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Principles of Tissue Morphogenesis @Duke
https://www.munjallab.com/
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Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done.
tinyurl.com/464wsjhd
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about 2 months ago
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John F. Rawls
17 days ago
Part 6: For decades, the zebrafish has helped scientists unlock the mysteries of genetics, development, & disease. But the fish that power most discoveries have spent generations inside lab tanks. This video captures footage of zebrafish in their natural environment in Nepal.
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Zebrafish in the wild
YouTube video by John Rawls
https://youtu.be/cCZhZpPALqw
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Join us in one of the most supportive and collaborative departments, led by an equally supportive chair!
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Vishank Jain-Sharma
29 days ago
Excited to start my first day as a postdoc in
@akankshi.bsky.social
's lab! Seeking to understand quantitatively how a living organism can reproducibly form a complex topological structure from simple initial conditions, and what implications this may have for its behavioral function.
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Çağrı Çevrim
about 1 month ago
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681007v1
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James Briscoe
about 1 month ago
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...
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Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sir-john-gurdon-frs-1933-2025
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Miki Ebisuya
about 1 month ago
New preprint from the lab! We discovered a transient fluidization in the basal region of human forebrains by tracking microdroplets in cerebral organoids.This “basal fluidization”, absent in gorilla and mouse, may contribute to greater surface expansion in human forebrains 1/
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Jain_Akanksha_
about 1 month ago
🧠 Join us
@uzh-ch.bsky.social
! We are a new lab looking for PhDs, Postdocs & Master’s students interested in studying how human neural systems emerge & go awry using brain organoids, light-sheet imaging & genomics. 🚀 Deadline for LSZGS 1st Nov!
www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html
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Gautam Dey
about 1 month ago
If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back. I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support
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Thibaut Brunet
about 1 month ago
Latest from ours:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
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Kate Cavanaugh
about 1 month ago
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
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Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done.
tinyurl.com/464wsjhd
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Yu-Chiun Wang
2 months ago
Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of
#cephalicfurrow
, now out in
@nature.com
, all with
@paveltomancak.bsky.social
at the helm. (1/9)
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Uri Manor
3 months ago
Jim Hudspeth has died 💔 I am so sad. He was probably my favorite hearing researcher of all time. Absolute genius and also generous - he spent hours on the phone advising me on my career even tho we barely knew each other. May his memory be a blessing.
www.ted.com/talks/jim_hu...
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Jim Hudspeth: The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear
Have you ever wondered how your ears work? In this delightful and fascinating talk, biophysicist Jim Hudspeth demonstrates the wonderfully simple yet astonishingly powerful mechanics of hair cells, th...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jim_hudspeth_the_beautiful_mysterious_science_of_how_you_hear
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So happy for Kira! She also received NOA for her F32.
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3 months ago
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Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2)
8 months ago
This summer's hot ticket: Arolla 2025 meeting "BioMatter - From cytoskeleton to embryo", taking place from 25.08. - 29.08.2025 at Grand Hotel & Kurhaus, Arolla. ‼️ Submit your abstract until the 1st of June and join in:
meetings.ls2.ch/arolla2025
❗ Special rates for LS2 members! ❗
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Barone Lab
4 months ago
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/...
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5 months ago
Opus magnum of my former
#PhD
student
@akanksha-jain.bsky.social
. She brought the power of
#lightsheet
imaging to the
#Treutlein
lab.
#Organoids
#singlecells
#bigdata
#imageanalysis
You have learned much
#Akanksha
. You are a
#JEDI
now. ❤️👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Morphodynamics of human early brain organoid development - Nature
Human brain morphodynamics are explored using organoids.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09151-3
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Zebrafish Rock!
5 months ago
Don't miss the latest news, jobs and research from the
#zebrafish
community! Also available as a blog post:
thenode.biologists.com/daniodigest-...
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Stefano Di Talia
5 months ago
Great dinner with current and former members of the lab, as well as current and former Duke members and friends of the lab. Great to catch up with
@ceriweber.bsky.social
,Ben,
@woonyunghur.bsky.social
and share stories. Great
@socdevbio.bsky.social
meeting!
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Stefano Di Talia
11 months ago
Please spread the word! We are looking for postdoc(s) interested in quantitative problems in Development and Regeneration. Previous experience in quantitative biology is not required. We will support you and provide a great training environment if you are committed to learn new things.
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Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا
12 months ago
Please check out this upcoming Gordon Conference (GRC) on Developmental Biology - March 2025 Very diverse and relevant topics! and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) accompanying it as well ! (speaker list in commentts)
www.grc.org/developmenta...
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2025 Developmental Biology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
https://www.grc.org/developmental-biology-conference/2025/
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🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏
www.munjallab.com/join-us
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Zebrafish Rock!
about 2 years ago
We've gone purple to promote our Slack group! With nearly 400 active members last month, it has become the premier source for questions and queries for the
#zebrafish
community and beyond! If you are keen to join, please fill out this Google form:
forms.gle/bi3gPp3ncQuE...
#RockOn
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