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walenteklab.bsky.social
(he/him) Cilia & mucociliary epithelia development, self-organization, and human airway diseases. 🏳️‍🌈 opinions own & plenty. Lab link: uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en.html
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Xenopus frog study examines gene variant found in a child with mirror-image organ placement & other developmental defects, reveals role of Wnt11 📷 Henrike Berns et al, M. Schmidts & @walenteklab.bsky.social Uni of Freiburg in & on cover of @dmmjournal.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

Congrats to Henrike! Not only she has published her WNT11 study in DMM, but she also got the cover and now was selected for the Biomedical picture of the day! bpod.org.uk 👏👏👏 the image was taken at the 2024 @cshlxeno course btw. #xenopus 👊

Did you know we have a dedicated Jobs Board? Whether you're looking for your next job, or you have an open position to advertise, do check out our Jobs Board: thenode.biologists.com/jobs/ #DevBio #StemCells

Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included. training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

#SaveTheDate and watch out for further updates! 👇

Save the date 📅! Our TriNational #devbio #stemcell Meeting 2025 will be held in Freiburg on Sept. 19th. As always, participation is free and talks will be selected from early career scientists. Joun us 😊 Info: devstemcell.org/home @biozentrum.unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @igbmc.bsky.social

Awesone to be part of this initiative! We'll be studying exciting neuro-mucociliary interactions in #Xenopus! 🥳

Super happy to be part of this initiative! Together with @agvazquez.bsky.social we will be working on the interaction between #Alveolar #Macrophages and #Epithelial #Cells in the #lung Still time left to apply!! www.linkedin.com/posts/elvira... #immunosky

Gestern Abend haben in Budapest übrigens rund 15.000 Menschen gegen die Viktor Orbán und dessen Partei protestiert. "Ich bin hier, weil ich Angst habe", sagte mir eine 18-Jährige. Und wie wichtig es ihr ist, dass Reporter aus anderen Ländern da sind, um darüber zu berichten. THREAD

Are you a research group leader in the #LifeSciences in #Chile? Join us for our first in-person EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders in the country, taking place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from 15–17 October 2025. 🧪 Apply by 15 July: meetings.embo.org/event/embo-l...

We are hiring #postdocs and #phd students in the areas of #devbio #cellbio #Bioinformatics #mathematics #modeling. This is the full add with details: euraxess.de/jobs/346670 This our lab homepage: www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en....

We are highlighting Pleasantine Mill, 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert Medal winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week. Pleasantine is also coordinating a @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue and co-organised the 2024 @dmmjournal.bsky.social‬ Journal Meeting. #100biologists @cilialab.bsky.social

Finally spring... 🥳

Very excited that our work describing hu.MAP3.0 is published in @molsystbiol.org. Here we use machine learning to integrate >25k mass spectrometry experiments to place ~70% of human proteins into 15k protein complexes. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology. 🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement. #AcademicJobs

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Huge congratulations to Dr. Magdalena Brislinger-Engelhardt for defending her PhD thesis today 👏👏👏🥳🥳🥳

Join the event "Franco-German Day for PhD Career Paths" on June 10th @unistra.fr: a full-day event dedicated to exploring professional opportunities for doctoral graduates on both sides of the Rhine and beyond. Registration: sondagesv3.unistra.fr/index.php/85...

We are hiring #postdocs and #phd students in the areas of #devbio #cellbio #Bioinformatics #mathematics #modeling. This is the full add with details: euraxess.de/jobs/346670 This our lab homepage: www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/walentek-en....

That's so awesome. 🙌🙌

Join us in person or online for Elias seminar. Gonna be electrifying... perhaps.

On my way to Freiburg! Happy to share our @poldresden.bsky.social research and discuss with our colleagues @cibss.bsky.social thanks @walenteklab.bsky.social for the invitation 🐸

Frog!

The "Biological Differentiation Across the Scales" virtual seminar series kicked off on April 28 with an insightful, engaging talk by @ecbrooks96.bsky.social. Missed it live? Watch the recording: www.isdifferentiation.org/Journal/Page... @rogerslabucd.bsky.social @uribelab.bsky.social #devbio

So incredibly stoked that my hero Ray Keller was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his pioneering work on the cell biology and biophysics of embryo morphogenesis. Well earned, Ray!! www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

Froggers post up!

This is great news. Congrats Ray so well deserved 👏

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab! We characterize the on/off kinetics, light dosage-dependence, and more for a suite of optogenetic signaling activators in zebrafish embryos 💡 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New publication by Henrike Berns, lab members and the Schmidts lab out at Disease Models & Mechanisms. journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/... Congrats to Henrike and thanks to the Motivate program, @sfb1453.bsky.social and @cibss.bsky.social for funding. 🐸 #xenopus #wnt #birthdefects #kidney

Check out new work @plosbiology.org from Daniel St Johnston´s lab visualizing how secretory cargo is targeted to apical vs. basolateral domains in #epithelial cells in real time. Nice collaboration highlighting the power of #RUSH in #Drosophila!

Not the headline I want to post. But for everyone trying to understand what’s happening at UMass Chan, why things are so difficult, this is what’s happening. We are a service institution. We educate; we care; we give; we serve rural MA. We dont make money. Our own govt is crushing us. Link below

Cool new work on metabolic activity in embryonic cell migration using #xenopus! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

#xenopus and chickens coming together to parse Six1 targets and deafness risk genes! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Stoked for the new paper out from @tomorrowbot.bsky.social! A great deep dive into fine grained patterns of gene expression during neural tube closure. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

REPOSTING this here just to officially leave "the other place" Our work on the role of endogenous electric fields in guiding collective cell migration during #morphogenesis is out @naturematerials.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

My quote of the day "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie) First female Nobelist, 1st person to win 2 Nobels, and only person to win Nobels in 2 scientific fields.

Two 2018 CSHL Xenopus course albums returning as new PIs and guest instructors for 2025! #froglife

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A postdoc in my lab with a MOSAIC K99 was notified today that the program was terminated, no new funds to be awarded after this year. To revoke the pathway to independence award is so demoralizing for an early career researcher. I thought this might be coming but it still sucks.

Hey MOSAIC researchers and F31 Diversity fellowship recipients - I think we should band together and sue the federal government for discrimination and other laws that were violated. Thoughts? Any law firms willing to help us out?

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

😭 what a giant we lost... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/a...

FOR5547 members @ GRC Cilia & Mucus meeting - great talk by @walenteklab.bsky.social about Foxi1 #cilia

Exciting project in a top lab with fantastic PI in vibrant city - apply now!

Remember, we have extended the deadline for applications until Feb 14th. Apply here: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...