We're hiring! We're looking for a creative and collaborative scientist to uncover how mechanics and metabolism work together to shape mammary epithelial tissues, using tunable hydrogels, fluidics, live imaging and single-cell analysis. MRC funded | Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Pleased to be part of such an enthusiastic team of PhDs + postdocs, engaging with equally enthusiastic pupils eager to learn more about development and the tools we use!

Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge@geneticscam.bsky.social · 3w ago

Year 12 students from the Emmanuel College Summer Residential Programme joined us in the Department of Genetics for hands-on activities exploring developmental biology, genetics, and biomedical research. Many thanks to our postdocs who led the sessions. #ScienceOutreach #STEM

How does an embryo generate the right cells in the right place? Delighted to share our latest findings on how neural crest cells acquire vagal or trunk identities Spoiler alert: The timing & combination of CDXs preconfigures cell identity & distinct HOX states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Temporally distinct CDX programmes preconfigure vagal and trunk neural crest

Neural crest cells (NCCs) are progenitor cells vital in establishing the head, heart, gut and peripheral nervous system of vertebrate embryos. Disruptions to NCC development underlie neurocristopathie...

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Fintastic and elegant fate mapping work from @vprincelab.bsky.social 🐟🧪 #zebrafish

Vicky Prince@vprincelab.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congratulations to Elaine Kushkowski whose very cool fate map paper came out today doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

We had an amazing day #Morpho5🖐️ last Friday! Thank you to everyone who joined us for a fantastic day of science, discussion, and community!!| We're currently gathering and preparing the photos from the symposium. Stay tuned! 📸

DEADLINE EXTENDED! There's still time to register for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! Great science, great people, big trees! Join us! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Massive shoutout to first author @abinagui.bsky.social !!! The common view is that regenerative competence declines with age. We challenge this idea by showing that axolotl tail regenerative competence is emerges during a defined embryonic window. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Deadline fast approaching to register for this great meeting! And that’s not just because of the stunning poster illustration

John Wallingford@jbwallingford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is gonna be awesome! DEADLINE to register is June 1st! Sign up now! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

Really exciting to see our new review published! This review explores the evolutionary history of the extra-embryonic endoderm, an evolutionarily ancient tissue co-opted to form the yolk sac, and explores how in vitro models are uncovering its biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The vertebrate yolk sac: evolutionary origins and current advances in in vitro models

Summary: This Review examines the evolutionary history of the extra-embryonic endoderm, an evolutionarily ancient tissue co-opted to form the yolk sac, and explores how in vitro models are uncovering ...

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Physics of Living Matter 19 @bensteventon.bsky.social announces that the Physics of Living Matter conference is back in Cambridge, UK, for its 19th edition. Find out more in this post on the Node. ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/physics-of-l...

New paper out in @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social. We uncover unexpected complexity in how metabolism changes when the embryo implants or when stem cells exit naive pluripotency, revealing a central role for dynamic TCA cycle rewiring in cell fate decisions. www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

TCA cycle rewiring underpins histone acetylation sourcing and cell-fate transitions during exit from naive pluripotency

Using carbon tracing and functional experiments, Kafkia, Pladevall-Morera, et al. show that TCA cycle rewiring underlies mouse embryo implantation and the exit from naive pluripotency. In this context...

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The plasmids from Karapidaki et al. are on Addgene! Grab them here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

Michalis Averof@michalis-averof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

19th PLM! wow Great to see this @cam.ac.uk tradition going on. PLM was there right at the start of a new era

Ben Steventon@bensteventon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org

Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org

Check out this amazing illustrative tour of the @bsdb.bsky.social meeting!

Elizabeth Manning@emmanning.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Amazing!

Very happy to announce that I will be joining the Faculty of Biology & @cibss.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de as an Emmy-Noether funded group leader. We will tackle the molecular and genetic basis of developmental timing and size control using diverse Oryzias species. We are hiring at all levels !

The Frenster Lab is here! 🍾 I am so excited to start my #EmmyNoether funded group at @uni-freiburg.de this summer. Our group studies #CellCompetition dynamics during embryonic development using #gastruloids from multiple species. Thanks to the @dfg.de for creating this opportunity! FrensterLab.com

Frenster Lab | Cell Competition Dynamics

We study Cell Competition during Embryonic Development using 3D Gastruloids at the University of Freiburg. We view cells as interactive societies in development and cancer. Research, stem cells, Gastr...

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London Evo-Devo is back! Join us on May 5th for another excellent afternoon of talks and discussions on all things Evo-Devo. We are building a wonderful community, and we need you!

Alex de Mendoza@alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 5mo ago

May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk

Happy to share this work from @alexneaverson.bsky.social where she has dissected the timing and relative contribution of the organiser and its derivates to multiple aspects of early neural development: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Looking forward to this exciting meeting on embryo models! Registration and abstract submission is open now:

Luca Braccioli Lab @ UU@bracciolilab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧬 We are excited to announce the INTERNATIONAL DUTCH EMBRYO MODEL MEETING 2026 — Engineering the Origins of Life 📅 7–8 May 2026 📍 Utrecht, The Netherlands Register & submit abstracts: www.oncodeinstitute.nl/internationa...

Spring PhD recruitment round @crick.ac.uk is now open and we have a project on offer: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud.... If you have a background in maths or physics and are curious about patterning and growth in biology this could be the project for you! Please help us spread the word 💥

The Francis Crick Institute@crick.ac.uk · 6mo ago

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme. Apply by 17 March 2026. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Let's get this hashtag started! The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is happen this August! We will share updates using #SCDB26. Can't wait! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Thrilled to share this adventure on how zebrafish elongates its notochord! 🐟 Kudos to Carlos Camacho de la Macorra and @bensteventon.bsky.social for leading it. Alberto Ceccarelli and I had so much fun modelling & uncovering unexpected predictions… A nice mix of maths 📐, computing 💻 & experiments 🔬!

Ben Steventon@bensteventon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to share this work from Carlos Camacho de la Maccora that reveals how rates of posterior progenitor addition and anterior vacuolation are balanced across the notochord. With Alberto Ceccarelli and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social we present a model of long-range communication to provide robustness.

I'm excited to be speaking at the upcoming Developmental Biology meeting in Santa Cruz later this year! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Registration now open!

Happy to share this work from Carlos Camacho de la Maccora that reveals how rates of posterior progenitor addition and anterior vacuolation are balanced across the notochord. With Alberto Ceccarelli and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social we present a model of long-range communication to provide robustness.

scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Registration is open for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology meeting AUGUST 2026. PLEASE SHARE.