Several DRN members (present and past) attended and presented work at the recent #UKZF2025 #zebrafish meeting in Exmouth and Exeter. Many thanks to the organisers Steffen @scholpplab.bsky.social, Carol @yhcarolyang.bsky.social, Soojin, Greg and Nik for a great meeting!

Congratulations to DRN PhD students Corinna Snashall, Sude Uyulgan @sudeuyulgan.bsky.social, James Birch, Thomas Cozens and Jason Morgan, who gave excellent talks in the School of Biosciences 3rd year symposium this week

Recent publications from DRN members, Aug–Sept 2025 #Heterochromatin, #Drosophila #olfaction, #pluripotency extinction, #anatomy #education, #zebrafish olfactory #ionocytes, #hearing loss, #machine #learning and more! See thread for details ⬇️

Excited to welcome everyone to the ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop: Nature of Intelligence The two-day agenda is packed with inspiring talks, discussions, and a panel exploring the frontiers of natural and artificial intelligence. @asab.org @drn-sheffield.bsky.social #AI #cognition #neuroscience

Dear friends and scientific colleagues, (especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz). Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared). Many thanks Best regards Ilan www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Call for Abstracts Extended! 🌟 Join us this September in Sheffield for 'Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal & Artificial Intelligence', an ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop. @asab.org @sheffielduni.bsky.social #ArtificialIntelligence #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience I #AcademicWorkshop #ASAB

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Derek Boyd from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, talking on the biological, environmental, and social factors that shaped respiratory health in English cities during the Industrial Revolution Host: Samantha Purchase All welcome!

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Giselle Wiggin from Nxera Pharma, Cambridge, talking on the application of structure-based drug design to GPCR drug discovery. Host: Tanya Whitfield All welcome!

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Sissy Wamaitha from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Sponsored by the Physiological Society @physoc.bsky.social Host: Stan Strawbridge @stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social All welcome!

Join researchers from the University of Sheffield’s Neuroscience Institute on 14 and 15 June at the Sheffield Winter Garden for NeuroFest, an interactive showcase of neuroscience research Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June 2025, 11am-4pm Sheffield Winter Garden, 90 Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 2LH

Thanks a lot for hosting me @helenkmatthews.bsky.social, I had a great time !

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series (joint with MCB @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social) is Dr Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk Giulia is a biophysicist interested in mechanics and developmental patterning. Host: Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social All welcome!

1/10🧵 New preprint! 🚀 We built a resource of 20 clonal human naïve pluripotent stem cell lines from 10 blastocysts. Explore embryo-to-embryo and clone-to-clone variation in one place. 👉doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.02.657331

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Thorsten Boroviak (PDN, University of Cambridge) @pdncambridge.bsky.social , who will talk on early embryonic development in primates. Host: Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social All welcome!

Now out! Chapters in a CTDB issue ‘Development of the Senses’, eds. G. Richardson and D. Wu: Ceriani F et al. (2025) – Maturation of the mammalian auditory pathway doi.org/10.1016/bs.c... Whitfield TT (2025) – Development of semicircular canals and otoliths authors.elsevier.com/a/1l8PbFzn7W...

Second year PGR symposium with @drn-sheffield.bsky.social! Exciting day full of science 🧬

Congratulations to Dr Claire Turner @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social and DRN's Professor Ivana Barbaric on their excellent talks in the University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social School of Biosciences Inaugural Lecture series today. www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... www.thebarbariclab.com

It was fantastic to have @lbates.bsky.social visit last week! Thank you for sharing your exciting work!

The speaker in our DRN external seminar series today is Dr Lawrence Bates @lbates.bsky.social from the University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, presenting his work on early human development. Host: Stanley Strawbridge @stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social All welcome!

Today we welcome Dr Vishnu Muraleedharan Saraswathy (Washington University in St Louis washu.bsky.social) for an online seminar on neuronal repair during spinal cord regeneration in the #zebrafish. Host: Emily Noël @noelresearchlab.bsky.social

Looking forward to today's talk by Professor Matthew Mason @pdncambridge.bsky.social “Getting into a twist: Comparative anatomy and evolution of the cochlea” to mark the opening of this superb Anatomy exhibition organised by DRN member Daniela Cacciabue, with @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social

Always a massive pleasure to come up to Sheffield and get to chat to the brilliant scientists up here

The speaker today in our DRN external seminar series is Chrissy Hammond from the University of Bristol, talking on bone biology and regeneration in the #zebrafish. Wednesday 30th April 1 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room Host: Freek van Eeden All welcome!

The speaker today in our DRN external seminar series is Jason Halliwell from the University of Copenhagen, talking on the factors that drive human genome instability. Monday 31st March 2 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room Host: Ivana Barbaric All welcome!

