Fincredible news! Congrats, @blockintheback.bsky.social 🎉 #RockOn #zebrafish

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 5d ago

It is official: The @moraneyecenter.bsky.social has named @blockintheback.bsky.social as the Vice Chair for Vision Research and Research Director. I could not be more happy for my former institution as they are in the best hands with Kristen. healthcare.utah.edu/moran/news/2...

I'm looking for a postgraduate intern to join my group at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, modelling how pili dynamics drive bacterial motility and aggregation. Finishing a master's in physics, computational biology, or a similar field? Get in touch: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Internsh...

Tracking cardiac physiology in a #zebrafish embryo, with deep learning. Credit to Prof. Chung-Der Hsiao at Chung Yuan Christian University (中原大學). #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Off to Glasgow for #SynSci26 this week! Looking forward to some exciting talks and meeting the mechanobiology community. I’ll be giving a flash talk on Thursday about how mechanical signals help coordinate retina development. If you’re around, come say hi! 🐟🐸⚙️ #Mechanobiology #DevBio #Glasgow

Tread -1- EpiSci - 🧬 - 🧪 I am very proud to share with you our new study that you can access on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (see link below) "The Interaction with Nanotopographical Environment regulates nuclear mechanoresponse in mESCs via Histone Demethylase KDM3A. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A wonderful piece by @callimcflurry.bsky.social on how mechanosensitive PIEZO ion channels are being used to explore how our bodies rely on pressure sensing. It is a thoughtfully researched article, with perspectives from many colleagues across the field. www.thetransmitter.org/interoceptio...

PIEZO channels are opening the study of mechanosensation in unexpected places

The force-activated ion channels underlie the senses of touch and proprioception. Now scientists are using them as a tool to explore molecular mechanisms at work in internal organs…

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Long-range chemical signalling in vivo is regulated by mechanical signals go.nature.com/49QSbFT

Long-range chemical signalling in vivo is regulated by mechanical signals - Nature Materials

Tissue stiffness mediated by Piezo1 is shown to regulate the expression of diffusive guidance cues in the developing Xenopus laevis brain, revealing a crosstalk between mechanical signals and long-ran...

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Congratulations🎉 @rashmi-priya.bsky.social !!

British Society for Cell Biology@bscb-official.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are delighted to announce that @rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk has been awarded the 2026 Women in Cell Biology Early Career medal You can read about Rashmi's prize-winning work on heart morphogenesis here: bscb.org/wicb-early-c...

During #brain development, axons grow along precise pathways. Scientists have now discovered that tissue stiffness & chemical signalling interact with each other. 👉 mpzpm.mpg.de/news/news-de... @fau.de @embl.org @franzelab.bsky.social #research #neuroscience

🥳🥳🥳 Pretty fab start to 2026!!

Franze Lab@franzelab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

Presenting our latest results!! Glad to have been part of the team! Huge thanks to everyone especially @evapillai.bsky.social @niklasgampl.bsky.social and @franzelab.bsky.social !!! #xenopus #mechanobiology

Franze Lab@franzelab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

🚨Two fully-funded #PhD positions🚨 Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬 Find out more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/PhD Pls share #plantscijobs 1/3🧵

When a larval zebrafish twitches its tail, the vascular endothelium lights up with a calcium signal, mediated by Piezo1. We used to think mechanosensing in endothelial cells was about sensing blood flow, but at least in this case it's about sensing body motion.

Happy to have been part of such an amazing team of scientists! If you are curious about how stiffness regulates neuronal maturation, give this a read. #xenopus #mechanobiology

Eva Kreysing Lab@eva-kreysing-lab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Environmental stiffness regulates neuronal maturation via Piezo1-mediated transthyretin activity. My main postdoc paper is finally online! Thanks to all the co-authors, the entire Franze lab and the Káradóttir lab. @franzelab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An excellent opportunity to do your PhD in a fantastic lab with an incredible mentor!

Eva Kreysing Lab@eva-kreysing-lab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Chancellors Studentship is an excellent opportunity to do your PhD in the UK. If you are interested in doing your PhD at the interface between physics, neurobiology and mechanobiology, please get in touch. warwick.ac.uk/services/dc/...

Zelda's Link: The role of gene activity-switching transcription factor Zelda in controlling tissue regeneration 📷 Anish Bose et al‪ @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social lab @uofillinois.bsky.social in @science.org ScienceAdvances ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with John Ankers

Huge congratulations!!!

Rachel Smith-Bolton@rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Huge congratulations to Anish Bose @anishbose.bsky.social for winning the Development talk award at the International Society for Regenerative Biology meeting!! Presented by Elly Tanaka.

