Kaessmann Lab

@kaessmannlab

Our research group is interested in the molecular and cellular origins and evolution of vertebrate organs. Tweets by lab members. @kaessmannlab.bsky.social

Heidelberg, Germany kaessmannlab.org Joined May 2019

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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab Feb 13, 2025

So excited to announce that our study on the development and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds led by @BassiZaremba is now out in @ScienceMagazine!
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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www.science.org Developmental origins and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds Innovations in the pallium likely facilitated the evolution of advanced cognitive abilities in birds. We therefore scrutinized its cellular composition and evolution using cell type atlases from...

Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab Feb 13, 2025

One more - really final - post here after all:

please check out the wonderful Perspective by @matosches and @gattoni_giacomo on our paper and those of our colleagues from the Aerts and @PhyloBrain groups.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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www.science.org Constrained roads to complex brains Neural development and brain circuit evolution converged in birds and mammals

Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab Feb 6, 2025

Check out this attractive fellowship call (health-life-sciences.de/postdocs) and especially the collaborative project (No. 51) from our lab and that of Aurelio Teleman on the evolution of X chromosome dosage compensation through translational upregulation in mammals!

Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab Nov 8, 2024

#Postdoc or #PhD position jointly hosted in our lab and that of Alexander Sasse @LXandR_ to investigate the evolution of gene regulation at the single-cell level across primates/mammals using state-of-the-art deep learning approaches: home.kaessmannlab.org/openPositions Please RT!

Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab Nov 4, 2024

We are extremely happy and proud that our former PhD student Ioannis @ioansarr was awarded the Ruprecht Karls Prize by the Heidelberg University Foundation for his outstanding PhD thesis!!🥳♥️ So well deserved...