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The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg studies organismic biology beyond the borders of organisational levels. Part of @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en

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Universität Heidelberg verteidigt Status als Exzellenzuniversität – Rektorin Frauke Melchior: „Großartige Gemeinschaftsleistung hat zum Erfolg geführt“ www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #Exzellenzstrategie #ExStra

11.03.2026 17:37 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Today is the day! Make sure to not miss today's SPARK@COS Lecture with Per Ahlberg.

05.03.2026 09:24 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A red sandstone bridge over the river Neckar. The old town of Heidelberg in the background.

A red sandstone bridge over the river Neckar. The old town of Heidelberg in the background.

The gate tower of the bridge: two white round towers with ornamental roofs flanking a red sandstone arch.

The gate tower of the bridge: two white round towers with ornamental roofs flanking a red sandstone arch.

The market square in the old town of Heidelberg, with a gothic church in the middle.

The market square in the old town of Heidelberg, with a gothic church in the middle.

While Silurian stem osteichthyans seize the cover of Nature, it’s a beautiful evening in Heidelberg. My first visit, here to give two lectures. A lovely city!

04.03.2026 19:00 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
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Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

04.03.2026 08:12 👍 28 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
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Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

23.02.2026 17:05 👍 119 🔁 53 💬 6 📌 7
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Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst Volume EM and connectome reconstruction of the apical organ of a ctenophore combined with high-speed imaging reveals a neuronal coordination of balancer cilia in the gravisensory organ.

In @eLife: Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108420
Version of record of our ctenophore nerve-net connectome paper.

18.02.2026 10:30 👍 37 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

Our preprint on the first genome-scale resource for the tuber crop T. tuberosum is now online. Thanks to my co-authors and everyone involved. @cosheidelberg.bsky.social | @greenrobust.de | @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de | @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social

18.02.2026 05:59 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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New week, new HUPs member spotlieght!

👋🏻 Meet Jules Duruz, General Executive. He studies the behaviour of small marine invertebrates to better understand nervous system evolution. He values building a supportive, interdisciplinary postdoc community and especially enjoys HUPs networking events.

12.02.2026 10:43 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Two days of stimulating discussions with colleagues from @rdplab.bsky.social and @igflyon.bsky.social about science and life. Thanks for all the hospitality and engagement!

10.02.2026 22:23 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Today is the kick start of our @igflyon.bsky.social @cosheidelberg.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social common 2-day retreat in Lyon, @ensdelyon.bsky.social ! Very diverse and exciting talks going from plants, algae to animals!

09.02.2026 11:04 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Greenland, here it is again. This time with something really exciting!

30.01.2026 07:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New year - new round of SPARK@COS

Starting off with the 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗞@𝗖𝗢𝗦 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 on 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟲𝘁𝗵 with Per Erik Ahlberg from Uppsala University, Sweden.
He's taking us on an exciting journey to Greenland's mountains. Join us to discover what awaits.

29.01.2026 15:14 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
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We just moved to Bilbao after 16 year living in Heidelberg. I am grateful for the many friends and colleagues that I made during these incredible years. I look forward to the new challenges and opportunities, and to build new bridges between these two inspiring cities

19.01.2026 07:26 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0

We wish you all the best for your new life in Bilbao! Fantastic to see you thrive. Your contributions to COS were outstanding on all levels and we are sad that we lose an outstanding colleague.

19.01.2026 14:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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1st German Fish Model Research Meeting | German Fish Model Research Meeting Discover the 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting—uniting global experts on zebrafish, cavefish, killifish, medaka & more. Join us to collaborate, share breakthroughs, and advance fish biology resea...

#Zebrafish 🐟 meeting klaxon🧨 The registration period for the 1st German Zebrafish Meeting (16-18 Sept) is open www.germanfishmeeting.org with Sessions on Development, Pharma, Behavior, Omics, and more. Deadline for Abstracts at the end of April. Hope to see y'all there! 🧪 (1/n)

19.01.2026 09:20 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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Stimulating visit of students from Seoul National University (SNU) at COS, IMSEAM and central research facilities this week in the context of their Global Leadership Program. Exciting case of international student exchange @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

17.01.2026 09:22 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A Scalable, High-Throughput Optomotor Response Pipeline for Quantitative Analysis of Vision Using Infinity-Pools The optomotor response (OMR) provides a robust readout assay for evaluating visually guided locomotion and has been widely applied to various animal models. We present a scalable, high-throughput OMR ...

New preprint from the @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social. The group developed an "infinity pool" setup to test visual acuity and swimming behavior in medaka.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

15.01.2026 16:45 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Not that this passes without being noticed: The GreenRobust cluster of excellence is officially alive since Jan 1, 2026! Looking forward to at least seven years of exciting science in the field of plant ecology, molecular biology, agriculture and the combination of all these fields. Stay tuned!

05.01.2026 08:59 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Did you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...

21.12.2025 10:28 👍 31 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
BioRevolution IV - Evolutionary Cell Biology meets Neurosciences.
BioRevolution IV - Evolutionary Cell Biology meets Neurosciences. YouTube video by Faculty of Biosciences Heidelberg University

youtube.com/watch?v=KO3Q...

12.12.2025 20:48 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Today’s @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar is on 🍃 given by @hildenelissen.bsky.social from @psb-vib.bsky.social Really cool work all the way from mechanistic science to translation!!!

11.12.2025 14:19 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Comparison of Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference Background: Causal structure learning offers a promising approach to studying gene regulation in cells, aiming to provide deeper mechanistic insights than purely association-based methods. Theoretical...

A new lab preprint is up: Work led by our MSc student Jan Sprengel comparing Interventional Causal Structure Learning Algorithms for Gene Regulatory Network Inference from single cell CRISPR perturbation screens 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

10.12.2025 07:33 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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„Großartige Ermöglichungs- und Ermutigungspreise“: Jan Lohmann erhielt den Lautenschläger-Forschungspreis für Spitzenforscher – Als herausragender Wissenschaftler in einer frühen ... www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #preis #biologie #medizin

08.12.2025 16:21 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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A rare opportunity to experience the grandeur of the Alte Aula of Universität Heidelberg, on the occasion of the award of the Lautenschläger prize to Jan Lohmann of @cosheidelberg.bsky.social Thanks @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy for letting me tag along!

06.12.2025 09:42 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Inaugural lecture to the faculty of Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) and Simon Wiegert (@simwieg.bsky.social) - bridging green and red biology.

04.12.2025 19:58 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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A genome-scale single-cell CRISPRi map of trans gene regulation across human pluripotent stem cell lines Feng et al. present the first genome-scale CRISPR interference perturbation map with scRNA-seq readout across many genetic backgrounds in human pluripotent cells, pioneering population-scale CRISPR pe...

Happy to see this out now in Cell Genomics: A genome-scale single-cell CRISPRi map of trans gene regulation across human pluripotent stem cell lines: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

03.12.2025 09:17 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
2025: Best Master Thesis DBG award: Best plant science master thesis 2025

Very proud that Freddy Igiebor has won a DBG Master thesis prize with his work in my lab on phyB photobody meory function!😃
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...

01.12.2025 17:12 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

01.12.2025 17:44 👍 115 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 1
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New preprint!
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w

01.12.2025 11:28 👍 43 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 4
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Jan Lohmann erhält Lautenschläger-Forschungspreis: Auszeichnung ist mit 250.000 Euro dotiert – Preis für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs geht an Lukas Bunse www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #preis #biologie #medizin #theologie

27.11.2025 17:22 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1