Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT. #SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

A bit delayed, but excited to still share our latest paper, showing that intercellular forces transduced by E-cadherin activate EGFR-ERK signaling in epithelia by inducing EGFR ligand shedding! Mechanical and biochemical signals can act together within a single, linear cascade! tinyurl.com/mr9mj9j2

Katia took the initiative to start a Xenopus project in the lab a few years ago —and now her work is highlighted by Development! Huge congrats, Katia!

#jobAlert We are hiring! If you like #imaging ,gene regulation and a dynamic group please apply. We are looking for a research assistant with a master degree and prior experience in academia.

Our paper is now published! The first encounter of a forming organism with bacteria reveals that innate immunity initiates in epithelial cells of early embryos, even in humans. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... made in @ibmb-csic.bsky.social @csic.es @idibell.bsky.social 1/9

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

If you’ve ever wondered how those intricate gill structures emerge—and how gills develop throughout a zebrafish’s lifespan—check out my new preprint! We dive into the development of gills and their vasculature in detail. Huge thanks to @vlecaudey.bsky.social for the support🐟 #zebrafish #microscopy

It's online! Happy to have contributed to this publication by @vishruthvenkat.bsky.social @vprincelab.bsky.social #DevBio @devbiol.bsky.social on the development of the #zebrafish anterior lateral line and the tissue-tissue interactions that shape it www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What is buckling, and why is it relevant in understanding epithelial morphogenesis? 🧐 I am @onenimesa.bsky.social and I will share some papers to understand this aspect of #EpithelialMechanics

🚨📣 New preprint alert! Excited to share my new postdoc work on direct force and mechanical properties measurements in live embryos! A great team effort with A. Chamolly (theory), under the supervision of F. Corson and @jeromegros.bsky.social 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #devbio #mechanics

Ever wondered how organs take shape? Join us to find out! The Organ Mechanobiology Lab @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social is recruiting Graduate Trainees. Perfect for final-year students curious about tissue mechanics, development & cell biology. Check out the ad below 👇 Please RT! Thanks🙏

Creating an asymmetric heart: @tbonnely.bsky.social @audreydsg.bsky.social @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social &co identify Notch3 as a novel asymmetric factor in lateral plate mesoderm that acts as a genetic modifier of NODAL to regulate heart morphogenesis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42q6H4L

Are postdocs the rarest species, or is it just me? We have two funded positions—apply now and join us on these exciting projects! #zebrafish #zebrafishcareers #iPSC #devbio #regeneration

The Cell Dynamics lab @Dev2A-IBPS, Paris, is now on BlueSky! We love cytoskeletal movies (especially actomyosin), nice microscopy and C. elegans. @dev2a-lab.bsky.social @ibps.bsky.social Transferred from twitter using ➡️ OpenPortability.org

The Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social has launched a call for new group leaders. Please spread the word! deadline May 30 neuropsi.cnrs.fr/wp-content/u... @cnrs.fr @univparissaclay.bsky.social

Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What do star fish, snowflakes, and even cells have in common? I am @juliaeckert.bsky.social and I would like to take you on a journey into the field of soft matter and give you a brief overview of experimental observations on symmetries in biological systems. #EpithelialMechanics

Registration for the next GdR AQV days is now open until April 18th. The conference will take place in Sète - May 26th to 28th. aqv-days-2025.sciencesconf.org There are many slots for oral communication. Come and join the French biophysics community!

Our new paper by @theajacobs.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social shows how relaxation of tension, rather than active actomyosin-based force, allows opening of cell #vertices to increase #epithelial permeability shorturl.at/Wnb2n @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de

Do you want one of the most influential jobs in dev bio? Would you like to work with the best group of editors & publishing professionals in the business? Are you interested in leading the premier not for profit community focussed journal in the field? Come be Development's next Executive Editor

My PhD paper is now online! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Big thanks to @mongeralab.bsky.social, K. Guevorkian and O. Pourquié! See the tweetorial below ⤵️

🔔📢 Next event is fast approaching, so here is the complete program for next week's "Advances in Mechanobiology" session. @drsarahboyle.bsky.social @carstenschulte4.bsky.social @mathildemathieu.bsky.social Moderator: @ccstorytime.bsky.social Info: themeshwork2020.wixsite.com/info/up-comi...

