Christopher Noack

Christopher Noack

@chnoack.bsky.social

Fundamental aspects of neural circuit evolution and development. Focused on early developmental stages. PostDoc in the Technau Lab @univie.ac.at

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Christopher Noack
@chnoack.bsky.social

How to clone a nerve net? In our new paper, we show how Hydra builds a new, fully functional nerve net during asexual reproduction, step by step, until the bud takes control and shows independent behavior. Out now 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

doi.orgIn vivo replication of a fully functional nerve net in a clonally reproducing animal - Communications BiologyCommunications Biology - In vivo replication of a fully functional nerve net in a clonally reproducing animal

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Frank Melzner
@frankmelzner.bsky.social

Our lab is hiring a long-term Postdoc in marine animal physiology (5 years). Great chance to work with us phenotyping mussels & to develop your own research program on questions of choice. Excellent lab and aquaristics facilities and easy access to European seas: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...

jobs.univie.ac.atPostdoc marine evolutionary physiology (University Assistant)Postdoc marine evolutionary physiology (University Assistant)

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Gautam Dey
@gautamdey.bsky.social

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back. I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

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DaganLab
@daganlab.bsky.social

Dear colleagues, even if you are short in time, take a look at Figure 5B. Quote from the discussion: "First and foremost, we need to separate the different tasks required of a just accountability system: detection, investigation, and sanctioning."

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

reeserichardson.blogA do-or-die moment for the scientific enterpriseReflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

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Reese Richardson
@reeserichardson.bsky.social

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

reeserichardson.blogA do-or-die moment for the scientific enterpriseReflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

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christophgiez.bsky.social
@christophgiez.bsky.social

Just dropped a new preprint! 🧠✨ We did some exciting comparative connectomics and uncovered new insights into how neural circuits evolve. Check it out 👇 #neuroscience #connectomics #preprint #evolution

Lucia Prieto Godino@neuroluci.bsky.social

How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇 bit.ly/44aVm9E

Christopher Noack
@chnoack.bsky.social

I am excited to share our new publication in @pnas.org on the de novo nerve net assembly in Hydra embryos showing that neural circuits self-assemble through activity-driven processes, modulated by temperature and the microbiome. Thanks to all colleagues involved here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

pnas.orgAssembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by temperature and the microbiome | PNASUnderstanding how neural populations emerge to give rise to behavior is a major goal in neuroscience. Here, we explore the self-assembly of neural ...

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Universität Kiel (CAU)
@uni-kiel.de

Die Leopoldina beruft Prof. Thomas Bosch, Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie an der #UniKiel, zu ihrem neuen Mitglied. Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften ehrt ihn für herausragende Leistungen in der Erforschung der Wirts-Mikroben-Beziehungen und ihrer Bedeutung für Gesundheit und Krankheit:

uni-kiel.deThomas Bosch zum Leopoldina-Mitglied ernanntNationale Akademie der Wissenschaften ehrt CAU-Professor für die Erforschung der Wirts-Mikroben-Beziehungen

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Nature
@nature.com

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

go.nature.comTrump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhereUS President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

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genikhovich.bsky.social
@genikhovich.bsky.social

Our atlas of BMP signaling activity in adult Nematostella is finally out! Fantastic, meticulous work and beautiful illustrations by @paulknabl.bsky.social Thanks, @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding our work! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.comA whole-body atlas of BMP signaling activity in an adult sea anemone - BMC BiologyBackground BMP signaling is responsible for the second body axis patterning in Bilateria and in the bilaterally symmetric members of the bilaterian sister clade Cnidaria—corals and sea anemones. Howev...

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Fabian Rentzsch
@fabianrentzsch.bsky.social

We posted our surprising finding that removal of the nervous system in Nematostella always leads to the regeneration of a second head. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

biorxiv.orgEctopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemoneSome animals are able to regenerate all missing cell types and large body parts after bisection, a phenomenon called whole-body regeneration. Many of these animals regenerate the correct tissues and s...

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Christian R Voolstra
@reefgenomics.bsky.social

new work: deep dive into microbiome differences of coral exhibiting thermally resilient & susceptible phenotypes, long time coming, great team effort @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #coral #bleaching #microbiome

science.orgInherent differential microbial assemblages and functions associated with corals exhibiting different thermal phenotypesKey multidomain microbial members of thermal resistant corals represent putative avenues for conservation strategies.
Christopher Noack
@chnoack.bsky.social

Finally, the major part of my PhD is now available as preprint showing the de novo assembly of a functioning neural population in Hydra embryos!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social

Assembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by environmental signals including the microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.10.627692v1

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