🎄 Final VGZT seminar before Christmas! 🎄 We’re excited to welcome keynote speaker Olivier Pourquié ✨ “Recapitulating human somitogenesis in vitro” 🗓️ Thursday, December 18th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Reminder: Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀 Don’t miss great talks from 👉 Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social) 👉 Komal Makwana (on X: @Komal_Makwana4)

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

News: VGZT has updated its official website and now has now a brand-new LinkedIn page! 🎉🚀 You can find all upcoming sessions, past talks, and updates there. 🌐 Website 🔗 LinkedIn Feel free to follow, share, and and help spread the word about the seminar series! 🙌

Join us next week for another round of inspiring VGZT talks! 🤩 🗓️ Thursday, December 4th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social) 👉 Komal Makwana (on X: @Komal_Makwana4) See you next week 👋

Super exciting to be part of of this Research Training Group to train the next generation of material biologists :) We are already actively recruiting PhD students! Join our joint project with @jamessaenz.bsky.social !!!

Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀 Don’t miss the great talks from 👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social) 👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14)

Join us for next week’s exciting VGZT session! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, November 20th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social) 👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14) See you there 👋

For what it’s worth, The Wyoming Worm lab has funding for 5 years along with exciting projects with solid foundations. We are is still looking for capable, dedicated, and fun-to-work-with lab members at all career stages. [email protected] scholar.google.com/citations?us...

ISRB Zone 3 Webinar this Friday (Oct 17th). @isrbio.bsky.social Aging and Regeneration with Longhua Guo @longhuaguo.bsky.social and Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social

The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed #SDBPostdocSeminar

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!

Dear VGZT enthusiasts, Do you—or someone in your lab—work on exciting developmental biology research? Showcase it at VGZT, a global online seminar series connecting developmental biologists across all career stages. Apply here: www.tinyurl.com/VGZT-Nomination

Join us 15 October to hear from two early-career researchers, @osvaldoics.bsky.social & Yinan Wan, working on development across scales. Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @amjeve.bsky.social. 📅 15 October, 09:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

Stay Connected with VGZT Season 7 🌍 From Oct 2025–July 2026, join our online seminar series featuring cutting-edge developmental biology across diverse model organisms. Hear from senior PhD students, postdocs, and PIs as they share their latest discoveries with a global audience.

🚨Please share! We are hiring a post-doc! 🪱 🐀 Job posting: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-gb-... Lab Website: www.niddk.nih.gov/research-fun... NIH Trainee info: www.training.nih.gov

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers: 👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social) 👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

This is an amazing opportunity! If you’re ready you should definitely apply. Very competitive package and you can choose your Max Planck insititute.

🚨🚨🚨 Please repost We are looking for postdocs to join our lab at NIH. Apply: www.nichd.nih.gov/research/atNICHD/Investigators/rocha/apply Learn more about training at NIH : www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

We have a fully funded 3y postdoc position open!!!! Come join us @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social to understand the role of Membranes in Controlling Biogenic Crystallization :) this is part of our #HFSP funded project with @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social and @vmonje.bsky.social! Applications👇

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 3 days left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

🚨Only 4 days to apply!!!🚨Join the SDB SciComm Internship! Gain hands-on experience writing stories on the latest developmental biology discoveries🔬Connect with top mentors & earn $500 to attend the SDB Annual Meeting 🎉! 👉 www.sdbonline.org/science_comm... #SciComm #DevBio

The deadline to register for MBL's fall course, Light Microscopy Bootcamp, is this Friday, August 15!🔬 The course is engineered to empower graduate students to use light microscopy in their own research. Read more: bit.ly/4e5QA0y 📷 Mark Lessard

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

So excited to share this preprint from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab and @eelcotromer.bsky.social on moth spermatogenesis! We investigate the meiotic errors that occur during the formation of apyrene sperm (that have no DNA) in silkworms! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

To dissect the gene regulatory networks used to build organisms, we need Perturb-seq-like tools that work in whole animals. For this purpose, we developed MIC-Drop-seq, a tool that couples high-throughput CRISPR in zebrafish embryos with single-cell RNAseq. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

Please join next week‘s Western 🌙 VGZT: 🗓️ Thursday, May 22 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET @aliseleit.bsky.social 👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social 👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos

VGZT seminar featuring Nematostella tomorrow (May 08)! 🥳

UDS members enjoying the 14th International BMP conference in Philly 😁

Next Western 🌙 VGZT coming up: 🗓️ Thursday, May 08 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET 👉 @ancheldjs.bsky.social (Regulation of chromosome segregation fidelity across lineage specification) 👉 @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social (Mesoderm and endoderm formation in Nematostella)

I am looking for postdocs to join my group at NIH. Are you interested in Development, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, and Human health? Please apply! www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-mb-...

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab! We characterize the on/off kinetics, light dosage-dependence, and more for a suite of optogenetic signaling activators in zebrafish embryos 💡 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Applications for our Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis 2025 course (Mar 24-Apr 8) are due on Jan 31! Come immerse yourself in microscopy and image analysis with me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott! Please RT

Calling on all RNA lovers! We are searching for phase-lock tubes to separate organic and aqueous phases during phenol:chloroform extractions of RNA because QIAGEN has discontinued the MaXtract tubes that we used to use. All input will be gratefully received! @doragrbavac.bsky.social

A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market Deadline: January 31 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

There are two weeks left to apply for the #ChooseDevelopment! Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Undergrads from underrepresented racial or ethnic group, first-generation college students, veterans & students with a disability are eligible. bit.ly/3FwHqYp Deadline: February 1, 2025 #devbio

Join us next week for another western/evening 🌙 session seminar! Our speakers will be: Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social and Chaitanya Dingare 🗓️ Thursday, January 23rd at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

#ZebrafishCareers 🇺🇸 (Lab Manager)

Great opportunity! Research position in the Sheppard Lab at the NIH in Bethesda. Zebrafish + imaging + lymphatic vessels = AWESOME! 🧪🔬🐟 careers.criver.com/job/Bethesda...

Hey PIs, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available. meetings.cshl.edu/coursesinten...

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

Quantitative Imaging From Acquisition to Analysis applications are due Jan 31! 2 weeks of total microscopy & image analysis immersion with me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott! See comments... (1/5) meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

New UDS Writing Club post by postbac Matt Monaghan! Diving into the @schierlab.bsky.social's exciting preprint using weMERFISH to create 3D spatial atlases of #zebrafish gene expression & chromatin accessibility kwrogers-lab.org/uds-writing-...

Join us later today for the first seminar of the year! 👉 09:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 UTC / 18:30 CET

Happy new year everyone! 🎉🎇 Join us for the first seminar (Western 🌙 session) of the year with Shinuo Weng @shinuoweng.bsky.social (🐸 convergent extension) and Aryeh Warmflash (human gastrulation model) ⏰ Thursday, January 9th at 09:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 UTC / 18:30 CET 🗓️

Happy holidays! 🎉 We hope you’re enjoying the season and looking forward to 2025. The VGZT seminars return this winter with an exciting speaker lineup. Stay tuned for two session formats: Eastern 🌞 and Western 🌙—tailored for global time zones. [1/4]

If you want to make it easy for editors to find reviewers for your manuscript, pre-print it so that prospective reviewers can quickly scan through it to make sure it's within their expertise and not going to be a slog. I am 5x more likely to accept if I can spend 5 minutes looking at the figs.