#DBfeature A tribute to Gail R Martin, mouse geneticist and mentor extraordinaire (April 12, 1944 - Feb 9, 2026) By Alexandra Joyner doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.05.007

De las moscas de la fruta a la ceguera humana. Así es como la ciencia básica conectó el gen crumbs con enfermedades raras de la retina medio siglo después

‘Crumbs’: un rastro de migas que conecta una mutación en los genes de una mosca con las enfermedades de la retina

Un viaje desde la investigación básica en biología del desarrollo con moscas de la fruta hasta el descubrimiento de genes implicados en la degeneración de la retina.

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Excessive paperwork and inefficient systems are sabotaging scientific progress. Really proud to be part of this global manifesto spearheaded by @kentimmis.bsky.social. We need action at all levels to tackle the root causes. Our analysis & proposals @microbiotech.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/1751...

Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Unnecessary Bureaucracy Is a Global Impediment to Productivity, Advancement of Human and Planetary Wellbeing, Science and Sustainability

Unnecessary bureaucracy is a global impediment to progress and productivity that increases stress and lowers workplace morale and motivation. In research it smothers creativity and innovation that ar....

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Genetic and functional analysis in zebrafish shows that Vgll4 limits tissue growth by inhibiting Yap1–Tead–mediated activation and promoting Tead-dependent repression, providing a framework for how Hippo pathway output regulates organ size in vivo. @vlecaudey.bsky.social go.sn.pub/gxi8wg

Two distinct modes of Vgll4-mediated Tead regulation control organ size in zebrafish - Communications Biology

Genetic and functional analysis in zebrafish shows that Vgll4 limits tissue growth by inhibiting Yap1–Tead– mediated activation and promoting Tead-dependent repression, providing a framework for how H...

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This finding provides broad comparative support for the longstanding hypothesis that the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic (N/C) ratio acts as a timer of genome activation. Moreover, this scaling accurately predicts ZGA timing across diverse animals from genome size and egg volume of a species alone. 8/15

Then, what determines ZGA onset?? We correlated multiple genomic, developmental and ecological features with ZGA timing and, cutting to the chase, we found that the log ratio of genome size vs. egg volume very strongly scaled negatively with ZGA onset in cell cycles! 7/15

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper from the lab out in Cell Death & Disease @cddpress.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social "Transcription-dependent and -independent functions of Drosophila p53 isoforms in the induction of apoptosis and senescence-associated tumorigenesis.” #p53 #Drosophila Thread 1/9👇👇👇

📢 New on the SEBD blog! #GFE2026 reflections & experiences shared by our #SEBD travel awardees 🌍✨ Don’t miss their unique perspectives and key takeaways 👇👇🏻 sebioldev.blogspot.com/2026/04/germ... @gfeev.bsky.social #devbio 🧪

German (GfE), Dutch (DSDB), and Spanish (SEBD) joint meeting 2026

En marzo la sociedad asistió a un meeting conjunto con las sociedades alemana y holandesa de biología del Desarrollo.  La Sociedad Española ...

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The #SEBD offers its junior members (PhD students and postdocs) travel grants to attend #SEBD meetings. In the last #GfESEBDDSDB joint meeting the awardees were Miguel Angel Garitagoitia, CNIC , Jorge Mañes @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social and Daniel Barcenilla @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social. Join the #SEBD!

The 2026 call for the José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta award of excellence in #DevBio is now open! If you’d like to join the previous awardees @dariloops.bsky.social 2024 and @mirimiam.bsky.social and @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social 2022, please don’t hesitate to apply to #JLGS2026

Thanks to Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social) for reporting on our joint developmental biology meeting in Potsdam #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026. enjoy the read: thenode.biologists.com/meeting-repo... looking forward to seeing you and @the-node.bsky.social at #GfE2028

Meeting report: Joint international GfE/DSDB/SEBD Meeting (GfE 2026) - the Node

Girish Kale reports on the recent joint international GfE/DSDB/SEBD meeting (GfE 2026).

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Grateful to be part of this great team. Thanks to @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social for all the coordination effort! Looking forward to the exciting science to come.

