cell-based trunk-like structures approximating Carnegie stage 13–14 of development. They use them to model and study the development of the thoracic and lumbar trunk.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Lovely little pre-Christmas present to see this out @natcellbio.nature.com! Some 🔥 new results in here since the biorvix incl (1) a new RARE-GFP reporter ✳️🙌, (2) additional NMP quantification 🔢, (3) no neural tube patterning on RA inhibition 🙅 etc. Enjoy! 😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
University Assistant/Associate Professor in Control Theory and Systems Biology
Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group
www.cam.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
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So exciting to see this in print! Ever wondered how embryonic cells know what (fate) to become during early development? In particular when they might see different signaling cues? We investigated this!
And a lovely cover from Zoe Ruiz and @oliveringe.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/developmenta...
And a lovely cover from Zoe Ruiz and @oliveringe.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Combinatorial BMP4 and activin direct the choice between alternate routes to endoderm in a stem cell model of human gastrulation
Inge et al. show that human endoderm originates from two converging developmental
routes with distinct dynamics and efficiencies yet similar developmental potential.
Combinatorial activin and BMP4 sig...
www.cell.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So exciting to see this in print! Ever wondered how embryonic cells know what (fate) to become during early development? In particular when they might see different signaling cues? We investigated this!
And a lovely cover from Zoe Ruiz and @oliveringe.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/developmenta...
And a lovely cover from Zoe Ruiz and @oliveringe.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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🚨 We are hiring a group leader in Virology at CIRI !
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
International Call: recruitment of an Early-Career Team Leader in Virology at CIRI!
For further information: ciri.ens-lyon.fr/nous-rejoind...
For further information: ciri.ens-lyon.fr/nous-rejoind...
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🚨 We are hiring a group leader in Virology at CIRI !
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
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We moved the AI@MBL course "Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis" to HHMI Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social).
Join us for two weeks of intense lectures, exercise, and hands-on project work!
Course dates: June 4-18 2026
Application by: January 15 2026
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Join us for two weeks of intense lectures, exercise, and hands-on project work!
Course dates: June 4-18 2026
Application by: January 15 2026
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We moved the AI@MBL course "Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis" to HHMI Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social).
Join us for two weeks of intense lectures, exercise, and hands-on project work!
Course dates: June 4-18 2026
Application by: January 15 2026
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Join us for two weeks of intense lectures, exercise, and hands-on project work!
Course dates: June 4-18 2026
Application by: January 15 2026
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons - Nature
An analysis of cell-type diversity in brain samples from a variety of mammalian species, both during development and in adult animals, reveals that the TAC3 initial class of striatal interneurons is c...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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1/ Happy to share important work done with my co-author Andrew Khalil in the labs of Rudolf Jaenisch @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu and David Mooney @harvard.edu @wyssinstitute.bsky.social trying to assess and fix the major problem of transgene silencing in human ESC/iPSC based work
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
1/ Happy to share important work done with my co-author Andrew Khalil in the labs of Rudolf Jaenisch @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu and David Mooney @harvard.edu @wyssinstitute.bsky.social trying to assess and fix the major problem of transgene silencing in human ESC/iPSC based work
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Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social
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Just a friendly reminder that we’re hiring for the Department of Neuroscience at The Ohio State University!! 🧠 The start of application review has been moved to this Friday, 10/17, but we’ll continue accepting applications until the position is filled!
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39081/te...
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39081/te...
October 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just a friendly reminder that we’re hiring for the Department of Neuroscience at The Ohio State University!! 🧠 The start of application review has been moved to this Friday, 10/17, but we’ll continue accepting applications until the position is filled!
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39081/te...
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39081/te...
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The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵
Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
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Ready to start your own independent research programme?
We're inviting applications for early career group leaders in all areas of biology and biomedicine @crick.ac.uk
Apply by 27 Nov 2025:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
#EarlyCareerResearchers #GroupLeader #ScienceCareers
We're inviting applications for early career group leaders in all areas of biology and biomedicine @crick.ac.uk
Apply by 27 Nov 2025:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
#EarlyCareerResearchers #GroupLeader #ScienceCareers
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ready to start your own independent research programme?
