Thanks to Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social) for reporting on our joint developmental biology meeting in Potsdam #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026. enjoy the read: thenode.biologists.com/meeting-repo... looking forward to seeing you and @the-node.bsky.social at #GfE2028

The 2026 call for the José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta award of excellence in #DevBio is now open! If you’d like to join the previous awardees @dariloops.bsky.social 2024 and @mirimiam.bsky.social and @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social 2022, please don’t hesitate to apply to #JLGS2026

The #SEBD offers its junior members (PhD students and postdocs) travel grants to attend #SEBD meetings. In the last #GfESEBDDSDB joint meeting the awardees were Miguel Angel Garitagoitia, CNIC , Jorge Mañes @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social and Daniel Barcenilla @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social. Join the #SEBD!

#SEBD board members @isabelalmudi.bsky.social and @trayon.bsky.social were this week at #BSDB2026 @bsdb.bsky.social meeting “Molecules to Morphogens” at Warwick, presenting their latest results

📣 Congratulations to #SEBD board member @jrmarmor.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social for being an awardee of this year’s HFSP grant to explore the hidden roles of organs as electrochemical organizers of #morphogenesis with @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social Charlie Duclut and @djcohen.bsky.social

Fantastic talks and chats at the #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026! with @gfeev.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social #DSDB Thanks to the organizers for giving Newsha Mortazavi a chance to share her cool work. Congrats to @amulyavhejjaji.bsky.social for winning Best Poster Prize. So proud of both students!

This was a great meeting! What a fantastic way to celebrate #DevBio with our #GfE and #DSDB colleagues at #GfESEBDDSBD2026 Thank you all for the #science , the discussions and all the fun! See you all again soon! #GfE2026

The @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social was very well represented at this week’s joint meeting of the @sebioldev.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social and DSDB meeting in Potsdam with talks by @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social @araujolabub.bsky.social

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape In this Editorial, @reinierprosee.bsky.social, @amjeve.uk and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social announce a call for Preprint Editors in Development. Apply by 30 March. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Salim Seyfried concludes the #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #GfE2026 meeting wrapping up the highlights. It was a beautiful and diverse meeting with the many different fields of developmental biology across all of nature.

And #gfe2026 comes to an end! Thanks to the organisers from @gfeev.bsky.social, @sebioldev.bsky.social & DSDB, and all the speakers and delegates for a really fun and interesting meeting. Delighted that @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social could be involved! ..I'll stop typing now

In the last session of the #GfESEBDDSBD meeting we had the pleasure of hearing about Regeneration and disease models and a talk by Miguel Angel Garitagoitia-Romero from @nadiamercader.bsky.social and @miguel-torres-1963.bsky.social labs!

Last morning of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 and a session on Stem cells and organoids where our board member @trayon.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her most recent results on protein metabolism in developmental tempo #gfe2026

Cephalopods, like squid, have three hearts. @gertjanveenstra.bsky.social explores how they develop & what we can learn about heart evolution. Gill (brachial) hearts form first, followed by a central, systemic heart, and they develop differently than vertebrates in terms of gene activation. #gfe2026

The topic of session 8 at #GfE2026 is "Evolutionary adaptations & #EvoDevo" and is chaired by Ulrich Technau (@ulrichtechnau.bsky.social) & Sofia Araujo (@sofiajaraujo.bsky.social)

At the #GfESEBDDSBD2026 EvoDevo session we start with a talk by Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social from @geneticsub.bsky.social and #SEBD board member #GfE2026

We continue the morning with a session on “Forces define form - mechanobiology” with 2 #SEBD representatives, Jerome Solom from Biofisika Institute (CSIC, EHU) and Cielo Centola from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social

What a way to start the second day of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 ! A Keynote lecture by Isabel Fariñas @farinaslab.bsky.social introduced by our president Eloisa Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social

day 2 of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #GfE2026 just started with the president of the SEBD Eloísa Herrera (@eloisaherrera.bsky.social) introducing the 2nd keynote lecture given by Isabel Fariñas (University of Valencia)

Our society is well represented in this first flash-talk session with talks by Jorge Mañes-García (from @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) and Isabel Pérez-Ferrer (from @eloisaherrera.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social) #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #gfe2026

It has been a great start to our Development & Regeneration joint meeting #GfESEBDDSDB2026 with a great keynote and two fantastic sessions on Fertilization and early development! @sebioldev.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social

And now: Poster flash talks at #gfe2026 by Jorge Mañes-García (from @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social), Benjamin Knüppel (from @bogdanlab.bsky.social), Isabel Pérez-Ferrer (from @eloisaherrera.bsky.social), Payel Banerjee (from @unipotsdam.bsky.social), and Katrin Domsch (@katrin-domsch.bsky.social)

Welcome to the GfE Meeting 2026 joint with DSDB and SEBD in Potsdam. Salim Seyfried opens the #gfe2026 conference at Uni Potsdam. Let’s have amazing 4 days of science.

