New data release: Justin Cotney’s lab - @justincotney.bsky.social - generated a single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) atlas of critical time points during human and mouse craniofacial development, now openly available through FaceBase. Read all about it here: www.facebase.org/2026/01/20/r...

Our department at RPI is hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of Cell/Neuro Biology. Come join our collaborative and highly interdisciplinary department! careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...

Come discuss recent breakthroughs in RNA biology, from molecules to organisms, at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'The complex life of RNA'! 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-12-bl Submit your abstract by 7 July and present your research at #EESRNA 🥼

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

New preprint 🥳! We made photoclickable HaloTag ligands to precisely control protein labeling on living cells. With it, we can do some cool multicolor stuff. Huge congrats to Franzi and all co-authors! Check it out 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For the first time, ISSCR, Society for Developmental Biology and Allen Institute are collaborating to present a three-day scientific symposium led by early-career scientists. Learn more: https://ow.ly/bBQ250XrhtO

PROPEL builds community in science! Hear directly from our scholars at our 5th annual PROPEL Symposium!

Join us at #BARC2025 @sfbayrna.bsky.social BARC.ucsf.edu Register by 11/14! Trainee presentation awards will be handed out and generously supported by @rnasociety.bsky.social

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Applications to the @stowersgrad.bsky.social #PhD in #Biology are open! Apply now: bit.ly/44VM6DI

1/ Excited to share our new study with @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social, out in @natbiotech.nature.com! P-bodies selectively sequester RNAs encoding cell fate regulators, often from the preceding developmental stage. Releasing these RNAs can drive changes in cell identity. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756

From MBoC: Timothy J. Stasevich, Colorado State University, developed All Probes Plasmids (APPs) to simplify single-mRNA translation imaging—just 2 plasmids for multicolor, long-term tracking. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally .. incredible much awaited wok on deriving avian naive ESCs “Derivation of embryonic stem cells across avian species” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

So excited to be serving as Guest Editor for a special issue in @devbiol.bsky.social on receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development. Please consider contributing!

Birds of a feather connect everywhere. 🐦 #AvianModels25 goes hybrid so you can join the conversation, in #KansasCity or virtually. Register now: bit.ly/3ZBw2qS

There is still time to register for the XII International Avian Model Meeting at @stowersinstitute.bsky.social Sep 29-Oct 1, 2025. Join leading researchers sharing cutting-edge insights in development, regulatory biology, morphogenesis, mechanobiology, neuroscience & more. tinyurl.com/avian-models

#DBfeature 🐣 CRISPR-Cas13d enables targeted gene expression knockdown in chick embryos, expanding the experimental potential and versatility of this model system. by Minyoung Kim and Erica Hutchins @drericabiophd.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CRISPRCas #ChickEmbryo

NIH no cost extensions no longer require a prior approval request grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We have a PhD candidate! Congrats to Jessica Pacheco for passing her qualifying exam!!! 🥳🥳

Big congrats to Minyoung (Lily) Kim, a DDS/PhD student in my lab @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfdentistry.bsky.social for receiving her F30 NRSA Notice of Award from NIDCR!!!! 🥳🥳

One day left to register!!! www.sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025

Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

West Coast SDB update: Abstract deadline for short talks has been extended to Thursday, 7/10!!! #wcsdb2025 www.sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025_pr...

Just a reminder that the abstract deadline for a short talks at the West Coast SDB meeting is coming up next week! Links to abstract submission, registration, and the preliminary program can be found here: www.sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025 #wcsdb2025

Hello! Ever wonder what's "talking to" your favorite transcript, but were too scared to ask? In our review in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, @mardakheh.bsky.social and I highlight new RNA-focused tools for discovering RNA interactions across organizational scales. Checkit! tinyurl.com/ydn6e3ac

🧬 New preprint! We’ve identified core microRNAs that orchestrate neural crest delamination and condensation in chick embryos, key for trigeminal ganglion formation. ✨ Introducing cranial MET-miRNAs into trunk neural crest cells reprograms them to gain cranial-like differentiation potential

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In summary, we created an extensive in vivo resource for studies of mammalian enhancer mutations (>260 constructs, 1700 transgenic mice), with data available at enhancer.lbl.gov

Yas! Parent F32 (PA-25-423) and F30s (PA-25-426, PA-25-425) are also published. simpler.grants.gov

K99 / R00 eligibility has been extended. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Been going back and forth on whether it makes sense to post science in the midst of all that is happening. But here it goes with a couple of days of delay: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Website is now open for registration and abstract submission! See you in beautiful SLO! 😎🏖️ www.sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025

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New method drop: HCR-Proxy, a modular proximity labelling approach to profile local proteome composition around RNA at nanoscale, subcompartmental resolution. Thereby we resolved nested nucleolar layers and uncovered the grammar of spatial protein partitioning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to be speaking at West Coast SDB! Thanks Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social, Frank Macabenta, and Jaimie Van Norman for organizing!!

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge. "...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Notice on extension of ESI status for NIH grant applications. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

New preprint from the lab! With @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social , we show that P-bodies sequester developmentally relevant RNAs to influence cell fate. miRNAs direct this conserved regulatory process, and manipulating it enhances totipotency and germ cell programming. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What are the 3D spatial molecular patterns of differentiating enteric nervous system (ENS) in vivo? Are there co-expression networks? Are there spatially variable genes? In our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @RodrigoMoreC et al explored 1/4

#hiring! come join us at the Advanced BioImaging Center at UC Berkeley to help us build the #CellObservatory! 1/2 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04858