Bassem Hassan
World citizen, Time and Variation in Brain Development, football, cheese, wine, single malt!
- I am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.
- I owe this “career award” to everyone who has been part of @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social over the years ❤️
- It was areal pleasure to visit and exchange with colleagues about the beautiful science being done. Thank you for having me!
- Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Temporal control of neurogenesis” A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏 @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @borrell-lab.bsky.social
- Thank you for the invitation. Really looking forward to the visit.
- We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Bassem Hassan @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social from @institutducerveau.bsky.social tomorrow at #SeminarsIN 🙌 He is a world leader in the study of genetic regulation of brain development. Don’t miss it! @borrell-lab.bsky.social @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es
- Julien Pigeon and colleagues show how conserved processes can be fine tuned to result in species-specific patterns of brain development. Thanks to @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social for a great collaboration 👇🏽
- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Our latest: Julien Pigeon and colleagues discover a mechanism linking post-translational modification of transcription factors to remodeling the chromatin landscape to regulate human cortical neurogenesis
- Looking forward to this exciting meeting
- Reposted by Bassem HassanLatest from the lab: the immensely talented Johnny Bou Rouphael and Laila El Khattabi in the team report the discovery and functional analysis defective splicing in a human developmental disorder. www.linkedin.com/posts/bassem...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanFor those who understand Arabic 😊 A podcast about @bassemh.bsky.social work and career. Thank you Haifa Alhadyian, PhD for this amazing initiative. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanRegistration is now open for 2026 GRC on Neural Development @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social Register early because places go fast!
- Reposted by Bassem HassanLatest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Bassem Hassan“How does a brain take shape?” Neurobiologist @bassemh.bsky.social on the embryonic cells that fold into the neural tube and become the brain. Discover more in The Brain’s Secret. #Biology #Neuroscience #Brain #Education #ReliableKnowledge #PublicEngagement
- One can only hope that history will judge harshly all those who are complicit in or remain silent in the face of genocide aje.io/uj36z1
- Reposted by Bassem HassanBassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social, Corey Harwell & yours truly are co-chairs for 2026 Neural Development #GRC August 2-7, 2026 in Newport, RI 🇺🇸 - if you are interested in updates on the conference & to hear about our 🤩 line-up of speakers...follow @neuraldevgrc.bsky.social! 🧠🪰🐭🐙🐸🦎🧒🏻🧫🧪🧠
- Reposted by Bassem HassanThere is only one name for that: this is a crime against humanity. Israel is governed by monsters.
- Reposted by Bassem Hassan"Solo le pido a Dios Que la guerra no me sea indiferente Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvyl...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanBassem Hassan @bassemh.bsky.social discussing Temporal control of Neurogenesis at #neurogen25 . What governs the length? How do novel genetic elements interact with highly conserved mechanisms? @nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social
- Hot off the press: The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010
- Just drop me an email bassem.hassan@icm-institute.org if you want the full text PDF
- Reposted by Bassem HassanFantastic opportunity for neuroscience research. The ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Prize for a basic or clinical research project in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases or psychiatric disorders. 750.000 EUR - Deadline JUNE 30 2025. www.fondation-roger-de-spoelberch.ch/en/roger-de-...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanA temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in stereotyped neuronal circuits in Drosophila 🧪🧠 @bassemh.bsky.social @maheandria.bsky.social @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanNew from the lab: @maheandria.bsky.social and colleagues in collaboration with the Hiesinger, Stoeckli and von Kleist labs dissect the sequential emergence of axonal targeting during development in today's issue of Nature Neuroscience: rdcu.be/ek010
- @maheandria.bsky.social and I challenge the notion of a static and deterministic definition of a (neural) cell type and argue for its replacement by a multi parametric probabilistic definition in this perspective sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanAnna CHRZANOWSKA, PhD, postdoc in The Hassan Brain Development Team @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social is organizing a trainee-led symposium @institutducerveau.bsky.social June 2-4 Spread the word! nenckiopenlab.org/decoding/
- I contend that the genome does not encode a mean and an error around it. It encodes a distribution. I would suggest that even evolutionary selection is on phenotypic distributions. The mean is just an emergent property of the distribution, and thus not in and of itself interesting to understand.
