Sergio Menchero

🚨 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

Apply to become a Preprint Editor Development

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...

The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...

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!

Happy birthday @ucl.ac.uk #UCL200

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk

Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹

Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻

bit.ly/467TO0M

We are thrilled that our study on the evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development – led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social – is now out in @ScienceMagazine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The @neuroalc.bsky.social invites applications for two permanent research positions (Científico titular @csic.es , Tenure-track) to build independent programs in a collaborative, international environment. We welcome applicants from all demographic backgrounds 👇
in.umh-csic.es/en/ofertas/d...

We are excited to share that our latest work from the lab aimed at understanding how the tRNA nuclease SLFN11 is activated in response to DNA damage and replication stress has just been published in @natcellbio.nature.com!

Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Congrats Nacho and all!!

Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms...

Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l

Escape from X inactivation is directly modulated by Xist noncoding RNA Nature Cell Biology - The authors show that increased Xist RNA levels can induce de novo silencing of genes that normally escape X inactivation. SPEN depletion prevents the silencing of escape...

Very happy to share our paper rdcu.be/eUImj out today in @natcellbio.nature.com 🎉🎉🎉
We uncover an unexpected role for endogenous Xist RNA in regulating X-linked genes that escape X-inactivation.

🍾🍾 amazing!

Want to image cells protecting the embryo during early development? We're hiring! 1 Postdoc, 1 PhD student, and 1 Research Technician. Come to Barcelona! www.embryobioimaging.com

Really fun, indeed! Thanks, Miguel!

🔔 Please share 🔔 I have two open developmental biology/genetics/evo-devo PhD project vacancies for October 2026 start.

1 = 🐚 🐌 🔬(embryos!!)
⏱️📆 DEADLINE 15th DEC 📆⏱️ (competition)
sleightlab.com/vacancies/

2 = 🦪 🐌 🧬
⏱️📆 DEADLINE 14th JAN 📆⏱️(fully funded)
sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

🙌🙌🙌

Thanks! And congrats to you as well!

The new issue @cp-devcell.bsky.social brings the final form of our opossum heterochrony work www.cell.com/developmenta... And it also brings two great papers from @oliveringe.bsky.social @santoslab.bsky.social and @tobyandrews.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social 🙌 great #DevBio from @crick.ac.uk

Join @mpercharde.bsky.social Lab at the MRC LMS! We have an 18mo postdoc position to cover a couple of projects (maternity leave and paper revisions). The projects are focussed on chromatin in early mouse embryos and metabolism in mouse embryonic stem cells and pluripotency.

LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter

We are recruiting PhD students!

Two days left to apply for the LSI studentships - deadline Nov 26
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

and a few more for the SWBio studentships - deadline Dec 3
www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr...

Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!

Scientific journals: we don’t want you using generative AI because it makes shit up.

Same journal: here is an AI summary or evaluation of this paper. This might be more useful than the actual abstract or paper that the authors freaking wrote

Same journal: AI cover art which makes no sense? Oooh!

Our lab is actively looking for posdocs and there is NOW an Open Call for Postdoc contracts (3 years) here: www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

And the paper is finally out! Thank you to the reviewers for improving the content, and to everyone who contributed along the way. A very nice way of finishing the transition from Melbourne to Cambridge.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

Poster advertising the 6th X-inactivation meeting from Oct 19-23 2026 in Sapporo, Japan. The organizers are Asato Kuriowa, Edda Schulz, Ikuhiro Okamoto, Rafael Galupa, Takashi Sado, Mitinori Saitou.

📣 SAVE THE DATE
Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social

🚨Reposts appreciated‼️If I had read this PhD offer five years ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to apply 😉
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨

#PhD #3DGenome

Exactly! It's great to see it's not a rare exception