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ISDB is a non-profit scientific association that promotes the study of developmental biology
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Hello my lovely developmental biologists, The International Society for Developmental Biology is here with y'all in this
#BlueSky
. If you follow us on Twitter (we refuse to call it X), please drop us a follow here! Let's connect!
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Join us next week for
#DevPres
to hear 3 of our PI fellows talk about the environment & evolution 14 January 15:00 GMT/UTC With talks from
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Alejandro Montenegro
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And if you can't make it, we at CSH Protocols have put together a collection of reviews and protocols for work on Xenopus! Guest edited by Hazel L. Sive. Link below.
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Modern Xenopus research uses this system to study
#devbio
, genetic diseases, biomechanics, and cell biology. If you want hands-on experience, register now to the CSHL Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Deadline: January 16, 2026
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Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-XENO
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Alejandro Montenegro
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Link to collection:
cshprotocols.cshlp.org/site/misc/ma...
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Modern Xenopus research uses this system to study
#devbio
, genetic diseases, biomechanics, and cell biology. If you want hands-on experience, register now to the CSHL Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Deadline: January 16, 2026
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Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-XENO
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This is our last post of the year. Hope you have a wonderful holidays. Remember, good science only comes from a well-rested mind. We will see you again next year!
#MicroscopyMonday
#Christmas
Image: 3D Christmas spheroids Staining: Phalloidin Photo credit: Postdoc Hoang Anh Le,
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Cells & Development
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Thank you for all the engagements. Have a wonderful holiday. We will see you again next year 👋
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This is our last post of the year. Hope you have a wonderful holidays. Remember, good science only comes from a well-rested mind. We will see you again next year!
#MicroscopyMonday
#Christmas
Image: 3D Christmas spheroids Staining: Phalloidin Photo credit: Postdoc Hoang Anh Le,
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John Wallingford
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The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting website is LIVE!!! Go see the incredible list of scientists who will be speaking at the meeting next summer! (...and check the site early next year for info on registration and abstract submission.)
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
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Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
https://scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu/
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John Wallingford
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Meeting Alert! Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! 👇
@socdevbio.bsky.social
@insdb.bsky.social
@bscb-official.bsky.social
@isdb.bsky.social
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@ascbiology.bsky.social
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Check out Part II of our special collection celebrating the centennial of the discovery of the organiser. From classical developmental biology, to tissue mechanics, and organoid and plant development, we've got it all!
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❗PREPRINT ALERT❗
doi.org/10.64898/202...
The lab of M. Lisa Manning at
@syracuseu.bsky.social
in collaboration with Ale Mongera at
@ucl-cdb.bsky.social
show that in the avian presomitic mesoderm, Contact Inhibition of Locomotion has a tissue-wide effect, making tissue act like a fluid under tension.
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Ale Mongera
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Congrats to the leading author
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❗PREPRINT ALERT❗
doi.org/10.64898/202...
The lab of M. Lisa Manning at
@syracuseu.bsky.social
in collaboration with Ale Mongera at
@ucl-cdb.bsky.social
show that in the avian presomitic mesoderm, Contact Inhibition of Locomotion has a tissue-wide effect, making tissue act like a fluid under tension.
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Check out Part II of our special collection celebrating the centennial of the discovery of the organiser. From classical developmental biology, to tissue mechanics, and organoid and plant development, we've got it all!
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Cells & Development
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Check out the summary written by our Editor in Chief, Professor Roberto Mayor:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And if you missed it, here is the link to Part I of the collection:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Cells & Development
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We're in love with this cover image! 🧡 Part II of our Special Collection celebrating the Centennial of the Discovery of The Organiser is here. This issue focuses on the work presented at the Centennial Symposium at the University of Freiburg in September 2024:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...
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Cells & Development
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One of our favourite activities each year too.
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Joachim Goedhart
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Predicting and Designing Red Fluorescent Protein Variants Using Sequence-to-Function Machine Learning Models by Yufeng Zhao and team:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Looks like a really useful tool!
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Hao Yin
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#SpatialTranscriptomics
STcompare
github.com/JEFworks-Lab...
Test your gene of interest if it is differentially spatially patterned (r, p, s)🤠 Spatial correlation Spatial fold change Control for spatial autocorrelation
@jef.works
bioRxiv 2025
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Cells & Development
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Vertebrates can use entirely different mechanisms to generate its anterior and posterior dorsal tissue. In this thorough review from the lab of Lance Davidson, different morphogenetic events are compared between the front and the back in a developing embryo. Check it out:
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Ben Steventon
about 1 month ago
Check out this work from
@yuritakahashi.bsky.social
that reveals reciprocal interactions between cell migration and fate specific to drive collective cell invasion. And follow Yuri at the same time
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Yuri Takahashi
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Hi bsky! How do cells coordinate fate with migration during development? 🐣 Turns out EMT doesn't just drive cell behaviour changes... it actively primes BMP signalling competence, creating a reciprocal coupling that drives collective invasion! (
@bensteventon.bsky.social
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tinyurl.com/2ncc8zap
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Zimeng Wu
30 days ago
Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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You can also find the Github code here:
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GitHub - WhoIsJack/DySTrack: A simple automated feedback microscopy tool for live tracking of moving samples.
