Following on from this amazing CoB workshop, we wrote a perspective on constructionist approaches to crack the cis-regulatory code. All credit to @carldeboer.bsky.social who drove this, and never gave up on this piece.

To kickstart this new Bluesky account: We're hiring! The Bertolin Lab @dundee.ac.uk is looking for a postdoc to work on DNA-end homeostasis & genome stability, funded by Wellcome Trust Award. Exciting science, fantastic environment, founding role in the lab. Details in the flyer — get in touch! 👇

Join us in Roscoff ! All of the things below, plus I hear the seafood is incredible.

The lab turns 4 ⌛️🐭⏳👤 Science happened… More productive & fun than ever. Huge thanks to the amazing lab members who make it all possible!! (Light-sheet microscope movie by Berta Cava Cami)

Re-upping this as the deadline for abstract submission if so close ❗️🧪🧬🔬 Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!

🎉I am very excited to share that the Di Bella lab started at Fundacion Leloir in Argentina 🇦🇷. We will continue to study genetic and molecular mechanisms behind neuronal diversification in the cerebral cortex. We are now hiring at all levels 🧠 www.leloir.org.ar/nuevo-labora...

Very excited to receive this award and truly grateful to the @bscb-official.bsky.social who have been supporting me throughout my postdoc since I moved to the UK!

A reminder to join the Metabolism in Development & Physiology Seminar this Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 16:00 CET featuring these exciting speakers: Heidi Lempradl (Professor, VAI) Diego Sainz de la Maza (PostDoc, UCL)

A Spaniard that has made bringing a French cake a yearly tradition 😆

🚨Seeking developmental or cell biologists🔬!🚨 Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Looking forward to this. I’ve heard amazing things (about the conference, the venue and the food! 😉) Join us!

Many hours of zoom to this moment. Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data. Congrats to everyone involved, most importantly Dillon and Eric.

Some days you just need to watch tiny goats jumping around in colorful pajamas.

Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

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

@mpercharde.bsky.social & I after presenting our experience of setting up the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Roving Researcher scheme to support Postdocs on leave, in the Research Culture session at #MRCBiomedicine2025 Look at that view! Blooming love London

It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍 "The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form www.cell.com/developmenta...

The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/

🚨Reposts appreciated‼️If I had read this PhD offer five years ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to apply 😉 Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨ #PhD #3DGenome

We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab! Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs. Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.

OFERTA DE EMPLEO (por favor difundir): Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas 👇

Go to sleep in London, wake up in Edinburg! Great experience aboard the Caledonian Sleeper train. Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited for this Developmental Biology meeting next May. Join us!

We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...

Tomorrow wednesday 22nd at 11am, lesson #2 of Neil Shubin, Guest Prof @college-de-france.fr ‘Discovering how fish evolved to walk’. Wonderful first lesson @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... Fish friends in Paris, please RT🤘 Swim the Seine till St Michel, then get out and walk left. Free access

We are looking forward to spending the next two days discussing INTERESTING THINGS at our workshop on Generative Biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles #GenBio25 Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants

Our diner venue for this beautiful #GastrulationReloaded conference at the Musée d’Orsay! #devbio

We made it to Gastrulation Reloaded! We didn’t think we’d be late but we had to go in circles around the block. I would not have thought any other institute would be harder to get into than The Crick!

Come and be our neighbours!

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...

Thrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

Dr. Sophie Acton (@actonlab.bsky.social/UCL) is a Cancer Research UK Senior Fellow with an interest in lymphoid tissue biology. At #KSStromal26, she'll be sharing her insights on podoplanin - a molecule that controls DC motility within the lymph node. Register now! Link in bio.

Organizing the National Course of Genetics 🧬 by @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es alongside @dariloops.bsky.social has been a blast! A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!

🔚Last day of the #CNG2025 by the @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es We close our scientific program with talks by @joadelas.bsky.social from UCL on developmental patterning, and Jose Manuel Franco @cnb-csic.bsky.social on transcription factors in plants 🌱

Llegamos al último día del curso #CNG2025 con @joadelas.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk, explorando los patrones espaciales y temporales en el desarrollo!

Very excited to be on my way to the National Genetics Course in Madrid @segenetica.bsky.social It is always very special to go back to Spain for scientific reasons. It would be hard to convince uni student Joaquina of what would come. Impressive (aka intimidating 😂) line up

Best part of the job: visiting other places and discussing fun science. This time thanks to @sonnenlab.bsky.social

Do you have friends with questions about fertility? Egg freezing? Embryo research? IVF? Stem Cells? If you're UK-based this Friday, the BBC are hosting a Question of Science and tickets are still available. PLUS you can submit a question in advance to ask the panelists 🎤 shorturl.at/BCTW7

What an excellent fall program! Don't miss these talks!

Check out the latest work by @dbenzinger.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social ! Building gradients in space and time. I am extremely biased but the Dec 15 issue of Dev Cell is 🔥🔥

Read more about @sermenchero.bsky.social 's work in this PNAS Journal Club. #opossums!

New from our colleagues across the hall, @yanlanmao.bsky.social and @giuliapaci.bsky.social How can 3D topology tune patterning? Read below!

We look forward to welcoming Shaun to the lab in the fall. Congratulations, Shaun!

Excited to share our latest work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social . A global #cis-regulatory temporal program guides how spatial cues are interpreted in neural progenitors. We show how #space and #time can be integrated to generate cell type diversity in the #spinalcord. Congrats to all authors.

It was an excellent meeting and such fun talks. It's not everyday that you can show up to meeting and learn about social regurgitation 😂

🧬 Looking for a PhD position in molecular or developmental biology? 🔬 ✉️ The Hubrecht Institute now has its very own PhD program! Applications are open and will be accepted until September 15th. Read more here 👉 www.hubrecht.eu/hipp/

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧 If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology royalsociety.org/science-even...