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LBDV Villefranche

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Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer. Marine models for Cell Biology, Development & EvoDevo

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Eponges ou cténophores ? Duel au plus profond du vivant pour le titre de premier animal La controverse secoue les spécialistes de l’arbre de la vie. Deux camps s’affrontent, avec chacun sa lignée marine favorite. D’un côté, la créature la plus sommaire du règne animal ; de l’autre, des p...

www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

17.02.2026 07:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?

My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa

If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

08.12.2025 18:37 👍 54 🔁 50 💬 0 📌 2

New from Silvia Caballero, Stefania Castagnetti and friends - Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

09.12.2025 12:15 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Separation of the Early gastrula into oral and aboral halves shows that some neural cell tupes derive from aboral ectoderm, and others from i-cells

Separation of the Early gastrula into oral and aboral halves shows that some neural cell tupes derive from aboral ectoderm, and others from i-cells

Drawing together findings from several projects over many years, we make a case that neural cell types in the Clytia larva have two embryological origins: i-cells and ectodermal.
bioRxiv 2025.11.17.688882; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

19.11.2025 07:43 👍 44 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
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Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.

Proud to have been part of this very nice piece of work and this great collaboration. Congratulations to all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

14.11.2025 08:41 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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These are embryos of a jellyfish, made up of cells that are about a fiftieth of a millimetre in size. Their outlines are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Sarah Asaf and @clytia-vlfr.bsky.social

see doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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26.10.2025 14:12 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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What are these?

You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social

see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

26.10.2025 08:55 👍 109 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 0
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Congratulations to Oğuz Akar who was awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy in Cell and Biology yesterday!

26.09.2025 11:37 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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L’imev et des scientifiques @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social mettent l’océan et les cellules au cœur du festival #regarddonssensemble au #ParcPhœnix
@cnrs.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr
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25.09.2025 09:52 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Chromosome-scale genome assembly and gene annotation of the hydrothermal vent annelid Alvinella pompejana yield insight into animal evolution in extreme environments | BMC Biology

A great collaboration... rdcu.be/eEUv5

08.09.2025 11:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bravo @juliarmateu.bsky.social et @annaferraioli.bsky.social, merci à Richard Copley pour ce travail co-dirigée, et merci aux collaboratrices coralistes Isabelle Domart-Coulon (MNHN, Paris) et Núria Teixidó (LOV, et Ischia Marine Center, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn)

11.07.2025 15:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Åsgard workshop sparks new collaborations at the Michael Sars Centre Researchers from the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche and the Michael Sars Centre received support from the French-Norwegian mobility program Åsgard. Through seminars and discussions, participants l...

Researchers from @imev-mer.fr recently visited us for a workshop supported by the French-Norwegian mobility program Åsgard 🌊 Between seminars, lab demos and discussions, new ideas and plans for long-term collaborations emerged 🤩 Read more about this exciting partnership below ⤵️

17.07.2025 12:20 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations to Lou Marchal, the new PhD student of the team, to have obtained a ministerial fellowship !!!!

10.07.2025 05:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Accueil | EMBRC France

Interested in visiting Villefranche, Roscoff or Banyuls marine stations? The EMBRC-France (www.embrc-france.fr) 8th Call for Projects is open. Deadline Sept 19 for stays by end of June 2026. Up to 42 person-days per project are covered, with access to EMBRC-France services, accommodation & catering.

07.07.2025 12:01 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Sommet des océans à Nice 2025. Quel est cet étrange animal marin gélatineux vu cette semaine ? Qui se cache derrière cette photo prise au large de Beaulieu-sur-Mer dans les Alpes-Maritimes ? Des scientifiques étudient cet étrange organisme qui présente des particularités originales : reproducti...

Quel est cet étrange animal marin gélatineux vu cette semaine ?
#France3PACA

Avec #AlexandreAlié @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social

france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/provence-alp...

16.06.2025 09:38 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

28.05.2025 02:48 👍 79 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 3
Momoko Seto, exploratrice du vivant I Reportage CNRS
Momoko Seto, exploratrice du vivant I Reportage CNRS YouTube video by CNRS

Cette épopée de grains de pissenlit rescapés d’une explosion nucléaire, réalisée par Momoko Seto, est absolument fascinante !
Christian Sardet du @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social @cnrs.fr a participé à ce fabuleux projet. #Cannes2025

🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Sd...

26.05.2025 07:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Excited to finally see my PhD work published! We identified specialized cells in jellyfish and coral larvae with shared features and potentially linked to settlement regulation.

17.05.2025 13:05 👍 48 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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#OpenCall | 👉 #canSERV open call now live

📢 Among other services & training, cancer scientists can apply to access marine model organisms for their research projects, including ascidians at @imev-mer.fr @embrc-france.bsky.social @szndohrn.bsky.social

⌛ 15 July

🔗 www.embrc.eu/project/cans... 🧪🌊🦑

02.05.2025 11:51 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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🌍 🔬 Meet the ZooCELL Doctoral Candidates! 🌍 🔬

Curious about the young scientists behind the ZooCELL Doctoral Network?

Watch their introduction videos on our YouTube channel to discover their research, backgrounds, and what fuels their passion for science! […]

[Original post on biologists.social]

25.04.2025 07:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Appel à candidature | Directrice/Directeur de l'IMEV (Institut de la Mer de Villefranche) ContexteLa Station Marine de Villefranche est un service général (S39) de la Faculté Science et Ingénierie (FSI) de Sorbonne Université (SU) et héberge l'Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (FR 3761), ...

Candidate to be the future director of our marine station ! Appel à candidature pour la direction de la FR IMEV ! www.insu.cnrs.fr/fr/appel-can...

04.04.2025 12:01 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Proud to have been part of this work. Congratulations to everyone!!!

29.03.2025 13:16 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A chaetognath (arrow worm) stained for tubulin and stained with Hoechst (blue).

#fluorescencefriday

@Elisabeth.ZIEGER @Michael.Schubert @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social

movincell.org/medias/43

14.03.2025 11:04 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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It's time for an #introduction.

We are ZooCELL, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network that will train 12 doctoral candidates in comparative integrative cell biology of animals.

We are located in five different countries (France, Germany, Italy […]

[Original post on biologists.social]

04.03.2025 08:47 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone! Today we have a image from @HOULISTON.Evelyn : confocal image of an isolated Clytia gonad shows specialized Opsin/Oocyte Maturation Hormone-expressing cells in the ectoderm

@biodev-vlfr.bsky.social @imev-mer.fr

movincell.imev-mer.fr/medias/386

24.02.2025 17:22 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Programme de Neuroplanète 2025 Découvrez le programme de Neuroplanète 2025 : tous les ateliers, toutes les conférences, pour organiser au mieux votre expérience Neuroplanète

Our work on the sea urchin adult nervous system will soon be presented in the context of the Neuroplanete 2025 program organized by the national journal #LePoint in Nice from March 6th to 8th. evenements.lepoint.fr/neuroplanete...

19.02.2025 11:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m happy to present our recent paper, Uveira et al., online on eLife as the Reviewed Preprint. We took a comparative cell biology approach to study the evolution of metazoan.
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Congratulations, and many thanks, Julie and all the other contributors!
Photo T. Momose CC-BY 4.0

28.01.2025 13:24 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Today all PhD students of our research federation show their work through short seminars. Topics include biology, biogeochemistry, ecology, chemistry, modeling, … @imev-mer.fr @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social #lov #oceanography Our auditorium is full !

28.01.2025 10:22 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0