Chirality (handedness) is found across life. Nematode worms form chirality early, as cells divide in a spiral pattern. @sugi05.bsky.social shows how cells roll using intercellular scaffolds, axis tilts and cell-substrate adhesion via finger-like filopodia to direct clockwise cell division. #2026SDB

Worm folks, mark your calendar for International worm meeting in Kobe Japan, July 18-22, 2027.

One month left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab at UBC! Funding is available for up to five years #DevBio #cellbio

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Love live imaging? Join us to study cell division, cytoskeletal dynamics, and morphogenesis in C. elegans embryos. Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cell Biology, Sugioka lab UBC University of British Columbia See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-b

SAVE THE DATE for the 13th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference — March 7–10, 2027 — bringing together researchers, trainees, and innovators in developmental biology from across Canada and beyond.

(the paper also shows that I’m still not useless at the bench.) I was tasked the last experiment which was inspired by Yukinobu Arata-san’s work (Development 2010) from the Sawa lab @uncnondpy.bsky.social

Very insightful work from the Goehring lab on the control of cell polarity tunability during development! Cell cycle oscillations in a polarity network facilitate state switching by morphogenetic cues | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell cycle oscillations in a polarity network facilitate state switching by morphogenetic cues

Regulation of PAR network feedback by CDK-1 dynamically optimizes a sensitivity-stability trade-off during development.

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Just got what felt like my first generative AI reviewer at one of respected Cell Bio journals. Declined to revise (lost interest in this journal) and submitted to Genetics right away

New paper from the lab! Many animal cells exhibit chiral cell surface dynamics, which are proposed to drive left–right asymmetric patterning. However, the molecular mechanisms linking these events remain unclear. authors.elsevier.com/a/1l%7E7B3QW...