TIL Hubert B. Goodrich 🐟🧪

We’ve returned to Slack Pro for another year 🤓 Sponsored by ZFIN, it acts as the premier source for sharing resources and knowledge for the #zebrafish community and beyond. For those keen to join this tankspace, please register your interest on the Google Form at our website: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock

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Thread highlights new work from @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social 🐟 Link to open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re big fins of Oppenheimer 👩‍🔬

Great post to start the new year, the first hours of a new life :-) Also tagging @mofrawe.bsky.social here, her handle is a tad difficult to find, but worth to watch and follow ;-)

First hours of embryonic zebrafish development. Credit to Mona Wellhäusser, Timo Schreiber, & @lennarthilbert.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

ICYMI… Important considerations for cross-species comparisons 🐟

We are enjoying this series from @mvargam.bsky.social 🐟

“This approach effectively complements the temporal precision achievable through post hoc activity detection methods & expands the accessibility of large-scale behavioral circuit dissection beyond highly specialized real-time volumetric imaging equipment.” New work from Jain Lab @ Haverford College

Consider applying!

Stoked to have helped get this out the door! If you want to inject lots of mRNA into your embryos for higher SnR or to multiplex or to have it last longer… this is the way!

[Job] Aquatic Resources Program Manager, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA #zebrafish

🔗 to preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Still time to sign up for May 2026 session 🐟

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“Loss of wnt10a or of Wnt/β-catenin activity blocks the [osteoblast] dedifferentiation program, whereas wnt10a overexpression enhances dedifferentiation and is sufficient to induce it even without injury.” New work from Weidinger Lab at Uni-Ulm 🐟

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Eggcelent detective work from @mvargam.bsky.social 🐟

Merry Fishmas, shoalmates! We hope you have a lovely festive season 🎄🐟 🧪

For those to save and come back to after the holidays! Defra announces biggest animal welfare reforms in a generation. Press release: www.gov.uk/government/n... . Documents: www.gov.uk/government/p...

2025 is a wrap! That’s the end of our coverage of all things #zebrafish for the year. We hope you have a safe and rejuvenating holiday season. Look out for us in the New Year! #RockOn

New publication! Our first zebrafish paper in collaboration with Jeff Amack's lab was accepted by @devdynamics.bsky.social. Our work shows that in zebrafish, a Fhod3 paralog is needed for normal cytoskeletal maintenance in developing skeletal muscle. doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

Festive highlight of @mrukkaren.bsky.social Lab’s work 🐟 🎄

Important lesson for fish researchers (tbh, any researcher): Make your solutions fresh! (e.g. "alarm substance stored overnight at −20°C elicited a diminished alarm response compared to fresh alarm substance of equivalent dilution") New work from Kaufman Lab at Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ

Save the date! 🧠 🐟

Some fishy oppor-tuna-ties, for those interested!

Lovely spotlight on @torres-sanchez.bsky.social 👨‍🔬 Worth the read!

ICYMI by @rohner.bsky.social et al.

As we reflect on 2025, it’s been filled with ups and downs but the geniality of the #zebrafish community has reinvigorated us. We head into 2026 with boundless thanks to shoal members that have supported us and helped cultivate this inclusive community of ours. We remain your biggest fans! #RockOn 🧪

Clinical relevance of #zebrafish for gene variants testing. Proof-of-principle with SMN1/SMA 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s443... #SpinalMuscularAtrophy By B. Stringer, J. Giacomotto and colleagues @griffith.edu.au

⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“Loss of mob4 leads to pronounced cardiovascular and neuronal defects, including a leaky cerebral vasculature, hypersprouting of venous endothelial cells and poor neuronal branching.” New work from @icscott.bsky.social et al. 🐟

Check out our latest preprint on the cellular mechanical basis of Voronoi tessellations in epithelia! This biophysics study is inspired by disordered tessellations observed in zebrafish hearts 🤓🐟💙 #SulaimaanLim #ChiuFanLeeLab arxiv.org/html/2512.13...

Finally! A working protocol for the RT sperm storage 🐟 Working link: bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...

Two new articles from our lab!! Davis et al identified epithelial transcription factor ELF3 as a key mediator of host-microbiota interaction in zebrafish tinyurl.com/pkavnxdp Morash et al revealed enteroendocrine cell subtypes in zebrafish & catalogued their peptide hormones tinyurl.com/bdzbm2xm

🤔 #AskZebrafish: “Does anyone know of any protocols for microwave-assisted drying for zebrafish sperm (or other fish species)? Sperm preservation via desiccation has been documented in other animals (ie www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) & I am wondering if anyone has tried this with zebrafish?”

More details here: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Happy to see our latest review out! Huge congrats to @shaoqiuzhang.bsky.social and Eliza Sassu for their tremendous work putting this together. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Leverage extreme biology from invertebrates to vertebrates in this wonderful opportunity! Contact details: scvrb-core.ucsf.edu/~huang/lab/C...

Did you know the last common ancestor of #zebrafish and humans was ~450 million years ago? A whole genome duplication event (3R) occurred early in the teleost fish phylogeny. Despite this event, zebrafish and humans have about the same number of chromosomes. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

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Fintastic news! Congrats @helenanorman.bsky.social 🎉

You rock, Dr. Garcia 🎉 Congrats! #PhDone

Learn about the growing assortment of Zebrafish Disease Models for human conditions in our ongoing series: #KnowYourZDM 🐟 🧪

For those interested ✨

Tristan Guyomar and I wrote a review on physical mechanisms coordinating regeneration - Featured: signalling/mechanical gradients, travelling waves and nematic fields - Dramatis personae: axolotls, hydra, planaria, spiny mice and zebrafish (ofc) with a jellyfish cameo tinyurl.com/3upzrdbs

🤔 #AskZebrafish

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For those that knew Adam ❤️