TDvaliLab

The Vienna BioCenter PostDoc Program call is now open! We have 8 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc.

Apply here: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...

#VBCPostDoc

SAS-1 and SSNA-1 form dynamic centriolar satellites in C. elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708307v1

#C.elegans is about to join the 'centriolar satellites' club. Check out our new preprint #centriolarsatellites: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Two funded PhD positions investigating the evolution of sarcomeres @ibdm.bsky.social in @biancah0406.bsky.social and our lab, together with @cnidevo.bsky.social - Interested to explore how similar or different Jellyfish sarcomeres are to Drosophila or human ones?
www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/ibdm_job/2-a...

We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)!

GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging.

Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations.

👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/

🥳 Our new paper on C2CD3 is out in @plosbiology.org
With the labs of @cellarchlab.com , @chgenoud.bsky.social , and @stearnslab.bsky.social , we revealed the mammalian centriole Distal Ring architecture by combining #UExM and in situ #CryoET.
Big congrats to @ebertiaux.bsky.social and all involved.

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

So called microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) are not "organizing centers". They don't control their position (network center), nor MT orientation, length and shape (network shape). The actual organizers are MTs, molecular motors and regulators of MT +ends. MTOCs nucleate MTs.
Let's rename MTOCs.

Last call! Applications for the @crg.eu International PhD Programme 2025 in beautiful Barcelona close next week! Join us and our inspiring colleagues at the CRG - an exceptional environment for discovery, creativity, and scientific growth.
Apply here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

HAK-actin, U-ExM-compatible probe to image the actin cytoskeleton - preLights HAK-actin is a new probe that may help researchers see the actin cytoskeleton in sharper detail using expansion microscopy.

Reliable actin labelling in expansion #microscopy 🔬

Beautiful #preprint from Olivier Mercey, @lreymond.bsky.social & team @dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social

Read the latest #preLight from @kanishka03.bsky.social ⬇️👀
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/h...

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!

Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.

Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

PCMD-1 stabilizes the PCM scaffold and facilitates centriole separation Centrosome stability is essential for spindle bipolarity. Schreiner et al. show that CDK-1 primes PCMD-1 for PLK-1 phosphorylation. Mutations in PLK-1 dock

Our paper on PCMD-1 and centrosome stability is finally online! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 to Alina and the entire team! Very proud and grateful - it was an incredible teamwork @zaninlab.bsky.social! @lifescimunich.bsky.social. If you want to read more check it out on JCB!

rupress.org/jcb/article-...

Schreiner, Mikeladze-Dvali et al. @lifescimunich.bsky.social show that CDK-1 primes PCMD-1 for PLK-1 phosphorylation. Mutations in PLK-1 docking sites impair SPD-5 binding, destabilize the PCM, and delay #centriole separation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Centrosome #PCMstability #Celegans

In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social

Beril and Sophia, great job at the #DGZ50!!! Sophia, congratulations to the Poster prize 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 @zaninlab.bsky.social

Sophia won the poster prize at the @dgz.bsky.social meeting in Heidelberg. Congratulations! 🎉 🥳 😀

If you want to know more about this work check out our preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Also thanks to the organizers for this great meeting!

Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

It's this time again! We had a lot of fun together with the Mokranjac and Guse labs!!!

📢 Hiring 2 Postdocs (CNRS Research Engineer) @ IRCAN (Université Côte d’Azur), Nice 🇫🇷. Spread the word, please.

Focus: intestine aging & immunity in fish 🐟
Start Nov–Dec 2025 • ~€3,175/mo

Apply:
ImmunoGUT (zebrafish) → tinyurl.com/3jx9a4ks
GUTPOWER (reef fish) → tinyurl.com/mt2ekpks

Join us ! We are looking for creative and motivated scientists at to join the group. We are recruiting candidates from various scientific backgrounds including, but not limited to: biophysics, physics, biochemi...

We have PhD and Postdoc positions open in our group. Join us in Lausanne to explore how cells pull off extreme shape changes and how cilia drive biological flows.

You can find more details on the projects available and how to apply in our website:

www.epfl.ch/labs/lpl/joi...

q.e.d Science Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com
@qedscience.bsky.social

We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course!

🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.

📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl

Biocenter is THE BEST!

Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social

Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution Understanding the evolution of the bilaterian brain requires a detailed exploration of the precise nature of cellular and subcellular differences between related species. We undertook an electron micr...

Happy to share our publication - Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

C. elegans: An elegant experimental system for the study of cilia biology Caenorhabditis elegans is a genetically tractable organism that has become one of the leading in vivo models for cilia research. Cilia are not require…

My fabulous colleague (and ex-postdoc) @inechipurenko.bsky.social and I (mostly Inna!) wrote a review extolling the many virtues of C. elegans for the study of cilia biology. A really interactive and collaborative community of people working in this field too.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our 7th Cellbio Minisymposium was super fun (as always)!

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!