Alexandre Paix

Oh, hope it will also be available "en province " (Strasbourg)

Enjoy ! Until when the exhibition lasts ?

C. Elegans had been a crucial model for my growth as a scientist. After my PhD in a limited genetically tractable model, I learnt genetics in a great worm lab. Since then, these lessons have been applied to non-mainstream models, always keeping in mind C. Elegans as an example

Unlocking CRISPR-Cas9 editing for widely diverse Dictyostelid species - Molecular Systems Biology Dictyostelids are a species-rich clade of cellular slime molds that are widely found in soils and have been studied for over a century. Due to a lack of genome editing methods, most molecular research...

Amazing collaboration with Jordi van Gestel group and EMBL colleagues, or how great work is done when the right persons meet . And congrats to the first author Mireia Garriga-Canut. Bringing straightforward genetic tools to Dictyostelids, and Cas9 RNP optimization

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Bonne année Eva, I am sure you will do wonders in 2026 both professionally and personally!

Nice paper in perspective :)

Yes I mean insignificant in regard of how passionate / dogmatic some people are. I feel that the beauty of science is the exchange , and the experimental proof to support or not our own idea. I don't fully understand the paper, but it is nice to put in perspective how the data can be interpreted

I will never understand these controversies, they appear insignificant, and quite frankly not really solvable. It is a reason why I am staying at the edge of the Evo Devo field . But I like the way that some people come with new approaches and idea...

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

The people behind the papers – Agnès Roure and Sébastien Darras In animals, species-specific organs and nervous systems are patterned from the developing neuroectoderm by conserved canonical Wnt signals. However, how these developmental trajectories diverged throu...

I like that Development journal does these interviews, specially when it is about good scientists and good people
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Thinking about a PhD and excited by algal development and evolution? 🌿🧬
Our IMPRS program has an open doctoral position in the department of Susana Coelho.
More projects will be posted soon, so keep an eye on the page—or browse the current list here:
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Deadline: 19 January 2026

C. elegans: from genome editing to imaging

Pleased to be again a trainer for the EMBO Practical Course: C. elegans, from genome editing to imaging.

Register if you want to learn about (one of) the best model organism for genetics and imaging

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Happy to share our last protocol for efficient endogenous gene tagging in Medaka. We hope this will encourage genetic and imaging approaches in other non-conventional fish models. A big thank you to all co-authors, and congrats to the first author Simon Knoblich
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At least you got your trip ;)

Selection-free CRISPR-Cas9 editing protocol for distant Dictyostelid species Dictyostelids are a species-rich clade of cellular slime molds that are widely found in soils and have been studied for over a century. Most research focusses on Dictyostelium discoideum , which – due...

Our effort to extend genome editing across species just got a new member. This time, not a marine organism, nor a vertebrate, but the beautiful Dictyostelium discoideum and other Dictyostelids. In collaboration with van Gestel group
@jordivangestel.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally decided to migrate from X to Bluesky

Happy to see that such a nice research unit is now on the net :)