Congenital heart defects affect 1 in 100 babies, yet the cause remains unknown in more than half of all cases. In this short, Gladstone scientist @j-muncie-vasic.bsky.social explains why early missteps in heart development can have lasting consequences.

📽 G&D Tapes 📽 G&D Author, Jon Muncie-Vasic tells us about their new study in #genesdev that defines the role of MEF2C in cardiac tract development. Read the full story here: ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau Gladstone Institutes#genesdev

RESEARCH PAPER: MEF2C controls segment-specific gene regulatory networks that direct heart tube morphogenesis By Muncie-Vasic et al. and Benoit Bruneau ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau #transcriptionfactor #embryodevelopment #cardiactract

Now that the print issue is out, I'm excited to share that our manuscript is featured on the @genesdev.bsky.social cover! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/2...

This month’s cover of @genesdev.bsky.social has @j-muncie-vasic.bsky.social’s embryos all in a row! Paper and commentary in the issue genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/2...

nice to read a perspective in @genesdev.bsky.social on our recent paper genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Excited to share that our manuscript “MEF2C controls segment-specific gene regulatory networks that direct heart tube morphogenesis” is now online @genesdev.bsky.social ! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl... (1/n)

Was a pleasure to present this piece of my postdoctoral work at #bcvs2025! If you missed it or are looking for more, check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...