Sanjay's amazing story is available on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congratulations to @sanjay-n.bsky.social, @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social and everyone else 🎉

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Knabl @paulknabl.bsky.social Fantastic work and excellent defense!

I don't know about "twice". My memory is crappier...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Cool paper by @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social et al. from Uli Technau's group. @tclebedeva.bsky.social and I were also involved 🙃

Nature research paper: The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan go.nature.com/3HAsyyV

Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective. Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ctenophores #volumeEM

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

Tsuyo's cool paper on Wnt3 being both a canonical and a PCP Wnt in Clytia is out doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Congratulations to everyone involved! @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social

Uri does really cool stuff in Hydractinia

David’s @davidmoersdorf.bsky.social cool paper about the role of Chordin in BMP signaling in the sea anemone Nematostella is finally out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our brittle star patterning study is now out at EvoDevo! 🥳 doi.org/10.1186/s132... @lowelab.bsky.social

The last part of @paulknabl.bsky.social 's PhD is now available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Paul showed that BMP signaling is active in the diffuse nervous system of the sea anemone Nematostella and the box jellyfish Tripedalia. Moreover, suppression of BMP signaling in Nematostella leads...

Cool paper! Congratulations to @chemamd.bsky.social, Emanuel Haillot and everyone else involved! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Aboral cell types of Clytia and coral larvae have shared features and link taurine to the regulation of settlement" Kudos to Julia Ramon-Mateu and Anna Ferraioli @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social, and thanks to our collaborators for their coral larva expertise www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's a fantastic collaboration with @alexdemendoza.bsky.social, @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social, @joanjsoto.bsky.social, Sally Leys, Hiroshi Suga, @crisnava.bsky.social , @xgrau.bsky.social, Marta, @aelek.bsky.social, @zolotarg.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social, Ewa, Didac, @encent.bsky.social.

Our latest peer-reviewed paper is out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social . Zonglai & @hoyerjorgen.bsky.social show that the evolutionarily conserved proteins Anoctamin 5 and 6 are involved in sensing chemical and mechanical cues that mediate larval settlement and metamorphosis in Ciona.

Excellent thread 🙃

🚨🧪Help us share: Registration deadline to the MBL #Symbiosis course got extended! Join us to get practical experience on a diversity of symbiotic organisms at the legendary MBL in Woods Hole.

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Become our neighbor!! Check out this amazing opportunity @imbavienna.bsky.social - top-notch research environment with fantastic facilities, and all of that in a thriving international environment in beautiful Vienna!

Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab! Thankful for any retweet! 🫶 imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

Wnt signaling restores evolutionary loss of regenerative potential in Hydra https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.18.643955v1

Andi does amazing science. Let your Master students-about-to-finish know.

Tanya's @tclebedeva.bsky.social paper on endomesoderm specification in the beta-catenin-negative area of the Nematostella embryo is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#DBfeature #SeaUrchin🌊 An RNA interference approach for functional studies in the sea urchin and its use in analysis of nodal signaling gradients by Keen Wilson, David R. McClay et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to share our new prepreprint on the nutritional control of #Nematostella Vasa+/Piwi+ cells. Prolonged starvation delays Tor activation & cell cycle re-entry indicating quiescence deepening! tinyurl.com/2k9azd4y @eudaldpascual.bsky.social @ktgarschall.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Our atlas of BMP signaling activity in adult Nematostella is finally out! Fantastic, meticulous work and beautiful illustrations by @paulknabl.bsky.social Thanks, @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding our work! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Gonads and germ cells have an interdependent relationship in the cnidarian #Hydractinia. Germ cells secrete a TGF-beta ligand (called Gonadless) to induce and maintain the somatic gonad; gonads activate Tfap2 in pluripotent stem cells (i-cells) to commit them to germ fate tinyurl.com/245rw699

#Hydractinia takes regeneration to the extreme¬in a new preprint, Curantz et al. show that dissociated, reaggregated cells can form a new individual. We also show how they do it and which cells types actually contribute to the new individual (tip: not many of them). tinyurl.com/mr2s9zyf

1/3 Our paper about miRNA target complementarity in Cnidaria is finally published in @emboreports.bsky.social This work was led by the talented Yael Admoni with help from Arie and Rubi in collaboration with the labs of @thecocodium.bsky.social and Michal Rabani www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Have you ever wondered how your back formed? The human embryo makes a neural tube (future spinal cord) and somites (trunk muscle/bone) from ~d20. They’re formed at the same time and place, so we used human Trunk-like Structures (hTLS) to investigate their ‘co-development’… (1/7)

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

Holy crap

Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.30.626178v1

Feels like the new ctenophores and sponges are back

Beautiful study from the Kicheva lab BMP signalling self-organises neural crest induction & dorsal neural patterning via a temporal relay mechanism involving Lmx1a Also, useful stencil-based micropatterning technique for studying growing/migrating tissue formation www.cell.com/developmenta...

Next week, we’re back with two unique development talks: mouse gastruloids 🐭 with Kristina Stapornwongkul and turtles 🐢 with Agáta Horáčková & Barbora Straková. Mark your calendar—you won’t want to miss this! 🗓️ Dec 5, 12:30 EST / 18:30 CET / 17:30 UTC 🕥

In the recent years I considered silencers to be badly named enhancers bound by transcriptional repressors rather than activators. Apparently, not. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...