Eunice HoYee Chan
@eunicechan.bsky.social
PhD - Senior Research Assistant in Stapornwongkul Lab (IMBA, Vienna).
Cell and developmental biologist.
Passionate bioimager and photographer.
Cell and developmental biologist.
Passionate bioimager and photographer.
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On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...
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🚨Excited to kick off our online seminar series on Metabolism in Development and Physiology!
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🚨Excited to kick off our online seminar series on Metabolism in Development and Physiology!
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
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We’ve officially launched the MetaboDev lab at IMBA 🚀! I’m extremely grateful for all the support from the @imbavienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social community. Special thanks to @eunicechan.bsky.social, the most amazing first lab member I could have hoped for. On to the science!🔬🧬#NewPI
In our latest interview, Kristina Stapornwongkul, the newest group leader at IMBA, shares her journey to joining the institute, why she chose IMBA as the next step in her career, and her vision for her lab exploring how metabolism shapes embryonic development: https://imba.science/49fCrxl
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We’ve officially launched the MetaboDev lab at IMBA 🚀! I’m extremely grateful for all the support from the @imbavienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social community. Special thanks to @eunicechan.bsky.social, the most amazing first lab member I could have hoped for. On to the science!🔬🧬#NewPI
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I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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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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Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.
New life at IMBA. Micropatterned cells.
September 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New life at IMBA. Micropatterned cells.
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🧠 You are in Marseille on September 29th and interested in neurodevelopmental questions, don't forget to register to our symposium "Linking neural development, human disease and evolution".
To register: evento.renater.fr/survey/mini-...
@neuromarseille.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social
To register: evento.renater.fr/survey/mini-...
@neuromarseille.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🧠 You are in Marseille on September 29th and interested in neurodevelopmental questions, don't forget to register to our symposium "Linking neural development, human disease and evolution".
To register: evento.renater.fr/survey/mini-...
@neuromarseille.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social
To register: evento.renater.fr/survey/mini-...
@neuromarseille.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social
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#JobOffer
💼 Post-doc researcher (M/F) in biophysics
📅 November 3rd
📍 @minclab.bsky.social
Apply on the CNRS job portal before August 18th
🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
💼 Post-doc researcher (M/F) in biophysics
📅 November 3rd
📍 @minclab.bsky.social
Apply on the CNRS job portal before August 18th
🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
July 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
#JobOffer
💼 Post-doc researcher (M/F) in biophysics
📅 November 3rd
📍 @minclab.bsky.social
Apply on the CNRS job portal before August 18th
🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
💼 Post-doc researcher (M/F) in biophysics
📅 November 3rd
📍 @minclab.bsky.social
Apply on the CNRS job portal before August 18th
🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Head of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organisation, and one of the world’s leading research institutions. An intergovernmental organisation of 29 Member S...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Flies rock 🪰
Drosophila for the win! When you can afford more than 3 subjects per experiment, your results get more reliable...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible
Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Flies rock 🪰
So happy to see this out!
SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
So happy to see this out!
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#MetabolismMondays
Meet @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social, #newPI at @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, alumni from @viktri08.bsky.social @embl.org - discussing metabolism of embryonic development using #gastruloids.
#theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio #stemcell
Meet @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social, #newPI at @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, alumni from @viktri08.bsky.social @embl.org - discussing metabolism of embryonic development using #gastruloids.
#theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio #stemcell
Metabolic Origins: Steering of early developmental fate #MetabolismMondays - the Node
All the world's a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism Dr Kristina StapornwongkulX:
thenode.biologists.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#MetabolismMondays
Meet @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social, #newPI at @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, alumni from @viktri08.bsky.social @embl.org - discussing metabolism of embryonic development using #gastruloids.
#theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio #stemcell
Meet @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social, #newPI at @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, alumni from @viktri08.bsky.social @embl.org - discussing metabolism of embryonic development using #gastruloids.
#theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio #stemcell
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Have you heard of the 'Matthew effect'? Essentially, that early career success (measured as grant income) predicts later career success in research. These authors argue that grant schemes have morphed into talent identification schemes.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Early grant success attracts more funding: study of 100,000 applicants hints at why
Largest study of its kind explores the ‘Matthew effect’ in research.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Have you heard of the 'Matthew effect'? Essentially, that early career success (measured as grant income) predicts later career success in research. These authors argue that grant schemes have morphed into talent identification schemes.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp
June 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp
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On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025
Girish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social wrote about his experience attending #ShapingLife3, the @sfbd.bsky.social meeting, which took place in the picturesque town of Cassis:
thenode.biologists.com/on-the-shape...
Girish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social wrote about his experience attending #ShapingLife3, the @sfbd.bsky.social meeting, which took place in the picturesque town of Cassis:
thenode.biologists.com/on-the-shape...
On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025 - the Node
Recently, I attended ‘Shaping Life 3’, the quadrennial meeting of the French Society of Developmental Biology (SFBD). The first of these meetings happened
thenode.biologists.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025
Girish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social wrote about his experience attending #ShapingLife3, the @sfbd.bsky.social meeting, which took place in the picturesque town of Cassis:
thenode.biologists.com/on-the-shape...
Girish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social wrote about his experience attending #ShapingLife3, the @sfbd.bsky.social meeting, which took place in the picturesque town of Cassis:
thenode.biologists.com/on-the-shape...
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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...
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
June 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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...
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
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What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations?
I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!
I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!
June 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations?
I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!
I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!
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Sex is complicated.
“Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports. This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral affecting sex determination”
#ReproSky 🧪 #Development
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports. This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral affecting sex determination”
#ReproSky 🧪 #Development
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient
The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Sex is complicated.
“Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports. This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral affecting sex determination”
#ReproSky 🧪 #Development
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports. This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral affecting sex determination”
#ReproSky 🧪 #Development
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Changes to Starting and Consolidator Grant eligibility finally in place! #erc
Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
europa.eu
June 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Changes to Starting and Consolidator Grant eligibility finally in place! #erc
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Check out our "In Preprints" @dev-journal.bsky.social w/ Yonit Maroudas-Sacks & Marc Trani Bustos @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social, putting recent #gastruloid work from @viktri08.bsky.social @thomasgregor.bsky.social @amartinezarias.bsky.social labs in broader perspective: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In preprints: exploring developmental robustness and timing with gastruloids
How developmental processes are coordinated in time and space to ensure the robust formation of complex, functional patterns during embryogenesis remains an outstanding question. Investigating this in...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Check out our "In Preprints" @dev-journal.bsky.social w/ Yonit Maroudas-Sacks & Marc Trani Bustos @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social, putting recent #gastruloid work from @viktri08.bsky.social @thomasgregor.bsky.social @amartinezarias.bsky.social labs in broader perspective: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Do you have some cool results to present to the #Drosophila community at #EDRC2025 ? Please do not forget that abstract submissions are opened until the 28th of May edrc2025alicante.com/abstracts/
May 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do you have some cool results to present to the #Drosophila community at #EDRC2025 ? Please do not forget that abstract submissions are opened until the 28th of May edrc2025alicante.com/abstracts/
May 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
May 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....