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PhD in the lab of
@vlecaudey.bsky.social
at JGU. Developmental Biology in
#Zebrafish
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pinned post!
Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of
@dev-journal.bsky.social
🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain
#zebrafish
gill architecture throughout life 🔗
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday
#LifelongDevSI
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Kevin Terretaz
2 days ago
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy
#ImageJ
#FluorescenceFriday
#microscopyMonday
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Society for Conservation Biology
3 days ago
Slow down and really see nature. Join artist–zoologist Bella Charlton for a free online workshop on
#NatureJournaling
- hosted by SCB and Current Conservation. 🗓️ Nov 14, 2025 | 8–9 AM ET 🎨 Open to all, no drawing experience needed! 👉 Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SciComm
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Society for Developmental Biology
4 days ago
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase
#ModelMonday
#DevBio
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Development
4 days ago
Our Special Issue on Lifelong Development
#LifelongDevSI
is now complete! Guest edited by Meri Huch and Mansi Srivastava, it contains 26 research and review-type articles. On the cover: the dorsal vasculature of an adult zebrafish's first gill arch. See Preußner et al.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Ina Klockner 🧬👩🔬🔬
7 days ago
Amazing paper with gorgeous imaging 🔥 from
@mathpreu.bsky.social
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A developmental atlas of zebrafish gills links early vascular patterning to adult architecture
Summary: An atlas of zebrafish gill vasculature reveals developmental asymmetries and shows how early vascular patterning shapes filaments and lamellae and is reflected in adult gill architecture.
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/20/dev204984/369171/A-developmental-atlas-of-zebrafish-gills-links
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Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of
@dev-journal.bsky.social
🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain
#zebrafish
gill architecture throughout life 🔗
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday
#LifelongDevSI
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International Society of Developmental Biology
7 days ago
In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy
#Halloween
! 🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the
@nordenlab.bsky.social
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3 months ago
One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful
#mesoSPIM
samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best
#microscopy
images & videos!
www.linkedin.com/company/mart...
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Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of
@dev-journal.bsky.social
🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain
#zebrafish
gill architecture throughout life 🔗
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday
#LifelongDevSI
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Chris Gug
10 days ago
Crazy-looking larval cusk eel with an impressive external gut. We’re still not sure why having the intestines on the outside is advantageous, but there must be a good reason 🤔 TL ~2.5cm
#cuskeel
#larvalfish
#deepseafish
#deepseacreatures
#blackwaterdiving
#chrisgug
#gugunderwater
#gug
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SFB1348
11 days ago
Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in
#Münster
from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on
#Mechanochemical
signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at
www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...
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Zebrafish Rock!
12 days ago
Endocardium, cells lining the heart chambers, in the beating heart of a two-day-old transgenic
#zebrafish
. Credit to
@anjaliesch.bsky.social
& Nikon Small World Competition.
#ZebrafishZunday
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Cells & Development
13 days ago
Cell-cell junction proteins like ZO-1 not only play a critical role in the mechanical interaction between cells, but also participate in the biochemical signalling to coordinate the cell sheet. Check out this review on collective cell migration here to learn more:
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Cells & Development
3 months ago
Maybe it's time we rethink the idea that development is a cell centric process? In this beautiful review, María-del-Carmen and
@stramerlab.bsky.social
discussed how the ECM underlies and influences many morphogenesis processes from wing unfolding to mammary gland development.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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Joel Marthelot
11 months ago
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
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Development
17 days ago
A developmental atlas of zebrafish gills links early vascular patterning to adult architecture Read this
#LifelongDevSI
#OA
Research Article by Mathieu Preußner
@mathpreu.bsky.social
, Virginie Lecaudey
@vlecaudey.bsky.social
and colleagues:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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MDI Biological Laboratory
18 days ago
A striking capture by
@murawalalab.bsky.social
Marko Pende for a 2020 paper in the
@aaas.org
journal Science Advances (
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
). It shows the intricate structures of the axolotl — a model for regeneration research.
#standwithscience
#researchmatters
#microscopymonday
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Chris Gug
about 1 month ago
Found this cute little 1”
#goby
living on a feathery
#SeaPen
today while looking for something completely different. Tomorrow will be my first day not diving in 3.5 weeks - gotta head to the city to restock “supplies”🍷
#tulamben
#muckdiving
#gug
#chrisgug
#gugunderwater
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Kevin Terretaz
21 days ago
Have a nice
#FluorescenceFriday
! This is pollen from pine tree, imaged from auto-fluorescence by confocal microscopy the LUT is "KTZ bw DarkGold" 🔥
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For this
#FluorescenceFriday
🔬 a cryosection of a dissected zebrafish gill, stained with phalloidin (orange) and DAPI (blue-ish).
#Zebrafish
#DevBio
#Microscopy
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Development
22 days ago
Issue 19 is complete! On the cover: Mouse E10.5 embryo stained for Sox9 (cyan), alpha-tubulin (yellow), and endomucin (magenta). Acquired by Nicole Roos & Anthony Wokasch and chosen by popular vote from the Node’s 2025 MBL Embryology course image competition.
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The Company of Biologists
23 days ago
1925: On this date, 100 years ago, The Company of Biologists is founded by George Parker Bidder III. Throughout today, we will be posting some of our key milestones. Read more about the past 100 years at
bit.ly/3WnTVA1
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD
25 days ago
Study of zebrafish gill development provides fundamentals of vertebrate tissue branching & vessel growth 📹
@mathpreu.bsky.social
et al,
@goetheuni.bsky.social
, in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
➡️
bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
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Stacey Ogden 🦔
28 days ago
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
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Kevin Terretaz
about 1 month ago
I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager! I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas!
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The Company of Biologists
about 1 month ago
Our next extraordinary biologist is Mark Peifer, recent
@biologists.bsky.social
Director and a prolific author, having published in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
,
@jcellsci.bsky.social
and
@biologyopen.bsky.social
.
#100biologists
@peiferlabunc.bsky.social
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Rachael Ott
about 1 month ago
For
#FluorescenceFriday
, RhoA (blue) and the actin cytoskeleton (magenta) are shown in a set of primary microglia 🔬
#Neuroscience
#Microscopy
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Siegenthaler Lab
about 1 month ago
Listening to the new Taylor Swift album & working on figures, sharing a 🤩 image for
#FluorescenceFriday
[penetrating 🐭 cerebral arteriole at the pial surface, aSMA in yellow = smooth muscle cell, pan-laminin in cyan = basement membrane, fibroblast in magenta...squeezing in to cover that vessel 🫂)
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Maik Bischoff
about 1 month ago
My entry for today’s
#FluorescenceFriday
: a pupal
#Drosophila
testis with muscles expressing 🔵 lifeact & 🔴 RFP-nls Honored & grateful to receive an honorable mention at
@healthcare.nikon.com
Nikon Small World 🌍🔬✨ 🔗
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
#NikonSmallWorld
#Microscopy
#ScienceArt
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One out of many reasons why gills fascinate me 🔬🧬 PS: A recent study showed that the outer ear cartilage shares gene regulatory programs with the gill filaments of fishes and amphibians — the gills program has been repurposed to create parts of the human ear 👂 🔗
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39788155/
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the Node
about 1 month ago
Limb regeneration guide for axolotls 📋 Laura Turchi (
@turchil.bsky.social
) highlights a recent paper by
@leootsuki.bsky.social
and team on The Node ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/limb-regener...
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A recent paper from Otsuki and colleagues investigates the molecular mechanisms driving limb regeneration in axolotl
https://thenode.biologists.com/limb-regeneration-guide-for-axolotls/research/
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Kate Cavanaugh
about 1 month ago
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 🧵...
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Julia Schnabel
about 1 month ago
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1🧵 Excited to share my first PhD paper, published in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
What if fish gills —often overlook —hold secrets about development, patterning, and function? We uncovered how early patterning shapes adult gill architecture.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
#DevBio
#Zebrafish
about 2 months ago
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Rashmi Priya
about 2 months ago
Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work
@dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️
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Keri Martinowich
about 1 month ago
For
#FluorescenceFriday
- immunostaining in a tissue section from the cortex of the human 🧠showing blood vessels 🟢 interacting with some astrocytes 🟠⭐. Image credit to PhD student Sang Ho Kwon in the JHU BCMB training program. 🔬🧪🤩
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Kevin Terretaz
about 1 month ago
Behold! A microscopic Viking longship riding a giant nematode!
#FluorescenceFriday
#SciArt
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Lori O'Brien
about 1 month ago
For this
#FluorescenceFriday
, a gorgeous image of an adult mouse kidney labeled with AQP2 and alpha SMA antibodies. AQP2 (green) marks the collecting duct and distal connecting segment while SMA marks the arterial tree. Courtesy of talented postdoc Sarah McLarnon.
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Laurent Formery
about 1 month ago
Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan. Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by
#NikonSmallWorld
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Society for Developmental Biology
3 months ago
✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by
@drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social
🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday
#DevBio
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Society for Developmental Biology
about 2 months ago
Mouse (Mus musculus) 🐭 is the powerhouse of mammalian genetics, essential for studying embryogenesis, organ development and gene function using transgenic technologies. 📸 Image by Zhong Hua also featured on the cover of Developmental Biology textbook (11th edition)
#ModelMonday
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Maik Bischoff
about 1 month ago
1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉 My first paper as corresponding author—a
@jcb.org
Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes.
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#cellbio
#devbio
#science
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Current Biology
about 2 months ago
Our latest issue is out!👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚 (Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )
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Nat Prunet
about 2 months ago
Hey
#pollen
people!
@theobrominated.bsky.social
would like to know which species these mixed pollen grains are from, and I admit except for pine and lily, I'm not sure. Would anyone be able to help?
#botany
#plantscience
#bioimaging
#microscopy
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Society for Developmental Biology
about 2 months ago
✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen
#FluorescenceFriday
#DevBio
#Zebrafish
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1🧵 Excited to share my first PhD paper, published in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
What if fish gills —often overlook —hold secrets about development, patterning, and function? We uncovered how early patterning shapes adult gill architecture.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
#DevBio
#Zebrafish
about 2 months ago
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Alex Eve
2 months ago
Don't miss your chance to contribute to Development's next special issue, which takes a non-cell-centric approach to devbio, stem cells & regeneration. We hope to capture papers that discuss how secreted factors, external forces and the shape of spaces instruct development.
#DevSIextracellular
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Excited to be featured by
@focalplane.bsky.social
lane.bsky.social
on
#FluorescenceFriday
. I feel honored to see my image of gill vasculature swimming its way into the spotlight🔬🦓🐟- big thanks to the team for even sending me the printed version!
#devbio
#zebrafish
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FocalPlane
about 2 months ago
On
#FluorescenceFriday
, our featured image is this beautiful image from
@mathpreu.bsky.social
of the overlying gill arches in 1-month-old
#zebrafish
expressing endothelial kdrl:mCherry. Learn more about the image and Mathieu's research ⤵️
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/12/f...
#SciArt
#devbio
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Featured image with Mathieu Preußner - FocalPlane
Featured image with Mathieu Preußner - News
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/12/featured-image-with-mathieu-preusner/
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Maik Bischoff
about 2 months ago
www.ascb.org/society-news...
It's official now 😁 Big thanks again to
@ascbiology.bsky.social
& MBoC
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