Group Leader at @neuropsi.bsky.social _ Paris Saclay University. Starting April 2026. Studying brain development and evolution in sharks and other creatures 🦈 🧠#embryo2014 #ERCCoG. Get in touch if you are interested in joining the lab!
Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui
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Thank you The Company of Biologists for the important role you play supporting us. You certainly helped me in key steps in my career. Both with grants and visibility. And I know maaany other examples. ❤️
#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!
🎓 Congratulations to Victoria Witte from the Arendt group @embl.org who has defended her PhD thesis titled “A single cell transcriptomics investigation of the adult Platynereis dumerilii mushroom bodies” #DevelopmentalBiology
Happy 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...
Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui
Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch!
📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility.
🙏Please, RT!
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍
Throughout the year, our community has been sharing stories with us about how The Company of Biologists has supported you over time. Your stories were heartfelt, and we feel grateful and humbled that we have been able to be part of your journeys. bit.ly/4q7C0Ki
🦈🧠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
Thank you @fredcauseret.bsky.social and @dev-journal.bsky.social for such a nice highlight of our work and @matosches.bsky.social on the evolutionary origins of Cajal Retzius cells. 🦈 🦎 🧠
The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
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#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
Two PIs of our ZooCell network, Detlev Arendt and Gaspar @jekely are featured in a new BBC documentary on the "Secrets of the Brain"!
They spoke about early brain evolution and showed #zooplankton collection and behaviour during a field trip in Ischia in Italy […]
Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui
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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...
🙋♀️ We are welcoming Idoia Quintana Urzainqui to NeuroPSi as a junior Professor! In her new team, she will research the Mechanisms that shaped early vertebrate brains, thanks to funding from a 2025 ERC Consolidator grant.
➡️ Learn more here: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/idoia-qui...
European Research Council (ERC)
Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience
ZooCELL MSCA-Doctoral network
We're happy to highlight two very exciting preprints from @idoiaeu.bsky.social and @matosches.bsky.social about the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Find our perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social here:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Vertebrates show a striking diversity of brain size and morphology. Mammals, in particular, have an especially large cerebral cortex, presenting with a characteristic six-layered structure that is bel...
