To eat or not to eat: that is the question! A new #OpenBiology review synthesizes current understanding of the neural and physiological mechanisms that shape feeding-related decision-making across species: doi.org/10.1098/rsob... #SystemsBiology

For #FluorescenceFriday we have, "TNTs, cytonemes, and migrasomes, oh my!"

It is often said that cancer is like development gone wrong. One of the most important signalling pathways of development, the Wnt pathway, is frequently altered in colon cancer. Nydia Tejeda-Muñoz et al discussed the complex biology of Wnt signalling network. Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Now online! Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane adapts by measuring collagen turnover. We find that perlecan, another basement membrane protein, regulates collagen turnover to control organ shape.

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Congratulations to @mayorlab.bsky.social on this well-deserved award! He gave a wonderful talk and I spotted some Vegas themes represented in his talk too! Placodes and fireballs!🤩

Roberto Mayor Lab@mayorlab.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you to the Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social it was a tremendous honour to receive the Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Education Award. Special thanks to @rrbehringer.bsky.social and all the organisers of the SDB meeting in Las Vegas for such a truly remarkable meeting.

Cheng, B., Li, M., Lin, M., Guo, H., & Xu, F. (2025). Mechanobiology across timescales. Nature Reviews Physics, 7(11), 621–644. www.nature.com/articles/s42... #EpithelialMechanicsReview

Consider submitting your articles to our special issues 🧡

Cells & Development@cellsdev.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you're Chilean or work in Chile, or if your interest is w/ immunology and #devbio, submit to our special issues: 1. Chilean Developmental Biology: at Home and Around the World 2. Tissue Biology – at the interface between immunology and developmental biology www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...

If you're Chilean or work in Chile, or if your interest is w/ immunology and #devbio, submit to our special issues: 1. Chilean Developmental Biology: at Home and Around the World 2. Tissue Biology – at the interface between immunology and developmental biology www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...

Today's @cosheidelberg.bsky.social seminar speaker is @chc-evobio.bsky.social talking on chromatin evolution #evochromo. Check out his really cool #preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#DBfeature #LatestResearch The vascular–osteogenic interface in craniofacial development: a structured review of emerging associations in congenital malformations By Karl Jacobs et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.06.012

Got to try out another microscope woo! 8 positions stitched taken on the new @Bruker lightsheet this morning

During the final group project at #IALSJanelia, participants are combining their knowledge of light sheet microscopy, large data handling, and tracking to measure macrophage motion in a zebrafish tail. The data shown here was taken on our SiMView microscope by @anjanja1024.bsky.social.

New review: Yamada, Cruz Walma, and Endo discuss the long nanotubular interconnections termed #cytonemes, #TunnelingNanotubes or #TumorMicrotubes formed by cells to exchange regulatory proteins and organelles for regulating #development, adult homeostasis, and #cancer. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

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I want to thank the @socdevbio.bsky.social Engagment and Outreach committee members! You all are amazing! And huge thanks to all of our special symposium speakers and our theme table facilitators over the last few years. It takes a village to create community! See you all next year! #DevBio ❤️

Crystal Rogers, PhD@rogerslabucd.bsky.social · last wk.

It was an honor to serve on the @socdevbio.bsky.social Engagement and Outreach committee as Chair for the last 3 years. Alas, my term is up and the new Chair of the EOC will be @valetornini.bsky.social from UCLA. Huge thanks to the #DevBio community! Also- thanks for the swag SDB! Love it! 😍

Thank you to the Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social it was a tremendous honour to receive the Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Education Award. Special thanks to @rrbehringer.bsky.social and all the organisers of the SDB meeting in Las Vegas for such a truly remarkable meeting.

Congratulations to @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, winner of the @socdevbio.bsky.social Trainee Science Communication Award at #2026SDB. Check out Nick's not-for-profit organisation for engaging the public with developmental biology: Open Flower

Open Flower

Flower Genetic Design

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Congratulations, @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social, on winning the @socdevbio.bsky.social #2026SDB Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award! Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.

Transitions in development – an interview with Jeffrey Farrell

Jeffrey Farrell is an Earl Stadtman Investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), USA, where he heads the Unit on Cell Specification and ...

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So honored to receive the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciCom award and to share my work with the wonderful people in this community! This #2026SDB conference was a celebration of biodiversity 🧵

Great wrap-up of #2026SDB - if you are hungry for more #devbio, consider joining us for the upcoming Gordon Research Conference & trainee-led Gordon Research Seminar in Developmental Biology, Jan 17-22 at Il Cioccio! 🧬🐟🐀🧪🌱🧫🦎🪰🪱

Huge thank you to the organizers of the #2026SDB meeting! It was a fantastic conference. I really enjoyed all of the wide-ranging scientific topics, excellent talks, and I think you all know how I feel about the venue. Safe travels to all and hope to see you next year. ❤️🙏🏽 😍@socdevbio.bsky.social

How do tissues safely remove cells? Join me, @marija-matejcic.bsky.social in this perspective on the past, present and future of epithelial cell extrusion 🧵 0/16

‼️One week left to register to our 2027 EMBO Developmental Biology course in Quintay: biodesarrollo.unab.cl/how-to-apply We showed you 🪰, we showed you 🐥, now we'll show you some🥚 taken by 1 of our 2026 attendees. We also have 🐟, 🐸, and maybe even 🦑. I guess you'll have to go to find out! 😜

Happy #FluorescenceFriday. Its always exciting when i get to test out new constructs in my cells. It's not common that I get to see the ER network in an immune cell. This construct is not strictly ER but it's so overly expressed that it labels the ER in an embryonic macrophage in 🐸. How cool?

We’re heading to #2026SDB in Vegas this week! 🎲🧬Come find us and say hi for #3DThursday! 🔬: Bruker MuVi-SPIM (LSFM) @brukerspatial.bsky.social 🥼: Shirley Song, Michael Barresi, 2025, tracking dividing cells with lineage in syGlass 🏛️: Smith College 🎬: #syGlass, v2.7.0 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Our Executive Editor, @amjeve.uk, and Community Manager for @the-node.bsky.social, @andreamurillo.bsky.social, are in Las Vegas now for #2026SDB. Drop by @biologists.bsky.social booth #20 to speak to them and pick up your freebies. Sign up for news for one of our coasters or a charging adapter.

🚨 IT’S FINALLY HERE #2026SDB starts TODAY! 🧬🎰 The countdown is over, and it’s time for the developmental biology community to come together in Las Vegas! Get ready for exciting science, new ideas, and plenty of opportunities to connect. See you at #2026SDB! 🎉

I am excited to be at #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social with so many members of my lab! From GRNs to multiomics to imaging development- please visit 4 of their posters on Thursday night! #142 (A42) - Arwen Cudiamat #143 (A43) - Heddy Menendez #168 (A68) - William Stoehr #181 (A81) - Raneesh Ramarapu

Looking forward to the #2026SDB Satellite Symposium, 'Decoding the Human Embryo: Dissecting Developmental Processes in Our Species'. If you're interested in human development, register for @dev-journal.bsky.social and HDBI's meeting #HumanDev26. But be quick – registration closes tomorrow!

DEVHDBI2026: Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos

For 2026, the journal has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise this event.

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Please join us on Saturday at #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social for the Special Interest Symposium, “Understanding the Spectrum of exposure impacts on development.” We will be joined by Drs. Ben Lovely, Krist Antunes Fernandes @kristantunes.bsky.social, and Clement Chow @clementychow.bsky.social. 🤩