Christopher Thomas
@ovarylab.bsky.social
Repro biologist | Group leader at the Marseille Developmental Biology Institute, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université. He/him.
We use #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚
https://www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/team/control-and-dynamics-o
We use #LiveImaging to study how the dynamic #ovary makes healthy #eggs 🔬🥚
https://www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/team/control-and-dynamics-o
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Christopher Thomas
@ovarylab.bsky.social
· Jul 18
Pleased to share my new review:
Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚
Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚
Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
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🌟 We’re happy to share that @adelaljord.bsky.social will be speaking at the upcoming @embo.org Workshop taking place at @icfo.eu next February: "Intracellular Mechanics and Organelle Mechanobiology »
👉 Don’t miss it - applications are now open❗ meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...
@crg.eu @prbb.org
👉 Don’t miss it - applications are now open❗ meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...
@crg.eu @prbb.org
Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology
Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…
meetings.embo.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Want to join a happy bunch 🥳 to organise meetings, outreach activities and other initiatives about developmental biology in France? Apply and/or vote 🗳️!
🚨🚨🚨
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Want to join a happy bunch 🥳 to organise meetings, outreach activities and other initiatives about developmental biology in France? Apply and/or vote 🗳️!
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The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚨🚨🚨
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members
We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists
To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to sfbd@sfbd.fr by December 4th
Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th
Please share the info
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🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
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Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!
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🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
Egg freezing, fertility tech and why ovulation is like the Hunger Games.
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
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Tricky questions and challenging discussions, but I hope we communicated the importance of basic developmental biology research and social context when it comes to the #futureoffertility #ivf Available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎤 www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
What is the future of fertility?
Professor Brian Cox and our expert panel explore the science of fertility.
Biology has come a long way, but when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development, our knowledge is still surpr...
www.lnk.to
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Tricky questions and challenging discussions, but I hope we communicated the importance of basic developmental biology research and social context when it comes to the #futureoffertility #ivf Available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎤 www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
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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...
🔗 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
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...
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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New PhD opportunity studying oocyte biology. Excited about this new direction in the lab.
The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte with Dr Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New PhD opportunity studying oocyte biology. Excited about this new direction in the lab.
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The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte with Dr Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The ageing nucleus in the mammalian oocyte with Dr Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A versatile cohesion manipulation system probes female reproductive age-related egg aneuploidy - Nature Aging
To study pathways that lead to aneuploidy during aging, the authors provide a system that enables cohesion protein depletion in mouse oocytes, mimicking effects that occur during aging. They uncover a...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microfluidic Platforms for Organ-on-a-Chip Models: Creating dynamic microenvironments for organoid and multi-organ systems
Organoids have revolutionized in vitro modeling of human development and disease, yet their full potential remains constrained by the limited spatial …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🔥A second preprint from our lab this week!
Especially proud of this one that helps unlock a black box in #reproduction.
We propose a #morphogenetic framework for #oocyte production from germline stem cells in #zebrafish and from progenitors in humans.
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www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Especially proud of this one that helps unlock a black box in #reproduction.
We propose a #morphogenetic framework for #oocyte production from germline stem cells in #zebrafish and from progenitors in humans.
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www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Morphogenetic ovarian modules for oocyte production from germline stem cells
Oocyte production from early progenitors in the fetal ovary determines the ovarian reserve and impacts lifelong female reproduction, yet its developmental regulation remains elusive. Early progenitors...
www.researchsquare.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔥A second preprint from our lab this week!
Especially proud of this one that helps unlock a black box in #reproduction.
We propose a #morphogenetic framework for #oocyte production from germline stem cells in #zebrafish and from progenitors in humans.
>
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Especially proud of this one that helps unlock a black box in #reproduction.
We propose a #morphogenetic framework for #oocyte production from germline stem cells in #zebrafish and from progenitors in humans.
>
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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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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📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
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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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When #halloween meets #FluorescenceFriday 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When #halloween meets #FluorescenceFriday 🎃
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Learn more about our 2024 France-BioImaging #ImageContest Top 3! 🏆🔬
🥈 Dalia El Arawi!
Dalia won the 2nd place with a beautiful microscopy image which represents an embryonic organoid at the gastrula stage, an early stage of development.
👉 Full article on france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
🥈 Dalia El Arawi!
Dalia won the 2nd place with a beautiful microscopy image which represents an embryonic organoid at the gastrula stage, an early stage of development.
👉 Full article on france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Learn more about our 2024 France-BioImaging #ImageContest Top 3! 🏆🔬
🥈 Dalia El Arawi!
Dalia won the 2nd place with a beautiful microscopy image which represents an embryonic organoid at the gastrula stage, an early stage of development.
👉 Full article on france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
🥈 Dalia El Arawi!
Dalia won the 2nd place with a beautiful microscopy image which represents an embryonic organoid at the gastrula stage, an early stage of development.
👉 Full article on france-bioimaging.org/announcement...
Reposted by Christopher Thomas
La @socneuro.bsky.social a publié avec plusieurs Sociétés savantes et Associations de patients une tribune dans Le Monde « Budget 2026 : La taxation des expérimentations animales mettrait en péril la recherche en France » : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
Budget 2026 : « La taxation des expérimentations animales mettrait en péril la recherche en France »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », des représentants de sociétés savantes, de fondations, d’associations et de réseaux scientifiques mettent en garde contre le dépôt d’amendements au projet de lo...
www.lemonde.fr
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
La @socneuro.bsky.social a publié avec plusieurs Sociétés savantes et Associations de patients une tribune dans Le Monde « Budget 2026 : La taxation des expérimentations animales mettrait en péril la recherche en France » : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
#plf2026 @sneuroendo.bsky.social
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We are hiring an Imaging Scientis. Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We are hiring an Imaging Scientis. Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887
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Really happy and proud to share my PhD work! This has been a fun and collaborative project that led to the discovery of a unique biophysical mechanism of axial elongation in mouse gastruloids and human gastruloids, and confirmed our key findings in vivo with mouse embryos. Check it out down below!
Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Really happy and proud to share my PhD work! This has been a fun and collaborative project that led to the discovery of a unique biophysical mechanism of axial elongation in mouse gastruloids and human gastruloids, and confirmed our key findings in vivo with mouse embryos. Check it out down below!
Reposted by Christopher Thomas
Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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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🔊New preprint from our lab!
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Zygotene cilia regulate meiosis, germ cell development and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
Germ cells accurately organize their chromosomes through the program of meiosis to successfully generate haploid gametes for fertilization1. Chromosomal pairing, which is essential for homologous reco...
www.researchsquare.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔊New preprint from our lab!
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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Happy Sunday ovo-lovers! A new issue of #cebooc is here!
biomed.news/bims-cebooc/...
This week 2 stunning highlights: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41129643/ and pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41131150/
Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!
biomed.news/bims-cebooc/...
This week 2 stunning highlights: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41129643/ and pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41131150/
Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Happy Sunday ovo-lovers! A new issue of #cebooc is here!
biomed.news/bims-cebooc/...
This week 2 stunning highlights: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41129643/ and pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41131150/
Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!
biomed.news/bims-cebooc/...
This week 2 stunning highlights: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41129643/ and pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41131150/
Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!