We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide #ECRs with the right support during the early stages of your academic career. We offer a number of practical ways to help you meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter: www.biologists.com/about-us/ear...

What's it like being Editor-in-chief of @jcellsci.bsky.social? doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Delighted & honoured to have given the Jean Brachet Memorial Lecture for the International Society for Differentiation Thanks to the Indian SDB for hosting and to Sally Dunwoodie for the generous introduction.

And here is the PDF of the 4th course @college-de-france.fr. You will find the justification and presentation of geometric representation of cell decisions, a parsimonious mathematical model for signalling and cell state transitions tinyurl.com/yc7u296j

Good to see the peer reviewed version of this published A chemo-optogenetic system for spatiotemporal control of gene expression We use it to: - Reconstruct SHH mediated neural tube patterning in vitro - Measure extracellular half-life of Shh www.cell.com/developmenta...

Looking forward to a few days at the InSDB-ISD meeting @insdb.bsky.social. Always happy to discuss @dev-journal.bsky.social

Learn more about @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence Programme - supporting the transition of postdocs to group leaders Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

BBC News - Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy www.bbc.com/news/article...

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 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Primate amnion development In this Review, Nikola Sekulovski, Amber E. Carleton, Chien-Wei Lin and Kenichiro Taniguchi (@taniguchi-lab.bsky.social) discuss recent advances in primate amnion development doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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...

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...

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...

Nice summary of a recent @dev-journal.bsky.social paper

It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍 "The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form www.cell.com/developmenta...

Good to see the peer reviewed version of this in print The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube A global temporal chromatin program operates across the vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity www.cell.com/developmenta...

Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader Closing date 27th November www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Check out this month's handpicked preprints in developmantal & stem cell biology on the Node thenode.biologists.com/prelighters-...

We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab! Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs. Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.

Lates from the Briscoe lab: Lineage tracing of neural progenitors in 🐤& 👤 - demonstrates sequential binary decisions & persistence of spatial identity despite temporal competence changes. Congrats to Giulia and co 🍾🥂

📣 Paper alert! I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

BBC News - James Watson: Controversial discoverer of 'the secret of life' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding) And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...

First week in @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social lab at @crick.ac.uk! 1/n

Looking forward to a day with the developmental biologists at WashU in St Louis. Honoured to be giving the 44th Annual Oliver H. Lowry Lecture 4pm Jeffrey T. Fort NRB Building, Auditorium happenings.wustl.edu/event/44th-a...

New preprint out! Evolutionarily conserved transcriptional regulators control monoaminergic neuron development. We uncover how ancient regulatory programs orchestrate the neurons that produce serotonin and dopamine across 550 million years of evolution. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Good to see this study from Ribes & co in print: PAX3/PAX7 transcription factors control neural tube patterning by simultaneously repressing ventral fates via H3K27me3 deposition at silencers & activating dorsal fates as pioneer factors at enhancers @ribes journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Looking forward to a day visiting friends and colleagues at @stowersinstitute.bsky.social Seminar at noon www.stowers.org

Our latest: *Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding* For a summary & the digested highlights see thread🧵 from @giulia-boezio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beautiful, insightful study from Boezio et al. One of the best clonal analyses I’ve seen so far. We’ll dig in this week! Check it out!

Our latest: *Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding* For a summary & the digested highlights see thread🧵 from @giulia-boezio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really impressive study on spinal cord development by @giulia-boezio.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. #neurodevelopment

This week has been special for us, marking 100 years of supporting biologists and inspiring biology. We celebrated our achievements at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social last night. We want to thank all our staff, whose continual inspiration and daily support for one another make our work possible.

Mansi Srivastava is a Guest Editor for our Special Issue on Lifelong Development #LifelongDevSI. In this interview, Mansi talks about her research path, the links between regeneration and development and the exciting questions her lab is trying to answer. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

1953: The Company launches the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology. In 1987, JEEM is renamed Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. Read their 100-year anniversary articles collection: bit.ly/42vDGED

Looking forward to a day at EMBL Barcelona for Science by the Beach Seminar at noon Science by the beach | EMBL.org share.google/Eb8dktOiuUbJ...

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists. 🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

This year's Crick @crick.ac.uk PhD programme is open for applications - £27,715 tax-free student stipend per year for 4 years - Tuition fees paid - Student visa fee & health surcharges covered Deadline 5 Nov We have a project available. For all the details visit: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Mechanical constraints disrupt gastruloid polarisation without changing gene expression - uncouples morphogenesis & patterning Gregor & co use tunable hydrogels to show cell motility, not gene expression, drives axis formation in gastruloids journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme. Apply by 05 November 2025 www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

It also makes me very happy @dev-journal.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social planted a Hazelnut tree (#13987) in Derbyshire because of this article #DevBio🧪

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

We've updated our first #preprint from the lab! A collaboration with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social 🔥 now including in vivo 🐭&👤 embryo data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice work from Val Wilson & co on neuromesodermal progenitors SOX2/TBXT co-expressing cells are self-propagating bipotent NMPs Increasing TBXT levels (not SOX2/TBXT ratio) switch NMPs from neural- to mesoderm-biased www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...