Nico Posnien
@posnienlab.bsky.social
genotype-phenotype, evo-devo, genetics, transcriptomics, gene regulatory networks, flies, beetles, spiders.
https://www.posnien-lab.net/
https://www.posnien-lab.net/
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🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨
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My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need?
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My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need?
WELL... we need you!
APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
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September 17, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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🪱 Model systems: Annelid Syllis malaquini
😃 Non-scientific interests: Gym, crocheting and playing video games
Varuni will work with @mtaguado.bsky.social
🪱 Model systems: Annelid Syllis malaquini
😃 Non-scientific interests: Gym, crocheting and playing video games
Varuni will work with @mtaguado.bsky.social
September 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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🪱 Model systems: Annelid Syllis malaquini
😃 Non-scientific interests: Gym, crocheting and playing video games
Varuni will work with @mtaguado.bsky.social
🪱 Model systems: Annelid Syllis malaquini
😃 Non-scientific interests: Gym, crocheting and playing video games
Varuni will work with @mtaguado.bsky.social
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And yet another new face in our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, Varuni Mishra!
🔬 Research: Polychaetes, Syllid biology and evolution, regeneration and transcriptomics
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn new techniques (e.g. RNAseq & in-situ hybridisation) to study the Wnt pathway in Syllid regeneration.
And yet another new face in our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, Varuni Mishra!
🔬 Research: Polychaetes, Syllid biology and evolution, regeneration and transcriptomics
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn new techniques (e.g. RNAseq & in-situ hybridisation) to study the Wnt pathway in Syllid regeneration.
September 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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And yet another new face in our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, Varuni Mishra!
🔬 Research: Polychaetes, Syllid biology and evolution, regeneration and transcriptomics
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn new techniques (e.g. RNAseq & in-situ hybridisation) to study the Wnt pathway in Syllid regeneration.
And yet another new face in our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, Varuni Mishra!
🔬 Research: Polychaetes, Syllid biology and evolution, regeneration and transcriptomics
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn new techniques (e.g. RNAseq & in-situ hybridisation) to study the Wnt pathway in Syllid regeneration.
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September 15, 2026 at 6:37 PM
You can finally edit any Markdown file without moving it into your vault! 🤗
Works for all formats Obsidian supports. Available with Obsidian 1.14.2 (early access).
Works for all formats Obsidian supports. Available with Obsidian 1.14.2 (early access).
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Model systems: 🪲 🐌🪱🪼 (basically our entire zoo)
😃 Non-scientific interests: Hiking, writing poetry, cooking 🇵🇪 cuisine
Johnny is our postdoc and he will work with
@bucherlab.bsky.social
Model systems: 🪲 🐌🪱🪼 (basically our entire zoo)
😃 Non-scientific interests: Hiking, writing poetry, cooking 🇵🇪 cuisine
Johnny is our postdoc and he will work with
@bucherlab.bsky.social
September 15, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Model systems: 🪲 🐌🪱🪼 (basically our entire zoo)
😃 Non-scientific interests: Hiking, writing poetry, cooking 🇵🇪 cuisine
Johnny is our postdoc and he will work with
@bucherlab.bsky.social
Model systems: 🪲 🐌🪱🪼 (basically our entire zoo)
😃 Non-scientific interests: Hiking, writing poetry, cooking 🇵🇪 cuisine
Johnny is our postdoc and he will work with
@bucherlab.bsky.social
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Our #GoenomiX team is growing.
🥳 Welcome, @johnnyds.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Metazoan evolution, regulation of gene expression
🔭 Looking forward to: Testing evolutionary hypotheses cross-phyla!
Our #GoenomiX team is growing.
🥳 Welcome, @johnnyds.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Metazoan evolution, regulation of gene expression
🔭 Looking forward to: Testing evolutionary hypotheses cross-phyla!
September 15, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Our #GoenomiX team is growing.
🥳 Welcome, @johnnyds.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Metazoan evolution, regulation of gene expression
🔭 Looking forward to: Testing evolutionary hypotheses cross-phyla!
Our #GoenomiX team is growing.
🥳 Welcome, @johnnyds.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Metazoan evolution, regulation of gene expression
🔭 Looking forward to: Testing evolutionary hypotheses cross-phyla!
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Alternative splicing and gene expression repurpose ancestral genes through distinct evolutionary routes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.05.749416v1
September 10, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Alternative splicing and gene expression repurpose ancestral genes through distinct evolutionary routes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.05.749416v1
🏀 🇩🇪93:74🇧🇪 Amazing demonstration of team play and dedication! The German coaching staff manages exceptionally well to highlight the individual strength of each player. 🎉 Top 4 teams of the FIBA Woman's World Cup! 🗺️World, accept the truth: Germany is a #Basketball nation.