Barriga Lab@eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Grateful to have been awarded an #HFSPResearchGrants by @hfspo.bsky.social With @jrmarmor.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social Charlie Duclut @institutcurie.bsky.social & @djcohen.bsky.social @princeton.edu we will explore hidden roles of organs as electrochemical organizers of #morphogenesis 🤓

Special congrats to @hlemmik.bsky.social, @thezgs.bsky.social, @nathaliejuya.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social, @jrmarmor.bsky.social, @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social, @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social, @ehannezo.bsky.social, @mvargam.eurosky.social, & @fabianlab.bsky.social among others! 🎉 #YouRock

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Attention scientists from all over the world🙃 The 2026 #HFSPResearchGrants are out! 🥳 117 scientists from 31 countries will pursue bold, interdisciplinary research, from #neuroscience to #ecology and beyond! 🧪 Are you one of the new #HFSPAwardees? 🔗https://bit.ly/4uGmMQ3 #sts #HFSP

The 2026 Visual System Development GRC and GRS are fast approaching. Jeremy Kay, Kristen Kwan, Robert Johnston, and I have built an exciting program that we hope you will enjoy. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting this summer in beautiful Maine. Register and RT!

Enhorabuena al equipo que está por detrás de #METALoci ahora publicado en en Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. En particular en grupo de @dariloops.bsky.social del #CABD que comparte autoría senior con Marc A. Marti-Renom @crg.eu @cnag-eu.bsky.social y Blanche Capel @durham.ac.uk (1/5)

Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2

What a way to start the second day of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 ! A Keynote lecture by Isabel Fariñas @farinaslab.bsky.social introduced by our president Eloisa Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social

We continue the morning with a session on “Forces define form - mechanobiology” with 2 #SEBD representatives, Jerome Solom from Biofisika Institute (CSIC, EHU) and Cielo Centola from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social

Cielo Lucía Centola (from @jrmarmor.bsky.social lab) investigates how "Rhythmic contraction waves trigger the Yap-dependent mechanoregulatory loop fueling gastrulation movements in medaka"

Cielo Centola and @jrmarmor.bsky.social from #CABD are participating in the Joint Meeting #gfe2026 in Potsdam!!!

Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie e.V.@gfeev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

it’s already … tomorrow?! Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio

Un recuerdo hoy (y todos los días) para todas las mujeres investigadoras, en el #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer #8M seguimos implicados todos/as para conseguir la tan deseada igualdad entre hombres y mujeres lo antes posible. Ya vamos tarde. 💜 @cnb-csic.bsky.social @sebbm.bsky.social @csic.es @uam.es

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ALT: a woman looks through a microscope in a lab

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#CABDseminars "Temperature and timing in embryonic development " by Michael Dorrity, @embl.org Heidelberg, Germany 🗓️ March 6th ⏰ 12 pm 📍Rosalind Franklin Auditorium, CABD Hosted by @crisprscan.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social

Don't miss Sofía Manzo explaining her PhD project at ProgRET. About short living killifish and retinal disease.

ProgRET@progret2024.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New series launch: discover our PhD projects🚀Curious what ProgRET is all about? Every month, one of our doctoral candidates is explaining their project in a short video. This is Sofia Manzo's (DC1) month🐟Look at her exciting work at the Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology in Seville, Spain.

Guess who’s turning 217 today? It’s Charles Darwin! 🥳 Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’. Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇

I think that, like with art, papers offer an opportunity for you to tell the story your own way. Could another person research the same question? Yes. However, each person has the opportunity to do it and communicate it in their own way, and we must protect that 🧪

Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento de nuestro socio Máximo Ibo Galindo, investigador de encefalopatías del desarrollo, como el síndrome de Dravet y pionero en la utilización de #Drosophila en la investigación de enfermedades humanas en España. DEP

The moment to celebrate a paper is when it’s shared with the world, not when it passes the arbitrary hurdle of “acceptance”

And finally, we have It out! Do not miss It, If you are into early eye development, GRNs, and eye malformations. Thanks to Javier Macho and the rest of the authors for a terrific job.

bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Single-cell multiomics identifies key nodes and cis-regulatory elements of the networks specifying the eye domains in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703039v1