✨ In this week's DB unit seminar @embl.org, Hidenobu Miyazawa, a postdoc in the Aulehla group, shared insights on the role of glycolysis in mouse embryo axis segmentation #DevelopmentalBiology #Glycolysis #MouseEmbryos

Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n #ProtistsOnSky tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

🔥 A new review by @aikmi.bsky.social and @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social challenging the paradigm of organismal terminal differentiation #developmentalbiology

✨Thomas Beavis, a PhD student in the Vincent group @floravincent.bsky.social @embl.org , was our speaker at this week's DB seminar. He discussed his research on how diatom-ciliate symbiosis affects cell fate and function #symbiosis #marinebiology #protists

What are these? You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

Soraya Zwahlen, a PhD student in the Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social group @embl.org, was our speaker at the DB seminar this week. She discussed a cell-ecosystem approach to studying marine microbial interactions under pollutant stress. #MarineMicrobiology #MicrobialInteractions

Please allow me to introduce... our new preprint 🎉 Together with Michael Zhao, Anna Erzberger and Alexander Aulehla, we investigate pattern formation due to aggregation in confined systems. You can find it at arxiv.org/abs/2509.08533 @michaelzhao.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social

Welcome on board, Corentin Bisot! Corentin is a new postdoc in the van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social in the DB unit @embl.org. He will study the link between multicellularity and the physical constraints of migration in soils.

Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾 👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl

✨Luc Lederer, a PhD student in the Aulehla group, spoke at the DB seminar @embl.org this week. He investigates whether phase waves during somitogenesis contain functional information for tissue patterning, as well as how we can manipulate and understand the mechanisms behind them #DevBio

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 08.10.25 | 16:00 UK Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration" Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

Don’t miss this upcoming #LMBSeminar from Bonnie Bassler! Join us at 11am on Monday 13th October to hear all about ‘Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes’ More details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The DB unit also celebrated Anne Ephrussi at this wonderful symposium! Anne was our unit head from 2007-2021. Congratulations on a remarkable career, Anne! 🎉

How to swap the foot for a tentacle and vice versa? Find out in our new story featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social uncovering a transcription factor toggle switch behind the identity of Hydra's extremities.

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

Hassan Salem will be co-hosting the EMBL/EMBO Symposium “The Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis: Sensing Friend from Foe” from 17–20 March 2026 in Heidelberg next year. Registration and abstract submission will open next month! For more info: tinyurl.com/bdhyv3ht

✨ Back from summer break with 2 great DB seminars @embl.org! Andrew Hogan (van Gestel group) on protist predation defences & Simon Knoblich (Aulehla group) on calcium waves in Medaka gastrulation. Exciting research happening in the DB unit 🔥 #DevelopmentalBiology

🚀New research from the Aulehla group @embl.org shows that metabolism not only fuels growth, but also sends signals that control the speed of embryonic development 🔬 #Metabolism #DevelopmentalBiology #BiologicalClock

🔥 Are you curious about the similarities between the brains of sharks and mammals? Read Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui's new preprint from the Arendt lab at @embl.org to find out more. #Neuroscience #Evolution #BrainResearch

Very excited to share - the ERC StG is a game-changer for us 🙏 We're going to learn the rules for timing control across cell types in the embryo and we think we can tune them too 🎛️ ⏳📈- reach out if you’d like to be involved !

Reforming how research and researchers are assessed is an essential step toward ensuring a more accurate, fair, and meaningful evaluation of scientific work. A recent pan-EMBL event provided an opportunity to reflect on this key topic. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...

Lovely piece on five model organisms for the origin of animal multicellularity and on the community who studies them. It was a pleasure to make a small contribution.

Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more? 2 more days to apply! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology 🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠

🔥Would you like to explore the principles behind collective behavior in biological systems, from cells to communities? Don't miss this EMBO | EMBL Symposium! #EESCollectivity

It's been a busy month at the DB unit at EMBL #PhDdefence Simona Gioe', from the Aulehla group, successfully defended her PhD thesis, which was titled 'Investigating the functional role of oscillatory signalling via experimental entrainment of the somite segmentation clock'. Congrats, Simona 🥳🎓

✨Andrea Zanon, a PhD student in the van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social, was our speaker at the DB seminar this week @embl.org. He talked about his project, which involves developing a synthetic soil assay to study the aggregative life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum #lifecycle #amoeba

🎓Congratulations to Camilla Autorino, from the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org who has just defended her PhD thesis titled 'A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics in the zebrafish embryo' #DevelopmentalBiology

