Submit to our Developmental Biology Special Issue - Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development!😎 Guest editors Katherine Fantauzzo @fantauzzolab.bsky.social Jennifer Fish Deadline April 30th, 2026 @socdevbio.bsky.social Linked here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Applications are due this Friday, March 13th!

Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

Congratulations to Departmental faculty Dr. Kristin Watt @wattlab.bsky.social on winning the H.W. Mossman Award in Developmental Biology through the American Association for Anatomy @anatomyorg.bsky.social!

Applications for the 2026 CSHL Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social are due March 13th. Don't miss this great opportunity to learn all about the mouse model from leaders in the field!

Our work out in @devbiol.bsky.social, PDGFra is needed for 🧠 perivascular fibroblast development... ⬇️ perivascular fibroblast = ⬇️ perivascular macrophage...cross-talk? 👀 Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!

New paper alert from the lab: "Additive effects on craniofacial development upon conditional ablation of PDGFRa and SHP2 in the mouse neural crest lineage" published in @devdynamics.bsky.social: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....

Half of the lab attended #SCGDB2025 and had a great time! @ecbrooks96.bsky.social

It was an honor and a pleasure serving as @scgdb.bsky.social Secretary the past two years!

We kicked off #SCGDB2025 with exciting award talks from Dr. Timothy Cox @craniofacialprof.bsky.social and Dr. Jennifer Fish, pictured here with SCGDB President Dr. Matthew Harris @fish4walking.bsky.social and local meeting host Dr. Kristin Artinger @artingerlab.bsky.social.

So excited to be serving as Guest Editor for a special issue in @devbiol.bsky.social on receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development. Please consider contributing!

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week to Dr. Maria Campaña and @ecbrooks96.bsky.social! Very much appreciate the expertise, curiosity and collegiality that they bring to our lab.

Congratulations to Erin Binne, who won the Outstanding Laboratory Research Service Professionals Award through the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine!

This Sunday, September 7th is the registration deadline and the due date for abstracts to be considered for a poster presentation at the SCGDB annual meeting this month in Minneapolis. More information and program highlights available at scgdb.org.

Abstracts are due by Monday, August 25th to be considered for a short talk at the SCGDB annual meeting this September in Minneapolis. More information and program highlights available at scgdb.org.

"Mentorship and acts of kindness" by Brandon S. Gout: academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

Eighth annual Fantauzzo lab hike, this year at Silver Dollar Lake Trail, followed by lunch at Westbound & Down in Idaho Springs. Another beautiful Colorado day!

We are currently seeking to hire a new faculty member at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor to join our collegial, research-intensive Department. Job posting: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Fish on the SCGDB 2025 Marylou Buyse Distinguished Scientist in Craniofacial Research Award! Sponsored by Developmental Dynamics @devdynamics.bsky.social. Don't miss her award presentation - register for the annual meeting by September 7th.

Congratulations to Dr. Timothy Cox @craniofacialprof.bsky.social on the SCGDB 2025 David Bixler Distinguished Scientist in Craniofacial Research Award! Sponsored by Developmental Dynamics @devdynamics.bsky.social. Don't miss his award presentation - register for the annual meeting by September 7th.

Registration and abstract submission are open for the SCGDB annual meeting in Minneapolis! Deadlines: 8/25 abstract for short talk, 9/7 abstract for poster, 9/7 registration. More information at scgdb.org.

Join the editors-in-chief of Differentiation on July 11 at 1:30 p.m. Central for a virtual seminar with Julie Siegenthaler on retinoic acid signaling in retina endothelial cells and early angiogenesis. 👁️🔬💉 Register for free: www.isdifferentiation.org/Events/Semin...

One last #Fluorescence Friday from the Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social. E14.5 coronal brain section stained with Sox9 (green), laminin (yellow), neurofilament (magenta) antibodies plus DAPI (blue). Image taken by student Ricardo Albanus using Nikon AX R.

More #Fluorescence Friday from the Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social! E9.5 labeled with Shh (magenta), Sox9 (yellow), DAPI (cyan) using @hcrimaging.bsky.social. Image taken by student Roberta Fiorino using Nikon AX R with @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social Imaris.

