Next Monday, 10th November, at 2:30 PM, we are delighted to welcome @maitrejl.bsky.social from Institut Curie. Don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list to receive the Zoom link! See you all there! 😊

Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back this Michaelmas Term 2025! Join us for an exciting lineup of talks exploring the many facets of tissue morphogenesis. Check out the flyer for the full list of speakers!

🚨 PhD studentship alert! 🚨 Joint PhD with Münsterberg and Mok labs (UEA) with collaborators Macaulay and Haerty labs (EI) Explore how enhancers control heart, blood & vessel development using single-cell multi-omics biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/one... #PhD #DevBio #Cardiovascular

Very excited about this project: we believe that 3D anatomical atlases have a huge potential for developmental biology. As a starting point, we made the first ever Drosophila wing disc atlas!

Hi bsky! Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity! w/ A. Delahaye & ‪@bensteventon.bsky.social‬ shorturl.at/v01DO

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Fully-funded 4-year PhD Opportunities available at the @crick.ac.uk , including a project in our lab on human #embryomodels Feel free to share with anyone interested, and apply through the online portal before 5th November! 👏 www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Next BIIG seminar is 12-1pm on Friday 10th October 🔬😄: - Anna Bajur (Imperial College London): “Quantifying cellular forces, one molecule at a time” - Virginia Silio (UCL): “Euro-BioImaging: From Access to Analysis”

Mario Ledesma-Terrón, Diego Pérez-Dones, David Míguez and colleagues @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social @ifimacuam.bsky.social present OSCAR, a framework to quantify 3D stacks with high cellular density. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...

🚨 Excited to introduce FuChi (Fucci chicken), the first avian cell cycle reporter line. Thank you to all those who contributed to putting this paper together. I really think it showcases the power and beauty of the chick embryo as a developmental biology model. 🐥 🥚 🔬 @roslininstitute.bsky.social

🖤 We pay tribute to beloved @ucleye.bsky.social colleague Prof Pete Coffey. A pioneer in stem cell therapy, his research has helped restore sight to people with macular degeneration. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

📢New post on FocalPlane - Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social‬ reflects on the success of the BioImage Interest Group at UCL, offering a template for other communities.

Excited to share reflections from UCL's BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social 🔬 It highlights the value of collaboration, community, and having a lot of fun in the process! bit.ly/4fHm2TS

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

Check out this work from @gserranonajera.bsky.social and Apolline Delahaye! They show how gastruloids can employ different morphogenetic strategies to set up a body axis. It nicely builds from Guillermo’s PhD work recapitulating gastrulation modes in the chick: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Maybe it's time we rethink the idea that development is a cell centric process? In this beautiful review, María-del-Carmen and @stramerlab.bsky.social discussed how the ECM underlies and influences many morphogenesis processes from wing unfolding to mammary gland development. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Our interdisciplinary @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop on Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Animal Homeostasis and Repair will take place in beautiful Haining, China, 6-10 April 2026. Exciting line up of international speakers! Register now: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...

Thrilled to bits to see our latest work online in Dev Cell! 🥳 We wanted to know how cells build functional organs with precision🫀🫁📏 Here we show how coupling of cell shape and organ function fine tunes the form and contractile power of the developing #zebrafish heart 1/n tinyurl.com/cell-stretch

My Pathway to Independence interview is now live on @dev-journal.bsky.social ! I had a great time speaking with @amjeve.bsky.social about my research journey and what's ahead journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🆕🧪‼️ New lab preprint! We study how germ cells (the cells that give rise to gametes, in this case sperm) are supported by somatic (non-germ) cells of the gonad. This matters for our understanding of reproduction - without germ cell development, animals are sterile. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🪰 A new ‘Eyemap’ developed by a team led by Arthur Zhao & @michaelreiser.bsky.social reveals how visual information detected by the fly’s eye shows up in neurons deep in the brain. Remarkably, the eye’s shape determines how flies see motion.👁️ 🔗 hhmi.news/4kSZjou

Scientists don’t know much about the ctenophore nervous system, but “the more we investigate, the weirder it gets,” Arenas Sabogal said.  Sabogal peers into the animal's puzzling physiology to determine how the nervous system transforms sensations into behavior. Read the full story: bit.ly/4nRoD14

A great way to end the week with some evo devo! A one day meeting hosted by @qmul.bsky.social #UKEvoDevo @biologists.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social

SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ever wished to become an actin star? 😎 Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to hear more about bioimaging and image analysis at UCL? Follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social This is a wonderful community for those bioimaging enthusiasts!

Fun part of the job - Inspiring the next generation 🧪

Save the date for our exciting 2026 annual meeting - March 23-26!

Top journal cover 🦥

Delighted to share our latest work on the mechanisms of epithelial curvature and 3D morphogenesis ! Amazing work from newly graduated Dr @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social 🎉 @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Passed my PhD viva - I’m Dr Lancaster! 🙌🏻 Huge thanks to my examiners for a really fun discussion about my work @gcharras.bsky.social @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social Big thanks to my supervisor @fpichaud.bsky.social and the @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social for the endless support during my PhD! It’s been a blast

Dr Lancaster and her viva examiners- Guillaume Charras and Kyra Campbell 🎉

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

spotLights episode with @giuliapaci.bsky.social ⭐ We discuss her recent preprint on 3D single-cell imaging in live tissues, what it took to get there, and how preprinting supports #OpenScience & #ECRs. Catch her at #DevPres tomorrow! @dev-journal.bsky.social #spotLight ⬇️ 🎧 youtu.be/0JQMPq0hSEY

Great new DNA/Q-Paint method published by our @ucl colleague Sabrina Simoncelli - lucky to have been part of it! Check out the Ecadherin and collagenIV imaging in the fly retina at up to 15micron depth www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Register now to attend our #DevPres webinar next week, featuring the winners of the @bsdb.bsky.social poster prize, @shifaant.bsky.social and @giuliapaci.bsky.social, and chaired by Abigail Tucker. 4 June at 15:00 BST us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New paper out in @pnas.org We followed cells migrating along signalling gradients in 3D, and found they collectively behave as a living droplet - a self-propelling fluid that grows. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Remember, there are many, many resources for school outreach, and we will integrate any improvements or additional ideas, either linking them out our putting them up on our site with your credentials! droso4schools.wordpress.com

Next #LMCBSeminars When: Monday 7th April at 4pm Speaker: Prof Rachel Lennon (The University of Manchester) @rachellennon.bsky.social Title: Too much turnover – basement membrane dynamics in disease Where: LMCB Seminar Room www.manchester-matrix.org/people/rache...

Sign up for one of our virtual open events on 9 April to find out more about UCL's Computational Cell Biophysics MRes: www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...

Are you enjoying all the exciting science at #biologists100? Want to spread the love of developmental biology to your friends and family? Together with @bsdb.bsky.social, we've produced a documentary video to showcase the fascinating world of #DevBio: 🎥

Thank you to keynote speaker Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social and organisers Anahi Binagui-Casas @abinagui.bsky.social , Emily Lucas @emilyxlucas.bsky.social and Aymen al-Rawi @aymen-alrawi.bsky.social for a great early-career researcher session this afternoon. #biologists100

Read our interview with Professor Dame Jane Francis @bas.ac.uk , a palaeoclimatologist whose research has focused on studying fossil plants, particularly from polar regions, to understand past biodiversity and climate, also one of our plenary speakers at #biologists100. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

On my way to #biologist100, very excited to present a story from my postdoc work we’re about to submit. If you want to know more about the role of 3D cell contacts in developmental patterning, pop by session "Patterning and morphogenesis" tomorrow morning or come to poster #209!