Evo-Devo neurobiologist | Associate Prof. at Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu | SFARI Fellow | EMBO Installation Grantee | Cerebellum development: how it evolved and how it goes wrong
Mari Sepp
Huge congrats from our whole lab to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday!!! 🎉🥳❤️
I had the honor of meeting him - and being interviewed by him - in 2013 for his BBC documentary "Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates", which featured part of our work.
What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising?
Restrict access or invest in excellence?
Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness
Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪
What should Europe do when demand for its most successful frontier research programme keeps rising?
Restrict access, or invest in the excellence it has created?
A new open letter, spearheaded by Sara...
“By comparing gene activity across many species - from early vertebrates to humans - we can understand how we became who we are.” (hopefully precise enough)
Prof. Dr. Henrik Kaessmann, evolutionary geneticist
Recipient of the Ernst Schering Prize 2026
❤️ Thrilled to see this, Henrik - congrats!
Mari Sepp
For all cerebellum and cerebellar nuclei aficionados: A cre line specifically tagging the large, excitatory B-cells in the mouse cerebellar nuclei:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Lmk if you want to use it!
🧬 Join us at the 25th International Gene Forum – with stellar speakers from around the world (again)! Register now to secure your spot!
📅 August 25–26, 2026
📍 Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
🌐 Information & registration: www.geneforum.ee
#Geneforum2026 #Geneforum
According to @edvardmoser.bsky.social, director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, the four recipients of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience challenged what had long been regarded as a central dogma in neuroscience.
By Alissa de Chassey
www.thetransmitter.org/awards/four-...
🦈🧠2 JOB OFFERS in the brand-new Neuroshark group starting at the Institute of Neuroscience Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI)?
Lab manager:
www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-...
Bioinformatician:
www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-...
Curious about the lab but not your profile? Feel free to contact me
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Their research revealed how neurons synthesize proteins in previously unrecognized places.
"Genetic analysis of circulating metabolic traits in 619,372 individuals"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the teams of Priit Palta and @kauralasoo.bsky.social
By applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship with the University of Tartu, you can access 3 funding pathways: MSCA, ERA Fellowships, and national funding schemes.
Get in touch if interested in brain development, autism spectrum disorders, and single-cell genomics.
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Justus Kebschull
Mari Sepp
Mari Sepp
New from the lab: BARseq3!
Barcodes + high efficiency spatial transcriptomics and translatomics in the same cells, or just a nice spatial transcriptomics assay. All in a modular, expandable system to enable truly multimodal measurements. Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Transmitter
www.biorxiv.org
Justus Kebschull
JOB OPPORTUNITY 🦈 🧠 🔬. We are looking for a Lab Manager to help establish a new group studying shark embryos to understand the origin of the vertebrate brain. Reach out if this motivates you.
We’re ba...
Thrilled and honored to receive the Ernst Schering Prize 2026!🎉 Also deeply grateful to have been elected to the German Academy of Sciences. Both are recognitions of our whole group – I’m immensely thankful to all team members, past and present!❤️ tinyurl.com/hjrejv3p tinyurl.com/muw7j6mr
A genome-wide association study combining data from the Estonian Biobank and the UK Biobank identifies many common and low-frequency locus–metabolic trait associations, enabling the identification of ...
Happy to share our most recent GWAS meta-analysis of 249 circulating metabolic biomarkers (Nightingale Health platform) in up to 619,372 individuals.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