We're inviting applications for early career group leaders in all areas of biology and biomedicine @crick.ac.uk
Apply by 27 Nov 2025:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
#EarlyCareerResearchers #GroupLeader #ScienceCareers
We're inviting applications for early career group leaders in all areas of biology and biomedicine @crick.ac.uk
Apply by 27 Nov 2025:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
#EarlyCareerResearchers #GroupLeader #ScienceCareers
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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍
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We’re launching a major #recruitment call for staff scientists in #ComputationalBiology, #DataScience, and #AI to strengthen Sweden’s life science research. 🧪🖥️
Positions are based at SciLifeLab sites across Sweden’s leading universities.
Learn more and apply ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...
Positions are based at SciLifeLab sites across Sweden’s leading universities.
Learn more and apply ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...
SciLifeLab launches major recruitment call for staff scientists in computational biology, data science and AI
Computational methods and artificial intelligence on large-scale molecular data are transforming the study of biological systems and processes, ranging from molecular structures and cellular processes...
www.scilifelab.se
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We’re launching a major #recruitment call for staff scientists in #ComputationalBiology, #DataScience, and #AI to strengthen Sweden’s life science research. 🧪🖥️
Positions are based at SciLifeLab sites across Sweden’s leading universities.
Learn more and apply ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...
Positions are based at SciLifeLab sites across Sweden’s leading universities.
Learn more and apply ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/scilife...
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We are recruiting!
Visit www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/careers/ for full details of all current vacancies, including:
🥼New Group Leaders [Apply by 2nd November]
🧪Postdoctoral Researchers with @sylvaindelaunay.bsky.social & @clausjorgensen.bsky.social
⚛️ #MassSpectrometry Technologist
More below 👇
Visit www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/careers/ for full details of all current vacancies, including:
🥼New Group Leaders [Apply by 2nd November]
🧪Postdoctoral Researchers with @sylvaindelaunay.bsky.social & @clausjorgensen.bsky.social
⚛️ #MassSpectrometry Technologist
More below 👇
October 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We are recruiting!
Visit www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/careers/ for full details of all current vacancies, including:
🥼New Group Leaders [Apply by 2nd November]
🧪Postdoctoral Researchers with @sylvaindelaunay.bsky.social & @clausjorgensen.bsky.social
⚛️ #MassSpectrometry Technologist
More below 👇
Visit www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/careers/ for full details of all current vacancies, including:
🥼New Group Leaders [Apply by 2nd November]
🧪Postdoctoral Researchers with @sylvaindelaunay.bsky.social & @clausjorgensen.bsky.social
⚛️ #MassSpectrometry Technologist
More below 👇
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Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679721v1
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679721v1
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Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨
FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT
We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.
See below 2 calls👇
FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT
We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.
See below 2 calls👇
October 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT
We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.
See below 2 calls👇
FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT
We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.
See below 2 calls👇
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Ventricle position can be remodeled after heart looping!
In a model of heterotaxy we uncovered a new asymmetric morphogenesis process during which the heart reorients its chambers.
So grateful to all the authors for their expertise and input during this long (but fun) ride 💪
Read more here ⬇️
In a model of heterotaxy we uncovered a new asymmetric morphogenesis process during which the heart reorients its chambers.
So grateful to all the authors for their expertise and input during this long (but fun) ride 💪
Read more here ⬇️
September 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ventricle position can be remodeled after heart looping!
In a model of heterotaxy we uncovered a new asymmetric morphogenesis process during which the heart reorients its chambers.
So grateful to all the authors for their expertise and input during this long (but fun) ride 💪
Read more here ⬇️
In a model of heterotaxy we uncovered a new asymmetric morphogenesis process during which the heart reorients its chambers.
So grateful to all the authors for their expertise and input during this long (but fun) ride 💪
Read more here ⬇️
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Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de