✨ In this week's DB unit seminar, Michael Zhao, a postdoc in the Aulhela group, shared insights on how he uses a combination of experimental data and theoretical models to study patterning and collective behaviour in the presomitic mesoderm #Patterning #CollectiveBehavior #Mesoderm

Applications are now open for the 2026 SDB Science Communication Internship. Graduate student and postdoc members of the Society for Developmental Biology are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 15. Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

🎉 Congratulations to Magdalena Schindler, from the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org, who has just defended her PhD thesis titled 'An optimum cell cycle heterogeneity times tissue fluidisation at the onset of zebrafish morphogenesis' #PhDDefense #Zebrafish #DevelopmentalBiology

Brillouin microscopy showing strength in non-invasive, live-imaging applications! Studying fruit fly embryos during gastrulation as cells rapidly change shape @prevedel-lab.bsky.social @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social @marialep.bsky.social characterised & mapped mechanical changes in 3D. rdcu.be/ev6ZX

✨At our seminar this week, Luca Santangeli, a scientific officer in the Arendt group @embl.org, presented a new imaging and computational pipeline for investigating the evolution of cell types in the Platynereis Cell Atlas.

Slides from my talk today at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) at @uniheidelberg "COS goes FOSS (Open Science @COS) – part I – What is FOSS, why it matters and what can we do about it" launching a new series of talks and training sessions in open software and open science […]

🔬 The Multiscale Integration in Biological Systems course with @normalesup.bsky.social will explore how physical tools address biological complexity across scales. Open to MSc/PhD students, postdocs & researchers in biology, physics & related fields. 👉 training.institut-curie.org/courses/mult...

#MetabolismMondays Meet Anna Vigil, #PhD student in @justinmcrocker.bsky.social lab @embl.org @embldbunit.bsky.social, discussing her work on how #metabolism impacts cell fate, development & #evolution #Drosophila. #theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio

Oh, what a great fun it was! Thank you @embldbunit.bsky.social, Karen Alim, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social , @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social , @jordivangestel.bsky.social , @hanhtkvu.bsky.social , @aikmi.bsky.social, and all instructors and participants. Back to the lab now - inspired & motivated!

That's a wrap for #EMBLDevBio! 🧫🧬 Over the last eight days, our participants received hands-on training using state-of-the-art methods applied in different model systems. Thank you to everyone who made this course special, especially our participants, speakers, trainers, and organisers! 👏

We cannot believe the DB unit summer school "Transitions in developing systems: from theory to experiments" has already come to an end. A huge thank you to all the organisers, speakers, and trainers for making it such an exciting and inspiring course #EMBLDevBio @dev-journal.bsky.social

Time for data analysis practicals here at #EMBLDevBio! 💻

Time for a new practical at the DB unit summer school @embl.org ! This session features the sea anemone Nematostella and explores the larva-to-polyp transition driven by neuropeptide signaling. Thanks to the Ikmi group @aikmi.bsky.social 🤩 #EMBLDevBio

Day 6 of the DB Unit Summer School at EMBL started with an insightful lecture by Caren Norden @nordenlab.bsky.social on the impact of nuclear properties on the behaviour of Zebrafish retinal neuroepithelia. #EMBLDevBio

It's Planarian Time at the DB Unit Summer School! Today's practical is being led by the Vu group @hanhtkvu.bsky.social and focuses on size-dependent physiological changes throughout the life cycle of planarian flatworms #EMBLDevBio

There's always more to learn at the DB unit Summer School @embl.org ! After two engaging practical sessions yesterday from the Aulehla and Petridou groups @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social , today we will be diving into data analysis #EMBLDevBio

Day 3 of the DB summer school "Transitions in developing systems: from theory to experiments" started with a fantastic talk by Guillaume Salbreux, from the University of Geneva, who discussed transitions in populations of coupled phase oscillators #EMBLDevBio

Day 2 of the DB Unit Summer School has now finished. We had fantastic talks from Iain Cousin #collectivebehaviour and Karen Alim #physicsofbehaviour, along with an exciting practical session from the van Gestel group on aggregative development in wild-type slime mold species #EMBLdevbio

At the DB Unit Summer School, it's already time for Practical 1! Participants are exploring the theory of phase transitions, critical points, and bifurcations with James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and Isabella Graf @isabellagraf.bsky.social and her group members @lwuerthner.bsky.social

The DB Unit Summer School, "Transitions in Developing Systems," kicked off with an incredible talk by Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social from the Pasteur Institute @pasteur.fr on the fascinating transition from unicellularity to multicellularity in choanoflagellates #EMBLDevBio