2026 marks the 25th Anniversary of @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. We invite all Alumni to reconnect and celebrate 25 years of science together August 24-25. Sign up, if you would like to receive further updates, formal registration will follow: www.mpi-cbg.de/25th-anniver...

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New research in @royalsocietypublishing.org #RSOS presents a new species of sea anemone, named for its pale pink colour and living in symbiosis with hermit crabs. Read more on our blog: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2025/11/a-new-sea-anemone-that-builds-home-for-hermit-crabs/

A new “pale pink” sea anemone that builds a home for hermit crabs | Royal Society

New research published in Royal Society Open Science presents a novel species of sea anemone belonging to the genus Paracalliactis, discovered in the deep waters off the Pacific coast of Japan. Profes...

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SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Metabolism in Development & Physiology virtual seminar, a new series connecting researchers across all stages & disciplines in metabolism! 🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET 🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg), & 🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford) See you there!

Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures

Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures

Weevils, spores, slime mold and cells in extreme closeup for the 51st anniversary of the Nikon Small World competition

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Hydra are ~basically~ immortal. Shred 50 of the lil guys to bits and pack their cells in a blob, and that blob will grow into a new Hydra... albeit with a few extra heads! This week's post is a Q&A @anaisbailles.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de about the physics of how Hydra coax order from chaos.🧪⚛️

Hydra are a cosmos in a cuvette

Anaïs Bailles on astrophysics and immortal animals

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On the train back now from the 2nd ever #EMBODevMet, where I got to see many familiar faces, meet new people, and hear about lots of great and inspiring work combining two of my top scientific interests (development & metabolism) in so many different systems! 🤓🤩

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · last yr.

✨ That's a wrap on #EMBODevMet after four inspiring days of cutting-edge science, new ideas, and reconnections. 👏 A huge thanks to all participants, speakers, and organisers who made this event so special. We can't wait to welcome you back to another EMBL event 👉 embl.org/events

Grateful and happy to be a part of this celebration, and proud to be a #LoPaT 😎🔬🚲🕸️🍻⚓🎇

@paveltomancak.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday me and my lab celebrated #20years @mpi-cbg.de. There is a lot to say about that but the pictures from the event tell it better. Thanks city of #Dresden for the nice fireworks. That was unexpected. 10 more years or so? #LoPaTs 💕

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

#LISH25 was BIG.

... and @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social's great video montage of a few of the samples. #LISH25 🔬🌍: www.intelligent-imaging.com/AxL

Day 11 of #LISH25 Last lectures of the course, closing with beautiful plant light sheet imaging by Maria Cuacos and organoids by Gustavo Madeiros. From now on, data transfer, analysis and presentation preparation! @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bundschuhst.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

The last day of lectures at #LISH25 starts with Gustavo Medeiros presenting applications of light sheet microscopy to #organoid research. @priscaliberali.bsky.social lab. Gustavo is a physicist and a creative artist and the walk-up song delivers that message. Video in thread.

#LISH25 day 10 ushered in by Claudia Gerri from @mpi-cbg.de introducing us to the wonderful world of mammalian early embryo development, implantation and #placenta interactions. Showing light sheet data from ex #LoPaT - Michi Burkon 💕. Walk-up song with Italian flair came with sweets.

Beautiful, moving combination of music, fish embryo microscopy, and Pablo Neruda poetry introduces Miguel Concha’s #LISH25 lecture. Walk-up song on another level! Like at #Woodstock. Fascinating and unusual #Morphogenesis of #killifish follows.

Excellent mid-course presentations from the #LISH25 student teams. Packed @csbdresden.bsky.social seminar room. Tons of data, visualisation, sample preparation creativity, and image analysis in progress. Lots of ambition from the student teams. I am impressed.

Johannes Girstmair showing what #Fiji #Mastodon plug-in can do for you in extracting cell lineages from large scale light sheet data. Optional afternoon tutorial of #LISH25

Second week of #LISH25 starts with Anna Kreshuk from @embl.org shifting the focus to data analysis, computer vision and machine learning. Appropriately, because our #HIVEs are overflowing with light sheet data. Very energetic, electrifying walk-up song.

Fun imaging @giuliaserafini.bsky.social 's wild sample with @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social #LISH25

Marina B. Cuenca@cuencam15.bsky.social · last yr.

Day 7 of #LISH25 After a well deserved day off we came back BIG. Mesoscopic light sheet imaging of lost and found specimens in the wild. Caught by @giuliaserafini.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @whyvinca.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bundschuhst.bsky.social We miss u @ereynaud.bsky.social

Day 5 of #LISH25 !! One of the most busy microscopy markets I've ever seen! Bingo! @ereynaud.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bundschuhst.bsky.social

An AD mouse brain with therapeutic antibody (in blue) and smooth muscle cells (in yellow).The first attempt, but quite successful. Thanks to @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social #LISH25

Day four of #LISH25 begins with a powerful presentation by @loicaroyer.bsky.social on digitizing zebrafish development, combining light-sheet and single-cell data. Loïc took the #walk-up song to another level, improvising on the piano as his massive fish development visualisation played. Beautiful.

Day 4 of EMBO #LISH25 Caffeinated drinks are flowing. Some with unexpected patterns in the spirit of the image analysis that awaits. @paveltomancak.bsky.social @ereynaud.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Day 3 of EMBO #LISH25 First microscopy market day! Busy with sample preparation and time sensitive specimens. @mpi-cbg.de @paveltomancak.bsky.social @ereynaud.bsky.social

Our beautiful Hydra made the cover!!! 😍😍😍 An experiment performed by Pavel Mejstrik with a HCR protocol by @giuliaserafini.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social lab @mpi-cbg.de Actin fibers in blue, nuclei in orange.

Setup of meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm #LISH25 with 15 #Lightsheet microscopes and 3 #ACQUIFER #HIVE for storage & analysis of image data is finished. Networks connected, we're good to. Tomorrow we start imaging! @paveltomancak.bsky.social @ereynaud.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @cuencam15.bsky.social

@paveltomancak.bsky.social · last yr.

Things are heating up at #LISH25. Setting up image analysis tutorials on the #Acquifer #HIVEs. Guided by @olafselchow.bsky.social

My tutorial materials & slides about #Reproducible #BioImageAnalysis using Python, Napari, Jupyter and #AI are available #openaccess. Thanks to #EMBOlsm25 for having me! It so great to visit friends at my former academic home campus for a couple of days 🤩 scads.github.io/embo-lsm-bia...

@paveltomancak.bsky.social · last yr.

We teach also #Napari at #LISH25. By @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social highlighting the awesome power of #Jupyter_notebooks for #reproducibility

We teach also #Napari at #LISH25. By @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social highlighting the awesome power of #Jupyter_notebooks for #reproducibility

Fun interactive session on research data management today at #LISH25 Background in beer, hmm, who could that be? 🤔 @paveltomancak.bsky.social? 🤪 We'll never know! #LoPaTs