Today we are having the second ICDAR day, with a first session including the great Maria Teresa Soto Navarrete and her Actc1 model of HCM. She sang her presentation as beautifully as robins do in october dawns in Madrid.

New publication : Despite being a core member of the PCP pathway, Vangl2 can play roles unrelated to planar polarity. This is the case during mouse heart morphogenesis.

bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · last yr.

VANGL2 shapes the mouse heart tube from adjacent epithelia and without planar polarity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674213v1

My first post in Bluesky: Mesodermal lineage tracing (green) in embryonic mouse hearts. Tg(Mef2c-AHF-Cre) and Mesp1-cre lines were used above and below, respectively, to trace mesodermal cells (green) at E9.5 (left) and E14.5 (right) stages. #science #heart #development #artwork #biology