#AQMHD2026 Registration will open soon. Please repost and stay tuned!

Better late than never! Last month, we posted our preprint on single-cell RNA sequencing of the #zebrafish sox17 lineage — a collaboration among several labs including us, @stefanmaterna.bsky.social and @thelovelylab.bsky.social. A few key takeaways below: 1/3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Transcriptional divergence of the zebrafish sox17 lineage begins during gastrulation

The endoderm is specified at the onset of gastrulation and subsequently undergoes extensive migration before forming an epithelial sheet that gives rise to multiple organs, including the gut and respi...

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The Swinburne Lab is hiring a Lab Assistant! Join us in using zebrafish and live imaging to uncover how organs form and function. If you're passionate about cell and developmental biology, we'd love to hear from you. Apply and help spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05459

Jr Specialist/Assistant Specialist – Developmental Biology/Cell Biology – Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Hello AQMHD community! The “final” #AQMHD2026 program is live—final, that is, until we add talks selected from submitted abstracts! 🐟🧬 Join us Oct. 17–21 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Abstract submission opens soon—watch for details next week! aqmhd.org/program.html

Overheard at dinner: “Which name is the reservation under?” “Well, everything was arranged by my AI agent” “Soooo…you didn’t make a reservation?” Me: 💀

But first we had to pay our respects

Stephanie Woo@itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 4w ago

@stefanmaterna.bsky.social giving the alumni talk at the @uni-freiburg.de biology symposium and repping #endoderm #zebrafish and @ucmerced.bsky.social

@stefanmaterna.bsky.social giving the alumni talk at the @uni-freiburg.de biology symposium and repping #endoderm #zebrafish and @ucmerced.bsky.social

Congratulations to joint Woo and @stefanmaterna.bsky.social labs grad student Po-Shu on a successful PhD defense! Well done, Dr. Tu! #zebrafish #phdone

I'll be writing a few posts about new features in Micro-Manager. If you are interested in those, please follow @micro-manager.bsky.social.

@micro-manager.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Development of Micro-Manager code has accelerated quite a bit with availability of the new generation of AI coding tools (and the need to provide functionality for microscopes in our core at UCSF). Follow these developments here: nicost.github.io/microscope-t...

Reminder: AQMHD 2026 is coming to Woods Hole! Explore the updated meeting website, scientific themes, keynote speakers, and preliminary program: aqmhd.org Oct. 17–21, 2026 Marine Biological Laboratory #AQMHD2026 #AquaticModels #ModelOrganisms

*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️

🚨WE ARE HIRING🚨 Interested in regeneration? cardiac development? just like doing zebrafish research? Join us in beautiful Montreal! Check here if interested www.izfs.org/jobboard/ame... @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @isrbio.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social

New preprint alert! Led by @qsb-uc-merced.bsky.social grad student Po-Shu Tu from my and Stefan Materna's labs, we found that the receptor tyrosine kinase Met is required for directional migration of #endoderm cells in #zebrafish. But — plot twist! — Met's canonical ligand HGF is dispensable.

Last week, I got to meet with the Texas Congressional delegation to advocate for federal science funding, organized by @ascbiology.bsky.social. I shared my story of how NIH- and NSF-supported undergraduate research opportunities at UT kickstarted my career.

Don’t Mess with Texas Science! - ASCB

On April 22, 2026, six ASCB members from Texas spent the day in virtual meetings with staff from six Texas Congressional offices, The ASCB members were Elizabeth Chen, 2027 ASCB President from UT Sout...

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three women are sitting in a car and one of them is talking about shopping .

ALT: three women are sitting in a car and one of them is talking about shopping .

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Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🛍️✨ New swag just dropped! 🎉🧬 The Society for Developmental Biology merch store is now live with brand-new items for the dev bio community 💙🔬👕 Represent your favorite field in style 😎 check out the new gear here ➡️ sdb-official-merch.printify.me #SDB #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology

Did you know the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting has an entire session just for NEW PI Talks? And a New PI Keynote Talk? It does! These will be chosen from the abstracts. New PIs, sign up! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Congrats to Woo Lab and @ucmerced.bsky.social undergrad Emily Le for winning Best Poster for Physiological and Developmental Biology at the West Coast Bio Sciences Undergrad Research Conference!!

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us

The Cooper lab is hiring a postdoc with a strong background in mouse genetics and molecular biology to advance.our gene drive work. Must be extremely organized, engineering-minded, and outcomes-oriented. Spread the word and have interested candidates email me directly.

It was such a pleasure serving on Raeden’s @rae-day.bsky.social thesis committee and seeing her grow as a scientist. The celebratory shot of coconut rum didn’t hurt.

TheLovelyLab@thelovelylab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Most importantly, two trainees successfully defended their dissertations in the summer/fall. Dr. Hieu Vo (summer) and Dr. Raeden Gray @rae-day.bsky.social (fall). The first F1s from the Lovely Lab, and we could not be more proud!!!

Save the date!

aqmhd2026.bsky.social@aqmhd2026.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Save the Date! The 12th Aquatic Models for Human Disease Conference (AQMHD) 🗓 October 17–21, 2026 📍 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Theme- Diving Deeper into Disease Biology: Emerging Models in Human Health #AQMHD #ModelOrganism #MBL #DiseaseBiology

So we’re just supposed to try to go about our lives today.

You'd have thought he would have noticed something didn't smell quite right. 🧪👃🏼

Frank Figliuzzi@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And another one: www.cnbc.com/2026/02/25/e...

New letter from BIO leadership... www.nsf.gov/bio/updates/...

Supporting exciting biological sciences ideas and impacts on AI and biotechnology

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🚨 SAVE-THE-DATE 🚨 SEEON ANGIOSCIENCE! Fantastic, long-running meeting on Development & Maintenance of the Vasculature. 🗓️ Sept 2026 🌍 Bavaria, Germany Registration open! Join us! vwfb.de/start/regist...

El Paso is my hometown, and my birthday happens to be this week. Please join me in donating to Annunciation House (annunciationhouse.org). They help migrants, immigrants, and refugees in El Paso. More recently, they've sheltered people released from ICE detention: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Immigrants freed from ICE detention arrive at El Paso shelter

El Paso's Annunciation House has received approximately 125 immigrants who were released on bond from Borderland ICE detention facilities.

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Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Read this. ICE can pick up anyone, citizen, legal or no, fly them from their home state to the detention facility in Texas, say Whoopsee & dump you in El Paso. Even if you don't care about other folks, this could happen to YOU. Call Congress! 1/2

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹 Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻 bit.ly/467TO0M

I’m recruiting new members to the Farrell Lab this summer. We will have space for 1 postdoc (since Abhinav is leaving to start his own lab at U Arizona!!) and 2 postbacs, since my current two will leave for PhD programs at the end of the summer. More details in thread:

Applications are open for PREP Bio at the University of Oregon! A great opportunity for postbacs looking for additional research experience while preparing for graduate school. More here: cas.uoregon.edu/UO-PREP-Bio