September 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
🏀 🇩🇪93:74🇧🇪 Amazing demonstration of team play and dedication! The German coaching staff manages exceptionally well to highlight the individual strength of each player. 🎉 Top 4 teams of the FIBA Woman's World Cup! 🗺️World, accept the truth: Germany is a #Basketball nation.
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Our #SysBioDiv keynote speakers truly impressed yesterday at #DZG2026! Thanks to Daniela Mera-Rodriguez (Uni Hohenheim) and Sven Rossel (Senckenberg am Meer) for their excellent talks on leaf-cutting ant #biodiversity #socialparasitism 🐜🌿 and #proteomics species identification 🧬🦐🪼
September 10, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Our #SysBioDiv keynote speakers truly impressed yesterday at #DZG2026! Thanks to Daniela Mera-Rodriguez (Uni Hohenheim) and Sven Rossel (Senckenberg am Meer) for their excellent talks on leaf-cutting ant #biodiversity #socialparasitism 🐜🌿 and #proteomics species identification 🧬🦐🪼
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Flamingo at #DZG2026 in Münster: Torben presents cleared tissue imaging of crustacean heart #morphology.
@tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social
#Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet
@tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social
#Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet
September 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Flamingo at #DZG2026 in Münster: Torben presents cleared tissue imaging of crustacean heart #morphology.
@tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social
#Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet
@tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social
#Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet
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Vor dem Saisonstart veröffentliche ich hier mal häppchenweise meine ProA-Vorschau, die in einigen Tagen auch im lokalen Saisonheft in der Samtgemeinde Artland erscheint. Zum Auftakt dran sind Heidelberg und Kirchheim. Lasst gern Meinungen und Diskussionspunkte zu den Teams da. #ProABaby
September 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Vor dem Saisonstart veröffentliche ich hier mal häppchenweise meine ProA-Vorschau, die in einigen Tagen auch im lokalen Saisonheft in der Samtgemeinde Artland erscheint. Zum Auftakt dran sind Heidelberg und Kirchheim. Lasst gern Meinungen und Diskussionspunkte zu den Teams da. #ProABaby
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Vor dem heute startenden BBL-Pokal habe ich anbei eine Preview zu den beiden ProA-Teams, die heute einsteigen: Crailsheim und Bremerhaven. Beide hatten eine an sich starke Vorsaison, verloren aber ihre Erfolgstrainer.
Gebt wie immer gern Meinungen, Feedback, Einwände, Fragen und Co ab. #ProABaby
Gebt wie immer gern Meinungen, Feedback, Einwände, Fragen und Co ab. #ProABaby
September 10, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Vor dem heute startenden BBL-Pokal habe ich anbei eine Preview zu den beiden ProA-Teams, die heute einsteigen: Crailsheim und Bremerhaven. Beide hatten eine an sich starke Vorsaison, verloren aber ihre Erfolgstrainer.
Gebt wie immer gern Meinungen, Feedback, Einwände, Fragen und Co ab. #ProABaby
Gebt wie immer gern Meinungen, Feedback, Einwände, Fragen und Co ab. #ProABaby
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🪼 Model system: Cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica
😃 Non-scientific interests: Cinema/film festivals, reading, drawing/art, rock climbing, indie video games
Sarah will work with @plenart.bsky.social
🪼 Model system: Cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica
😃 Non-scientific interests: Cinema/film festivals, reading, drawing/art, rock climbing, indie video games
Sarah will work with @plenart.bsky.social
September 10, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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🪼 Model system: Cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica
😃 Non-scientific interests: Cinema/film festivals, reading, drawing/art, rock climbing, indie video games
Sarah will work with @plenart.bsky.social
🪼 Model system: Cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica
😃 Non-scientific interests: Cinema/film festivals, reading, drawing/art, rock climbing, indie video games
Sarah will work with @plenart.bsky.social
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And here we go, a new member of our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, @sassaf.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Evo-devo, high resolution imaging, transgenic and genome editing approaches
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn how to integrate data into a 3D virtual model
And here we go, a new member of our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, @sassaf.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Evo-devo, high resolution imaging, transgenic and genome editing approaches
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn how to integrate data into a 3D virtual model
September 10, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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And here we go, a new member of our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, @sassaf.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Evo-devo, high resolution imaging, transgenic and genome editing approaches
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn how to integrate data into a 3D virtual model
And here we go, a new member of our #GoenomiX team.
🥳 Welcome, @sassaf.bsky.social!
🔬 Research: Evo-devo, high resolution imaging, transgenic and genome editing approaches
🔭 Looking forward to: Learn how to integrate data into a 3D virtual model
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The final three #Dros27 plenary speakers are here!
