Congratulations are in order for the latest Dr. on the block!! 🙌🥳 Last week our PhD student @suyashnaik.bsky.social successfully defended his thesis on the roles of keratins during zebrafish embryogenesis 🐟 Way to go, Dr. Naik!! 👏👨‍🎓🎉

Just back from our group retreat in the beautiful Wachau 🍇! Two days of inspiring scientific presentations on tools and techniques, a fun game night 🐺, and a trip to Rosenburg Castle 🏰 with a breathtaking falconry show 🦅 Here’s to more science and adventures together! 💪✨

Ever wondered what happens to developing embryos during hypoxia? 🤔 Find out from our PhD student @k-roksolana.bsky.social at poster #45 at the @embo.org Workshop 'Developmental metabolism: flows of energy, matter & information!' 🐟🧬 #EMBODevMet

Heading to Biomatter: From Cytoskeleton to Embryo in Arolla? Don’t miss our PhD student @prajwal08.bsky.social at poster #44! Come hear about his cool work on #osmoregulation during #embryogenesis. #Arolla2025

Heading to the International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology in Chile? 😄 Don’t miss the talk by our PhD student Alena Kizenko on Aug 12, on how an ancient cytoskeletal gene found a new role in tunicate development 🧬 #EvoDevo #Invertebrates 🎥👇 Developing Phallusia embryo

Last week we hosted our annual @hfspo.bsky.social catch up meeting with @paveltomancak.bsky.social, Cassandra Extavour & ‪@hejnol.bsky.social! Fascinating discussions on the evolutionary functionalization of intermediate filaments shaping animal development 🧬 #EvoDevo

Seeing is indeed believing!🧐🤩 Congratulations to our postdoc @tushnakapoor.bsky.social on winning the 'Best Microscopy-based Discovery' prize 🔬,sponsored by @focalplane.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social,for her talk at the @embo.org Workshop #EMBOcellpolarity25! 🐟👏🥳

Those of you attending #EMBOcellularmatters, make sure to head to our postdoc @gayasinga.bsky.social' s poster (#47) TOMORROW! Building on insights from Drosophila and Xenopus, she uncovers new mechanisms on how exclusion zones form and persist in 3D #syncytial #embryos in #zebrafish 🐟

Are you attending #EMBOcellPolarity25? Our postdoc @tushnakapoor.bsky.social will talk about her work on how #polarity controls #epiboly movements in #zebrafish, TOMORROW at Session 1, 11:15am! 🐟

In preprints: expanded insight into epithelial spreading during zebrafish epiboly Donna Guan and Ashley Bruce discuss two recent #preprints from Suyash Naik & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social et al. and Sharon Minsuk & James Glazier et al.: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Congratulations to our postdoc @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social for winning an award for his fantastic talk on 'Zygote geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation' at #DevStem2025 @impvienna.bsky.social! Way to go, Nikhil! 🥳🙌

Woohoo! Work by our former postdoc @stetavano.bsky.social is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social !! 🥳🥳https://tinyurl.com/cjszcphs Read the summary below to learn more. 👇🐟 Congratulations to all the authors! 👏👏☺️

Highlights include the latest works from Bluesky peeps (Bleeps?) @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social & @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social, @vprincelab.bsky.social, @bruceappel.bsky.social, Riddle Lab & @pavaniperera.bsky.social among others! #zebrafish

There’s no age limit to curiosity for #science, science is for everyone! 🤩 Our PhD student Laura Hofmann spoke to senior citizens about her research on Balbiani body in #zebrafish oocytes, & needless to say they were super excited and curious! #Lifelonglearners 👵👴

Thanks @zebrafishrock.bsky.social! Go read @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social 's preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social if you still haven't 😉👇 tinyurl.com/Biorxiv-nmis...

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Who said Santa arrives only on Christmas Eve? 😏 Sometimes 🎅 comes even in February, like at the Heisenberg lab yesterday 😉 We played Secret Santa, exchanged gifts 🎁 , and ate great food 🍕🍪, to beat the February blues ❄️

📢‼️ Exciting new preprint from the lab by @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social et al, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, reveals that the early embryo geometry spatiotemporally patterns zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in zebrafish. 🐟 tinyurl.com/Biorxiv-nmis... Read on to learn more... 👇

The Heisenberg Lab is now on Bluesky! Follow our account to learn about our latest work, lab news, and more. #zebrafish, #ascidian #drosophila #development #mechanics