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🐸 Amphibians take over Europe!!
📍 Prague. July 3–5, 2026.
The European Amphibian Conference 2026 is coming: 3 days of cutting-edge science, bold ideas, iconic speakers, and serious frog & axolotl energy ✨
👉 Register. Submit. Be there. Do not miss it.
amphib-conf2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
Happy to announce that our latest paper is now out! Have you ever wondered how neural tissues control their size? In this paper, we show that cell division orientation is critical in both the cortex and retina. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
➡️ This study is complemented by a compagnon study focused on the conservation of Mexican tetra blind cave fish 🔽🔽🔽
➡️ In a new Ecology and Evolution paper, Sylvie Rétaux's team @neuropsi.bsky.social and collaborators report on more than 15 years of field studies on the water physicochemical parameters and hydrodynamic regimes in the Mexican tetra blind cave fish habitat 🐟💦.
➡️ Learn more 🔽🔽🔽
🧠 👩🎓 University Paris-Saclay launches its all-new Master in Neuroscience!
One M1 in neuroscience, followed by three M2:
1️⃣ Cognition, Behavior and Mental disorders.
2️⃣ Systems Neuroscience: from cells to brain functions.
3️⃣ Computational Neurosciences and Neuroengineering.
🔽🔽 Learn more & apply:
🦾/💪 Interested in the physiology of motor control? In robotics? In neuroprosthetics?
▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control!
▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
👏 Upcoming seminars at NeuroPSI in January (11:30am):
➡️ The 23rd, Marc Dhenain, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, "Pseudo-prions to treat neurodegenerative diseases."
Followed by two speakers on motor control:
➡️ The 27th, Maarten Zwart, from St Andrews.
➡️ The 30th, Graziana Gatto, from Cologne.
🎖️Toutes nos félicitations à Sylvie Rétaux, cheffe de l'équipe DECA à NeuroPSI, qui a été nommée au grade de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur !
Second paper is a collaboration with Jim Handa's lab at Hopkins. Cigarette smoke exposure induces aging-related molecular changes in both mouse and human retinal pigment epithelium.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The lab's first paper of the new year is out. In it, we investigate the role of the late stage retinal progenitor-enriched SoxE family factors Sox8 and Sox9 in controlling retinal development./1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
..and on the 9th, at 11:30am, we will hear Ariel Levine, from NIH Bethesda, talk about "Building the Spinal Cord". Join us for these two talks at @neuropsi.bsky.social !
📅 NeuroPSI Seminar Series. On the 8th of January at 10:30am, we will be hosting Colline Poirier, Biosciences Institute of Newcastle University.
▶️ She will talk about: "Using spontaneous behaviour to assess primate welfare"
Join the development of the mouse forelimb prosthesis as a post-doc, apply!
Congratulations!! We look forward to welcoming you at #NeuroPSI
Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍
Sylvie Granon, chercheuse à NeuroPSI, a participé à une émission de SynapseTV, la première webTV dédiée à la santé mentale, autours de la thématique des écrans et de leur impact sur le cerveau:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1v9...
Congratulations to our NeuroPSI team leader Carole Escartin for the 2025 Prize Marie-Paule Burrus from @frm-officiel.bsky.social !
💎 Valérie Lavallée, responsable de la plateforme de zootechnie de l’Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, a obtenu la Médaille de cristal du CNRS 2025: une récompense pour son parcours et sa contribution essentielle à la recherche dans notre institut !
🙋♀️ Welcome to Marion Rivalan, who joins NeuroPSI as a CNRS Junior Professor!
➡️ Her project will leverage AI-based methods for the classification and prediction of individual profiles of model animals housed in a naturalistic environment.
➡️ Learn more: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/marion-ri...
🙋♀️ We are welcoming Idoia Quintana Urzainqui to NeuroPSi as a junior Professor! In her new team, she will research the Mechanisms that shaped early vertebrate brains, thanks to funding from a 2025 ERC Consolidator grant.
➡️ Learn more here: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/idoia-qui...
A bit late but a paper from our lab has been published!
Human fingertip regeneration is a fact, it happens in children and adults (not only in children as it has been long believed). We describe here the regenerative phases and analyse the proteome of wound exudates.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨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
Recent Hopkins Hub article highlighting our work on optic nerve regeneration in axolotl. Congratulations to Ted!
hub.jhu.edu/2025/12/11/s...
A couple of papers are finally out too. First, Meis factors are (unfortunately) not sufficient to respecify temporal identity in retinal progenitor cells.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Second, not only does Ptpb1 not repress neurogenesis in adult glia, it doesn't do much in the developing CNS either. Scratch another master regulator off the list.
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
We have opened a call for a post-doctoral researcher !
Our team @touchmovelab.bsky.social researches strategies to provide direct cortical feedback during brain-machine interface control of an upper limb prosthesis in the mouse model.
🎉 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/...
👩🎓 Upcoming thesis defense !
▶️ Cinthia Hernandez Puente will soon defend her PhD on the Redox control of stemness in the Xenopus retina 🐸👁️🧠, supervised by Morgane Locker, in the team of @murielperron.bsky.social.
📅 Join her at NeuroPSI on December the 16th at 1:30pm !