🧬 @shimlab.bsky.social
🪰 @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social
🔬 Paul Schmidt
From stem cells and tissue homeostasis to injury response, evolution, and adaptation, they complete an exciting lineup. 🔗 buff.ly/VviXmNk
🧬 @shimlab.bsky.social
🪰 @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social
🔬 Paul Schmidt
From stem cells and tissue homeostasis to injury response, evolution, and adaptation, they complete an exciting lineup. 🔗 buff.ly/VviXmNk
September 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The final three #Dros27 plenary speakers are here!
🧬 @shimlab.bsky.social
🪰 @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social
🔬 Paul Schmidt
From stem cells and tissue homeostasis to injury response, evolution, and adaptation, they complete an exciting lineup. 🔗 buff.ly/VviXmNk
🧬 @shimlab.bsky.social
🪰 @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social
🔬 Paul Schmidt
From stem cells and tissue homeostasis to injury response, evolution, and adaptation, they complete an exciting lineup. 🔗 buff.ly/VviXmNk
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#DZG2026 news: The detailed programme, guidelines & abstract book are out. If you haven't checked out already: dzg-meeting.de/en/programme...
Now that everything is set, we are looking forward to an exciting meeting, big thanx to the Münster organising team!! Have a save trip and see you you soon!
Now that everything is set, we are looking forward to an exciting meeting, big thanx to the Münster organising team!! Have a save trip and see you you soon!
Detailed Programm | DZG Meeting
dzg-meeting.de
September 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
#DZG2026 news: The detailed programme, guidelines & abstract book are out. If you haven't checked out already: dzg-meeting.de/en/programme...
Now that everything is set, we are looking forward to an exciting meeting, big thanx to the Münster organising team!! Have a save trip and see you you soon!
Now that everything is set, we are looking forward to an exciting meeting, big thanx to the Münster organising team!! Have a save trip and see you you soon!
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Very happy to announce that my first paper is officially out in Evolution & Development. In this article, we showed that species from two major annelid clades with similar fate maps have conserved mechanisms of specification of their central nervous system.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida
Diagrams of blastomere isolations in Capitella teleta and Platynereis dumerilii showing autonomous head neural tissue (from 1q) and trunk neural tissue (from 2d) as well as a decoupling of D–V axis f...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Very happy to announce that my first paper is officially out in Evolution & Development. In this article, we showed that species from two major annelid clades with similar fate maps have conserved mechanisms of specification of their central nervous system.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our book chapter from 7 (?!?!) years ago, is now also available as protocols.io version! That's pretty neat. www.protocols.io/view/the-red...
The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tr...
The Red Flour Beetle as Model for Comparative Neural Development: Genome Editing to Mark Neural Cells in Tribolium Brain Development. . Read full protocol, s...
www.protocols.io
August 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Our book chapter from 7 (?!?!) years ago, is now also available as protocols.io version! That's pretty neat. www.protocols.io/view/the-red...
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I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad.
August 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad.
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I am advertising a 3 year postdoc position. This person is going to focus on cell type development and evolution across key integration centres of the insect brain in four insect species. See details in the ad.
August 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I am advertising a 3 year postdoc position. This person is going to focus on cell type development and evolution across key integration centres of the insect brain in four insect species. See details in the ad.
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🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨
[PLEASE SHARE WIDELY]
My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need?
WELL... we need you!
APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
[PLEASE SHARE WIDELY]
My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need?
WELL... we need you!
APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
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August 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨
[PLEASE SHARE WIDELY]
My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need?
WELL... we need you!
APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
[PLEASE SHARE WIDELY]
My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need?
WELL... we need you!
APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
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We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
September 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM
We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
🏀 ⛹️♀️ Excited about the start of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2026 in Berlin!
👉 Here is a great official history video worth checking: youtu.be/YjatN9Dxkfs?...
📺 Germany games in free TV and through the mangenta company. Watch as much as possible to support great sport!
👉 Here is a great official history video worth checking: youtu.be/YjatN9Dxkfs?...
📺 Germany games in free TV and through the mangenta company. Watch as much as possible to support great sport!
The history of the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup through the words of its greatest icons 🏆
YouTube video by FIBA Basketball
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September 4, 2026 at 7:13 AM
🏀 ⛹️♀️ Excited about the start of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2026 in Berlin!
👉 Here is a great official history video worth checking: youtu.be/YjatN9Dxkfs?...
📺 Germany games in free TV and through the mangenta company. Watch as much as possible to support great sport!
👉 Here is a great official history video worth checking: youtu.be/YjatN9Dxkfs?...
📺 Germany games in free TV and through the mangenta company. Watch as much as possible to support great sport!
Welcome!
I am glad to announce my new position as a postdoc for @goenomix.bsky.social at @uni-goettingen.de with Prof. Dr. Gregor Bucher in collaboration with UMG and @mpi-nat.bsky.social. I will be working in head evolution, integrating functional genetics and multiomics data analysis cross-phyla.
September 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Welcome!