which will support both the team’s research and the postdoctoral project of Florian. The projects focus on the role of jellyfish smooth muscles, in repair processes. We are grateful for the support!
22 July 2024
Our study on siphonophore eudoxid is released on bioRxiv!
Done in collaboration with Maciej Mańko and Catriona Munro: biorxiv.org
3 July 2024
Clara successfully obtains a PhD scholarship from Sorbonne University!
Her project focuses on myogenesis in Pelagia. Congrats Clara!
1 July 2024
Welcome Samaël Aupetit
Bachelor student at Sorbonne University, for a summer internship on jellyfish stem cells.
17-21 June 2021
Meghana attends the Summer School “Concepts and Methods in Mechanobiology »
organised by Sorbonne University
30-31 May 2024
OOB Scientific days
where Meghana GC presented for the first time her PhD project!
5-7 May 2024
“Starting Aware Fair & Equitable Labs” workshop, at the Palazzone di Cortona (Italy)
Together with other new PIs, Chiara discussed about how to build successful, equitable, fair, and environmentally sustainable labs. The meeting was supported by UCL and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Updates will soon follow: /safe-labs/
6 May 2024
Welcome Vita Plaza-Floquet
Master student at Sorbonne University, Vita will work on the phylogeny of Leptothecata.
3 May 2024
The lab is awarded a Procope+ grant
a French-German program for supporting scientific exchanges: we will be co-organising a workshop on gene editing on marine models. We are grateful to Campus France and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for the support.
1 May 2024
Fred becomes CNRS engineer (IE)!
after succeeding at the CNRS internal competition, congrats! A special beer got brewed for the occasion…
1 April 2024
Welcome Nikolina Martinčić
Nikolina Martinčić, originally from Croatia, studies at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. Her Erasmus program internship focuses on Clytia regeneration.
26 March 2024
HFSP grant awarded to the team!
The project focuses on the mesoglea of Clytia and its role during regeneration. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration with the teams of Carl Modes (MPI-CBG Dresden) and Ulyana Shimanovich (Weizmann Institute of Science). More details here: hfsp.org. We are very grateful for the amazing support!
23 March 2024
Outreach conference in Perpignan, on jellyfish regeneration
Thanks to the Comité de Conservation de la Nature des Pyrénées Orientales (CCNPO) for the invitation.
12 February 2024
Welcome Valentina Ferrari
Visiting PhD student from Modena, Italy.
6-7 February 2024
PhD Days at OOB
The yearly meeting of the early career researchers of the Observatory featured interventions from academics and start-uppers.
1-2 February 2024
Journées André Picard 2024 at OOB
Lucas co-organised the recurring JAP meeting, which brings together teams from Sorbonne Alliance working on developmental biology.
10 January 2024
Welcome Chris Latimer
Bachelor student from Halifax University, Canada
4-8 January 2024
Chiara teaches at the « Biophysics and Evolution of Morphogenesis » course in Calfuco, Chile
December 2023
Manon Bosten finishes her PhD projects
… and starts a postdoc at the LBDV. Best of luck Manon!
December 2023
Welcome Meghana GC
PhD student funded bt the Ligue Contre le Cancer
13 November 2023
Welcome Clara Deleau
IE CNRS
14 October 2023
Fête de la science 2023 at the OOB
1st September 2023
Fred joins as the CNRS ‘Assistant Ingénieur’ of the team
Welcome Fred!
July 2023
PelagiaF2 generation well on its way!
10-12 July 2023
Super-resolution microscopy workshop with Frank Schnorrer’s Lab
June-July 2023
Visit of Sophie Peron
Postdoc with Jordi Solana, and former PhD student of Lucas. Nice collaborative project underway, on Clytia
7 July 2023
Inauguration of the new 380L Pelagia system
19-20 June 2023
Florian attends a machine learning image analysis training
30 May 2023
Congrats Dr. Manon Boosten!
22-24 May 2023
Bastien and Lucas attend the ERC StudySarcomere retreat
with the F. Schnorrer, D. Görlich, M. Gautel and S. Raunser labs in the beautiful Château d’Arpaillargues Thank you Frank for the invitation!
May 2023
Lucas becomes the new president of the Hydrozoan Society
Next meeting in Banyuls (2026-27)
May 2023
Maciej Manko and Lucas sampling hydrozoans near Espegrend, Norway
International Hydrozoan Society workshop in Bergen
May 2023
Bye bye breakfast for Alix and May Line
May 2023
Team picture
From left to right: Bastien, Chiara, Florian, Capucine, Marti, Alix, May Line, Lucas
April 2023
Life cycle of Pelagia is closed in the lab!
4 April 2023
Chiara attending the CNRS recruits introduction day
March 2023
Best talk award for Bastien Salmon and its Pelagia sarcomeres
All the lab attends the Journées André Picard 2023 in Paris
March 2023
To regenerate or not to regenerate? This is the question!
#IGFLSymposium Eleonora Nigro @nigrelex
8 March 2023
Chiara presents the Clytia regeneration project, at the Cambridge evo-devo series
6-14 March 2023
Lucas takes part in a Siphonophore-themed retreat in Gdansk, Poland
with Maciej Manko and Catriona Munro. Thank you Maciej for the invitation!
16 January 2023
Welcome Capucine
Master 2 student from La Rochelle University
1st January 2023
Florian joins the team for his post-doc
ATIP-Avenir funded post-doc
December 2022
Chiara is interviewed for the ‘journal des sciences’