EUVEN COST Action at fantastic Darwin-Dohrn Museum of Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, with exhibition on the history of the station, marine biology, biodiversity, and impressive jars wall of >100 yrs old specimen of marine organisms. After all this time you can still see the indvidual polips in coral!

🌊All’s ready for the last keynote speaker Prof at the University of Queensland Richard Lewis, with a talk on the development shifts in venom composition which underlie the evolution of mollusc-hunting and fish-hunting cone snails 🐚

And the winners of best poster and best student presentation of the European Venom Congress are… 🤩🤩🤩

Three days of talk, ideas, networking, and good pizza 😍It’s now time to say goodbye to all the friends of the European Venom Network that have contributed to a successful congress♥️ #EUVEN2024

I’m not crying, you’re crying 😭

📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching metazoans and unicellular relatives? Please join my lab 🧬 MBA - Marine Biological Association ⏳Deadline 25th October 2024 ℹ️ Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW823/pos… Please RT!

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Just a few days ago we were all together, and what an incredible time it was! 🎉 here’s a glimpse of the amazing atmosphere we shared, check out some of the best moments captured in photos! 📸 #EUVEN2024

#lifesciences in #Slovenia - an interview with with Gregor Anderluh Gregor Anderluh, Director of the National Institute of Chemistry Kemijski inštitut, Ljubljana, and EMBO Member embo.org/people/an-inte…

Join us on 9 October at 5pm CET for a new EUVEN seminar featuring Thomas Koch discussing cone snail venom evolution, and Schyler Ellsworh discussing mechanisms of venom resistance in flies. Register at bit.ly/3EUvDVe Schyler Ellsworth Thomas Lund Koch

📄 Our new Publication!🐍 @magy_lakusic, me et al. checked the Vipera ammodytes venom on different possible factors to change its composition: sex, ontogenetic shift, different populations and Island isolation. 🔓#OpenAccess Lakušić, Damm et al. 2024 - doi.org/10.1016/j.jpro…

Hey all, my team are running a small scale project taking a general assessment of venomous fish stings and their pain experiences through survey data surveymonkey.com/r/8F27N5Q Please could you share, especially to anyone you may know who has been personally stung. Feedback welcome

Check out this amazing opportunity!! A PhD position to work on a super cool project with the best mentor! 😉

Join us for the next European Venom Network Seminar 📢📢📢

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Exciting weekend ahead doing our sci comms piece talking to people at New Scientist Live (New Scientist Live) about the challenges of #snakebite and what research we are doing Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions LSTM to address this global health challenge

📄 New Publication by our Animal Venomics Lab! We mapped the architecture of #toxin systems by #MSImaging. First overview of MSI in #zootoxinology and future applications. 🔓#OpenAccess Damm et al. 2025 - doi.org/10.1016/j.biot… #MassSpec #venom Dr. Tim Lüddecke Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft