Hit the Networking Jackpot Heading to the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting? Don't miss the MBL Alumni Association Reception! Join us on Friday, July 24, from 8:30–9:30 pm at The Chandelier at The Cosmopolitan. Poster Art by MBL Director Nipam Patel.

Excited to share that I will start my lab at the Center for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne @unil.bsky.social in Jan 2027! I’m looking for PhD students fascinated by how cells build tissues and excited about developing new technologies to study development across scales. www.wanlab.bio/pages/9397

Yinan Wan Lab | UNIL CIG - Join us!

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#DBfeature Elongation of the nascent avian foregut requires coordination of intrinsic and extrinsic cell behaviors By Olivia Powell, Emily Garcia, Vanshika Sriram, Yi Qu, Nandan L. Nerurkar tinyurl.com/52pecyc5

1/ 🔬🧑‍💻 Tired of going back and forth between GUIs and code for your 3D image analysis needs? Would you like to keep your focus in one place (notebook), without sacrificing interactivity? Here’s a tool that can help!

Yep, it lags a little. But still quite impressive considering that each "pixel" is a 150 MPixel multires image. Overall the total number of 'adressable' pixels in this 2D image are 225x225x150 Mpix = 7.6 Tera pixels. #ImageJ #Fiji #BigDataViewer

Thank you, Nandan Nerurkar, for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in @dev-journal.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @nerurkar.bsky.social. Read Nandan’s paper: bit.ly/4pkw7Jh

1/ 🐣⚒️ To study mechanics, we need to apply prescribed forces - how can we do that in living tissues? I am @eigenp.bsky.social and in this thread I'll highlight our new approach for applying tension on epithelial tissues in vivo!

New preprint from my PhD in @amphispacelab.bsky.social is out! 🥳 We investigated the evolution of my favorite gene FoxQ2 across 21 animal phyla, and found three ancient paralogs with a very dynamic history. More on phylogeny, synteny, and comparative in situs in the 🧵 below! tinyurl.com/2j96px45

Evolutionary dynamics of FoxQ2 transcription factors across metazoans: A tale of three ancient paralogs

FoxQ2 is a highly conserved class of Forkhead-box transcription factors expressed on the anterior side of the body in cnidarians and bilaterians. Despite this conserved expression pattern, recent phyl...

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#MicroscopyMonday 🔬 MBL Research Scientist @ryliewalsh.bsky.social imaged this chick embryo, labeled with DAPI (a DNA stain) and fibronectin (a glycoprotein), on the MBL's stage-scanning line confocal microscope. Specimen courtesy Panos Oikonomou, Columbia Univ. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAUo...

Cleared chick embryo labeled with DAPI and fibronectin

YouTube video by Marine Biological Laboratory

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For my first post on 🦋, I am incredibly excited to share that my PhD paper has been published in #ScienceAdvances! We compared the development of the anterior neuroectoderm to uncover how the chordate #forebrain evolved 🧠. Have a look at the summary 🧵 below! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An ancient apical patterning system sets the position of the forebrain in chordates

A conserved Wnt-regulated molecular signature sets forebrain position and identity in chordates.

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