Sergio Menchero

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

📢 We are excited to announce our latest work on oocyte meiotic checkpoint signalling @crick.ac.uk Led by George Sioutas, the work allowed us to delineate the early steps of the checkpoint signalling program of pre- and postnatal oocytes 🐭🧬https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.13.758765v2

Applications open for the TREE NERC DTP in London www.trees-dla.ac.uk/news/we-are-... We have a cool PhD project on echinoderm fossils and genome architecture evolutions with @imranrahman.bsky.social Feel free to drop a line to inquire!

👩‍🔬BioScaPe PhD position in the lab! 🧫 Investigate & compare stress susceptibility in progenitors and neurons across species, in collaboration with Axol Bioscience. 🔗 More info and how to apply > www.babraham.ac.uk/work-and-stu... 📢 Please share with anyone who might be interested!

📣 New PhD position in our lab with @vmetzis.bsky.social zis.bsky.social and @jamesware.bsky.social. Join us to uncover how regulatory elements control the timing and dynamics of gene expression. Interested in gene regulation, development and quantitative biology? 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join our lab! We're hiring TWO positions: One Wellcome-funded postdoc to study how nutrition impacts male fertility. One Crick-PACE fellowship in collaboration with @taponlab.bsky.social to study the dynamics of mTOR signalling. More info on our website: www.amoyellab.com/join-the-team

It's live! The next @embo.org #EvoChromo meeting will take place next year October in St Feliu de Guíxols (Spain), check it out here: meetings.embo.org/event/27-chr.... It's been great to co-organise with @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social @kellervalsecchi.bsky.social @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social & Nick I.

🚨 #Postdoc position open. Want to understand non-canonical #epigenetic regulation of mammalian transcription? Come work @uoe-igc.bsky.social in Edinburgh! We’re looking for a motivated & collaborative colleague with a strong track record. 📅 14 October 2026 📢 Please share Apply here 👇

I couldn't recommend this enough!

🧫 We’re hiring a staff/research scientist to develop new experimental approaches that capture cell state dynamics. Join us in Heidelberg, details + application here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei... Closes September 30th

Few days left to apply! Please like and share to spread the word!

Hello World ! Reminder about our open postdoc position 🧪🧬 Reviewing applications until October - get in touch to know more about what's hot in the lab these days ! Application details in the post below 👇👇 #EvoEpi #MolaroLab #watwat #ERC

We’re hiring! Experimental #Postdoc and computational and/or experimental #PhD positions in evolutionary genomics are available in our lab in Heidelberg: home.kaessmannlab.org/openPositions Please repost and spread the word!

Increasing and decreasing proteasomal activity affects the pace of neural differentiation. Beautiful work linking protein production and degradation to developmental tempo ⌛

Beautiful work on evolutionary novelties! Top Evo-Devo 👀

We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/

Hello World ! We have another postdoc position open in the lab! Are you a freshly minted Ph.D. with a passion for chromatin and evolution ? Come join our ERC project #EvoEpi ! Inclusive environment + cool people + great science = success details 👉 tinyurl.com/3r6zk54n Repost are always appreciated

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

The Spanish National Research Council, established under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, has published the stories of some 500 researchers and support staff purged after the civil war. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Rq5EiJ

New preprint 📢 Thrilled to share our long-awaited work on the role of RSX in marsupial X-inactivation. This was a huge team effort over the years, led by @aureliencourtois.bsky.social @sermenchero.bsky.social Sugako Ogushi and Waz Varsally, that allowed us to set up genome editing in opossum embryos

The 2nd part of my postdoc is now out as a preprint! A challenging but fulfilling team effort to perform genome editing in opossums. We found that the lncRNA RSX is essential to initiate X-inactivation in marsupials 🦘 A long-standing question since the discovery that Xist is absent in marsupials 👇

The power of cross-species comparisons 🎏 A quantitative definition of heterochrony comparing the transcriptome of (fast) zebrafish and (slow) medaka embryos. And no, not everything in medaka is slow!

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

The YEN conference is around the corner! You can still register and participate in the YEN 2026 Image Competition. More details here: thenode.biologists.com/yen-2026-con...

