We have the pleasure to welcome two new amazing people to the team – Nawaphat a.k.a. New and Adriana. New joins us from his home country Thailand where he was working with worms before during his awesome master thesis (or were these sea urchins?) and Adriana comes directly from Hamburg/Venezuela after defending her PhD!!! Congrats and welcome aboard.

It is this time of the year again!!! Last Friday was the annual ICFO day with lots of science and fun. Montse, Ravi and Sara made an impressive worm show, showcasing some jumping worms. A big applause goes out to Sara, who won one of the poster-awards-Congrats Sara, well done!

For a few weeks now, Frederic Catala joined NMSB to spearhead the optical trapping activities in the group. Our first goal will be to build an amazing tool and team up with our friends from Impetux! Welcome Frede!

Alberto just left the lab to defend his master in Mexico. We wish him the best of luck for this important step and his future career. Good luck, Alberto!

@Vallforners @Montseny with Wieser and Ruprecht labs

We just came back from an exciting weekend at Vallforners from our first annual retreat with the labs of Stefan Wieser (ICFO) and Verena Ruprecht (CRG). We had plenty of sunshine and discussions, but also some serious food teams nourishing us with delicious items from all the corners of europe. Special thanks to Martin Harterink (Utrecht) for flying out there and riding on the dirt roads to present some awesome tubulin work in our favourite nematode.

NMSB @ICFO was awarded an infrastructure grant to build up an advanced imaging and force measurement station in collaboration with the SLN and with strong support from the Barcelona mechanobio community. We are extremely thankful and excited to put this into action and can’t wait to see this dragon flying.

Hey There, save the date. The Barcelona worm people (Esther Dalfo, Anna Laromaine, Nick Stroustrup, Ben Lehner, Julian Ceron) and NMSB are organizing the 2019 spanish worm meeting and we will meet with the iberian C elegans afficionados at ICFO. Come over if you like: 28.03.2019

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Three new students joined us last week. Martina joins Lynn in doind her PhD in neurodegeneration and also received Marie Curie Fellowhip that supports her full time! Iris will work with Ravi to uncover what makes neurons stretchy and Sara will tackle what is left to learn in optogenetics 🙂 Welcome everyone!

Good news for the lab and the neurophotonics branch. We just got awarded the prestigious HFSP Career Devleopment award and look forward to do some awesome science with it! Stay tuned!

Albert just joined NMSB lab this month to perform his master thesis. He studied human biology and will apply his profound knowledge now on the worm. As usual, we learned a lot from humans to understand the worm better. Welcome Albert!!!