Our collaborative paper on snake coiling is now out in the latest issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on the cover! 🎉 Delighted to see our work highlighted this way. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ni9h3QW8S... @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

A surprising insight into the impressive architecture of developing embryos is revealed in a paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social by researchers in CSB. csb.utoronto.ca/pulling-a-ri...

Pulling a ring on it: Camsap2 protein leads to tension in zebrafish embryos by coordinating distinct pathways - Department of Cell & Systems Biology

Fascinating surprise as Camsap2 protein's unique signalling role to actin-based processes in the embryo revealed by Bruce lab

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On Usher Syndrome Awareness Day we are sharing some of the realities of living with Usher syndrome from people who know it first-hand. We want to remind you we are here to listen, help, cheer & support you and your family every step of the way. 💚 #RareDisease #UsherSyndromeAwarenessDay #Speirgorm

#ICYMI: Dr. Brian Ballios, Clinician Scientist @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social, was recently featured on The Retina Channel podcast, discussing the latest advances in inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). Listen to the full episode >> bit.ly/4iuq2KF @uhn.ca @uhnresearch.ca @kbi-uhn.bsky.social

Congratulations to Andrés Avelar for winning the F Michael Barrett Award for best poster today at @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social! You've worked super hard over the last 4 months in the Tropepe lab and truely earned this accolade!

“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4

This is just evil! Science sleuths discover thousands of antibodies from 15 vendors supported by doctored images on their websites. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Biochemist Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in the 1930s. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent & unreliable. Her PPD formula was adopted as the international standard (1952) & remains in use for TB testing today. Died #OTD in 1991. #WomenInSTEM

If you have a new preprint or new publication within the field of developmental biology, cell biology, or mechanobiology, we more than welcome you to send them to us via DM to help them get the attention they deserve! We would love to support more ECRs! #devbio #ecr #biology

Doris Roberts: We Support Each Other

ALT: Doris Roberts: We Support Each Other

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Nrl expression and promoter activity in developing cone photoreceptors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.06.743042v1

How does one gene perform different functions in different tissues? Our new publication in @CommsBio sheds some light on the disparate roles of Usher Syndrome disease gene PCDH15. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New era of world-class patient care for NE England www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/...

We're going to change the lives of people suffering from sight loss

The new Eye Hospital in Sunderland is preparing to set a national benchmark for patient-centred sight loss support when it opens in summer 2026.

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Congratulations to Ishmael Majeed from the Tropepe lab who successfully defended his Masters degree! Ishmael has been critical to developing new behavioural tests for visual function testing in our zebrafish mutants. Best of luck with your future graduate studies, Ishmael.

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

Thank you to @arvoinfo.bsky.social for the travel grant that got me to #ARVO2025. It was an amazing opportunity to hear about cutting-edge vision science and network with like-minded scientists. I will certainly be back next year in Denver!

Thanks to everyone that came to chat at my poster today! Great way to end my first #ARVO2025 meeting. Looking forward to seeing you all again in Denver next year!

If you are interested in learning about my research modelling Usher syndrome type 1F in zebrafish, "swim by" my poster tomorrow: A0097 #ARVO2025 #UsherSyndrome

This year, we had ~3 dozen people at our #ARVO2025 zebrafish community gathering! So great to catch up with everyone!

Incredible new work by @abimoye.bsky.social and colleagues who study microtubule associated proteins responsible for IRD. The iterative ultra expansion microscope images were breathtaking, and provide mechanistic insight into retinal diseases 👏

Fascinating talk by @macdonaldlab.bsky.social at #ARVO2025 on the contribution of Müller glia to photoreceptor OS length in the high acuity zone of the retina. Is there anything MG can't do?

Farewell Toronto and howdy Salt Lake City. Time to learn about the groundbreaking visual science that is happening across the globe at #ARVO2025

Statement from APA re/autism and what the science really says: updates.apaservices.org/autism

Addressing Recent Misinformation About Autism

Recent statements from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contradict scientific consensus and potentially threaten essential research, services, and supports for autistic people.

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Free speech is no longer free in America.

Was thrilled to catch @nclnoel.bsky.social giving a fascinating talk about her research on using Killifish to model age-related retinal disease. I look forward to the new insights that can be attained, and the implication for human retinal aging!