Super happy to see our work published in @nature.com last week 🤩 By combining whole-body tissue clearing, light-sheet microscopy and AI, we mapped obesity-associated remodeling across the entire mouse body in 3D at cellular resolution. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @erturklab.bsky.social

Had so much fun reconstructing the face of Amud the Neanderthal with wax! I learned a lot about hominin facial reconstruction and human anatomy in general. Also, focusing on sculpting for a full day was so relaxing. Thank you @catherinebone.bsky.social for your amazing workshop!

Thanks to @Laura Boulan for trusting me with her lab logo, showing growth control as an architectural plan!

Congrats!! I really enjoyed working on the graphical abstract for this paper, it is always great to see it in its final form!

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Lab's latest: sculpting sex-biased metabolic territories in the intestine by tuning ploidy and lipid metabolism. Myc is to blame; Laura, Pedro and Chris found out www.cell.com/developmenta...

I am thrilled to have been accepted as an Affiliate Member of the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain (MAA). Looking forward to expanding my portfolio into medical illustration using their amazing courses and resources! maa.org.uk

Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...

Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology - the Node

Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.

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What a beautiful museum, @nhm-london.bsky.social

📢 BioImagingUK Community Meeting 2026 is GO! 📅 12 Oct | 10:00–17:00 📍 Natural History Museum, London ✅ Free to attend (lunch included!) Careers, funding, community updates & more Travel bursaries for techs & ECRs — apply by 8 May Register👇 LINK in comments #Bioimaging

I finally had some time to improve my poster about staging Drosophila embryos in collaboration with @stramerlab.bsky.social and we would like to share this with the community! You can find it here or at a higher resolution on my portfolio: www.behance.net/gallery/2458... #DrosophilaEmbryogenesis

Exploring the telomere bouquet and its nucleus-to-cytoplasm connection across species. A beautiful commission for Julia Cooper to start the year, featured in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (doi.org/10.1101/cshp...). Check out my portfolio at Behance.net/MariaDiaz_delaLoza!

A small but very meaningful milestone for me 🪰📘 I contributed a chapter to the 2nd edition of Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor...

Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science

Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science, Second Edition is a unique resource that provides extensive review articles on contemporary topics in insect s...

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A scientific touch for the Holidays: Drosophila bone china baubles!

A Halloween treat just for fun! My beloved journal covers have come to life today. Check them out here! www.behance.net/gallery/2364...

A little peek at my illustration work from the last year! I had some really creative scientific commissions and also expanded into new areas, creating teaching resources for subjects like History and Design (loved it!). If you're curious, check my portfolio at: www.behance.net/MariaDiaz_de...

Our new paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using 3D reconstructions and volume measurements in Drosophila wing primordia, we show that growth can be uncoupled from cell proliferation and uncover a new time window for growth arrest. With @leopoldlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

A switch to non-proliferative growth sustains Drosophila wing development during the early pupal stage

Using precise tissue volume quantification, El Marzkioui, Gaugué, et al. show that wing primordia continue to grow during the early pupal stage, a phase of increased cell volume driven by insulin/IGF ...

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Although we didn't make it to a cover, it was so wonderful to work with @mariadiazillus.bsky.social on designing an artwork inspired by our work. Thank you Maria! We love it and will be proudly showing it around. Rover ERV wandering around the chromatin rapped around the moons of the solar system:

Kristina Stapornwongkul is joining IMBA! The Stapornwongkul lab will study how the nutritional environment and metabolic processes influence embryonic development—an emerging research area with broad implications for both fundamental biology and biomedical applications. Welcome, Kristina!

My first blue update! Sharing my most recent illustration in a scientific journal.Thank you to @oliverastone.bsky.social who contacted me to adapt his concept as the cover for his paper in @naturecvr.bsky.social. These are the original design and the journal version!

More about me and my work in @the_Node SciArt profiles! thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...

SciArt profile: Maria Diaz de la Loza - the Node

In our latest profile, we feature Maria Diaz de la Loza, a freelance illustrator and researcher in the Stramer lab at King's College London

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