Happy #Fluorescence Friday from the @cshlaboratory.bsky.social Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social! First up: E13.5 MEFs stained with phalloidin (magenta) and DAPI (green). Image taken by student @debojitsaha.bsky.social using Agilent BioTek Lionheart FX.

The Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer CSHL course @cshlcourses.bsky.social is underway! This crew of TAs and Instructors did a great job of getting everything up and running. Looking forward to a fun three weeks of science and networking!

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow @ecbrooks96.bsky.social who won a poster award and @molbcu.bsky.social graduate student Cassie Minne who received honorable mention at the 4th annual Rocky Mountain RNA Symposium held today at @cuanschutz.bsky.social!

Delighted to share our updated work, led by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Maria Campaña, published in @natcomms.nature.com: rdcu.be/em66g, PDGFRalpha/beta heterodimer activation negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation

Join us on Friday, May 16th for a symposium honoring the scientific career of our colleague Dr. Mary Reyland.

Was very excited to host Senator Hickenlooper in my lab this past week, as well as be involved in a panel discussion around the important of federal funding for science! coloradosun.com/2025/03/19/n...

Had a great visit to @cincychildrens.bsky.social earlier this week, filled with a lot of stimulating scientific discussion. Thank you to my wonderful host @brugmannlab.bsky.social! Even had a chance to stop by the zoo and see one of Cincinnati's most famous residents.

The deadline for the 2025 @cshlnews.bsky.social mouse course has been extended until March 17th. Don't miss this great opportunity to learn all about mouse development, stem cells and cancer from leaders in the field!

We are hiring! Looking for a Research Assistant to join our group at CU Anschutz in Denver studying genome integrity nguyenlab.org. Individuals will lead their own project as well as help support basic lab function! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Amidst all the chaos, the lab had a great day presenting their research earlier this month at @cuanschutz.bsky.social School of Dental Medicine Research Day. Congratulations to @molbcu.bsky.social student Cassie Minne who won 2nd place poster prize in the graduate student category!

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We are excited to announce that the 48th Annual Meeting of the SCGDB will be held September 29th - October 1st, 2025 in Minneapolis! The meeting will be hosted by the University of Minnesota.

Hello, Bluesy! We are the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology. Our goals are to improve our understanding of craniofacial development and disease, promote policy and patient advocacy, and translate basic science discoveries into clinical therapies and improved patient care.

A rare piece of good news from yesterday...

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Happy to present the first preprint from my lab after relocating @CHOP_Research @ChildrensPhila Here we describe gene expression at the single cell level across major milestones of human and mouse development. preprint here: https://buff.ly/3PFWNoG

Have you ever wanted to *see* receptor activity in embryos? If so, our new preprint is for you! In it, we showcase a new live-cell biosensor for visualizing receptor tyrosine kinase activity in living embryos – pYtags! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to serve as a Co-Instructor for the 2025 CSHL mouse development, stem cells & cancer course June 2nd-22nd! Applications are due March 1st. Please re-post!

Annual 11th floor door decorating contest. Wishing you all a Fantau-stic holiday season! @ecbrooks96.bsky.social

Delighted to share our updated work, led by former @molbcu.bsky.social student Thomas Forman, out now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/articles/98531, PDGFRa signaling regulates Srsf3 transcript binding to affect PI3K signaling and endosomal trafficking

Microscopy reveals how a lipid in the cell membrane called PI(4,5)P2 controls the activity of an important receptor that relays signals in to cells.

(Re)introduction time! I'm a new postdoc @ CU Anschutz studying roles of PDGF receptor signaling + RNA splicing in craniofacial #devbio. I got my PhD this past June studying primary cilia + Hedgehog signaling in lower jaw development using chick + mouse embryos. Looking forward to new connections!

I know you were all missing it! Here it is! Neural Crest is the Best go.bsky.app/SD8brAH

I made a starter pack for people interested in signal transduction! Please include yourself or others! Tagging a few people to spread the word: @drstarbird.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social @alextoker.bsky.social go.bsky.app/MVvjypg