As part of our #polaroidproject at #biologists100, we caught up with @andrewplygawko.bsky.social to learn more about his research on #EMT and #polarity in the Drosophila midgut. #poster

Had a fab time presenting some our recent work on fish cardiac morphogenesis at Biologists @100 @biologists.bsky.social ❤️. So many great discussions and awesome scientists. Big thank you to @bsdb.bsky.social for supporting my attendance! #biologists100 #bioimaging #developmentalbiology

Thanks for inviting me! Had a wonderful day in Sheffield hearing about great science.

Today we welcome Laura Andreae @landreae.bsky.social from King’s College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social , who will present her work on building synaptic connections in the developing brain. Alfred Denny Conference Room, 1pm. Host: Andrew Lin @andrewclin.bsky.social All welcome!

Thank you- wonderful to visit Sheffield, meet everyone and hear about their exciting work!

Check out these feather buds on the chicken embryo's wing! Our latest study @plosbiology.org reveals that temporary inhibition of sonic hedgehog signalling transforms feathers into simple, protofeather-like structures—similar to those of their dinosaur ancestors🔬🦖🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Prof Karuna Sampath, University of Warwick, is visiting us today - Alfred Denny Conference room, 1pm: "Identifying the mechanisms governing extra-embryonic yolk syncytial layer development" Hosted by @iansudbery.bsky.social

Had a lovely time in Sheffield giving a talk and getting lots of exercise walking up all those hills…! Thanks @tsakiridis.bsky.social for the invite!

Looking forward to hosting Sarah McClelland @mcclellandlab.bsky.social, @qmbci.bsky.social today 1-2 pm, Medical School LT3, F Floor @drn-sheffield.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

A warm welcome to DRN research fellow Katherine Wood @woodlab.bsky.social, who has joined us from Maria Geffen's lab @geffenlab.bsky.social @upenn.bsky.social. Katherine works on the neural basis of auditory perception and how this is affected by ageing and dementia @hearingshef.bsky.social

Thank you!!! @drn-sheffield.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social has been and continues to be a welcoming and stimulating research environment!

A warm welcome to Stanley Strawbridge @stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social, who joins us as a #PhysicsOfLife & #QuantitativeBiology Fellow from @scicambridge.bsky.social. His work explores early human embryo form and function. #AdvancedImaging #AppliedMathematics #Bioengineering #stemcells #development

I am grateful to @cancerresearchuk.org for choosing to support our work aiming to understand the links between distorted embryonic development and neuroblastoma initiation using our human pluripotent stem cell differentiation model: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

A warm welcome to DRN Research Fellow Rory Cooper @rorylcooper.bsky.social Rory is an evolutionary developmental biologist investigating biological pattern formation of skin appendages in diverse vertebrate models, including sharks, chickens, and crocodiles. www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

Matt Towers & Alex Fletcher are advertising a fully funded PhD project to investigate feather development in @drn-sheffield.bsky.social at @sheffielduni.bsky.social 🐥🦈🔬 Come join us - it'll be a super cool project! Send me a message if you have any questions 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Prof Aga Gambus (agagambus.bsky.social) will be our external seminar speaker today - looking forward to hear her work on 'The novel replication initiation factor, DONSON: function, structure and regulation'. 1pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room. Sponsored by @merckgroup.bsky.social

Save the date: 16th–17th September 2025 Inaugural meeting for the UK Stem Cell Network University Place, Manchester Website and registration link to follow – watch this space!

Today we welcome Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social from reNEW at the University of Copenhagen, who will present his work on transcription factors and cellular memory. Alfred Denny Conference Room, 1 pm. All welcome! Host: Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social

Save the date: 10th July 2025 An exciting Developmental Biology meeting @sheffielduni.bsky.social, co-organised by DRN members @tsakiridis.bsky.social and @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social www.sheffield.ac.uk/science/news... Thanks to @bsdb.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social for sponsorship

DRN What’s on: Anatomy at Sheffield Don’t forget to check out this fabulous exhibition, organised by DRN member Daniela Cacciabue, in collaboration with the @sheffielduni.bsky.social University Library. Monday 10 February 2025 - 9:00am to Sunday 15 June 2025 www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/spec...

Just two days left to register to join us at a unique scientific conference, celebrating our 100-year anniversary and bringing together our different communities #biologists100 View the programme: bit.ly/4h1cmCC Register by Friday 28 February: bit.ly/3Ddp0QV

Thanks a lot Anestis for hosting me! Really enjoyed meeting up with friends and colleagues @drn-sheffield.bsky.social and sharing our latest thoughts on the regulatory strategies controlling the body plan :)

Looking forward to hearing about all the latest exciting work from the @vmetzis.bsky.social lab in our @drn-sheffield.bsky.social external seminar later today, 1-2 pm, Alfred Denny Building here in @sheffielduni.bsky.social