Alison G. Cole
Senior Scientist at the University of Vienna | The cell as an evolutionary unit | comparative embryology | evolutionary developmental biology
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeComputer science needs more biologists. They are used to: - study systems that are mindbogglingly complex and complicated, - use reductionism to study and describe such systems, using famously clumsy and fiddly tools to collect noisy and incomplete data, (1/2)
- Reposted by Alison G. Cole“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeHow Vaccines Actually Work Vaccines prevent disease, not infection, no matter how the word "vaccine" is defined rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/how-vaccin...
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeMaybe we should revise policies that push postdocs out of academic research too early. It selects for early achievers that remain in one field and risks losing the highest impact people
- Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeThrilled to share the preprint from my PhD! 🥳 Where I characterised epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big thanks to my supervisor @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social and coauthors @noahbruderer.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social at🇳🇴 @msarscentre.bsky.social ⬇️🧵
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeCongrats to Nadja and the @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social. Check out their cool new work (featuring a small sketch I made)!
- Freshly out at @natcomms.nature.com ! Our @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @ercgrantees.bsky.social research into neurogenic plasticity of adult worm brains, and similarities in stem cells supporting growth of camera-type eyes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeNEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- My introductory spiel for newcomers to scTranscriptomics is now part of the public domain: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeYou still have one week to apply to this position! Take your chance to do your postdoc on alien critters 🐙🦑 in a vibrant yet cosy - walkable!- town in Europe. Pls RT
- We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeIn the span of just three months, the US has ceded our leadership in science and innovation that took generations to build. As a result, we are less prepared to meet emerging challenges and leverage science to solve society’s most pressing problems. 500womenscientists.medium.com/becoming-a-s...
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeUltimate paths of least resistance: Intrinsically disordered links as developmental resets in regulatory protein networks biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeDiversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeSea anemone development challenges long-held views on the evolution of germ layer and body axis formation A study by researchers at the Uni Vienna published in @naturecomms.bsky.social has uncovered a surprising difference in how β-catenin functions in sea anemones compared to other animals. #evosky
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeWe offer three new positions to join BCA Phase 0: 1. A full-stack developer to work on the BCA database with @ebi.embl.org 2. A senior research technician to develop sc methods 3. A bioinformatician to analyze new atlases with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Details below. Please, share and repost.
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeWe posted our surprising finding that removal of the nervous system in Nematostella always leads to the regeneration of a second head. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Alison G. Cole1/4 🚨 a brand new @biorxiv preprint from the lab! We charcterized both transcriptionally, morphologically and functionally (phagocytosis) immune cells from #Nematostella! We are convinced that our data supports the existence of such specialized cells! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
- Reposted by Alison G. Cole#SYStem2025 :: Vienna, March 12-14 :: #StemCell niches | Deterministic v. stochastic decisions | Germline | Stem cell model systems | #Epigenetics & imprinting | Cell biology of Stem Cells | Transitioning Stem Cells into the clinic; For oral presentations, register by Jan 15! www.sy-stem.org
- Reposted by Alison G. ColeOur review is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. @lauriebelch.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social
