📢 🎉Oral presentation at the International Mechanobiology Symposium in Glasgow: Wednesday, Alsh 2 room, 15:30. Come and learn how do epithelial cells mechanically adjust to dramatically stretch using Brillouin microscopy. #ISMB2026 #Mechanobiology #BrillouinMicroscopy #Cytoskeleton @embl.org

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Join us for the next VGZT, featuring complementary approaches to understanding dynamic tissue organization! 🗓️ Thursday, January 22nd ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Chen Yuan Kam (@chenyuankam.bsky.social) 👉 Camilla Autorino (@cami-autorino.bsky.social)

🎉 The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series is back! 🗓️ Thurs, Jan 22 🎙️ Opening talks: 🧬Guy Tanentzapf (UBC) — How cell adhesion molecules wire into the cytoskeleton 🌀Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff (EMBL) @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social — Mapping tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy

International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series

Please fill out the following survey if you are interested in the 2025-2026 International Zoom Seminars on Developmental Mechanics.

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Malboubi, M., Esteki, M. H., Vaghela, M. B., Korsak, L. I. T., Petrie, R. J., Moeendarbary, E., & Charras, G. (2025). The cytoplasm of living cells can sustain transient and steady intracellular pressure gradients. Elife. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #EpithelialMechanics

Reading early onsets of debilitating blood diseases. Research with biomedical, regulatory and social impact. Quo vadis now?

Karin Prummel@kprummel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 Excited to share our paper 📢 @natcomms.nature.com We reveal how inflammation reshapes the human #bonemarrow niche 🦴, home of 🩸 stem cells, in the context of #clonalhematopoiesis and #myelodysplasia An amazing journey with fantastic colleagues and collaborators, thank you all! shorturl.at/ad0st

Today our #cephalic #furrow #evolution story hits the shelves in the glossy journal form. How appropriate that it’s architects met in Paris. Missing @bruvellu.bsky.social but joined by #CF enthusiast Mateo Rauzi & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social @yuchiunwang.bsky.social Steffen Lemke #mechanicsfirst

What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ? They would break all microtubules 😱 As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social rupress.org/jcb/article-...

John Gurdon will be deeply missed: a sharp mind, a warm and witty sense of humour, and a visionary who shaped our understanding of developmental biology. I admired his intelligence, envied his prominent hair🙂. Left photo, in archives of Nobel, taken by John Overton, photographer and our lab manager.

John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died. Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology. More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-... #LMBNews

Dr. John Gurdon, a British biologist and Nobel laureate who in the early 1960s introduced a paradigm-shifting method of cell manipulation that led to the world’s first cloning of a large mammal, a sheep named Dolly, died on Tuesday at 92.

John B. Gurdon, 92, Dies; Nobelist Paved Way for Cloning of Animals

His work in the manipulation of cells laid the foundation for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and led to the first cloned large mammal, a sheep named Dolly.

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Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!

We would like to once again, thank all the sponsors for their generosity in supporting #MBIMPG2025 @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @nikoninst.bsky.social @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social, Optics11Life, BGI, Office of Naval Research Global and Paeonia Foundation.

Great work from two great scientists that happen to be my friends too, so I am double happy, for Developmental Biology and for them and their groups! Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉Yu Chiun Wang and Steffen Lemke!!!!! @yuchiunwang.bsky.social

Yu-Chiun Wang@yuchiunwang.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)

Great work, congratulations to all co-authors of this beautiful work! @paveltomancak.bsky.social #Mechano-evo-devo #Morphogenesis #Mechanobiology

@paveltomancak.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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)

Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...

🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social

Beautiful work!

Katja Röper@katjaroeper.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest paper from the lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, Anna's PhD work hot off the press @plosbiology.org ! Using single cell genomics to understand tube morphogenesis, and why it's as important to switch things off as it is to switch them on!

Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪

Calling up for recommendations for meetings in 2025 at crossroads, or partially covering: development, mechanobiology, morphogenesis. Thanks!!!

Find out more about Daniel's lab in this 'Lab meeting' post: thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...

Lab meeting with the Ríos-Barrera lab - the Node

Meet the Rios-Barrera lab, based in UNAM, Mexico City. The lab uses the Drosophila respiratory system to study the sub- and supracellular mechanisms of morphogenesis.

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The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · last yr.

Our next extraordinary biologist is Daniel Ríos Barrera, a group leader at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Daniel has been featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social's ‘Transitions in development’ interviews and @the-node.bsky.social's ‘Lab meetings’ series. #100biologists

There’s been exciting work recently linking ideas from topology to biological systems. This has ranged from bird flocking (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), to gene networks (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), and now how nuclei pack in the Drosophila blastocyst (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Geometry of gene regulatory dynamics | PNAS

Embryonic development leads to the reproducible and ordered appearance of complexity from egg to adult. The successive differentiation of different...

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A big shout-out for @dianapinheiro.bsky.social being featured as Woman in Science! A well-deserved honor for a fantastic scientist and inspiring mentor, and on top of that an amazing colleague and person. Super happy to have you as my office-neighbor and friend @impvienna.bsky.social!

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🎉 Our @dianapinheiro.bsky.social is featured in a Women in Science book! The book, part of @cienciaviva.bsky.social's initiative, celebrates Portuguese women scientists. The latest volume launches tomorrow, #InternationalWomensDay, in Lisbon. 📖 Read more: imp.ac.at/news/article... #IWD2025

Have you read the interviews in our 'No such thing as a standard career path' series? We hope these stories from #DevBio scientists show that many valid career paths exist 🛣️🎢 If you want to share your story, get in touch! #AcademicSky #SciSky

No such thing as a standard career path - the Node

Introducing a new careers interview series, featuring developmental biologists who have had vastly different career trajectories.

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Thrilled and proud about our latest advancement in Brillouin microscopy - enabling true light-sheet like mechanical imaging at high throughput. Out today in @naturephotonics.bsky.social Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social rdcu.be/eaDiX

Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer

Nature Photonics - A Fourier-transform imaging spectrometer enables two-dimensional spectral Brillouin imaging at a throughput of up to 40,000 spectra per second over a...

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📣 Wanna hear our story about the complex mechanical dynamics that cell populations undergo during the most important morphogenetic event? -Of course I am talking about gastrulation 🙂🤘. Join us this Wed at 10:00 CET, details -> @vgzt2021.bsky.social @embl.org @prevedel-lab.bsky.social

Images and videos are great at catching people's attention 📸👀 Check out our 'Show and tell' series, where researchers use an image or a video to hook you into reading more about a paper or a technique that's of interest to the #DevBio community: https://thenode.biologists.com/show-and-tell/

Show and tell - the Node

Show and tell To provide more visual content on the Node, we are starting a new series called ‘Show and tell’. The aim of these short posts is to act

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Every paper has a story behind it. Check out our 'Behind the paper stories', where we discover the highs and lows, the unexpected turns, and the fascinating discoveries from the breadth of #DevBio and #StemCell research:

Behind the paper stories - the Node

Behind the paper stories Every paper has a story behind it, and we regularly commission scientists to tell theirs. In this collection you'll discover the

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Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the next VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar! We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by: Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social and Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC