Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DevBio 🧪

Our new facility, the UK's only dedicated axolotl research colony, is an exciting next step into regenerative medicine. "What we learn from axolotls could one day help us unlock new treatments for everything from spinal cord injuries to degenerative diseases." - @aidarodrigo.bsky.social

#Cilia and #Centrosome friends- tomorrow is the big day!! 🎉 🎉 Organoids for #PCD, #CryoET of the base of motile cilia, TZ organization in #IRDs, macrophages & cystic niches in #PKD, how pro-inflammatory lipids & #adipogenesis AND cilia as signal-sending organelles shedding #EVs! 🤩 😍 Join us!!

Help us to promote this DevBiol course (in Spanish) ¡Nuevo curso gratuito de Biología del Desarrollo (en español)! Aprende sobre los procesos que dan origen a la vida Cupos limitados → forms.gle/sfSV1GTae2nC... Detalles y programa: drive.google.com/file/d/1-9dd... #BiologíaDelDesarrollo

We are hiring!

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in researching mechanisms of 3D tissue morphogenesis and have experience studying cell dynamics and performing quantitative image analysis, consider joining us @mbisg.bsky.social! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/jobs/seeking...

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Good news! Pre-registration is open for the Rising Stars Symposium at @ibfg.bsky.social, Salamanca, Spain 🌟 📝 Fill out the following pre-registration form now! ➡️ forms.gle/2QUz6M71LrSk... ⚠️ Form deadline: Sunday 26 October, 2025 #IBFG #bioscience #talent #research #postdoc

Hot off the press! Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Excited to introduce FuChi (Fucci chicken), the first avian cell cycle reporter line. Thank you to all those who contributed to putting this paper together. I really think it showcases the power and beauty of the chick embryo as a developmental biology model. 🐥 🥚 🔬 @roslininstitute.bsky.social

💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥 We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity. Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm #SciJob #JobAlert

#EMDS2025 attendees - if anyone is looking for a postdoc position and likes what they see of #Edinburgh, please come and speak to me or @lizihegarty.bsky.social (poster 71) or @erinwatson.bsky.social (poster 35).

The Company of Biologists and the British Society for Developmental Biology: a model partnership As part of the #biologists100 anniversary, Saanjbati Adhikari and Raman Das review the relationship between @biologists.bsky.social and @bsdb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Thirst for knowledge? The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School starts next Friday! We have an uncommonly spectacular array of faculty, and have no doubt that our delegates will also be spectacular Follow ‪@stemcellsummer.bsky.social‬ and #SCSS2025 for updates during the meeting

🧵How to write and manage your first research budgets The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.

New article out now! Our researchers @sumrubayin.bsky.social, @bensteventon.bsky.social, and @storerlab.bsky.social share key takeaways from a workshop on complex tissue regeneration, highlighting the need for more collaboration and interdisciplinary work. ➡️ journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our new paper on metformin, myelin, mitochondria and metabolism is now out at rdcu.be/eDbFD Thanks to Nina and all of the team!

MDI Bio Lab has been awarded a 5-year, $2.3M grant from the NIH to train the next generation of leaders in #regenerativemedicine. The PI for the grant? @murawalalab.bsky.social 👏 #standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝

🚨 After 7 years in the making, my PhD thesis work is finally published in @science.org 🧬✨ What does our gut say about how we became human? During my hitchhiking journey spanning 3 countries and multiple lab moves

Hi bsky! Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity! w/ A. Delahaye & ‪@bensteventon.bsky.social‬ shorturl.at/v01DO

Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu

📣 Cilia Lab is growing 📣 - we have 2️⃣ open positions at @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for talented and motivated researchers interested in disease modelling & genetic therapies which target #RareRespiratoryDiseases at their root cause. 🧪🧪#ciliopathies #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia 1/4

Interested in developmental epigenetics? So are we! Apply now to join us for your postdoc! Multiple positions across multiple groups @mrc-lms.bsky.social Projects spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation, genome architecture in development & disease 👇👇 lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪 journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

Excited to share our hot-off-the-press @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social that explores how PRC1-mediated H2AK119ub deposition safeguards lineage fidelity during forebrain development. Fantastic work by @lucyadoyle.bsky.social and our colleagues & collaborators. 🥳🧬🧠🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our latest on adult neural stem cells & OPCs #GLIA2025 @gliameeting.bsky.social Stop by our posters! T15-005A Ana Delgado (Tuesday) Intraventricular OPCs and macrophages/microglia T15-023C Hanae Omiya (Thursday) Epigenetic/transcriptomic heterogeneity of adult neural stem cells

