Paper alert! 📢 Our paper, “Fog signaling is dispensable for Drosophila trachea invagination,” has been accepted in @devbiol.bsky.social! Huge credit to first author @vvishakha.bsky.social (now a postdoc at the NIH).
An uncorrected proof is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
Our new paper, “Organization of the apical extracellular matrix during tubular organ formation”, has been published in
@elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Close up of a zebrafish larval body showing depth-coded epigenetic reporter signal in the liver tissues of a ppat mutant zebrafish
It's been a long time coming and I'm super excited to share our new preprint is out: "A novel transgenic reporter to study vertebrate epigenetics". We generated a zebrafish epigenetic reporter and found a fatty liver disease mutant with weird epigenetic phenotypes 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We recently described the Axillary Lymphoid Organ (ALO) in the #Zebrafish. It's on the OUTSIDE of the fish, making it great for imaging! Learn more by checking out our paper in @jem.org rupress.org/jem/article-...
Image of Dr. Brant Weinstein standing in front of a wall of fish tanks
Special congrats to NIH Senior Investigator Brant Weinstein, Ph.D., who was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Weinstein was honored for his contributions to vascular biology. Learn more at go.nih.gov/sl2B1ka. #zebrafish @izfs.bsky.social
Diagram of cell junctions in an epithelial cell Alberts et al Fig 19-32 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26937/
Cells are full of protein machines. Most don’t act alone, but instead form part of larger multiprotein complexes. For example, epithelial tissues & organs assemble by virtue of the multiprotein machines mediating cell-cell adhesion or adhesion of cells to the underlying extracellular matrix 1/n 🧪
Line of zebrabow embryos that have different colors based on the cell lineage. They are sorted by color to form a rainbow.
Full spectrum of ‘zebrabow’ embryos. Credit to @jhenninger.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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We are looking for postdoc(s) interested in quantitative problems in Development and Regeneration. Previous experience in quantitative biology is not required. We will support you and provide a great training environment if you are committed to learn new things.
The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.
www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
Building the body of an embryo or maintaining tissues in adults rely on cell migration. From neural crest cells leaving the neural tube to form our peripheral nervous system to migrating lateral line cells in a zebrafish to skin cells migrating to repair wounds, its key 1/n
youtu.be/IqUs29Kz3HE?...
No such thing as a standard career path - a new careers interview series
We chatted to several #DevBio scientists who've had vastly different career trajectories. We hope whichever career stage you're at and whatever journey you're embarking on, these stories show that many valid career paths exist
Congrats, Nat! 🎊 Wishing you all the best!!
Image of a shoal of zebrafish. Credit to Oregon State University.
#ZebrafishFunFacts: Did you know the popular WT strain 'AB' originated from a mating between strain A & strain B purchased by Charline Walker on two separate occasions from a pet shop in Albany, Oregon? This helped transform #zebrafish from household pet to a model of human disease & development. 🧪
Happy to see our first preprint out about human meninges! Excited about the fast progress and impact of the field. Here some little extra protein labeling (layers not perfectly scaled to each other) that didnt make it into the paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Zebrafish cardiac lymphatics (grey) inching along vegfc (red) expressing coronary arteries. Fun collaboration with the Cao lab published this week 🙌
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Microscopy Training Grants Supporting microscopy training for early-career researchers in cell biology Apply for a grant of up to £1000 Journal of Cell Science FocalPlane
Are you an #ECR who would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next ~6 months but don't have sufficient funding, check to see if you are eligible for our JCS-FocalPlane Training Grant.
Next deadline: 22 November 2024
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
External features of developing larvae and internal ossification of the same individuals revealed by calcein staining. Larvae are not to scale. Taken from Parichy et al. 2009 in Developmental Dynamics
#ZebrafishFunFacts: While Kimmel et al. (1995) famously standardized the embryonic development of #zebrafish, Parichy et al. (2009) takes it one step further with characterizing postembryonic zebrafish. They establish Standard Length (SL) as measure of developmental progress rather than age. 🧪
Fluorescent cone photoreceptor cells from an adult zebrafish retina, with alternating green and pink cells in rows.
Zebrafish cone photoreceptors in their pretty row mosaic. #FluorescenceFriday #sciart
