How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵 Check our latest preprint

Happy to share our paper now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social - and check out our thread about the findings at bsky.app/profile/vale...

Felix Zhou's u-Segment3D is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It leverages 2D cell segmentations from orthoviews to generate a ‘consensus’ 3D segmentation. It does a great job on segmenting densely packed samples, and we have used the algorithm in many applications.

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.

My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15. www.mskcc.org/research/ski...

🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 05.11.25 | 16:00 UK Malte Mederacke: "The emergence of the fractal bronchial tree" Rory Cooper: " The mechanics of crocodile and tortoise head scale patterning" Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

Our Microscopy Training Grants with @jcellsci.bsky.social could be used to support your attendance at this course. Check out the details to see if you are eligible: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f... Or reach out if you have any questions about the grants.

#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word! www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

Our calcium paper is out in PLOS Biology! Check it out! #Calcium #Embryo #Development

Such a treasure trove! Thank you for continuing work on such a useful community tool 🐟🧬🤍

Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

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 🧵

So many possibilities! Exciting development

A riveting read and VERY cool timelapses! Very interested in the vector space of contractility/compaction and the link with implantation, not to mention the differences in aged embryos. Read and enjoy!

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic. m.xkcd.com/3056/

Absolutely delighted to host Dr Jenna Cash from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for our next @kiroxford.bsky.social External Seminar on Monday 29 September at 12 pm ! Please join us if you want to learn more about how the most recent spatial omics technologies can be used to understand skin biology!

New perspective in @jcb.org by @maikbischoff.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social about how mesenchymal cells use contact-dependent rules to generate swarm-like behaviors, patterns & organ forms. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration #Morphogenesis #Development #Science

Just gorgeous! Conservation (impact), third place is particularly jarring. We need to do better to our planet and all who we share it with!

Great place to postdoc! State of the art microscopy, supportive environment and cool topic? Yes !

Oh look at this!! Beautiful, and it will be out just in time for your Xmas shopping. Great gift idea for kids, a coloring book about vision!!! 🤩

🦐 High-res microCT of #Parhyale hawaiensis for #3DThursday! A powerful crustacean model for studying limb development, regeneration, and evo-devo. 🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017 🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk 🎬: syGlass.io #Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass

🚨 Don’t miss it! Abstract submission closes Monday, Sept 15. frenchzebrafishmeeting.fr Fantastic keynote speaker @KarinaYaniv and a great opportunity to connect with the @FrenchZebrafish Community. All talks will be in English. Join us! #FZM #zebrafish

This is why we are all in this field…to see, and one day to be able to produce work like this. Patho-DBiT-seq www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

STAMP brings us non-destructive single-cell profiling without the sequencing www.omic.ly/stamp-brings...

Finally here! Our preprint on the MOSAIC, a multimodal adaptive optical microscope enabling non‑invasive in‑vivo imaging from molecules to organisms, is out. MOSAIC captures everything from subcellular dynamics to neural activity in live mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come and join us for a fantastic conference around all things human development and growth! Lots of talks from abstracts and a stellar lineup of invited speakers? YES. Hope to see you all there ! @wellcometrust.bsky.social

The Node, our sister site, is collecting feedback in their survey. If you are a developmental or stem cell biologist and can spare 5 minutes, please complete the survey to help shape the future of the site. #DevBio #StemCells #CommunityBuilding focalplane.biologists.com/2025/04/28/h...

I like the ambition ! Choose France we will think about funding later. Never stop dreaming!

Today is also International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day and I for one, appreciate the corvids. 🧪🐡 They are extraordinarily intelligent birds! Here is my murder of crows, part of my terms of venery series of collective nouns for animals. 🧵 #linocut #printmaking

#CoarctationOfAorta A developmental problem of #SmoothMuscleCell #BoundaryFormation?😃 "a border is formed at the interface b/w #CardiacNeuralCrest- derived SMCs in the 6th #PharyngealArchArtery & #ParaxialMesoderm -derived SMCs in the dorsal aorta" #JDBMDPI 2025 www.mdpi.com/2221-3759/13...

C-SIDE Cell type-specific inference of differential expression in #SpatialTranscriptomics 👉Work for both Sequencing- & Imaging-based ST 👉Need single-cell reference 👉Histological features as covariates 👉Pixel-based Segmentation-free DEA @naturemethods.bsky.social 2022 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #printPromptMonday prompt is portrait. Making scientist portraits plays a large part in my art practice, so there are so many to choose from! Here’s a recent I was pleased with- crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

Two great new #Zebrafish preprints from the #WeinsteinLab using a new transgenic that reports epigenetic silencing and activation! Great to study epigenetic changes in vertebrates, and we even did an ENU screen. Excellent work by @mmarvel.bsky.social et al. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research. Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland. We are hiring postdocs & postbacs! Please reach out :)

Check out these feather buds on the chicken embryo's wing! Our latest study @plosbiology.org reveals that temporary inhibition of sonic hedgehog signalling transforms feathers into simple, protofeather-like structures—similar to those of their dinosaur ancestors🔬🦖🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

“Do scientists put themselves at risk by speaking out against the Trump administration? “Hell yes,” said Jonathan Jackson, a national expert on increasing diversity in clinical trials… “I might lose the grants I have by the middle of next week” being on this stage…an answer that silenced the crowd”

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

🆕Interested in #mitochondria #genetics and their role in signaling? Read our latest Review article by Yasmine J. Liu, Jonathan Sulc & Johan Auwerx. rdcu.be/eevUG bit.ly/41LTD8z

Great work coming out of @saradv.bsky.social at @idrm.ox.ac.uk, getting the spotlight from Guille Luxán (not on Bsky). What makes a vessel? And more importantly, what regulates and maintains different vessel identities?? Read below to find out..

Vascular Development: What determines whether an endothelial cell becomes part of an artery, a vein or a capillary? elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Thank you to A. Franco, W. Hur and K. Hadjantonakis for a writing a great News & Views highlighting our last work published @naturemethods.bsky.social 😀👇:

Please also check out the News & Views highlighting this cool work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you to @ukri.org MRC for awarding our grant on the role of CHD3 in neural crest/craniofacial development (and associated syndromes), together with the brilliant @karenjliu.bsky.social! And in collaboration with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Exciting times!

Two fully funded 4-year PhD positions, starting in October 2025, are available in the labs of Dr. Josana Rodriguez and Dr. Adam Wollman at Newcastle University Bioscience Institute. These projects are part of the NEEDL. Follow the links for more information and how to apply. Deadline: 31 March 2025

• Happy to announce that our paper in @nature.com is finally out! Thanks to the perseverance of @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social and our many collaborators we finally pulled it off! A small 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Laymen video: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking for a tag to localise fluorescent proteins to the plasma membrane? Unsure which tag might work in your species? We generated a toolkit of 11 membrane-localising tags, which can be screened rapidly by microinjecting mRNA in your species of interest. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣Exciting meeting ahead! Join us at Shaping Life 3 in beautiful Cassis next June! www.atoutcom.com/shaping-life/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social @guignardlab.bsky.social @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social @laghalab.bsky.social @sfbd.bsky.social

How to fix a broken #heart 💔->❤️ #Proteoglycan rich #ECMatrix scar tissue is laid by migratory cells after a cardiac scratch wound with #hiPSC #Cardiomyocytes. Happy #Fluorescencefriday #BlueSky & #CardioSky! @ablanchasensio.bsky.social 👀 #Science 💥🧪 #Microscopy 🔬

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