We are recruiting PhD students! With @surfinnurd.bsky.social and others @exeter.ac.uk ! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... Join us at the Living Systems Institute @lsiexeter.bsky.social Deadline: 8 June 2026 Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!

(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

We’re looking for a technician to join our lab in Dresden - help manage the lab and work with us on a cool 'stem cell zoo' comparison projects! 🐁🚶‍♀️🦏🐒 Apply by May 21! tud.link/wbqrwm

Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute! Only two weeks left for the abstract deadline!

Join us at the Mammalian Reproduction GRC conference next August in Maine! We have a fantastic line of speakers and free slots for talks selected from abstracts. Don't miss it! www.grc.org/mammalian-re...

I am giving a "Crash Course in Embryo Development" for the general public (no science background needed! pitched around GCSE-level) in London on 21st May www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri... We'll dip into development, with a splash of embryo models, and a pinch of ethics. And it's free! Book online 👍

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Last day to submit an abstract! This is a meeting aimed at all career stages, but especially geared on early career scientists (PhD/postdoc), don't feel you need to have a perfectly polished story to present!

This is so cool!

The time has come for another round of QBMM - we have a fantastic lineup of speakers in genomics, systems biology, and modeling cell dynamics. Check it out! Co-orgs @elowitzlab.bsky.social @tinekelenstra.bsky.social @trayon.bsky.social @savitski-lab.bsky.social and I look forward to seeing you

Excited to share our new #preprint uncovering how early human forebrain is patterned. Compared to mouse, human dorsoventral and anteroposterior telencephalon patterning is strikingly delayed, which is correlated with SHH and FGF signalling differences. Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🥳 I am happy to share our latest manuscript published in @natcellbio.nature.com We use #Gastruloids to study #CellCompetition during early mammalian development and find not only that this is highly pronounced in our system but also tightly restricted in time. (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Crick evolutionary biologist @margaridamcm.bsky.social is working with conservation charity ZSL to investigate an enduring mystery: how the placenta has evolved with incredible variation across species. Read the full story: www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

The Cooper lab is hiring a postdoc with a strong background in mouse genetics and molecular biology to advance.our gene drive work. Must be extremely organized, engineering-minded, and outcomes-oriented. Spread the word and have interested candidates email me directly.

Honoured and grateful to receive the 2026 BSDB Dennis Summerbell Award. This was the cherry on the cake of a fantastic meeting. Thank you @bsdb.bsky.social and the whole DevBio community for being so inspiring

🎉 We are thrilled to announce the very first winner of the BSDB Marie Johansson Prize! This year’s award goes to Giulia Boezio @giulia-boezio.bsky.social, recognised for outstanding contributions to developmental biology and for embodying Marie’s scientific originality and rigour.

🧬 Placental Biology Course 2026 – Open for Booking! 📅 14–18 September 2026, 💻 Online 💷 2026 fees (held at 2024 rates): • £125 – Students • £150 – Post-docs • £300 – Medical & Vet Health Professionals & Group Leaders • £500 – Industry colleagues www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/placentalbio...

🚨 Job Alert - Please share! 🙏 Interested in 3D gene regulation in development & evolution? 🤓🧬 💥 Our lab at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social is expanding! We’re recruiting: ✅ PhD students ✅ Postdocs 💻🧪 Experimental or computational backgrounds welcome 👇 Details below

We are inviting experienced researchers to apply to become Preprint Editors, a new type of editorial role responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles and forging links with preprint literature. #prepints Learn more and apply before 30 March 2026: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pr...

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here: rdcu.be/e5EgU #EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

🚨🚨 #Hiring! Funded #phd position open in our lab @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social to study the role of YAP1 and associated factors in #preimplantation embryo development. 📆 Apply by 6th March 2026 Details below. @sebioldev.bsky.social Please RT!

To kickstart this new Bluesky account: We're hiring! The Bertolin Lab @dundee.ac.uk is looking for a postdoc to work on DNA-end homeostasis & genome stability, funded by Wellcome Trust Award. Exciting science, fantastic environment, founding role in the lab. Details in the flyer — get in touch! 👇

PDRA position still open in my lab for anyone who wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to chicks and catsharks). Please share!