Gökberk Alagöz
Postdoctoral researcher at MPI-PL, interested in molecular brain evolution and complex trait genetics.
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözJoin the PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics🧬 🇸🇪 www.trippus.net/summerschool... and learn data integration -Single-cell multiome -ATAC-seq+3Dgenomics -Non-coding variants+Transcription Factors -Large-scale epigenomics -Spatial @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
- Registration for the PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics is Open 🧬 23-26 June 2026 www.trippus.net/summerschool... Join us in this wonderful place 🇸🇪 to learn Theory & Computation from Famous Scientists in the Field w @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social Support by @scilifelab.se & @kawresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz🚀 Interested in a postdoc in computational biology & AI for neuroscience? The NOMIS Synergy Fellowship offers a great opportunity to develop such a position in my lab within the interdisciplinary Synergy excellence cluster. 🔗 www.synergy-munich.de/news-events/...
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- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözInstitut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözApplications for our summer internship program are open. This is a paid, 9 week experience designed to provide research experience to undergraduates interested in the neurosciences, especially as related to the molecular and cellular basis of neuropsychiatric disorders www.libd.org/summer-inter...
- Transcriptomics and functional genomics implicate WNT3 in hemispheric lateralization of speech production: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözFrom glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
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- MPI-PL Colloquium: Prof. Mehmet Somel www.mpi.nl/events/mpi-c... Mehmet will visit Nijmegen on Feb 17 to give a talk on his and his team's findings on social practices and gender roles in prehistoric Anatolian communities. 🧬🦴 Come for the ancient DNA, stay for the ancient matriarchal societies! ✊
- Related paper from his group: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬 If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP! The application deadline is March 31. INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc... #ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷 Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs. Start May 2026 (flexible). Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözLee et al. used B-lymphoblastoid cells from three great ape species and humans to show that human ZEB2 is distinct in regulating a larger repertoire of genes implicated in neuronal development. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf318 #evobio #molbio
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- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözLooking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...
- Absolutely agree. The genetic makeup of a species does explain what sets it apart from other species, but the explanation is usually complex, and not reducable to the isolated effects of single variants. IMO, this work provides further evidence for the existing view of combinatorial evolution.
- This headline is wrong and misleading, and the brief text below it is not much better. Whatever might constitute a full explanation of the differences between sapiens and other hominins, we remain confident that 'genes' will be central to it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözWhile stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪 Explainer🧵👇1/n
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
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- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözOn World Monkey Day, @peopleprimate celebrates Barbary macaques. SHPI supports #conservation through coexistence with monkeys & other #primates. human-primate-interactions.org Barbary macaques are captured for the pet trade. Visit barbarymacaqueconservation.org Art credit: @Lydialehman on X
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözNew preprint from our lab: ‘Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains’. Very proud of this piece which took almost a decade to finish. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözThis is an excellent piece: embryo selection isn’t necessarily eugenics but the founder of Herasight is openly advocating for eugenics, largely without pushback from academics or academic societies
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözOnly a few weeks left to apply for our 4-year PhD position, using human brain organoids & multi-omic methods to study genes implicated in speech disorders. Application deadline 5 Jan 2026. Fellowship is embedded in the International Max Planck Research School. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz🚄✈️🐒 EFP2026 Mobility Grants are open! Funding available for students, PhD, and postdocs to join the conference. Deadlines: – 15 Jan 2026: primate-range countries – 13 Feb 2026: Europe Apply here: Primate-range countries: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri... Europe: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözSingle-cell spatiotemporal #transcriptomic and #chromatin accessibility profiling in #developing postnatal #human and #macaque prefrontal #cortex doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözHow did DNA changes that alter protein structures impact evolution on the branch that led to modern humans? As we demonstrate today in Science Advances, biobanking initiatives offer ways to directly assess biological effects of rare archaic variants in living people, & (re)evaluate their roles. 🧬🧪
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözThe Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge is seeking a talented Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...) ➡️For Further details see the link www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözI'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözHiring: PostDoc in Tissue Clearing & 3D Histopathology 🧪🖥️ My lab at Helmholtz Munich is seeking a highly motivated PostDoc/Scientist to strengthen our efforts in advanced imaging of cancer tissues. More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-ma...
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- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözAbstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözNew in Science, Macaques tap to the beat. Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözPhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation. See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
- "...These features may be related to the metabolic demands of human cognition and would be predicted to differ in language‐associated regions of the brains of language-trained apes as a reflection of adaptive neurobiological changes in response to heightened communicative demands."
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨 Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge! 1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... 2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözPlease check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.
- Please repost widely. @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc with expertise in sensory physiology and in vivo circuit imaging/manipulation. The project centers on human-specific brain development and SYNGAP1-related disorders. Call closing soon—apply ASAP jobs.vib.be/j/119852/pos...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözOut now: we’re happy to share our new preprint on CroCoNet (Cross-species Comparison of Networks), a framework for robust comparative network analyses. 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözOrigins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
- Reposted by Gökberk Alagöz🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözPutting aside the deeper issues of why this analysis was done and how it has been promoted, the choice to broadcast a tv show before releasing a preprint should make people skeptical of the results. How can one be sure of their scientific claims?
- As I told the CNN, without details and data it is not possible to assess the claims. More importantly, the scientific value of this media campaign, balanced against the possible stigmatization of individuals with these real conditions today, is highly questionable. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/s...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözCome and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözWhich human brain circuits are implicated in neurodevelopmental conditions? We bridged human genetics, spatial transcriptomics and neurodevelopment to discover the convergence of autism-associated genes in the developing human thalamus! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözOur new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözOur latest collaboration with @rongfan8.bsky.social, spatial triomics to investigate myelin and cortical brain development, and demyelination, spearheaded by Leslie Kirby in our lab @ki.se and Di Zhang in Rong's lab! Check it out @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözThis is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözPhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below! We work on: 📜 Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history 📈 Natural selection and trait genetics 🐺 Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves 🦠 Ancient pathogen genomics 💀 Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics
- Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme. Apply by 05 November 2025 www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
- Reposted by Gökberk AlagözCome join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics). More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs 🧬🧪
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