Kicking off #gfe2026 meeting with a great historical perspective on Potsdam followed by the Keynote Lecture by Thomas Bosh. Thomas shows us that eukaryotes are holobionts/meta organisms that do-evolved with species-specific microbiota.

We are pleased to sponsor the joint meeting on Development & Regeneration, starting this afternoon. Visit the @biologists.bsky.social's exhibit to pick up some Development at a glance posters and postcards from @the-node.bsky.social. Also see our Executive Editor's (@amjeve.uk) talk on Thursday.

it’s already … tomorrow?! Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio

1/10 I am truly honored to receive the Hilde Mangold Award from @gfeev.bsky.social! Mangold’s classic transplantation experiments transformed developmental biology and our understanding of self-organization. I am grateful to be associated with this legacy!

Our latest research in Scientific Reports. In this study, we uncover the contribution of ion channels underlying #glioblastoma growth using #Drosophila as a model system. nature.com/articles/s4159… A big congratulations to the whole team. @saludisciii.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social

Our Executive Editor @amjeve.uk will be speaking at the Development & Regeneration joint international meeting of the GfE, DSDB and @sebioldev.bsky.social in Germany next week. Visit The Company of Biologists' booth to speak to him about Development, @the-node.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social

Research into the mechanisms and regulation of development is essential for understanding many #rarediseases. At #SEBD, many of our members are actively investigating how developmental processes shape the origins and progression of many of these conditions. #DevBio #RareDiseases #SEBD

Desde el #CABD celebramos el día mundial de las enfermedades raras con un fuerte compromiso de contribuir a la investigación en esta área. Para eso el personal investigador te cuenta varios aspectos de estas enfermedades y su investigación. @rarascsic.bsky.social @pablodeolavide.upo.es @csic.es

Today is #rarediseaseday and in the @araujolabub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ibub-ub.bsky.social we’re using Drosophila melanogaster as a powerful model to study rare diseases. Small flies, big insights! 🪰#RareDiseaseResearch #Drosophila #Science

Register now for the EMBO Workshop "Awakening the Genome During Developmental Reprogramming: From Embryos to Organoids" in Seville, ES, 4–7 May 2026. Deadline: 13 Feb https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-awakening-genome #EMBOGenomeAwakening #EMBOevents 🧪

Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento de nuestro socio Máximo Ibo Galindo, investigador de encefalopatías del desarrollo, como el síndrome de Dravet y pionero en la utilización de #Drosophila en la investigación de enfermedades humanas en España. DEP

As several people reached out after the deadline was passed, we have reopened the inscriptions for this fantastic meeting until Feb 10. There are limited spaces left though, so please sign up ASAP. If the seats are all gone, we will close the inscription!

The deadline for the next Catalan #DevBio meeting @scb.iec.cat is today! Please register at actes.iec.cat/145016/detai...

Early bird registration deadline of our joint meeting in Potsdam between March 10-13, 2026 - “Joint international meeting of the German @gfeev.bsky.social, Dutch (DSDB), and #SEBD for #DevBio “Development & Regeneration” is approaching fast. Please apply before the 15th of January!

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Spanish EvoDevo at its best. Congrats to the team on this cool work 🥂🍾 Turns out that “deep conservation of CREs across hundreds of millions of years is far more widespread than previously recognized” Check it out👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas! Bon Nadal! Bo Nadal! Eguberri on! #SEBD

Development’s Pathway to independence. Check it out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Now @thenode.bsky.social #SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...

I'm very happy to become a member of #SEBD Board. Thanks a lot to my colleagues for their support. Looking forward to contributing to our community!

We welcome Juan Pascual Anaya @jpascualanaya.bsky.social to the #SEBD Board! Beatriz Galindo researcher at UMA PhD from @ub.edu and former postdoc at RIKEN (Japan). He leads a research group exploring the origin and evolution of vertebrates through comparative genomics, morphology, and evo-devo.

As a tribute to our founding member and president, Antonio Garcia Bellido, we have gathered the testimony of some of his closest collaborators. Thank you Antonio for your legacy youtu.be/AXlqTx5wYPE?...

In the 2nd DrosoSpain #DrosoSpain2026 meeting there will be a time and a place to celebrate Antonio Garcia-Bellido’s life and scientific contributions. This will be on the 10th of April at 6pm @neuroalc.bsky.social #SavetheDate @umh.es @fly-eds.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social

#SEBD board secretary @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social received a #SciArt #SciCom prize for her #Musifyingproteins a science and music project she shares with pianist Laia de la Torre. Congratulations!!! www.instagram.com/musifying_pr...

We are pleased to announce our next #SEBD2026 meeting! The meeting will take place in El Rompido, Huelva, from the 28th to the 30th of October 2026 #savethedate @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social @ijdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social

Looking to publish your paper #OpenAccess? Check if your institution is signed up to our Read & Publish initiative and you can publish #OA for free: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

Expresamos nuestro más sentido pesar por el fallecimiento de Antonio García-Bellido, considerado el padre de la escuela española de Biología del Desarrollo y figura influyente de esta disciplina a nivel mundial. Para la #SEBD, su partida representa la pérdida de su fundador y primer presidente. DEP