A simple automated feedback microscopy tool for live tracking of moving samples. - WhoIsJack/DySTrack
https://github.com/WhoIsJack/DySTrack
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Do your samples move out of view? Tired of manually adjusting the stage? Introducing DySTrack developed by
@zimengwu33.bsky.social
and Jonas Hartmann from UCL, a tool that can be integrated into modern microscopes to automate the tracking of moving samples.
#MicroscopyMonday
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Do your samples move out of view? Tired of manually adjusting the stage? Introducing DySTrack developed by
@zimengwu33.bsky.social
and Jonas Hartmann from UCL, a tool that can be integrated into modern microscopes to automate the tracking of moving samples.
#MicroscopyMonday
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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We have one of those too, by Lizhong Liu and Jun Wu.
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Stunning poster. Yo
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, can we have our version too?
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This makes a fantastic poster to compare the differences between models of development.
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Primate amnion development In this Review, Nikola Sekulovski, Amber E. Carleton, Chien-Wei Lin and Kenichiro Taniguchi (
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Decoding the role of SOX2 in retinal progenitor competence This Research Highlight showcases the work of Fuyun Bian, Kimiasadat Golestaneh, Emily Davis, Abdullah Khan, Issam Al Diri and colleagues:
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James Briscoe
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Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
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Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS
The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2521762122
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🎄 Day 4 of the 24 Days of Development ✨🧬 In 1984, Drosophila homeotic genes were found to be conserved across animals, including humans 🧬🐸. This article highlights a shared genetic toolkit for embryonic development 🔬🌟🎁
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Vincent Pasque
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We have just published a tribute to John Gurdon, reflecting on his scientific legacy and the profound influence he had on generations of developmental biologists. The piece is available open access in Nature Communications:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reversibility, regulation, and the community of development: the legacy of Sir John B. Gurdon - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - Reversibility, regulation, and the community of development: the legacy of Sir John B. Gurdon
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Cells & Development
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Principles in mechanical engineering can be applied to study biomaterials, such as the notochord. In this theoretical study, Curcio et al investigated how the different ways of notochord stacking affects its structural rigidity. A staircase stacking seems to be better!
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New preprint alert‼️‼️ Beautiful images!
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Vincent Pasque
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We are excited to share our new preprint: SMARCA2/4-Dependent Chromatin Remodelling Establishes Gene Regulatory Programs in Early Human Embryos and Blastoids.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691499v1
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✨A gut feeling you’ll love this one 🐛 The anterior midgut of a Drosophila melanogaster 🪰larva puts on a confocal glow show! 🟢 Adult midgut progenitors 🔴 Actin 🔵 Nuclei 📸Image by Sapna Krishnakumar
#FluorescenceFriday
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For this week
#FluorescenceFriday
, we'll be treated with one of our favourite animal models 🐸 . Here is a Xenopus laevis embryo imaged with a Lightsheet microscope showing macrophage migration. Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages. 📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
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Virginia Silio
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Stunning
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For this week
#FluorescenceFriday
, we'll be treated with one of our favourite animal models 🐸 . Here is a Xenopus laevis embryo imaged with a Lightsheet microscope showing macrophage migration. Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages. 📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
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Allen Institute
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How do cytokines shape immune cells? We analyzed and visualized Parse Bio's 10M PBMC dataset to give researchers a powerful tool for exploring the dynamics between cytokines & peripheral blood mononuclear cells. More: https://apps.allenimmunology.org/aifi/resources/parse-10m-cytokines/
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Blanca Tejeda
about 1 month ago
I have more live imaging of actin in B cells from this week for this
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Yanlan Mao
about 1 month ago
Registration deadline 20th Dec! We have generous travel grants for early career researchers! April is a beautiful time to visit China!
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Andrew Octavian Sasmita
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Microglial CLEC7A restrains amyloid beta plaque pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease Fascinating study from the lab of
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Microglial CLEC7A restrains amyloid beta plaque pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
INTRODUCTION CLEC7A is a surface receptor that is highly upregulated on microglia in many Alzheimer's disease (AD) models. Little is known about the role that microglial CLEC7A signaling plays in AD...
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.70943
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Karen J Liu
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Think about craniofacial biology in sunny California😎! Don't forget to submit an abstract for the 2026 GRC Craniofacial. Many talk slots available from abstract selections. Deadline for talk abstracts 14 Dec, coming soon.... ☠️🐭🐟🐸🧬
#craniofacial
#genetics
#neuralcrest
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2026 Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
https://www.grc.org/craniofacial-morphogenesis-and-tissue-regeneration-conference/2026/
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Cells & Development
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Tissue-resident macrophages are doing more than just protecting from infection. In this interesting paper, René Fernando Abarca-Buis et al shows that they can promote reepithelialization and blastema formation and regulate the maturation of chondrocytes. Check it out here:
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Edouard Hannezo
about 2 months ago
Three more weeks to sign up!
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