- Registration deadline is soon! Don’t miss this wonderful meeting 👇🏽 meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanJournée portes ouvertes : le saviez-vous ? Les mouches drosophiles sont des modèles de choix pour les scientifiques. En effet, leur cerveau fonctionne selon les mêmes principes physiologiques que le cerveau humain.
- Reposted by Bassem HassanLast few days to apply! Post-doctoral position 3 years Wellcome funded in UK To investigate how experience shapes the brain Drosophila neurogenetics, imaging, behaviour Deadline 19/3/25 Pls RP. #drosophila #postdoc #jobs Apply here edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Just a little stream of thoughts: As materialists (i.e. non-dualists) we believe that there is only the universe out there an nothing outside it that imposes anything on it and that the universe is made of matter and energy (and they are interchangeable and I will thus only refer to matter)...
- It necessarily follows that everything that happens in the universe is a result of the interactions of matter and energy. It also necessarily follows that these interactions are not governed by "laws" that are outside matter itself...
- This in turn means that the "laws of nature" are consequences of matter (i.e. descriptions) and its behaviour not causes of it and external governors of its behaviour. Therefore, the laws of nature are emergent and not fundamental and, to paraphrase Lee Smolin, they potentially evolve over time...
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View full threadIf so, then it is legitimate to 1) ask, 2) seriously think about and 3) define quite specifically what we mean when we talk about causality and make causal inferences for something as complex and emergent as biological systems are... That it. That's the thread. Thanks!
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- Meanwhile in hell on earth aje.io/vsxxj7 Let that sink in for a minute
- Reposted by Bassem Hassan"Developmental Timing Across Species" @embo.org Workshop organised by @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social 📅6-9 May 2025 📍Paris Submit abstract and register by 1 April: thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #EvoDevoTempo
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- Reposted by Bassem HassanJoin us this coming May 6-9 in Paris for the second EMBO Meeting on developmental timing across species. Registration now OPEN. Stellar line-up of inv. speakers + talks selected from abstracts. meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev... @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social
- Reposted by Bassem HassanFinal poster for the second edition of the #EvoDevoTempo meeting is finally ready! Great lineup and 3x more social activities: meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev... @bassemh.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Bassem Hassan🗓️ Mark your calendar: May 19-21, 2025 Registration is now open for the Neurogenomics Conference @humantechnopole.bsky.social: humantechnopole.it/en/trainings.... Come and join us in beautiful Milan! Incredibly excited to welcome a truly stellar line-up of speakers: including... 1/2
- Reposted by Bassem HassanCan't miss opportunity for anyone interested in developmental timing!! See you in Paris⏳️
- Join us in Paris 6-9 May 2025 for the #EvoDevoTempo conference (2nd edition) with a fantastic line up of speakers confirmed!! Organized by @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social and me. Please RT to spread the word meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanJoin us in Paris 6-9 May 2025 for the #EvoDevoTempo conference (2nd edition) with a fantastic line up of speakers confirmed!! Organized by @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social and me. Please RT to spread the word meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...
- Reposted by Bassem Hassan@hrw.org report: By deliberately depriving people of water, the Israeli government created “conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction” of Palestinians in Gaza. That's how the Genocide convention defines a “genocidal act.”
- Thanks to all the followers on @bsky.app if you’re a scientist please also follow the lab account @hassanbraindevlab.bsky.social for updates on our work minus all the personal/political opinions 😃
- What - if anything- does the fact that AI (LLMs) use memory mechanisms, but are incapable of reasoning tell us about the link between the two in biological intelligence?
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- Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Bassem HassanSecond edition of the EMBO workshop on Developmental Timing across species. Second edition organized by @trayon.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and Margerete Diaz-Cuadros Cool speakers & fun networking activities. More details coming soon.Save the date: May 6-9 2025!
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