🧪 Job alert 🔊 we are hiring a Research Assistant - join the Simões Group at DPAG-IDRM @ox.ac.uk supporting #cardiovascular development and regeneration research, working with #zebrafish and #human stem cell systems: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... @oxforddpag.bsky.social @idrm.ox.ac.uk (1/4)

Last two weeks to sign up for the Career Catalyst Mentorship Programme. Opportunities for 1:1 Mentoring. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am looking for a new postdoc to join the lab. Interested in pluripotency, germ cells, and in investigating these in a genetically tractable cnidarian? Get in touch! We offer a long-term contract, excellent research environment, and a lovely city #Galway. www.urifranklab.org

Save the date! March 23-26 will be the dates for our 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social annual meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis! Excited to reveal more details soon! Want to attend with a reduced rate, and have access to conference/travel grants for other meetings too? Don't forget to join the BSDB :)

At EMBO Beyond the standard workshop! Can’t wait for the unconventional science 🧪 with mice (Mus and Acomys), bats, naked mole rats, a whole organoid zoo (presented by @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social), salamanders. Our student snuck in a conventional fish poster 🥸🐟

🫀Job alert 🧬 come and be our colleague! Join a BBSRC-funded consortium aiming to understand how the human heart develops - you will be contributing multimodal single cell & spatial transcriptomics data using zebrafish and human cardiac organoids as models. Learn more: www.heartdevelopment.org (1/4)

We have a job opening for postdoc with expertise in bioinformatics and a strong interest in regeneration. We work on (successful) spinal cord regeneration in the zebrafish. Get in touch if that’s something that would interest you! www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

The NCBI annotation pipeline for new genome assemblies is an amazing service to research communities! We've greatly benefited from annotation on the newest axolotl genome. No small feat!!

James @lab-turner.bsky.social will be at the EMBO Workshop on unconventional vertebrates! meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...

This is the very last chance to join us in Edinburgh to learn new biology! Check the updated programme: meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver... Guaranteed you will leave inspired, full of ideas and very likely new collaborators! #EMBOvertrebateModels #EMBOevents 🧪 🦇 🐿️ 🦌 🐒 Please spread the word!

Registration deadline extended to 25 May 2025!

We would like to thank @biologists.bsky.social and @isrbio.bsky.social for support to ReBilD course. @intersted_applicants: Still few spots left, deadline is approaching soon. mdibl.org/course/rebil...

EDINBURGH AXOLOTLS! Super-excited to hear my wonderful colleague @aidarodrigo.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 talking about the axototl colony she has established in our institute @edinuni-irr.bsky.social 😃 Available on BBC sounds: Aida's section starts at 23.37 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 3: The Americas 🚨 Join us on May 16th at 12pm US East Coast Time. Featuring Dr. Sarah McMenamin from @bostoncollege.bsky.social and Dr. Erica Crespi from @wsupress.bsky.social. Find all details at isrbio.org/event-6181293

🚨 Last week to register! 🚨 Do not miss this unique opportunity to get inspired by unconventional biology!

Very excited for this meeting. We'll revisit fundamental concepts in #DevBio and ask how they might be informed by emerging #SynBio tools. We'll also discuss ideas around purpose and agency in synthetic morphogenesis, and generally have a VERY NICE TIME. Spaces available for short talks!

My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour. Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org

📢 Abstract submission deadline EXTENDED to April 25 📢 Last chance to get a short talk or poster slot at the EMBO Workshop on unconventional vertebrates! Anyone interested in learning more about these fascinating creatures: registrations open until May 8. Please repost and tell your colleagues! 🦇

Interested in biological research beyond the standard? Join us in Edinburgh for the EMBO Workshop exploring how unconventional vertebrate models are becoming engines for biomedical research! 🦇 🐿️ 🦌 🐒 🦍 🐹🧍‍♀️ 🚨 Abstract submission deadline: 11 April 2025 🚨 meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...

It has been known for a long time that if the starting point of limb regeneration is at the hand level or close to the shoulder, it would take about the same time to regenerate. Puzzling right? Check out this preprint from our lab to know more about it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Abstract submitted 👍 submit yours too! (abstract deadline tomorrow 11th April; general registration deadline 8th May) see you at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh- let's talk science alongside Dolly the Sheep 🐑

🚨 Just a few days to submit your abstracts! 🚨 Don't miss this opportunity to present your work to a growing and supportive community, and learn cool biology from unconventional vertebrates! 👇👇 @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @isrbio.bsky.social

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