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Research group leader at @biom-banyuls.bsky.social. Interested in animal body plan and life cycle evolution. Love EvoDevo, weird critters, geek stuff | 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 ▶️ Lab website: https://www.echinox.org/

Laurent Formery

✴️Sea urchins have illuminated fertilization 🧫, early cleavage divisions 🔬, and gene regulation in embryonic patterning 🧬. A classic marine model that shaped our understanding of cell fate and axis formation. 📸 Image by Laurent Formery #ModelMonday #DevBio

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@lowelab.bsky.social lab retreat in #Tahoe for my last week in the US. It's very sad to say goodbye to such a great group of people, and to an amazing mentor 🥹🥹 But there are new exciting adventures ahead!!

Great opportunity to work with cool animals + Nat is awesome 🤗

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6mo

New alien friend in the echinox lab: the basket star Astrospartus mediterraneus. A truly bizarre fractal body plan, but sooo beautiful 🤩🥹

It was awesome to finally visit the @msarscentre.bsky.social! Thanks @emclaereboudt.bsky.social for organizing, and everybody for the great discussions! + I got to experience #SunnyBergen (it’s real) 🤩🌞

Back from a fantastic field trip at #HeronIsland Research Station. Such a great place for echinoderm enthusiasts (I counted 15 different species of sea cucumbers on the reef 🤩) Acanthaster picture taken by @Caleb Trimble

2mo

Huge thanks to Sandie and Bernie for organizing this field trip, following a great #WPMBN symposium in Brisbane 🇦🇺

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Sea cucumbers are beautiful! 🥒 This image shows the skeleton of a baby sea cucumber. Very happy that it got awarded by #NikonSmallWorld 😊 👇 Check the preprint by @PranavVyas and @prakashlab.bsky.social if you want to learn more about skeleton development in these animals: shorturl.at/J3g1h

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Laurent Formery

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Laurent Formery

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost