Katja Kobow
@katjakobow.bsky.social
Epigenetics enthusiast. Working in molecular neuropathology 🧠🔬🧬 @FAU.de. Visiting scientist @UKL_Leipzig. Malformations and #epilepsy. DNA methylation and #aging.
kobowlab.org
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It’s not too late to apply for the PhD position in my lab! Please send your documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, names of references) through the official application platform by Nov 25!
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It’s not too late to apply for the PhD position in my lab! Please send your documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, names of references) through the official application platform by Nov 25!
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IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
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“We have to protect one area of the brain & remove another.” - Dr. Ricardo Morcos 🤩 🇬🇧!
A hopeful, very educational chat about the epilepsy surgery journey 🔪🧠 - clear, empowering, & informative!
Watch the full episode here! 👇
youtu.be/QzIoLlRG1Lw
#epilepsysurgery #epilepsy #neurosurgery
A hopeful, very educational chat about the epilepsy surgery journey 🔪🧠 - clear, empowering, & informative!
Watch the full episode here! 👇
youtu.be/QzIoLlRG1Lw
#epilepsysurgery #epilepsy #neurosurgery
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“We have to protect one area of the brain & remove another.” - Dr. Ricardo Morcos 🤩 🇬🇧!
A hopeful, very educational chat about the epilepsy surgery journey 🔪🧠 - clear, empowering, & informative!
Watch the full episode here! 👇
youtu.be/QzIoLlRG1Lw
#epilepsysurgery #epilepsy #neurosurgery
A hopeful, very educational chat about the epilepsy surgery journey 🔪🧠 - clear, empowering, & informative!
Watch the full episode here! 👇
youtu.be/QzIoLlRG1Lw
#epilepsysurgery #epilepsy #neurosurgery
Surprising twist in #epilepsy genetics 👀 Our new preprint shows that many MOGHE brains - even in females - carry extra Y-chromosome material, restricted to the lesion! Could sex-chromosome mosaicism be a driver of this epileptogenic malformation?
🧬 Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧬 Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
High incidence of Y-chromosome mosaicism in male and female individuals with MOGHE
Mild malformation of cortical development with oligodendroglial hyperplasia in epilepsy (MOGHE) is a recently discovered histopathological lesion entity. Approximately half of affected individuals car...
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Surprising twist in #epilepsy genetics 👀 Our new preprint shows that many MOGHE brains - even in females - carry extra Y-chromosome material, restricted to the lesion! Could sex-chromosome mosaicism be a driver of this epileptogenic malformation?
🧬 Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧬 Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Fantastic place for science.
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Fantastic place for science.
Is epilepsy aging in fast-forward? 🧠⏳ Our latest study found that the epileptic brain shows signs of accelerated biological aging, more so than blood. Aging+Epilepsy-related signatures appeared even before seizures began. Food for thought regarding seizure risk predictability & treatment innovations
New preprint from the lab: „Time flies faster in epilepsy“ now available on Research Gate www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7.... Great collaboration with Sarah Weckhuysen, Premysl Jiruska, Johannes Lemke and many more.
Time flies faster in epilepsy
People with epilepsy have a significantly reduced life expectancy and an increased burden of age-related comorbidities, raising the possibility that epilepsy accelerates biological aging. Seizures tri...
www.researchsquare.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Is epilepsy aging in fast-forward? 🧠⏳ Our latest study found that the epileptic brain shows signs of accelerated biological aging, more so than blood. Aging+Epilepsy-related signatures appeared even before seizures began. Food for thought regarding seizure risk predictability & treatment innovations
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A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Application – EMBL International PhD Programme
www.embl.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Did you know that people with #epilepsy have a significantly reduced life expectancy and an increased burden of age-related comorbidities? Our new study „Time flies faster in epilepsy“ lnkd.in/d28QCtMS looks into how biological aging contributes to the disease.
October 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Did you know that people with #epilepsy have a significantly reduced life expectancy and an increased burden of age-related comorbidities? Our new study „Time flies faster in epilepsy“ lnkd.in/d28QCtMS looks into how biological aging contributes to the disease.
New preprint from the lab: „Time flies faster in epilepsy“ now available on Research Gate www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7.... Great collaboration with Sarah Weckhuysen, Premysl Jiruska, Johannes Lemke and many more.
Time flies faster in epilepsy
People with epilepsy have a significantly reduced life expectancy and an increased burden of age-related comorbidities, raising the possibility that epilepsy accelerates biological aging. Seizures tri...
www.researchsquare.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
New preprint from the lab: „Time flies faster in epilepsy“ now available on Research Gate www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7.... Great collaboration with Sarah Weckhuysen, Premysl Jiruska, Johannes Lemke and many more.
Reposted by Katja Kobow
SUDEP or SUdden Death in Epilepsy affects about 1 in 1000 people with Epilepsy annually. - Have your doctors told you about your risks of SUDEP? #EpilepsyAwareness
brainablaze.com/the-brain-ab...
brainablaze.com/the-brain-ab...
026: Mortality - The Brain Ablaze Epilepsy Podcast
We stare down the monster that has plagued our Epilepsy community for decades, SUDEP, or SUdden Death from EPilepsy.
brainablaze.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
SUDEP or SUdden Death in Epilepsy affects about 1 in 1000 people with Epilepsy annually. - Have your doctors told you about your risks of SUDEP? #EpilepsyAwareness
brainablaze.com/the-brain-ab...
brainablaze.com/the-brain-ab...
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New in Epilepsia – September 13, 2025
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#epilepsy #epilepsia #ILAE #EpilepsyResearch #NewInEpilepsy #JustPublished #LatestResearch
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#epilepsy #epilepsia #ILAE #EpilepsyResearch #NewInEpilepsy #JustPublished #LatestResearch
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
New in Epilepsia – September 13, 2025
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#epilepsy #epilepsia #ILAE #EpilepsyResearch #NewInEpilepsy #JustPublished #LatestResearch
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#epilepsy #epilepsia #ILAE #EpilepsyResearch #NewInEpilepsy #JustPublished #LatestResearch
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Upcoming EBM Virtual Brain Talk 🧠
We are excited to announce our next virtual brain talk:
"There and back again - The translational journey in modern Neurosurgery"
Speaker: Prof. Dr.med. Oliver Schnell (UKER, Germany)
📅 22.09.2025
⏰ 4:00 PM (CEST)
💻 Online via Zoom
We are excited to announce our next virtual brain talk:
"There and back again - The translational journey in modern Neurosurgery"
Speaker: Prof. Dr.med. Oliver Schnell (UKER, Germany)
📅 22.09.2025
⏰ 4:00 PM (CEST)
💻 Online via Zoom
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Upcoming EBM Virtual Brain Talk 🧠
We are excited to announce our next virtual brain talk:
"There and back again - The translational journey in modern Neurosurgery"
Speaker: Prof. Dr.med. Oliver Schnell (UKER, Germany)
📅 22.09.2025
⏰ 4:00 PM (CEST)
💻 Online via Zoom
We are excited to announce our next virtual brain talk:
"There and back again - The translational journey in modern Neurosurgery"
Speaker: Prof. Dr.med. Oliver Schnell (UKER, Germany)
📅 22.09.2025
⏰ 4:00 PM (CEST)
💻 Online via Zoom
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Searching for a #postdoc opportunity in Europe? Are you interested in neuroinflammation, immunometabolism and/or epilepsy research?? 🧠 Apply now and work with a great team at RCSI in beautiful Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal.
@Futureneuro_ie @RCSIPharmBioMol
*****Closing date 16th July*****
@Futureneuro_ie @RCSIPharmBioMol
*****Closing date 16th July*****
July 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Searching for a #postdoc opportunity in Europe? Are you interested in neuroinflammation, immunometabolism and/or epilepsy research?? 🧠 Apply now and work with a great team at RCSI in beautiful Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal.
@Futureneuro_ie @RCSIPharmBioMol
*****Closing date 16th July*****
@Futureneuro_ie @RCSIPharmBioMol
*****Closing date 16th July*****
Epilepsy stigma has existed since ancient times and persists in various degrees throughout the world. Fight stigma! Watch this beautiful, intimate, and powerful film and share. #StigmaOfEpilepsy youtube.com/watch?v=-JQN...
The Curse of Stigma Documentary Film
YouTube video by Whitten Newman Foundation
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May 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Epilepsy stigma has existed since ancient times and persists in various degrees throughout the world. Fight stigma! Watch this beautiful, intimate, and powerful film and share. #StigmaOfEpilepsy youtube.com/watch?v=-JQN...
Reposted by Katja Kobow
Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...
May 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...
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Has a colleague's work influenced your research?
Has a mentor guided your neuroscience career?
Don’t miss a chance to pay it forward by nominating them for a 2025 SfN Award or Prize.
🚨 Submit your nomination by the new deadline: Thursday, May 15.
🔗 bit.ly/4iXFGLz
#NeuroSky
Has a mentor guided your neuroscience career?
Don’t miss a chance to pay it forward by nominating them for a 2025 SfN Award or Prize.
🚨 Submit your nomination by the new deadline: Thursday, May 15.
🔗 bit.ly/4iXFGLz
#NeuroSky
May 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Has a colleague's work influenced your research?
Has a mentor guided your neuroscience career?
Don’t miss a chance to pay it forward by nominating them for a 2025 SfN Award or Prize.
🚨 Submit your nomination by the new deadline: Thursday, May 15.
🔗 bit.ly/4iXFGLz
#NeuroSky
Has a mentor guided your neuroscience career?
Don’t miss a chance to pay it forward by nominating them for a 2025 SfN Award or Prize.
🚨 Submit your nomination by the new deadline: Thursday, May 15.
🔗 bit.ly/4iXFGLz
#NeuroSky
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This is definitely worth a read... This is what conscience and courage look like...
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With Sadness and Resolve: Why I Resigned as Chief Medical Officer of an NIH Institute and What Comes Next | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | Articles in Press
www.atsjournals.org
April 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is definitely worth a read... This is what conscience and courage look like...
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Study reveals CA1 place cells in mice encode space and goals equally; mechanisms and experience unclear. Insights into 1:1 balance! PMID:40169932, Nat Neurosci 2025, @NatureNeuro https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01930-5 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
Mechanisms of experience-dependent place-cell referencing in hippocampal area CA1 - Nature Neuroscience
Through multiday imaging and acute whole-cell recordings in behaving mice, Qian, Li and Magee provide insight into place field formation in general and specifically how the hippocampus adaptively remaps for flexible goal-directed navigation.
doi.org
April 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Do we owe multicellularity to the ability to handle pressure? "We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal multicellularity in haloarchaea, forming tissue-like structures."
How did life go from solo cells to many coordinating ones? Perhaps a bit of pressure. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
April 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Do we owe multicellularity to the ability to handle pressure? "We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal multicellularity in haloarchaea, forming tissue-like structures."
🚨 News‼️ I was unanimously elected as the new 2nd Chair of the #DGfE - the first woman in this role! I hope to bring a strong science voice to the board and take over as Chair in two years. Great step for better science-clinic collaboration in German #epilepsy research! @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social
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April 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚨 News‼️ I was unanimously elected as the new 2nd Chair of the #DGfE - the first woman in this role! I hope to bring a strong science voice to the board and take over as Chair in two years. Great step for better science-clinic collaboration in German #epilepsy research! @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Katja Kobow
Want to do a PhD? Are you interested in cortical development and how altered cortical development leads to epilepsy? 🧠⚡
Come and work with us in Marseille at @inmed.bsky.social
Apply to Neuroschool PhD program for international students @neuromarseille.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Come and work with us in Marseille at @inmed.bsky.social
Apply to Neuroschool PhD program for international students @neuromarseille.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
PhD position - Multimodal profiling of epilepsy onset and progression in preclinical models of cortical malformations - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Want to do a PhD? Are you interested in cortical development and how altered cortical development leads to epilepsy? 🧠⚡
Come and work with us in Marseille at @inmed.bsky.social
Apply to Neuroschool PhD program for international students @neuromarseille.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Come and work with us in Marseille at @inmed.bsky.social
Apply to Neuroschool PhD program for international students @neuromarseille.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...