Benjamin Boumard

In animals with large genomes, finding cis-regulatory elements can be very challenging. Enhancers can be located tens/hundreds of kb away from their target promoters. We face this challenge in Parhyale, with >3 Gbp genome.
We just published a preprint describing how we are tackling this problem. /1

Calling all Ocean-Inspired Photographers!

We are inviting photographers from around the world to enter the Ocean Image Collection Photography Competition 2026.

Find out more and enter - https://www.mba.ac.uk/ocean-image-collection/

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Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdoc Opening! 🚨
Thrilled to (belatedly!) share that I’ve received @hfspo.bsky.social grant in collaboration with @KatherinaPetrou "Plant-like solar tracking in a photosymbiotic animal."
We are hiring a Postdoc to join the team
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social!
Apply👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO766/r...

Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in
Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :)
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Congrats Floris et al!!!

Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...

How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers?

Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Congratulations to all authors.

Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social
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Un poste de Professeur des Universités va être ouvert lors de la campagne d’emploi 2026 à l’université Claude Bernard Lyon1 -
Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes.
Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire.
Profil ci-joint.
Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.

Sign up date coming quickly!
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

Comparative transcriptomics reveal the common anteroposterior molecular blueprint of adult bilaterian guts Bilaterian guts share conserved embryonic patterning, but how does this relates to adult gut organization? This study uses transcriptomic analyses across five species to reveal conserved transcription...

📝 The anteroposterior (AP) molecular blueprint of adult guts is shared across bilaterians
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Here, Stefano Vianello et al. used comparative transcriptomics to deconstruct the AP organization of adult bilaterian guts, and propose a model of the gut of the bilaterian ancestor 🍽️🐛

Have You Ever Really Seen the Moon? YouTube video by The Atlantic

I always love watching this video!
It's a great start for the year to be reminded of the wonders of the universe and nature around us, and the joy there is in sharing the experience of discovery.

Happy New Year ! 🥳

@theatlantic.com
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I liked the preprint, happy to see the final version! Congrats!

An excellent opportunity to join the amazing faculty at the Whitney Labs as a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Applications due December 1!

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

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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

Lophophorata is monophyletic!

Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.

A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!

More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...

I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.

A toolkit for testing membrane-localising tags across species Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...

How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵

Check our latest preprint

Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!

Please apply no later than 31 October!
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📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience

Apply Now! Tenure-track Faculty Position in Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida's Whitney Lab. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation. Multicellular organisms possess conserved safeguard mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of tissue integrity. Exploring these mechanisms has proven instrumental in understanding how tissues robustly...

How do epithelia regulate cell number upon cell loss?
Check it out our new preprint!
THX to @b-tesson.bsky.social, Eric van Leen, Sam Amirebrahimi, Raphael Thinat and @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am a member of the ISSCR 2026 Program Committee Register now

I am proud to be a member of the #ISSCR2026 Program Committee and to have helped develop the outstanding program, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. Register to hear the excellent science presented! invt.io/1bxbi6gtbsl @isscr.org

Starting Monday!!! If you are in Paris, feel free to drop in for this exceptional course!

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila Boumard et al. demonstrate gap-junction-dependent tissue-scale nucleotide sharing, which impacts cellular sensitivity to perturbation of nucleotide homeostasis and replication stress. Drosophila wing ...

The PhD work of @bboumard.bsky.social officially out in print! Happy to share this issue with our downstairs colleagues in the BDD @frelab.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social

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Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.

Pls repost 🙏

www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Just came back from a great meeting in Tutzing on the biology of basal Metazoa. Excellent talks, fantastic posters and very kind and vital community. Thanks also to our keynote speaker, Cassandra Extavour. She was the highlight of the meeting. Thanks everyone for contributing.

Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris Synopsis. Opsins are G-protein-coupled receptors often expressed in neuronal photoreceptor cells and used for light detection in most animals, including cn

First, first-author paper alert!

“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social

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Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!

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Conservation of bilaterian genome structure is the exception, not the rule - Genome Biology Species from diverse animal lineages have conserved groups of orthologous genes together on the same chromosome for over half a billion years since the last common ancestor of bilaterians. Although no...

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians.
doi.org/10.1186/s130...