Gaspar Jekely · @jekely
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To get a comprehensive list of , we combined screening and mass spectrometry in collaboration with Amanda Kieswetter and Liesbet Temmerman at KU Leuven. We found 15 new proneuropeptides and confirmed the endogenous processing (cleavage, amidation etc) of many of them. has at least 33 neuropeptide precursors.

#cnidaria #neuropeptides #bioinformatic #Nematostella #neuroscience

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Gaspar Jekely · @jekely
361 followers · 138 posts · Server qoto.org

In our new preprint we characterise neuropeptide signalling in the cnidarian .
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20
Daniel Thiel and Luis Yanez-Guerra screened 64 neuropeptides against 161 G-protein coupled receptors () and found activating peptide ligands for 31 receptors.

#neuropeptide #evolution #neuroscience #Nematostella #GPCR #cnidaria

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Gaspar Jekely · @jekely
332 followers · 108 posts · Server qoto.org

There will be new and openings, if you are interested to work with us, please get in touch. Possible topics include neurobiology, eye , , the behaviour of ciliated etc. You can work on a growing selection of organisms kept in the lab, including Platynereis (still our no. 1), , or join more exotic projects investigating hard-to-culture marine animals including polyclads, hemichordates or amphioxus.
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#phd #Platynereis #evolution #connectomics #larvae #Trichoplax #Nematostella #postdoc

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