Guess who’s turning 217 today? It’s Charles Darwin! 🥳 Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’. Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇

I think that, like with art, papers offer an opportunity for you to tell the story your own way. Could another person research the same question? Yes. However, each person has the opportunity to do it and communicate it in their own way, and we must protect that 🧪

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

The moment to celebrate a paper is when it’s shared with the world, not when it passes the arbitrary hurdle of “acceptance”

And finally, we have It out! Do not miss It, If you are into early eye development, GRNs, and eye malformations. Thanks to Javier Macho and the rest of the authors for a terrific job.

Single-cell multiomics identifies key nodes and cis-regulatory elements of the networks specifying the eye domains in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703039v1

Ludovica Ciampi, investigadora posdoctoral Juan de la Cierva en el laboratorio de @jrmarmor.bsky.social nos cuenta su trabajo entendiendo a nivel de celular única como las células de la retina se comportan en situaciones fisiológicas y de en enfermedad. #TodasHacemosCiencia @csic.es

This summer I had the chance get to know a quite comprehensive representation of the medaka community in an exciting meeting in Heidelberg. I am very grateful for the experience! Now everybody can have a glimpse on what was discussed. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We are looking for a Bioinformatician (both graduate and postdoctoral levels) to join our lab. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity! Applicants should submit their motivation letter, full CV and academic record to Juan R. Martínez-Morales: [email protected]

SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...

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.

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0

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?...

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

Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/

enhorabuena!

Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆 The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!

👏🏻Enhorabona a la Dra.Sofia Araújo @geneticsub.bsky.social,guardonada a #LaMarató2024 pel seu projecte "Traducció de gens candidats causals en malalties respiratòries humanes utilitzant Drosophila melanogaster",conjuntament amb els investigadors Marios Georgiou i Ian Sayers (Univ. de Nottingham)1/2

📢Drive Your Own Project on the Genomics of Aging! Ready to launch an independent research program? The teams of Juan Tena and @jrmarmor.bsky.social are seeking visionary candidates for the prestigious #ComFuturo iAGE call! 📍CABD, Sevilla Deadline:January 9th, 2026 🔗 fgcsic.es/en/convocato...

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

And also from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social , Juan Tena, presented his lab's work on aging using killifish and a collaborative project to understand age-related retina degeneration.

Next, Juan Ramón Martinez Morales ( @jrmarmor.bsky.social ), from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social , presented their work on eye malformations and aging, and the underlying gene regulatory networks, using fish models.

Amazing talk today at #CABDseminars by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social! Sara explained work understanding mechanical regulation of cell states. She was hosted by @dariloops.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social. Thanks for coming Dr. Wickstrom!

Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

Amazing meeting coming up!!! @jrmarmor.bsky.social from #CABD is parte of the scientific committee! Don't miss the deadlines to attend! Registration is now OPEN

#CABDseminars "Mechanical regulation of cell states" by Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @mpi-muenster.bsky.social 🗓️October 10th ⏰ 12 pm 📍Rosalind Franklin auditorium, CABD Co-hosted by @dariloops.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social

🐟Last September, DANIO-ReCODE Consortium DCs joined: 🥼"ATACseq and RNAseq in zebrafish embryos" course by @anafminan.bsky.social and Dr Silvia Naranjo-Durán 📢Great seminars by @jrmarmor.bsky.social,@crisprscan.bsky.social and Dr JJ Tena #DANIO #MSCA @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @pablodeolavide.upo.es

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

Hoy @bpernaute.bsky.social ha participado en la Jornada de Sociedades #COSCE con el tema Dilemas Éticos en Ciencia y Tecnología como representante de la #SEBD y ha dado una conferencia sobre "Generación y uso de modelos de embrión humano in vitro a partir de células madre” a propuesta de la #SEBD

We’ve just wrapped up an amazing Genetics of Ocular Development (GoOD) Meeting, held on 📅 8–9 September 2025 in Ghent. It was an inspiring programme with brilliant lectures from our invited speakers ✨ Elena Semina ✨ Juan R Martínez-Morales @jrmarmor.bsky.social ✨ Alice Davidson & selected talks

Exciting news! 🎉 The Genetics of Ocular Development (GoOD) Meeting will take place in Ghent, Belgium, 8–9 September 2025 Keynote lectures from Elena Semina, Juan R. Martínez-Morales & Alice Davidson Early registration: open until 31 Aug 2025 👉 goodsoc.org/meetings/2025-meeting

Happy to share our new preprint on lens morphogenesis in ocular organoids. All thanks to Elin Stahl, Miguel Angel Delgado-Toscano, Ishwariya Saravanan, Anastasija Paneva and Jochen Wittbrodt @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How bats developed their wings? 🦇 Turns out they reutilize existing gene programs 🔧 Find out more in our paper @natecoevo.nature.com in collaboration with @fany-real.bsky.social and @stemundi.bsky.social labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#MeetTheSpeaker is back for a new season! Volvemos con nueva temporada! Get to know our speakers: the people behind the science. Conoce a nuestr@s ponentes, las personas detrás de la ciencia. @pablodeolavide.upo.es @csicandalextrem.bsky.social

Last week the MdM/CABD Transfer Meeting was held with an outstanding group of speakers from various fields of scientific transfer. Welcome and intro by Juan Ramón Martínez Morales, MdM director, José A. Sánchez Álcazar,Transfer officer from MdM project, Peter Askjaer, CABD director.

Two days to speak at this interesting conference. Looking forward to exchange and keep learning about brain evolution. And share what sharks are teaching us! 🦈 🧠 eccn2025.umh.es

Diving into Multiome approaches to understand gene specification networks in the zebrafish retina with Juan Ramon Martínez-Morales @jrmarmor.bsky.social at #ECCN2025 @borrell-lab.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

Do not miss this publication. The SEBD celebrating its 30th anniversary.

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🏆 Tres centros del #CSIC han sido reconocidos con la acreditación de excelencia ‘Severo Ochoa’ en la resolución provisional de la @ageinves.bsky.social   ➡️ @ebdonana.bsky.social  ➡️ @icmm-csic.bsky.social  ➡️ Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (#ICM_CSIC) ¡Enhorabuena! 👉 http://tiny.cc/q42g001

Hoy nos ha impresionado la conferencia de la investigadora Patricia Altea sobre posibles dianas del Cáncer Metastásico Nuestra joven colega del CABIMER- @CSIC es ya Premio Nacional de Investigación y tiene una impresionante trayectoria internacional premiosnacionales.csic.es/patricia-alt...

📣The #Milandeclaration on the crucial role of science in addressing global challenges. Read it, and if you agree please sign it 👇🏻

Hoy se celebra el día de las Enfermedades Raras! En el #CABD varios grupos investigan distintas #enfermedadesraras para descubrir su causa y posible tratamiento! 💪🏼 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬 Peter Askjaer @jrmarmor.bsky.social #BiocelUPO #Braincure_CABD

En el siguiente enlace podéis encontrar más información de la I Jornada de Puertas Abiertas de las RER-CSIC celebrada ayer 26 de feb en el @cnb-csic.bsky.social y @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social con motivo del #diamundialdelasenfermedadesraras rer-biomed.csic.es/primera-jorn... @csic.es

New paper out at the Journal of Neuroscience from our president’s @eloisaherrera.bsky.social lab!👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

#jobalert 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Registration for ECCN 2025 in Alicante is now open. Do not miss!!! eccn2025.umh.es @neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social