Zayna Chaker

It is often in the grey zone of interdisciplinarity that great discoveries are made: IGFL is the best place to put this into practice, believe me and join us! #evodevo #evophysio

Our Dept. of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Institut Curie in the heart of Paris is hiring a new junior PI. It has a nice start up package and excellent I. Curie facilities. Please spread the word: Deadline Dec. 18th! jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

If you see images of violence and looting in Marseille today - keep in mind that we were thousands peacefully and joyously marching

"I did not need to disguise the constraints of my career to prove I was a devoted mother, just as I do not need to disguise the demands of motherhood to prove I am a serious scientist." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4rHQByo

It’s this time of year again… the time of celebration…. Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light: live updates @nature.com #NobelPrize2026 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This was so long overdue!... optogenetics truly revolutionized neuroscience and more. Congrats @deisseroth.bsky.social

I am highly humbled to be this year recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize for outstanding women in biomedical research: its first awardee was my PhD advisor Nicole Le Douarin, an extraordinary scientist and mentor! Importantly, this award also recognizes the amazing scientists from my lab.

What regulates the urge to sleep? William Joo and colleagues identified brain regions that reflect how long mice have been awake. Strikingly, inhibiting one of these regions reduces sleep by 70%, without the major behavioral deficits associated with sleep deprivation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Autre conséquence du libéralisme et de la recherche d’économies dans l’hôpital et les maternites : la mortalité des enfants de moins d’un an augmente de manière très inquiétante en France. Le soutien aux services publics est un enjeu de santé publique majeur. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A huge congratulations to Zheng and the entire Guo lab for this beautiful story! Very cool mechanism! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new paper on lipids in neural stem cell aging!! Congratulations to Xiaoai Zhao for her fantastic work! ✨🥂 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing work form @emiliepacary.bsky.social and Nora Abrous lab revealing a spatial molecular organisation of dentate gyrus compartments and a functional relevance on adult neurogenesis dynamics, just like shown in the V-SVZ a couple years ago by many groups! Congrats, and now the fun begins!🧠

🧠tenure-track position on #neurodev in @neuromarseille.bsky.social 👉our team at @ibdm.bsky.social is eligible to host a candidate. Do not hesitate to contact me before the end of August! neuro-marseille.org/en/blog/juni...

A reminder that it is NOT all about neurons in the brain: amazing work from @loulierk.bsky.social lab showing new embryonic domains for the generation of astrocytic heterogeneity!

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?...

Lab's latest: sculpting sex-biased metabolic territories in the intestine by tuning ploidy and lipid metabolism. Myc is to blame; Laura, Pedro and Chris found out www.cell.com/developmenta...

Very insipring work from Magdalena Gotz lab - Nuclear proteome reveals microtubule-associated protein regulating fate and disease: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The first course of Claude Desplan, invited Professor @college-de-france.fr is now available online. Next one today thursday June 4th at 4pm www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

Amazing comparative study from @djabaudon.bsky.social lab between mus musculus and Acomys (spiny mouse) brain development!

Such a honor to host @dulaclab.bsky.social at @ensdelyon.bsky.social @igflyon.bsky.social ! 🧠

Very proud to host the great one and only Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social at IGFL, @igflyon.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social, on June 1st 2026! I am all excited like a fan can be when meeting one of her idols 😱. Don't hesitate to join if you're in Lyon that day 🧠

From this thursday May 28th onwards, Claude Desplan @NYU will give four seminars as a guest Professor @college-de-france.fr Dont' miss this great colleague and teacher, on a super interesting and timely topic! Free access, no registration and an air-conditioned auditorium🤘

RegVelo introduces an end-to-end generative framework that jointly infers gene regulatory networks and developmental dynamic @cellcellpress.bsky.social @saukaspengler.bsky.social @fabiantheis.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Very proud to host the great one and only Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social at IGFL, @igflyon.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social, on June 1st 2026! I am all excited like a fan can be when meeting one of her idols 😱. Don't hesitate to join if you're in Lyon that day 🧠

So Proud of Marco Uderzo, a brilliant PhD student in my lab, talented coder and drawer in my lab, for winning the first prize of the artistic category of the EJN Neuroscience image! If you’re at @fens.org forum 2026, have a look at his piece!

Very happy to host @OrianeMauger from the @maxplanck.bsky.social Munich @igflyon.bsky.social: very inspiring talk from a kind and generous young scientist and friend!

Scientific misconduct is not merely manipulating figures in a publication, getting caught and retracting papers. It has many other facets, some of which still being subjects to different perceptions by the scientists themselves, while they should not. Two classical examples:

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

Signed. The message should be clear; supporting science progress is not delivered by restrictions of the chances of excellent people to apply. More funding should be allocated to support science, globally and in this case in Europe.

societes-savantes.fr/editorial_ci... Qd le 1er Ministre décide d'une nième coupe dans le budget du CNRS, il faut repenser le modèle de financement de la recherche publique pour lui assurer moyens financiers et indépendance face aux groupes de pression. @cnrs.fr , @franceuniversites.bsky.social

Au CNRS, une coupe budgétaire inédite fragilise un peu plus la recherche : « On va dans le mur »

What is making blood vessels grow in the developing brain? It depends on when and where you look! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

« world leadership goes through investing in research and science »… France is clearly shooting itself in the foot (again) by announcing new major budget cuts with immediate effects on all @cnrs.fr institutes! 😩

🧠 Johannes Kohl | Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize Lecture 🌟 At #FENS2026, join the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize Lecture by Johannes Kohl, @crick.ac.uk, on 9 July! Meet all the speakers 👉 buff.ly/wQ8V4Ha

Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2

A great pleasure to have @haddad-tovolli.bsky.social today from @idibaps.bsky.social as an external speaker! A great shoutout for female brain research from an amazing person, friend and young scientist 🤯 @igflyon.bsky.social

We have posted a Research Assistant (LSRP1) position to work on aging and 'rejuvenation' using mouse models!! 🐭 careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc... Apply and join our awesome lab!! (please share) 😎

🧠 The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting early-career scientists to establish their own independent research groups within one of Europe’s most dynamic neuroscience research centers. 👉 More information: parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-b... #Hiring #AI

Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors: Alex Hughes (@hugheslabpenn.bsky.social) & Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social) Deadline: 1 March 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

Today is the kick start of our @igflyon.bsky.social @cosheidelberg.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social common 2-day retreat in Lyon, @ensdelyon.bsky.social ! Very diverse and exciting talks going from plants, algae to animals!

⛈️ In Academia, what do you do when the dream becomes the nightmare? In this new episode we tackle Power Dynamics The key takeaway ? Safety First. 🎧 Listen how you can achieve this : www.buzzsprout.com/1356877/epis... This is not just a podcast episode. It is a survival guide. #academicsky

A great pleasure today to animate this science outreach event witht colleagues from @igflyon.bsky.social @Déclics in a high school of Lyon @ensdelyon.bsky.social! Such a refreshing morning outside of the lab ☺️

We are hiring!! Lab Assistant II position to work with the killifish! 🐟🐟🐟 This is an amazing model to study aging and 'suspended animation' careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-ass... Come and join our fantastic team at Stanford!! 🤩 Please share!

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

🧨 Check out this peeps🧨 I am very happy with the outcome of this thought baby! @neurogut.bsky.social @michaelrera.bsky.social and Mael Lemoine (yes, a philosopher) twisted our brains over preparing this conceptual review! We give you the "Enterarchon" Enjoy it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Such a pleasant moment listening to the original science from @audeber.bsky.social today at @igflyon.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social. Out of the box ideas, Outstanding tools, Out of my comfort zone… Totally great!