Jaro Ferenc

Last September, we welcomed participants to the EMBO Workshop #EMBODevMet 🧬

Today, we're happy to highlight three of the four brilliant winners!

Learn more about their work in our blog post: www.embl.org/about/info/c...

@jarofrnc.bsky.social

The people behind the papers – Charisios Tsiairis, Jaroslav Ferenc and Marylène Bonvin ABSTRACT. Hydra, a freshwater polyp, comprises a simple oral-aboral body plan, wherein multipotent epithelial cells differentiate into tentacle cells at the oral/mouth end and into basal disc cells at...

Started this project towards the very end of my PhD in the Tsiairis lab @fmiscience.bsky.social. Glad the team carried it forward! More about behind the scenes in the associated interview: bit.ly/42jS3vA

How to swap the foot for a tentacle and vice versa? Find out in our new story featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social uncovering a transcription factor toggle switch behind the identity of Hydra's extremities.