Check out this new work from the Towers lab to learn how avian digit patterns can be transformed into mammalian-like patterns! 🔬🐣🧪 @matt-towers.bsky.social Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Five toed chicken anyone? Nice work from @matt-towers.bsky.social & co on reconstructing the evolutionary pathway to digit loss in birds

Pleased to share our latest! We show that the chick limb can be directed to recapitulate key stages in mammalian evolution, providing a unifying model for digit patterning across amniotes. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_...

Our excursion into the world of hPSC-derived lateral plate mesoderm progenitors, the result of a great collaboration with the lab of @matt-towers.bsky.social. For more details check the thread of @sudeuyulgan.bsky.social below-Sude has been fantastic in leading and driving this work!

Brilliant work, Sude—fascinating data and an impressive effort driving this project forward. Congrats!

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

With the scientific input and experimental brilliance of the @franzelab.bsky.social this work was made possible. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our bat–mouse limb paper is now on bioRxiv!
🦇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.717074v2 This was a collaborative effort across the @nadavahituv.bsky.social Nicola Illing, Dorit Hockman, Guy Kelman, Tommy Kaplan labs and my lab at @washugenetics.bsky.social

Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: we investigate how the peripheral limb architecture can affect the cellular and transcriptional maturation dynamics of spinal cord neurons #plasticity www.cell.com/iscience/ful... congrats and thanks to all co-authors!!! 👏🥳🙏

PDRA position still open in my lab for anyone who wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to chicks and catsharks). Please share!

A BBSRC-funded PDRA position is available in my lab investigating vertebrate limb development! Please contact me for more details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH553/r....

It's been quite a year for hypothalamic development. With this heroic analysis of developmental cell lineage, coupled with earlier multimode-based gene regulatory network analysis, the prosomere model looks like it has passed into history. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share a fantastic PhD opportunity combining interdisciplinary approaches with me, @alexgfletcher.bsky.social and @rorylcooper.bsky.social sky.social! Please share!

🚨 PhD Projects 🚨 We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology

I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com