Job Alert: I'm looking for an enthusiastic research assistant to join my team at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. 🔗 Apply here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomedi... Applications close August 10. Please consider sharing to help spread the word.

Check out this new work from the Towers lab to learn how avian digit patterns can be transformed into mammalian-like patterns! 🔬🐣🧪 @matt-towers.bsky.social Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Transforming Avian to Mammalian Modes of Digit Patterning

YouTube video by Matteo de la Torre

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Five toed chicken anyone? Nice work from @matt-towers.bsky.social & co on reconstructing the evolutionary pathway to digit loss in birds

Matt Towers@matt-towers.bsky.social · last mo.

Pleased to share our latest! We show that the chick limb can be directed to recapitulate key stages in mammalian evolution, providing a unifying model for digit patterning across amniotes. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_...

Pleased to share our latest! We show that the chick limb can be directed to recapitulate key stages in mammalian evolution, providing a unifying model for digit patterning across amniotes. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_...

Transforming avian to mammalian modes of digit patterning

How a conserved embryonic organiser-the Sonic hedgehog (Shh)-expressing Zone of Polarising Activity (ZPA)-generates diverse limb architectures in amniotes remains a central problem in evolutionary and...

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Our excursion into the world of hPSC-derived lateral plate mesoderm progenitors, the result of a great collaboration with the lab of @matt-towers.bsky.social. For more details check the thread of @sudeuyulgan.bsky.social below-Sude has been fantastic in leading and driving this work!

Sude Uyulgan@sudeuyulgan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How do you build the posterior end of a body? 🧫🔬🧬 I am excited to share that my PhD work on the generation of hindlimb and genital progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells is now available on BioRxiv! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brilliant work, Sude—fascinating data and an impressive effort driving this project forward. Congrats!

Sude Uyulgan@sudeuyulgan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How do you build the posterior end of a body? 🧫🔬🧬 I am excited to share that my PhD work on the generation of hindlimb and genital progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells is now available on BioRxiv! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

With the scientific input and experimental brilliance of the @franzelab.bsky.social this work was made possible. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our bat–mouse limb paper is now on bioRxiv!
🦇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.717074v2 This was a collaborative effort across the @nadavahituv.bsky.social Nicola Illing, Dorit Hockman, Guy Kelman, Tommy Kaplan labs and my lab at @washugenetics.bsky.social

Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: we investigate how the peripheral limb architecture can affect the cellular and transcriptional maturation dynamics of spinal cord neurons #plasticity www.cell.com/iscience/ful... congrats and thanks to all co-authors!!! 👏🥳🙏

Transcriptional and cellular maturation of the chick spinal cord in the context of distinct neuromuscular circuits

Molecular biology; Neuroscience; Developmental biology; Omics

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PDRA position still open in my lab for anyone who wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to chicks and catsharks). Please share!

Matt Towers@matt-towers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A BBSRC-funded PDRA position is available in my lab investigating vertebrate limb development! Please contact me for more details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH553/r....

A BBSRC-funded PDRA position is available in my lab investigating vertebrate limb development! Please contact me for more details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH553/r....

Research Associate in Developmental Biology at University of Sheffield

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate in Developmental Biology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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It's been quite a year for hypothalamic development. With this heroic analysis of developmental cell lineage, coupled with earlier multimode-based gene regulatory network analysis, the prosomere model looks like it has passed into history. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share a fantastic PhD opportunity combining interdisciplinary approaches with me, @alexgfletcher.bsky.social and @rorylcooper.bsky.social sky.social! Please share!

Rory Cooper@rorylcooper.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 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... 🧪

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

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