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@canaztekin

Group Leader @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social/Branco Weiss Fellow. Studying how to regrow limbs! Alum: @EPFL ELISIR / @Cambridge_Uni @GurdonInstitute EN/TR

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Functional nutrient-genetic profiling reveals biotin and FBXW7 are essential to bypass glutamine addiction Metabolic flexibility is key to survival and growth in all living organisms. In mammals, the pathways supporting cell proliferation in nutrient-limiti…

Certain cancers are described as “glutamine addicted”. But how does this addiction arise, and how do tumors manage to bypass it?

I am excited to share that the results of my postdoctoral work are finally published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social!
tinyurl.com/hs7ep5sa

👇 Check the thread for more!

05.03.2026 15:10 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

I’m thrilled to share that my PhD work has been just published in Cell. After a long and bumpy ride, we uncovered the core function of nuclear speckles -splicing of GC-levelled exons- and traced the evolution of this gene architecture and condensates themselves to amniotes.

25.02.2026 16:53 👍 70 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
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A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story
Led by@margaridaaraujo.bsky.social, in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social
We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma
▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC
#ProtistsOnSky

17.02.2026 13:02 👍 90 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 4

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

10.02.2026 06:14 👍 84 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 1
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Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk

Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹

Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻

bit.ly/467TO0M

02.02.2026 14:01 👍 34 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
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Curious about how to achieve organ-wide #regeneration through locally controlled cell proliferation? Check out our latest computational adventure addressing this problem in the #neuromast within the #zebrafish lateral line.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
(1/9)

01.02.2026 15:27 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Previously we had shown that axolotl tail regeneration occurs in the absence of somitogenesis. In the updated manuscript we propose that vertebral segmentation during tail regeneration occurs through a process of buckling instability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

31.01.2026 15:05 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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A study from the new "Insect Sex Determination and Development research group" is featured on the front of PNAS, uncovering a conserved genetic switch for sex determination, stable across 150 million years of evolution. Read the full press release:
tinyurl.com/bdzebvdf

21.01.2026 07:27 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Long-range chemical signalling in vivo is regulated by mechanical signals - Nature Materials Tissue stiffness mediated by Piezo1 is shown to regulate the expression of diffusive guidance cues in the developing Xenopus laevis brain, revealing a crosstalk between mechanical signals and long-ran...

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

19.01.2026 16:38 👍 86 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 5
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Start your independent as an ELISIR fellow right after your PhD, in one of the most terrific places in Europe !

14.01.2026 13:12 👍 16 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1

Interested in doing an interdisciplinary PhD to elucidate signalling centres that orchestrates limb regeneration? Come to work with the amazing @canaztekin.bsky.social and myself!!

17.12.2025 08:40 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

2) Evolution of species-specific oxygen sensing 🐸🐭🐔🐬
🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/107521/Evolution-of-Species-Specific-Oxygen-Sensing

Please share!

17.12.2025 07:53 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨

1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻
🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions

17.12.2025 07:53 👍 8 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1

New paper from our lab and @friedrich-group.bsky.social !! Insights into morphogen gradient scaling to regenerate a limb at the appropriate size. #axolotl, #limbregeneration

28.11.2025 13:19 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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Specialized signaling centers direct cell fate and spatial organization in a mesodermal organoid model Stem cell–derived mesodermal organoids reveal how signaling centers guide cell fate and tissue organization.

🎉 Our deconstructed, stem-cell–based approach to studying signaling centers and limb-development cell types is out! 🥳 So nice to see it in its final form after the preprint— and huge thanks to the community for all the enthusiasm and interest since then!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

02.12.2025 09:14 👍 65 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 2

Big congratulations to all authors, and heartfelt thanks to our collaborators, and colleagues at @EPFL and at our new home @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social, and to @snsf.ch NRP79 for generous support!

02.12.2025 09:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Specialized signaling centers direct cell fate and spatial organization in a mesodermal organoid model Stem cell–derived mesodermal organoids reveal how signaling centers guide cell fate and tissue organization.

🎉 Our deconstructed, stem-cell–based approach to studying signaling centers and limb-development cell types is out! 🥳 So nice to see it in its final form after the preprint— and huge thanks to the community for all the enthusiasm and interest since then!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

02.12.2025 09:14 👍 65 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 2
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Cadherins modulate the self-organizing potential of pseudo-embryos Gastruloids derived from ES cells mimic embryonic patterning through robust self-organization. Mayran et al. uncover that this competence depends on a cadherin switch regulated by Snai1-driven E-cadhe...

Happy to present the final version of our Cadherin and gastruloid manuscript, online at @cp-cellreports.bsky.social.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Initially in BiorXiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) 1/12

17.11.2025 10:36 👍 44 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 1

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

06.11.2025 14:49 👍 130 🔁 64 💬 7 📌 13

🧪 Looking for candidates with experience in stem cell culture, quantitative image analysis, or modeling — and eager to learn!
📩 Interested? Contact us!

21.10.2025 06:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !

21.10.2025 06:56 👍 19 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
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Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

11.10.2025 08:22 👍 82 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 3
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🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

16.10.2025 06:23 👍 283 🔁 110 💬 7 📌 11

Huge congratulations to Cagri and the team! This looks truly revolutionary!

18.10.2025 10:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

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...
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10.10.2025 12:50 👍 232 🔁 83 💬 14 📌 15

Thanks a lot, Eve!

09.10.2025 10:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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👇

02.10.2025 11:00 👍 28 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 2
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Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes.

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

29.09.2025 16:44 👍 173 🔁 74 💬 10 📌 2

Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!

23.09.2025 19:39 👍 52 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 3
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📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminars

📅 Oct. 7th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Invited by the @stemdevevo.bsky.social Lab , @canaztekin.bsky.social will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme « Signaling centers of appendage regeneration: from single cells to species »

➡️ buff.ly/Nvw4YZn

23.09.2025 08:01 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1