✨Crepidula fornicata (slipper snail) 🐚 A classic model for spiral cleavage! 🧬 Crepidula embryos reveal how early cell divisions shape body plans and establish left-right asymmetry in spiralian animals 📸 Image by Jake Leyhr #ModelMonday

Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists! Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊 www.mbari.org/event/ctenop... Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.

I am so looking forward to this CMSA workshop! An exciting line up of instructors and speakers and no fees 👀 Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics - CMSA share.google/aTxvHO4dhYAg...

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

New year, new lab member! Shubham Das @shubham-das.bsky.social arrived two weeks ago and he is already imaging. :) whoop whoop! Shubham will explore mechanics of polar lobe formation in spiralian embryos. Welcome!

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

Save the date for the next Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting next summer.

We’re hiring! 🚨 Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social 😀 Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us! Apply by Dec 15 → tinyurl.com/5n9bk836 #Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami

We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕 🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in... 🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... 🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳 We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution. 🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research www.echinox.org

First sea stars in our brand new facility at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social ! ⭐

The Hopkins Internships - Summer Undergraduate Research Funds Poster Fair at Hopkins showcased undergrads’ summer research on kelp, fisheries, neural activity & more. Funded internships give students a launchpad into real science alongside Stanford faculty, postdocs & grad mentors.

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo. In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

We had a great lab outing among the redwoods...such a treasure!

This postdoc position is still open! Apply if you want to come work with us on asymmetric cell divisions in spiralian embryos! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

I am honored and beyond happy to share that I have been awarded an @inserm.fr #ATIP-Avenir fellowship to start my own lab to study body plan evolution in #echinoderms 🤩 Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon!!

Brittle stars spawning attempted at the mini-course!

Students of our mini-course imaging kelp with @brookeweigel.bsky.social!

Today Pieter and Sebastian @streichan.bsky.social showed the students how to build a light-sheet microscope! 🤯

First day of our mini-course centered on advanced imaging of marine larvae! Everyone is excited spawning sea urchins! 🤓

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

The sea lions are visiting!

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Our brittle star patterning study is now out at EvoDevo! 🥳 doi.org/10.1186/s132... @lowelab.bsky.social

#wcsdb2025 Keynote speaker will be the fabulous Debbie Yelon (UCSD)! Other confirmed speakers are: Ahmad Nabhan (UCB) Alice Accorsi @accorsi-alice.bsky.social (UCD) Ben Vincent (UCLA) Dae Seok Eom (UCI) Emily Kolenbrander Ho @emkolen.bsky.social (Claremont McKenna) 2/4

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

Great PhD opportunities at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples (Italy). 6 fellowships are available to carry out interdisciplinary training. https://www.szn.it/index.php/it/bandi-e-concorsi/bandi-di-concorso/ph-d-program/ph-d-program-open-calls Topics include the function of […]

Developmental Biology symposium at Hopkins Marine Station: we had such a wonderful day of brilliant talks and posters!

‼️10 days left to register and submit your abstract!! Come and join us to help relaunch the UK EvoDevo meetings. An exciting day with friends and good science! Register and submit your abstract here 👉🏻 eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...

Paper alert! We closed the life cycle of the sea star Patiria miniata in the lab! doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

Our paper on epithelial dynamics and scutoids in the sea star embryo doi.org/10.1242/dev.... was shortlisted for Outstanding Papers of 2024 prize in @dev-journal.bsky.social! Congrats to co-authors @lmescu.bsky.social, Antonio Tagua and Deirdre Lyons journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

One month to go until #MSS2025 🙌 Chris Lowe @lowelab.bsky.social is on our exciting speaker lineup. He will present his latest work on the developmental patterning of the echinoderm adult body plan, and how it informs basic principles in #evodevo. Don't miss out! ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz

Fun alert! Jana represents the lab at the Hopkins Marine Station Basketball tournament!! All the way to the finals! Whoop whoop!

Good news alert! We are among the 2025 HFSP awardees! In a fun project developed together with @turlierlab.bsky.social and @chemamd.bsky.social we will study the polar lobe of spiralian embryos. Very excited about the opportunity to explore this unique mode of asymmetric cell division. Stay tuned!

All ready to capture more marine beauty!