Thanks,DionnHargreaves LabWoolner @dev-journal.bsky.social for highlighting our preprint! Curious how mechanical and chemical signaling guides axons or how frogs are excellent for this question? @franzelab.bsky.social @evapillai.bsky.social🐸🧠 check it out #xenopus #Devbio #mechanobiology

Eva Pillai@evapillai.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you Dionn Hargreaves, Sarah Woolner & @dev-journal.bsky.social for highlighting our @sudimukherjee.bsky.social @franzelab.bsky.social preprint! Chuffed to see it engaged with through fresh eyes! 🙌 Interested in how mechanical & chemical signals shape tissue development? Give it a look! 🧠🐸⚙️

So excited that our latest work is out! We have been working to understand how damaged tissue exits regeneration and returns to normal gene expression, and found a major role for the pioneer transcription factor Zelda in flies. Kudos to @anishbose.bsky.social @keatonschuster.bsky.social et al!

The pioneer transcription factor Zelda controls the exit from regeneration and restoration of patterning in Drosophila

The pioneer factor Zelda activates a specific set of developmental and structural genes to end tissue regeneration.

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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

For an update on a set of recent preprints using gastruloids to investigate the interplay between morphogenesis, gene expression and physical parameters, on the robustness of patterning: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In preprints: exploring developmental robustness and timing with gastruloids

How developmental processes are coordinated in time and space to ensure the robust formation of complex, functional patterns during embryogenesis remains an outstanding question. Investigating this in...

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🤩🤩 Check out this selection of amazing images on the Node! #devbio thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...

GRS Developmental Biology 2025 Image gallery - the Node

The 2025 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) was held on March 29-30 2025. This year, the GRS co-chairs Ana R. Hernandez Rodriguez and

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Ana Hernandez Rodriguez@analiahr.bsky.social · last yr.

One of the reasons I love #DevelopmentalBiology is that it's so visually engaging. I had the pleasure of organising an image competition at the GRC last March, and share this passion. You can now check out these images on @the-node.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...

Want to engage with the #mechanobiology community? Why not join this group? Just drop me a DM and I´ll add you. go.bsky.app/G5cQqYT

High impact, small size. We welcome papers that address findings from a single set of experiments, or that are substantial enough to stand alone in 1,500 words or fewer. Find out more 👇

eLife Latest: Publish in a format that fits

Alongside Research Articles, eLife also publishes scientific discoveries in the form of Tools and Resources papers, Research Advances and Short Reports.

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“Our comprehensive atlas serves as a valuable resource to the cardiovascular and regeneration scientific communities and their ongoing efforts to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying vertebrate heart regeneration.” New work from Ying Su Lab 🇨🇳 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An organ-wide spatiotemporal transcriptomic and cellular atlas of the regenerating zebrafish heart - Nature Communications

Adult zebrafish possess the ability to regenerate injured hearts through a complex orchestration of molecular and cellular activities. Here, the authors present a single cell and spatially-resolved at...

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“Together, our results establish this optogenetic toolkit as a potent experimental platform to rapidly, directly, and adjustably activate FGF, BMP, and Nodal signaling in zebrafish embryos.” New work from @leanneiannucci.bsky.social & @katwrog.bsky.social 🔥

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

An optogenetic toolkit for robust activation of FGF, BMP, and Nodal signaling in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649426v1

Are material phase transitions more than simple regulators of tissue deformability? Check our latest work uncovering that rigidity transitions can trigger cell polarity! Congratulations to @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social , @crisp-c.bsky.social and Adrián for leading this work!

Laura Rustarazo-Calvo@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Excited to share our new work: “Adhesion-driven tissue rigidification triggers epithelial cell polarity”, now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ! A huge thank you to @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social, Bernat, @crisp-c.bsky.social, Adrián, and everyone involved! 🙌 🧵⤵️

Nervous system of a five-day-old zebrafish larva. Credit to Dr. Nathan Martin of @plavickilab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Proteins that allow water to move in and out of cells help shape the development of new blood vessels. buff.ly/Sl19tgH

Hyaluronic acid deposition & a soft ECM promote digit regeneration in mice. 🐁 @jontytownson.bsky.social covers the first #preprint from the @storerlab.bsky.social delving into the importance of the ECM in wound regeneration in mice. #preLight ⬇️ 👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/h...

Hyaluronic Acid and Emergent Tissue Mechanics Orchestrate Digit Tip Regeneration - preLights

Mui and team show hyaluronic acid deposition and a soft ECM promote digit regeneration in mice.

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