The Astiz Lab hosts Prof. Rae Silver for her seminar at Achucarro 🧠
We were very excited and honored to welcome Professor Rae Silver to Bilbao and Achucarro for her visit. She is a Professor at Barnard College and Columbia University (NYC, USA). Over the course of her career, Prof. Rae Silver has held many positions on...
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Lab day out Autumn 2025: adventure in Egypt! 🐪
This Autumn we managed to find some time away from the computers and the lab to do our second official team building: an escape room all together. It was fun having to work together in a different environment – one covered in desert sand and very dark ...
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The Astiz Lab hosts the Spielmann Lab for their group retreat in Bilbao 🧠🧬🤝
The Astiz Lab was very happy to welcome Dr. Malte Spielmann and his team for their lab retreat in Bilbao this September. Dr. Mariana Astiz started collaborating with Dr. Malte Spielmann in Lübeck (Germany) in 2020. This collaboration has resulted in e...
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Dr. Sylvia Newbold gives a talk at the 2nd EvoDevo Hub Meeting🧠📣
Dr. Sylvia Newbold, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astiz Lab, gave the talk entitled “A journey into mouse SCN development” during the 2nd DevoHub Meeting in Leioa (Spain). With the idea that “it takes more than one brain to understand how the brain ...
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Summer of conferences for Astiz Lab researchers: EBRS and SENC 2025 🧠📣
Our team has been very busy this summer season attending to two conferences back-to-back! And not only attending but also presenting these three fantastic posters showcasing our most recent results: 📢 Long-lasting changes induced by the circadian pha...
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Dr. Mariana Astiz presents at the 2025 Chronobiology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) 🧠📣
Dr. Mariana Astiz presented her poster entitled “Development of the central circadian clock sensitivity to glucocorticoids” at the 2025 Chronobiology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Castelldefels, Barcelona. The focus of this year’s conference was ...
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Dr. Sylvia Newbold presents at the Brain Organoid Summer School (BOSS25) 🧠📣
Dr. Sylvia Newbold, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astiz Lab, presented the poster entitled “Towards the generation and validation of a functional human organoid of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus” at the Brain Organoid Summer School (B...
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Dr. Denise Ferrarini gives her first seminar at the Achucarro Internal Seminar Series🧠📣
Dr. Denise Ferrarini, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astiz Lab, gave the talk entitled “Unravelling the ontogeny of the mouse master clock” as part of the Achucarro Internal Seminar Series on June 12, 2025. Denise explained very clearly how she is inve...
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Dr. Mariana Astiz presents at the 2025 Chinese Society of Biological Rhythms Conference 🧠📣
Dr. Mariana Astiz was invited to give a talk at the 2025 Chinese Society of Biological Rhythms Conference (Hefei, China). This was the first time that Mariana presented our lab’s work in China (actually her first time in China!) and she was very happy ...
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WE’RE HIRING! Postdoc in neurobiology of circadian rhythms
🔎We are looking for candidate to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the European Union. 🧠Join the Circadian Physiology Lab at Achucarro Neuroscience Center in Bilbao, where we work to answer: HOW does the brain con...
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WE’RE HIRING! PhD in neurobiology of circadian rhythms 🧠🕐
🔎We are looking for candidate to apply for a Predoctoral Grant from the Basque Government. 🧠 Join the Circadian Physiology Lab at Achucarro Neuroscience Center in Bilbao, where we work to answer: HOW does the brain control our biological time? WH...
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Talking maths with our guest Dr. Marta del Olmo and New Year's lunch 📈🎉
We were very happy to welcome Dr. Marta del Olmo from Charité University Medical Hospital (Berlin, Germany) to our lab. During the Lab Meeting, Marta explained very nicely the power of mathematical modelling to help us answer biological questions. Our ...
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First official lab day out: fighting zombies! 🧟
We do our best to build a good working environment in the lab every day, but it was time for some serious team building away from pipettes and meeting rooms! So we embarked on a 3D virtual reality game to save humanity from a zombie viral infection (no...
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Dr. Mariana Astiz will be a speaker in the PANS-BSN Career Development Webinar 🗣️
Date: Thursday 24 October 2024 Time: 11am ET/8am PT/ 4pm BST Registration: FREE sign up via http://bit.ly/BSNPANSCareersWebinar - Open to members and non-members Information about the event and speakers: The PANS-BSN Career Development Webinar: Est...
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We welcome students to Leioa Neuroscience Day 2024 🧠
Leioa Neuroscience Day is an event where the neuroscientific community of Leioa shares their research projects with undergraduate and master students, as well as with potential collaborators. This year, students could also talk to four professionals fr...
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Dr. Sylvia Newbold presents our latest findings at the EvoDevo in Croatia🧠📣
Sylvia presents our latest findings at the EvoDevo in Croatia
Naia Andikoetxea joins the Astiz Lab as a Lab Technician 👩🏼🔬
Naia did an internship at the Astiz Lab after completing her VET as Superior Technician in Pathological Anatomy and Cytodiagnosis. We were very happy to have her in the lab as she demonstrated that she is a motivated fast-learner that can be part of a ...
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