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Claire Julliot de la Morandiere joins the lab as an ingénieure d’études. Claire studied Biology at the Université Paris Saclay before obtaining her Masters from the Sorbonne Université. Claire will study temporal transcription factor expression in different insects.

Carlos Martín joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Carlos did his PhD in the labs of Fernando Casares at the Andalusian Center of Developmental Biology and Isabel Almudí at the University of
Barcelona. He studied the mechanisms of gill regeneration in the mayfly Cloeon dipterum.

Today we wished farewell to Niovi and Myrto, who concluded their Erasmus internships in the lab.

In it, we review our current knowledge of mechanisms that underlie circuit evolution. We tried to do it comprehensively going from the evolution of developmental mechanisms to the resulting circuit structural changes into the adaptive significance that these may confer. pdf

Today we celebrated Isabel and Felix’s fellowships in a “Jeux Olympiques”-appropriate way!

Congratulations Marianne!

Congratulations Félix!

Isabel Holguera joins the lab as a Marie-Curie fellow. Isabel did her post-doc in the lab of Claude Desplan at NYU studying how temporal patterning regulates connectivity.

In it, we discuss recent advances in understanding the mechanism of temporal patterning and its role in the development and evolution of neuronal diversity. pdf

Marianne’s paper from her previous lab shows that JAK-STAT signaling defines a certain number of posterior anchoring cells in the Drosophila follicular epithelium that are required to establish proper anterior-posterior polarity and are necessary for the development of the future germline. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45963-z

Félix Simon joins the lab as a post-doc following his PhD in the lab of Claude Desplan where he studied how neurons acquire their terminar features.