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David de Agustín Durán

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Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cappello Lab at LMU in Munich, Germany. Passionate about the molecular mechanisms governing neocortical expansion across mammalian evolution.

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Fantastic review about neocortical expansion from Soraia Barão and Ulrich Müller!!

10.02.2026 20:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🐈El #CSIC y la Universidad Complutense logran producir por primera vez embriones de #linceIbérico en el laboratorio

🔬 Este hito se ha logrado gracias a la fecundación 'in vitro' de ovocitos de hembras fallecidas en accidentes y espermatozoides criopreservados

➡️http://tiny.cc/wufw001

31.12.2025 11:05 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Ryan Schwark

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Ryan Schwark

What makes humans uniquely human? A single amino acid change in an enzyme may hold part of the answer. Xiangchun Ju and Svante Pääbo discuss how a tiny genetic mutation shaped the human brain and behavior. Listen now: https://ow.ly/92CO50Xghm5

22.10.2025 15:01 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Many congrats, Florencia!!!🥰

03.07.2025 21:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DCHS1 Modulates Forebrain Proportions in Modern Humans via a Glycosylation Change Comparative anatomical studies of primates and extinct hominins, including Neanderthals, show that the modern human brain is characterised by a disproportionately enlarged neocortex relative to the st...

Check out this superb, beautiful and insightful work from @silvianeuro.bsky.social lab led by my brilliant colleague @mveronicapravata.bsky.social! What a thrill to learn about key biochemical changes across evolution contributing to drive brain formation😊

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

16.05.2025 17:00 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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🥁Out on @emboreports.org
👉mTOR controls ependymal cell differentiation by targeting the alternative cell cycle and centrosomal proteins
🔗 embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-025-00460-2
👏Congratulations to Alexia Bankolé, Ayush Srivastava, Nathalie Spassky and all authors and collaborators!

05.05.2025 16:10 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks☺️

25.03.2025 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What a fantastic talk by @silvianeuro.bsky.social at @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social a couple of days ago! Super grateful and excited of having become part of your team as a postdoc at @bmc-lmu.bsky.social

13.03.2025 19:14 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1