Eve Seuntjens
Developmental neurobiology and brain evolution beyond vertebrates
Suckered into cephalopod and killifish biology
Full Professor of Biology at KU Leuven, Belgium
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensInteresting news: The Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole (MBL) is once again becoming an independent institution. University of Chicago will remain a partner, but only one of many. MBL is an amazing place for science and science training and I hope it will thrive in this new status.
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensThrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs. Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs + 3 PhDs Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄 magazine.unibo.it/it/articoli/... Email me if interested in joining the lab
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensIf you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensI am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
- Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensOur work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensI am thrilled to share our new open-access paper in Communications Biology! www.nature.com/articles/s42... Huge congrats to PhD student, June Ordóñez (not on bsky), whose beautiful and meticulous work led this project! 👏🔥 @univie.ac.at@fwf-at.bsky.social @vdsee-univie.bsky.social univie.bsky.social
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensA super detailed protocol + video on Cryo-ExM - Cryo-Expansion Microscopy, led by the labs of our former postdocs @marinelap.bsky.social & @ebertiaux.bsky.social. Clear, practical, and very useful for anyone doing nanoscale imaging 🚀 app.jove.com/t/68595/expa...
- What a nice xmas present! Check this one out if you are into animal behavioral tracking! #OCTRON works really well on animals without a backbone, like 🐙. Happy we could contribute to this story led by @octoscience.bsky.social
- Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!
- Maybe 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 Eve SeuntjensAre you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!
- For those of you now wondering about @idoiaeu.bsky.social sharkies, mark your agenda’s: on June 5th, 2026 she will be speaking at the @rbscdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting on Cortical development and Neural stem cells in Chateau Colonster, Liège, Belgium. More news to follow!
- #ERCCogG granted!!! Immensely grateful for this opportunity. Thanks @erc.europa.eu . Many news coming soon. New lab opening and will be posting positions. 🦈🧠🤍 Go sharkies!
- It was nice catching up with colleagues and celebrating 10 years #EMBRC-BE in a wonderful venue #RBINS in Brussels 🌊
- Spot on
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensApplications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensOpen postdoc position at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life to contribute to the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, with a focus on spatial transcriptomics. Apply by January 4 sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco... Please share with anyone who might be interested!
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensA specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. scim.ag/4roFry3
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensStill at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠 Detailed thread below 👇
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- Reposted by Eve Seuntjens🚀 New paper alert! Thrilled to share our latest study led by postdoc @gera_jayati published in eLife. 👉 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Continue reading for a summary. 🧵
- Looking forward to this meeting! Do not miss it and send in your abstract before Dec 15!
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- Reposted by Eve Seuntjens🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions! Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery. Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensI am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensWhat are these? You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
- One of the coolest poster places I have seen so far is definitely this one in OIST at #CIAC2025 featuring many stunning cephalopod videos 🐙🦑
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensTomorrow wednesday 22nd at 11am, lesson #2 of Neil Shubin, Guest Prof @college-de-france.fr ‘Discovering how fish evolved to walk’. Wonderful first lesson @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... Fish friends in Paris, please RT🤘 Swim the Seine till St Michel, then get out and walk left. Free access
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensJOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!
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- Kids will need to apply for funding to be able to purchase if it comes through?
- I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensDid transposable elements shape brain evolution — and if so, which ones, and in which cell states and lineages? Led by @tyamadat.bsky.social, we explored this question in cerebellum development using sequence-based deep learning models! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensTwo group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensA reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensIt is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists. 🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensInterested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensLatest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
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- Diepe dalen voor het fundamenteel onderzoek in Vlaanderen: regering schrapt 25 miljoen euro funding voor interuniversitair toponderzoek. Kortzichtig, als je weet hoeveel meerwaarde investering in fundamenteel onderzoek brengt. #iBOF
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensSea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan. Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃
- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensHappy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensA new #UExM probe for #Actin! Fun times thinking/developing/testing with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @lreymond.bsky.social ! Congrats to all ! If interested in #UExM, or #HAK-Actin, feel free to reach out ! Soon available at @spirochrome.com #Expansion #Microscopy #ProtistsOnSky
- Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Soon at @spirochrome.com Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social
- Agree! If you come from outside EU (yes, that includes UK) then getting the single permit admin done already takes 5 months+ 😫
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- Reposted by Eve Seuntjens📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 janelia.link/groupleader
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensOpen Team Leader position @embl.org to head & reshape our Genomics Core facility. Interested in providing & developing state-of-the art omics tech to a wide community? A very vibrant, dynamic place to work with fantastic colleagues. Closing Sept 30th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensWe’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensDev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
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- Reposted by Eve SeuntjensHello microscopy and imaging experts and enthusiasts! We are looking for a staff scientist to join us here in Geneva to work on microscopy and image analysis projects! See the link for the job announcement (in French and in English). Please apply and/or repost! jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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