Thanks to my colleague @ifetter.bsky.social I've got to learn so much about ants and their awesome biology. Just see how beautiful ant ovaries are! Congrats on this work, the first one of many to come :D

The ECM is no longer in the back seat when it comes to development. Check out our special issue "Dynamics of the extracellular matrix in development, cell physiology and disease" with 8 selected articles to learn more: A 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

💭Transitioning to independence isn’t only a Latinx concern! One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!

Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)

Open rank faculty search in my department. Please re-post!

I have written another #preLight post, featuring the first work from the Boukhatmi lab. Always fun to read a #fly paper, especially with #microscopy too! Check it out if you like injury repair and tissue/ECM remodeling. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/i... #Repair #ImmuneCells #preprint #ECM

*sigh* I was today years old when I learnt that Schrödinger sexually abused young girls he was tutoring The history of science (as told in classrooms & lecture halls) ought to be a hell of a lot more diverse and critical

📢 Last day to apply for the MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp! 👉 www.mbl.edu/education/mb... Learn how to reveal 10 genes with HCR in situ in zebrafish embryos 🐟🔬and so much more!!

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Total disaster for the #drosophila community if flybase disappears

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/...

Are you an early-career researcher using Drosophila in your research? Sign up to be matched with a mentor as part of FlyCROSS 2025-26. Apply by 1 September 2025 thenode.biologists.com/mentees-flyc...

Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program! #devbiolwriteclub @socdevbio.bsky.social

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

#drosophila #academia

Very cool work, congrats @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social and everyone involved!

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Congratulations to winners of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) Senior Investigator Award, Maria Leptin and Miguel Concha! 🎉 #2025ICDB #2025SDB #ICDB2-25

Quintay alumni meet-up at the #ICDB2025 meeting in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Always great to meet with the Latin American community working in developmental biology around the world 😃 @devbioquintay.bsky.social @mayorlab.bsky.social

Spectacular work by @maikbischoff.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social showing how Plexin/Semaphorin-guided collective cell migration of muscle precursor cells shapes the developing testis. Look at the movies! 😱 | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Missed 'Navigating the Transition to an Independent Position' at #2025ICDB #2025SDB? @dev-journal.bsky.social have interviewed 3 of the 4 panellists: @waisman-ar.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... @yosoyden.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... @uribelab.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

We submitted our ms to @reviewcommons.org, the feedback we got was really good! We thank the reviewers for their comments. They suggested some really interesting experiments that we had not thought about, we have just posted our revision plan; you can find it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paracantha fruit fly, just cranking the style slider to 100 and seeing what happens. I love it, is what happens. 💛

Preprint! Minos-mediated transgenesis in the pantry moth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... By @donyaniyaz.bsky.social

The Department of Cellular Biology and Physiology at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), is seeking a member for its research staff!! See details👇 biomedicas.unam.mx/wp-content/p... PLEASE, SHARE!!

Thank you to @biologists.bsky.social for featuring me in this series 🤩 I was also awarded a travelling fellowship by them back when I was a PhD student :) Hope they continue building a stronger community in the coming 100 years!

Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Archea and bacteria have collagen-like proteins? I didn't know that! 🤯 Congrats @romeritos.bsky.social and everyone involved in this work! Deciphering the folding code of collagens rdcu.be/eed6e

Side-hustle activated. Stoked to have this popular science piece out in Aeon Magazine: aeon.co/essays/after...

The first original research paper from my lab is now out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)

Come join us this coming March 6th!

Do you have an idea for our 2027 #BiologistsWorkshops programme? We cover all costs so you can simply focus on the science. We're now accepting proposals - send us yours by 30 May 2025. bit.ly/4hVT3M0

‼️The Cell and Developmental Biology Department at UCL is looking for potential candidates for their Research Career Development Fellowships with a potential for tenure-track‼️ And believe it or not, UK Research Councils are not frozen🤗 Please spread the words! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. It’s worth knowing about experiments that empowered us & learning the stories behind the experiments. To learn more about the screen & the scientists behind it their Nobel autobiographies & personal accounts are fun & informative 24/n

The ability of the animal body to self-assemble based on the information encoded in our genomes is one of the most remarkable miracles of the living world. We now take for granted the idea that shared cellular machinery mediates this and read textbooks laying things out in molecular detail. 1/n 🧪

Very proud of my students, who did an amazing review on how morphogens regulate tracheal development in Drosophila! We also talk about the tissue that produces these morphogens, the epidermis, and we propose it acts as an 'organizer' for tracheal development (1/2)

Fun with polarizers and baking soda. Grains of sodium bicarb are birefringent, so the crystal disappear and reappear as the angle between the optic axis and plane of incidence changes #photography #microscopy #sciart

Thank you, Marcos Simões-Costa (Harvard Stem Cell) and Joao Botelho (P Univ Catolica), for leading the chick module at the @EMBO #DevBiol course in Quintay, Chile! From grafting beads to Light Sheet microscopy with @zeiss_micro, it was an inspiring journey of discovery!

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

Hey #CellBio2024! San Diego is beautiful, but you know what's also beautiful? SCIENCE See some beautiful science art at the @beatascienceart.bsky.social show tomorrow, including pieces from our own scientists! 🔗 beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/

I showed off my #MarieCurie socks to Madame Curie at the #cellbio2024 stand for Institut Curie. She was not impressed 🤓😂

Excited to be in San Diego to attend #cellbio2024, my first time in this conference! If you are interested in #Drosophila, #ECM, #LiveImaging and #Biomechanics, Check out my lab’s poster on Tuesday at 11:30 on Board B138!

I attended this course 15 years ago, now the first PhD student in my lab will be there :) Wishing this group a great time in Quintay!

We are excited to start the new version of the EMBO Practical course on developmental biology in beautiful Quintay Credit video: Aljandro Sanchez-Alvarado @planaria1.bsky.social

For the dev bio crowd : there is a call for junior group leader at Institut Pasteur in Paris and one of the axis covered is related to development. Come and join us in this exciting place and become one of our colleague @devstempasteur.bsky.social Please RT !! research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...

Looking forward to this exciting meeting! 🤩

We recently tried using mEOS3.2 as a photoconvertible tag. Unfortunately our protein of interest is very low in abundance and barely visible. Are there brighter photoconvertible tags that are known to work is yeasts? #microscopy #yeast #cellbiology #imaging