Vasso Theodorou
scientist on the fly
IMBB FORTH Heraklion Greece
@scentinel.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vasso Theodorou🧬 10 @dfg.de-funded PhD positions at @goettingen-campus.de 🧬 ❗Focus: Evolution of gene regulatory networks & Wnt signaling in emerging models (insects, snails, flatworms, cnidarians). 💻 Methods: 'Omics, Bioinformatics, CRISPR/RNAi & Imaging. 📌Start: June 2026. #EvoDevo #Genomics #Bioinformatics
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- 5' for a good night read 10' including gazing at the photos 15' to think it over ‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
- Reposted by Vasso Theodorou👀Next Wednesday, Oct 22nd, at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @alicelaigle.bsky.social and @seungsookim.bsky.social to tell us about amazing work they are doing! 🗓️Register here for upcoming session and the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouThis is so cool! It’s also nice to see how careful genetic dissection of loci is still at the forefront of discovery!
- Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by @mmasoura.bsky.social, to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Day 3 @edrc2025.bsky.social once again fantastic community, science and people. Grateful to be here!
- @edrc2025.bsky.social almost there! Very much looking forward to meet up and listen to amazing #Drosophila research. Come by my poster (will have the jedi pin on it)
- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouWe have two open positions for a ML and a LLM engineer to launch a machine learning expertise unit in our center @vibai.bsky.social, see vib.ai/en/opportuni...
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouOur new preprint is out ! We uncover how adult Drosophila muscles respond to injury through a coordinated dialogue between hemocytes, tracheal cells, and muscles. Check it out and please share @igdrennes.bsky.social
- I read the preprint. It's very beautiful work from Hadi Boukhatmi's group. They test how if at all #Drosophila can repair their #muscles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouCollective cell motion has many forms, but rotation is the coolest of them all. I'm @onenimesa.bsky.social , and in this short🧵, I'll highlight some instances of global tissue rotation like this one from @BauschLab
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouThe first full central nervous system connectome dataset of an adult fly, with the most comprehensive annotation of sensory and motor neurons to date. A heroic effort with contributions from many groups, a product of the collaborative spirit of the Drosophila neuroscience community.
- Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE! Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouI'll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc to join our lab at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social exploring #macrophages in salivary gland #development. Candidates should have a strong background in immunology/macrophage biology and/or developmental biology & key skills as below. Informal enquiries welcome!
- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouVery happy and proud to share the latest work from our lab. Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouVery honored to receive the 2025 ISCB Innovator Award at #ISMBECCB2025 and present our lab’s journey—from mapping cells to modeling their future. Thanks to my amazing team and collaborators—this is our award! 🙌 📽️ Keynote: Atlases, AI & virtual cells 📝 doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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- For not greeks google translate www.lifo.gr/now/greece/s...
- Reposted by Vasso Theodorou60 days to go for applying to marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... if you want to join me to study ageing with an interesting new angle! #Smurfs #2PAC
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- Grateful to @mannerviklab.bsky.social and @biologsp.bsky.social for hosting a nano-scCUT&Tag workshop for all @scentinel.bsky.social partners. Amazing tour at @scilifelab.se and wonderful hospitality by the Sweds...they did spoil us! missing the cool summer weather and the calmness of Stockholm...
- Congratulations Michalis and team!!
- We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3
- Excited for a scCUT&Tag workshop 🤞🤞, hosted by @mannerviklab.bsky.social during our annual @scentinel.bsky.social meeting together with partners @nkonst4.bsky.social @irbbarcelona.org Bioinformatics @igbmc.bsky.social Giagrande lab. Packing 🧳and 🪰
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- Reposted by Vasso Theodorou(1/n) Excited to present the latest work from the de Wit lab, where we identify and characterise loop extrusion-mediated fountains in mammalian genomes using acute depletion of 3D genome regulators: doi.org/10.1093/nar/.... A Bluetorial🧵:
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouThis is a piece that I and @karsten-rippe.bsky.social discussing a lot, and a topic that is very close to my heart. The editors @naturerevgenet.bsky.social gave us the stage to do so, and the final version of our review is now available under this link: rdcu.be/erP1u A short thread follows 1/n
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- Reposted by Vasso Theodorou🚨📢 New paper alert! A study led by Kirsten Senti and Julius Brennecke offers new insights into how ancient endogenous retroviruses diversified to exploit different cell “niches” in the fruit fly ovary, and how the host’s defenses adapted in return. imba.science/Brennecke_EMBOJ
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- Fantastic colleagues, project, facilities and technologies in Stockholm Mannervik lab, please fwd to your juniors
- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouHappy that our preprint from early this year, uncovering the regulation a somatically "hot" endogenous retroelement locus, has now found its home in @narjournal.bsky.social. "TEsky" doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
- Bivalent chromatin instructs lineage specification during hematopoiesis: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Well done!! 👏
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouLooking for a Postdoc? A PDRA position is available in the LSI Exeter with Prof Brian Hendrich from September 2025. Do you have experience in mammalian stem cell culture and a solid understanding of molecular & biochemical lab techniques? Apply! Job Ref: Q05546 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- Meanwhile in europe...guess who will pay for this? Guess where the cuts will come from? But thank god we dont live overseas, right... #scientists4peace www.reuters.com/business/aer...
- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouNew paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouSUM-seq out @natmethods.nature.com ! 🚀 Ultra-high-throughput Multiplexed snATAC+RNA Used to: ⏳ link temporal macrophage GRNs to immune disease genetics 🩸 map T cell regulatory landscapes 🧬✂️ dissect TF function in hiPSC differentiation via CRISPRi/a screens doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02700-8 🧵
- sc processing, not as easy as you may think...
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- Reposted by Vasso TheodorouIn a medical breakthrough, a team including IGI’s @urnov.bsky.social & @giannikopoulosp.bsky.social created an on-demand #CRISPR therapy for an infant with a deadly gene mutation — developed, approved, and delivered to the patient in just 6 months. Read more: ow.ly/G0Bg50VTonC #RareDisease 🧬
