Ceri Weber
@ceriweber.bsky.social
Incoming Asst. Professor @ UC Davis Vet Med • mammal vertebra evo devo • tails tails tails • postdoc @ucsdcooperlab • my name sounds like 'Keri'
I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com
At #2018SDB in Boston, @homeobox.bsky.social, @zhumeng123.bsky.social, and I were grad students scheduled to give talks at the same time, so we grabbed lunch instead to swap work and future plans. Eight years later, all three of us are opening labs! @socdevbio.bsky.social
M. Brent Hawkins@homeobox.bsky.social · 2w agoI am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com
Waiting for someone to get the “pinky” mouse pun
Ceri Weber@ceriweber.bsky.social · 2w agoI am particularly proud of my artwork on these nails! All freehand!
Excited to share the final published version of our work on the evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning in fins and limbs, now up on @currentbiology.bsky.social In review we added new single LARM element deletions to assess their impact on dorsality. Take a look! 🔬🧪🐟🐁 www.cell.com/current-biol...
M. Brent Hawkins@homeobox.bsky.social · last yr.We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Yay! I am so excited that @ceriweber.bsky.social is joining us in the APC Department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social! Welcome Ceri! The @ucdavis.bsky.social #DevBio community is so happy to have you!
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Ceri Weber@ceriweber.bsky.social · 4w agoI am so excited to announce that the Weber Lab will be opening in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, & Cell Biology @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social. We will be investigating the development and evolution of vertebra size, shape, and function. And yes, the jerboas are coming with!
I am so excited to announce that the Weber Lab will be opening in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, & Cell Biology @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social. We will be investigating the development and evolution of vertebra size, shape, and function. And yes, the jerboas are coming with!
I recommend doing a postdoc with someone who gets you as much as Kim gets me 🥰
Cambridge → Boston → Cambridge again: I’m thrilled to return to Cambridge(UK) to open my lab at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge!🥳 (mzhulab.com) We study how dev timing shapes and being shaped by plasticity, evolution & ageing. 🚩Hiring at all levels: pls email me if interested!📩
Meng Zhu Lab
We study how development measures time and how timing matters in development, evolution and ageing.
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What a weekend!! Capel Lab trainees past and present gathered to celebrate Blanche’s incredible career. We danced, we laughed, we cried, and marveled over so many shared memories of the beach, working in the lab, and all the incredible science we accomplished with Blanche’s mentorship and guidance.
The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."
New preprint!! 🚨 Did you know that many vertebrate species determine sex based on environmental conditions rather than chromosomes? Some turtles, like Trachemys scripta, rely on temperature. We learned more about how this happen molecularly.👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I love a winter holiday project (e.g. NYT mega crossword) and this year's activity was measuring and analyzing the measurements my Dad took of my height from age 6 to 19! My max growth marked in red.
Look at those tail crescendos!! Another amazing example of disproportionate elongation of mid-tail vertebrae, and they note it is distal to the more functionally-constrained proximal tail.
Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe November cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features @raularayadonoso.bsky.social @kenrokusumi.bsky.social @anthonygeneva.bsky.social et al., who studied how structural rearrangements and selection promote phenotypic evolution in Anolis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf196 #genome #evolution
The regulation and evolution of proportion is a classic challenge in biology. This is exciting work into the genetic and developmental basis of proportionality using a very cool model. Congrats Ceri! 👏🧪🧬🐭
Ceri Weber@ceriweber.bsky.social · 10mo agoVertebral skeletal diversity in mammals is remarkable. How do the differences between vertebral size and shape develop and evolve? See how we tackled this question in our paper published in @natcomms.nature.com today!
Vertebral skeletal diversity in mammals is remarkable. How do the differences between vertebral size and shape develop and evolve? See how we tackled this question in our paper published in @natcomms.nature.com today!
Bsky brainstorm! I'm looking for a short(er)-tailed rodent amenable to embryological research (timed pregnancies, decent litter size, easy to get/breed enough to sacrifice dams, etc).
Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr
This is SO cool and was such a fun read this morning. Congrats to the whole team!!!
Aurelie Hintermann@aurhin.bsky.social · 11mo agoAre digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪 A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today! #InHoxWeTrust
Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm
It's chilling to hear my Dad's voice in Eric Dane's, knowing that ALS has reached his respiratory muscles and how heartbreaking it must be for his loved ones to watch the disease progress. I admire how @iamals.bsky.social approaches ALS research, treatment access, and outreach, so please amplify:
@iamals.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe're launching our Push for Progress campaign to accelerate ALS research, expand treatment access, & secure $1BN in federal funding over 3 years. ALS is at a tipping point CLOSE to new treatments, but thousands will lose access unless we TAKE ACTION @ iamals.org/progress
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
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We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
This is insane and so wrong. This cohort of 2020 postdocs, who are now largely also job search ready in this market(?), keep getting screwed.
Ceri Weber@ceriweber.bsky.social · last yr.NIAMS just announced K99/R00 extensions, which is fantastic for trainees impacted right now, BUT I’d like to point out that the *only* postdocs who did not benefit from COVID extensions and are ineligible for the new extensions are those who started in 2020 lockdowns.
NIAMS just announced K99/R00 extensions, which is fantastic for trainees impacted right now, BUT I’d like to point out that the *only* postdocs who did not benefit from COVID extensions and are ineligible for the new extensions are those who started in 2020 lockdowns.
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