2 weeks to go until the registration/abstract submission deadline for our @cclguk.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social symposium on the developmental origins of paediatric cancers at the @crick.ac.uk this June. Great speaker line up and slots for short talks: www.cclg.org.uk/information-...

Last couple spots remaining for the Craniofacial GRC in sunny CA! Looks to be a full house, with a great set of up-and-coming #craniofacial biologists spanning evo/devo, genetics, multiomics all the way to stem cells, engineering and repair. @brugmannlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/craniofacial...

Appalling news for the biosciences in the UK. I have three grants under review at the moment so the last week since I heard these rumours have been a definite career low point. Shifting priorities (read political interference) are bad enough www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Check out this postdoc opportunity in a great lab in Sheffield! 🐣🔬

I am completely baffled by the total lack of any action or any evidence of speaking out from our scientific ‘leaders’. We’re in a void of information and the consequences are potentially catastrophic- especially as it looks like BBSRC are following suit.

The lab turned 10 this month, what better way to celebrate than with an amazing cake from @faycooper.bsky.social! I feel lucky to have worked alongside so many talented students, postdocs, and colleagues here in Sheffield over the years.

🚨DEADLINE TOMORROW FRIDAY 16th JANUARY If you are interested in DevBio, *don't think about it twice* 👇STEPS: 1)Submit an abstract bsdb.org/meetings/ 2)Become a @bsdb.bsky.social member if you aren't already bsdb.org/about-us/#me... 3)Apply for travel grants bsdb.org/membership/#... See you there!

rdcu.be/eX8JD DRN new publication alert: Manning et al., 2025, @emmanning.bsky.social, co-led by Marysia Placzek and Elsie Place @elsieplace.bsky.social, in collaboration with Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social

Thank you @stanna-ccri.bsky.social for hosting us, great to see clinicians and groups working on different aspects of neuroblastoma biology coming together and discussing openly about how to build better models that will accelerate the development of new treatments against this devastating disease.

Meeting schedule now online for @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 spring meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis! ***Abstracts due in by January 16*** Join the outstanding line up! Submit your abstract for a short talk, flash talk, or poster presentation: 👇👇👇 bsdb.org/meetings/

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Takuya Azami (University of Edinburgh) @tazami.bsky.social Host: Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social All welcome!

We are very happy to share our new PrePrint: Myosin VI orchestrates estrogen-driven gene expression in breast cancer cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We characterise how Myosin VI is a key regulator of the Estrogen Receptor. Perturbation of Myosin VI impedes ER functionality.

Join us in Sheffield! We are keen to support early career researchers in applying for independent research fellowships (IRFs) to join our friendly and collaborative environment, in areas related to developmental biology, stem cells and regenerative biology, and neuroscience.

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Professor Jens Januschke (University of Dundee) @dundee.ac.uk Host: Kyra Campbell @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social All welcome!

📣 Paper alert! I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

An exciting PhD opportunity to work at the University of Sheffield on how e-cigarettes affect reproduction and offspring: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬 This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪

Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social

🚨 PhD Projects 🚨 We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting! Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us! bsdb.org/meetings/ March 23-26, 2026 - UK

Hot on the heels of our recent basic science preprint. Check out our preprint of a data driven study looking at Hirschsprung Disease Outcomes of children in England using ECHILD (medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...).

Check out our lab’s new preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) on the consequences of ENS progenitor transplantation to mouse Hirschsprung disease explants. Delighted to continue a fruitful collaboration with @tsakiridis.bsky.social to develop a #celltherapy for #Hirschsprungs

Happy to share our new preprint!

Today we are honoured to host Dr Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh), winner of the 2024 BSDB Wolpert Medal, who is giving a talk in our DRN external seminar series @bsdb.bsky.social Host: Marysia Placzek All welcome!

I am co-organising a @cclguk.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social symposium on the developmental origins of paediatric cancers at the @crick.ac.uk on 8/6/2026. Great speaker line up, affordable registration and available slots for short talks-spread the word! www.cclg.org.uk/information-...

Many enhancers that drive tissue-specific gene expression are already connected to gene promoters in human pluripotent cells. In a new preprint, we share some clues about when, how, and why this happens! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

Neuroblastoma-associated ALK variants have distinct cellular and biochemical activities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.677354v1

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer. Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions. Please repost! More details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma. We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A 6-month postdoc position is currently available in our group. The project involves the use of hPSC-based models to dissect the links between chromosomal copy number alterations, DNA damage and tumour initiation-please spread the word-closing date=29th Sept: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON353/r...

I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com

Really nice work by @fredwck.bsky.social and the groups of Val Wilson and Ian Chambers (including a small contribution from me from my Edinburgh postdoc years) showing how pluripotency factors can temporally orchestrate both pluripotency and it extinction: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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...

Application deadline for up to 5 @mrc-lms.bsky.social postdoc positions in developmental epigenetics closes soon - don’t miss out! Positions across both experimental and computational projects. Come and join our fantastic team science community!

📣 Cilia Lab is growing 📣 - we have 2️⃣ open positions at @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for talented and motivated researchers interested in disease modelling & genetic therapies which target #RareRespiratoryDiseases at their root cause. 🧪🧪#ciliopathies #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia 1/4

Ecstatic to share our paper on nutrient signaling in the #EntericNervousSystem published in Nature! 🧪 We explored how neurons in the gut respond to basic nutrients that we typically ingest and tested whether they can distinguish between different nutrients 🔬 Check it out 👉 tinyurl.com/3vc756dv

Looking foward to the Northern(ish) Developmental Biology Meeting 2025 next week @sheffielduni.bsky.social! Thanks to the organisers @shaneherbert.bsky.social Raman Das @tsakiridis.bsky.social @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social

ENS aficionados, mark your calendars: the next symposium on enteric nervous system development, function and repair, will be held at KU Leuven from 7–10 April 2026. Excellent line up of speakers and the website is now live so for more details check: ens-leuven2026.eu ‪

Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Sissy Wamaitha from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Sponsored by the Physiological Society @physoc.bsky.social Host: Stan Strawbridge @stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social All welcome!

🚨 New paper out in Development! 🚨 We show that donor embryonic stem cells (ESCs) reshape the developing mouse embryo, not just by what they signal, but where they push. 📄 doi.org/10.1242/dev.... [1/8]

1/10🧵 New preprint! 🚀 We built a resource of 20 clonal human naïve pluripotent stem cell lines from 10 blastocysts. Explore embryo-to-embryo and clone-to-clone variation in one place. 👉doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.02.657331

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Thorsten Boroviak (PDN, University of Cambridge) @pdncambridge.bsky.social , who will talk on early embryonic development in primates. Host: Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social All welcome!