Today our #cephalic #furrow #evolution story hits the shelves in the glossy journal form. How appropriate that it’s architects met in Paris. Missing @bruvellu.bsky.social but joined by #CF enthusiast Mateo Rauzi & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social @yuchiunwang.bsky.social Steffen Lemke #mechanicsfirst

What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ? They would break all microtubules 😱 As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social rupress.org/jcb/article-...

John Gurdon will be deeply missed: a sharp mind, a warm and witty sense of humour, and a visionary who shaped our understanding of developmental biology. I admired his intelligence, envied his prominent hair🙂. Left photo, in archives of Nobel, taken by John Overton, photographer and our lab manager.

John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died. Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology. More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-... #LMBNews

Dr. John Gurdon, a British biologist and Nobel laureate who in the early 1960s introduced a paradigm-shifting method of cell manipulation that led to the world’s first cloning of a large mammal, a sheep named Dolly, died on Tuesday at 92.

Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!

We would like to once again, thank all the sponsors for their generosity in supporting #MBIMPG2025 @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @nikoninst.bsky.social @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social, Optics11Life, BGI, Office of Naval Research Global and Paeonia Foundation.

Great work from two great scientists that happen to be my friends too, so I am double happy, for Developmental Biology and for them and their groups! Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉Yu Chiun Wang and Steffen Lemke!!!!! @yuchiunwang.bsky.social

Great work, congratulations to all co-authors of this beautiful work! @paveltomancak.bsky.social #Mechano-evo-devo #Morphogenesis #Mechanobiology

Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...

🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social

Beautiful work!

Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪

Calling up for recommendations for meetings in 2025 at crossroads, or partially covering: development, mechanobiology, morphogenesis. Thanks!!!

Find out more about Daniel's lab in this 'Lab meeting' post: thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...

There’s been exciting work recently linking ideas from topology to biological systems. This has ranged from bird flocking (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), to gene networks (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), and now how nuclei pack in the Drosophila blastocyst (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

A big shout-out for @dianapinheiro.bsky.social being featured as Woman in Science! A well-deserved honor for a fantastic scientist and inspiring mentor, and on top of that an amazing colleague and person. Super happy to have you as my office-neighbor and friend @impvienna.bsky.social!

Have you read the interviews in our 'No such thing as a standard career path' series? We hope these stories from #DevBio scientists show that many valid career paths exist 🛣️🎢 If you want to share your story, get in touch! #AcademicSky #SciSky

Thrilled and proud about our latest advancement in Brillouin microscopy - enabling true light-sheet like mechanical imaging at high throughput. Out today in @naturephotonics.bsky.social Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social rdcu.be/eaDiX

📣 Wanna hear our story about the complex mechanical dynamics that cell populations undergo during the most important morphogenetic event? -Of course I am talking about gastrulation 🙂🤘. Join us this Wed at 10:00 CET, details -> @vgzt2021.bsky.social @embl.org @prevedel-lab.bsky.social

The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa

Images and videos are great at catching people's attention 📸👀 Check out our 'Show and tell' series, where researchers use an image or a video to hook you into reading more about a paper or a technique that's of interest to the #DevBio community: https://thenode.biologists.com/show-and-tell/

Every paper has a story behind it. Check out our 'Behind the paper stories', where we discover the highs and lows, the unexpected turns, and the fascinating discoveries from the breadth of #DevBio and #StemCell research:

Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the next VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar! We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by: Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social and Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC

🌞 Eastern sessions: New this season! Happening bi-weekly on Wednesdays to better suit attendees in Eastern time zones. Explore the schedule for an exciting lineup of speakers and look for the ☀️ symbol in the flyers for individual sessions. [3/4]