📅EZM2026-Save the date! We are delighted to welcome you to the 13th European Zebrafish Meeting in Vienna, Austria! 📑Submit your abstract by March 15 2026! ✅Early bird registrations are now open until April 15th 2026 We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Switching fields or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research? The @mblscience.bsky.social 2026 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! Application deadline: March 2 Please spread the word! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Gopal Kushawah @gopalkushawah.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Register today and join us. bit.ly/46K9iss #SDBPostdocSeminar

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word! @mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

Join us for the next VGZT, featuring complementary approaches to understanding dynamic tissue organization! 🗓️ Thursday, January 22nd ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Chen Yuan Kam (@chenyuankam.bsky.social) 👉 Camilla Autorino (@cami-autorino.bsky.social)

Don't miss out. Apply to our 2026 Advanced Research Training Courses today!

There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers - mentoring - leadership training - profile rising - networking journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, January 9 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Priyom Adhyapok @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social and Zong-Yuan Liu @UMich. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4ncxr0M #SDBPostdocSeminar

🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026

🚨 Join us this Friday for an exciting webinar on retina regeneration! Featuring Alice Accorsi @accorsi-alice.bsky.social of UC Davis and Jeff Mumm @jsmumm.bsky.social of Johns Hopkins. isrbio.org/event-6502506

🎉 Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2026 with an exciting VGZT seminar! 🗓️ Thursday, January 8th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Jan Jakub Zylicz (@jzylicz.bsky.social) 👉 Anahi Binagui-Casas (@abinagui.bsky.social) See you there 👋

Closing out 2025 with our new preprint where @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social and I explore development and function of zebrafish intestinal best4+ cells – molecularly described in 2019, conserved in evolution, absent in 🐭, and altered in inflammatory bowel disease. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎄 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