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Modern techniques in an ancient city: 2nd ZooCELL practical course at SZN in Naples.
🌐 🧳 Secondments🧳 🌐
A key highlight of the ZooCELL journey is the opportunity for our doctoral candidates (DCs) to take part in secondments across the network. During these periods, they temporarily relocate to partner institutions, where they gain hands-on training, learn new…
Training at the roots of evo-devo: 1st ZooCELL graduate school report
Jena has long been a place where science, curiosity, and creativity meet. At the venerable Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSU Jena), the institution where the 19th century biologist Ernst Haeckel studied and later taught, twelve enthusiastic graduate students gathered from 15th to 17th September 2025 for the first ZooCELL Graduate School.
Practical course on Animal Diversity and EM sample preparation
By Asli Kilic, Doctoral candidate, Arendt lab-EMBL. The very first ZooCELL practical course took place at the Centre of Organismal Studies (COS) in Heidelberg, Germany, from February 3rd to 14th, 2025. This hands-on course on “Animal Diversity and EM Sample…
ZooCELL Project Launches with Vibrant Kickoff Meeting
The inaugural ZooCELL kick-off meeting convened in the scenic setting of Ischia, Italy, from April 12th to 14th, 2024. This in-person gathering brought together ZooCELL’s Principal Investigators for a series of engaging sessions and discussions. The meeting started…
DC12: “Evolution of sensory systems for polychaete larval behaviour and development”
Host and PhD Awarding institution: University of Exeter (UNIEXE) Primary Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Williams Project duration: 36 months. Project description: This project will compare the head sensory systems (antennae, cirri, nuchal organ) of closely related nereid…
DC 11: “Homology of diverse lophotrochozoan larval types and the characterisation of apical organs”
Host and PhD Awarding institution: University College London (UCL), UK Primary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Max Telford Project duration: 36 months. Project description: Many marine animal species have indirect development via a larval stage – this is particularly true of…
DC10: “From transcriptome to morphome: development of a correlative toolbox to perform vEM on targeted cell types”
Host: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), DE. PhD Awarding institution: Heidelberg University (UHEI), DE. Primary Supervisor: Dr.Yannick Schwab. Project duration: 36 months. Project description: The morphome quantitatively describes morphological diversity…
DC9: “Orientation in lophophorates”
Host institution: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MFN), DE PhD Awarding institution: Humboldt-University Berlin (HUBER), DE Primary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carsten Lueter Project duration: 36 months Project description: The candidate will conduct an in-depth study of…
DC8: “Comparative structure and evolution of the ecdysozoan head”
Host institution and PhD Awarding institution: Uppsala University (UU), SE Primary Supervisor: Dr. Graham Budd Co- Supervisor: Dr. Ralf Janssen Project duration: 36 months Project description: The priapulid worms are a particularly interesting group as they are…