Announcing this upcoming conference: GASTRULATION RELOADED: Developing, engineering, and evolving the body plan Join us as we explore the latest research on gastrulation and axis formation/elongation, featuring common, exotic, and synthetic embryos! 📅 14–17 October 2025 📍 Paris, France

🚨 Postdoc wanted 🚨 Ever wondered how mechanical forces shape the heart tube during embryogenesis?… I am looking for a postdoc with a background in developmental biology or biophysics to investigate this new topic as part of an ANR-JCJC 🚀🔬 Don’t hesitate to contact me 🤓🔗

The deadline to apply for the MBL Physiology course is fast approaching, January 27th! Consider applying to this amazing, life-changing research discovery experience in Woods Hole! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

#MiFoBio2025 The autumn microscopy school by @gdrimabio.bsky.social will take place from 10th to 16th October 2025. The call for workshops to share pratical knowledges is open till 31/01 ateliers-mifobio.fr We'll bring stuff as usual, stay tuned ! More information 👉 linktr.ee/gdrimabio

Yamini @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social changed the topology of Hydra to show that actin orientational defects of Hydra induce the full program of head regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.

📚 Welcome to the Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club! 🌟 We're all about sharing research papers and threads. If you'd like to contribute, please send DM us! 💬 Our goal is to build a community that fosters knowledge sharing. Explore our previous 🧵 here 👇

Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the first VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar! We are looking forward to exciting talks by Xianfa Yang & Romain Levayer (@levayerr.bsky.social) ! 🗓️ Wednesday, Jan 15 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC

New insight on gonad morphogenesis ! Our new paper reveals how germ & somatic cells interact through TGF-Beta feedback loop to drive gonad morphogenesis in Hydractinia. Check out the full paper in Science Advances ! tinyurl.com/245rw699

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

A previous study in @plosbiology.org found that Wnt receptors are housed in early endosomes and required for dendritic #microtubule nucleation. This Update Article shows that microtubule dynamics in #dendrites can be influenced non-autonomously by surrounding epithelial cells 🧪 plos.io/3DK0M0J

What better way to start posting on Bluesky than by announcing that we are recruiting a postdoc! The project, funded by an HFSP grant, focuses on the role of the ECM in Clytia jellyfish regeneration. Initial appointment will be for 2 years. Learn more here: lnkd.in/eU6dVptj [Photo: A.Jan/LBDV]

Stunning capture of the complex zebrafish eye. Credit to Dr. Ivar Noordstra. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

We are offering a 24-month post-doctoral position in our team, based in Rennes, France (@IGDR, @cedre-lab). Looking for a highly motivated researcher with expertise in deep learning and image analysis. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #PostDoc #DeepLearning #ImageAnalysis #ResearchOpportunity

Our lab has multiple open positions for post-docs to study the regulation and function of cytoplasm mechanics during embryo development. Details below 👇👇 Please Repost !!! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social

The definitive version of our article is finally out👇. Congrats to Carolyn Engel-Pizcueta and the rest of the colleagues. Nice start for 2025😊 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Check out our latest article now out in eLife! We identify key roles of basement membranes in olfactory placode morphogenesis and axon growth. Congrats to P. Tignard and all authors! Fruitful collaboration with @trembleaudusart elifesciences.org/articles/92004

❗️Our new paper "Local activation of Cxcl12a signaling controls olfactory placode morphogenesis in zebrafish embryos" is out 👇 bioRxiv.🙏 Thanks so much to all coauthors: fantastic people😍🤩 ✨️fantastic work. Mathematical modeling to understand morphogenesis. Get in touch if interessed, more to come😉

Mechanical signaling through membrane tension induces somal translocation during neuronal migration Takunori Minegishi, Naoyuki Inagaki et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

CPMM will be hosting a hands-on workshop from June 14-17th, 2025, open to graduate students and postdocs who would like to gain an understanding of molecular mechanobiology. Please see attached for more details, or visit our website at mechanotechnology.org/workshop

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬 Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎 Please read & share! 🧪 @genevunige.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👋Hello #mechanobiology community in 🦋! This is the official account of the 10th Edition of the Cell Mech conference! 🔧We will soon announce the invited speaker list! Visit our website, subscribe to the mailing list, and follow us!: cellmech2025.org 😍Join us in Leuven 2025!

Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3

Mechanobiology Paris, in January, 2026. Subscribe: framaforms.org/young-resear...

Only 3 days left to apply! Postdoc positions available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge! @PDN_Cambridge Discover the role that supracellular cytoskeletal assemblies and crosstalk play in sculpting organs in Drosophila or human organoids in culture! Links below!

Pre-announcing the EMBO/EMBL symposium "Mechanobiology Across the Tree of Life", Heidelberg, 9-12 June 2026. It is still very very far away, but save the date 🗓️. With Alba Diz-Munoz, @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social , Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social, Enrique Rojas. www.embl.org/about/info/c...