Stephen R. Frankenberg et al. (2025) Unearthing the secrets of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole Science Advances 11(1): eado4140 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado4140 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

❓Can a father’s environmental exposures before conception influence their offspring? We systematically tackled this - identifying effects of paternal age, environment and genetics on early embryos - as well as confounding influences www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo

Today, Edith Heard begins her tenure as our new Chief Executive Officer. Edith joins us from @embl.org, and will head up the new Developmental Epigenetics Laboratory alongside her executive role. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

In Paris for a nice ''colloque'' on X chromosome inactivation. Looking forward to it! www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

Who doesn't like looking at stunning images showcasing the beauty of #DevBio?? 😍

We're excited to publish our latest study led by Bryony Leeke @bryonyleeke.bsky.social and Wazeer Varsally, now out in @nature.com 🍾This study focusses on the epigenome of marsupial embryos 🦘 mapping DNA methylation in embryo development to specific embryo events www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

New paper from our lab ! DNA methylation dynamic is different in marsupial embryos compared to eutherian embryos.

Light-sheet is amazing ! Nice work from Kenzo and his lab. !!

Enjoyed a lot the Developmental Biology GRC 2025 last month. Thank you @swathiarur.bsky.social, Kathy Cheah and Anna Kircheva for organising it! Looking forward to the 2027 edition !

The Crick is part of the organisation of a bioimage analysis conference in Kobe, Japan, 26-31 October 2025. It includes training school, hackathon, taggathon and symposium, and there is travel support for training school attendees: www.globias.org/activities/b...

A woman studies embryos for decades, struggles for funding and respect. She publishes under her husband’s name, until they divorce. A single mother, she moves across an ocean to continue her studies. It all sounds quite modern, until you learn that she also worried she’d be burned as a witch. 🧵 1/15

Unfortunately, James cannot make it to the Developmental Biology GRC. So, I will give his talk instead. See you in California. #GordonConf

If you think we all should have cool science themed Tshirts, go follow him on instagram and ask him to design your ideas !

Forgot to post. Come talk to me about why opossum are such an amazing developmental model. #Beddingtonconf

Very excited by the line up at the Beddington symposium this year. lot of great speakers (@maitrejl.bsky.social depicted)

Congrats Jérémie, good luck on your exciting post-doc !

Thanks preLights for highlighting our preprint !

Looking for labs working on afrotheria embryo development. Does anybody work on elephant shrews, hyraxes, tenrecs ... ?

@mpi-ie.bsky.social 7th epigenetics meeting has started. Come talk to me if you're around poster #12. Topics: Opossum, mouse, X inactivation, sex chromosomes, development...

Our (Turner lab.) latest preprint is out! 🐭🧬We show that sex chromosomes regulate the transcriptional and developmental landscape of the mouse preimplantation embryo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interests: Embryo development, evo-devo, mammals, science communication, epigenetic. Skills: live-imaging, micromanipulation. Current research: blastocyst formation, X silencing in opossum. My science illustrations are from @akira-sciart.bsky.social