📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026.

We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control

www.levine-lab.org

Gail R. Martin (1944–2026): Embryonic stem cell pioneer, developmental biologist, and student of Asian art and ceramics | PNAS Gail Roberta Martin, Professor Emerita of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, and one of the founding figures of modern stem ce...

A very moving tribute to one of the founders of modern Stem Cell Biology: Gail Martin.
Well worth a read.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I2BC is recruiting group leaders in several disciplines.

Don’t miss the chance to launch your team at Paris-Saclay.

Information : www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/u...

Applications and enquiries : call2026@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr

Deadline: April 22, 2026

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈

Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

📣 paper alert

We are happy to share our latest work on how HNF1A's involvement in GLI3 processing affects #pancreatic & intestinal #development

5 years of work is 🆕 ONLINE ahead of print 🆕 in @genesdev.bsky.social

I must say I'm really proud of my team! 👏

genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Working on the 2027 Pancreatic Diseases GRC (www.grc.org/pancreatic-d...) and I am just so excited about the developing programme.... and it's May 9-14, Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco, Italy. Have a look and remember to mark your calendars.

Stem Cells for Diabetes Swim Team I'm taking on Swim22 and raising money for Diabetes UK

Tomorrow is the day… Swim22 starts… yay!!! 🎉 🏊‍♀️ 🔬 🧫 We are back in the pool for @diabetesuk.bsky.social to support people living with diabetes and research towards better treatments and a cure, please donate!

swim22.diabetes.org.uk/teams/stem-c...

Pluripotent stem-cell-based screening uncovers sildenafil as a mitochondrial disease therapy Mitochondrial disease encompasses inherited disorders affecting mitochondrial function. A severe and untreatable form of mitochondrial disease is Leig…

Our collaborative work is out now in CELL @cellpress.bsky.social

We sugggest sildenafil as a repurposable drug for mitochondrial disease.

A clinical trial is planned to start later this year.

Thanks to collaborators, funders, and patient organizations!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

joint meeting of the German, Spanish and dutch societies for developmental biology 2026

it’s already … tomorrow?!
Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio

Congratulations Maria & team - this is such an interesting study!! 👏👏

Primate-specific gene regulatory networks responsive to inflammation and DNA damage This project will investigate gene regulatory networks controlled by primate-specific transposable elements responsive to inflammation and DNA damage and probe how they are disrupted in cancer.

We have a fully-funded PhD studentship opportunity in my group to study primate-specific gene regulatory networks related to inflammation and DNA damage, in collaboration with @frostlab.bsky.social - please apply or send to promising candidates (UK Home fees eligible only), deadline is March 18th.

Pancreatic-targeted lipid nanoparticles based on organ capsule filtration - Nature Elucidation of fundamental pancreatic-targeted mechanisms enables the development of lipid nanoparticles for the precise delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics to the pancreas, highlighting their promising potential in the treatment of pancreatic diseases.

Nature research paper: Pancreatic-targeted lipid nanoparticles based on organ capsule filtration

go.nature.com/4kXrMLB

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology

Join our community & shape the future of research

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🚨3-year Postdoc Position @halloulab.bsky.social (Kennedy Institute, Oxford) - on Spatial Biology & Bioinformatics of Fibrosis🚨

An exciting project combining #SpatialTranscriptomics & #Mechanobiology👇:

shorturl.at/LLS5r

Deadline: 16 March - Please RT 📢!

@kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Very interesting read from @margaridamcm.bsky.social ! 👏

Multiscale Models for Life (MM4L) Centre for Doctoral Training Funded Studentship: How ECM changes shape cellular decision making Embryo, neural crest, developmental biology, cell biology, cell migration, biophysics, mechanobiology, bioengineering.

Fully funded PhD post, UK/Home student, starting 01/06/26. Interested in working at the interface of dev bio, biophysics and cell biology? Great collaboration with Amy Beedle and @leonerossetti.bsky.social Informal enquiries welcome. Deadline 15/03 #neuralcrest

www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word!

@mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social

scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Image

Karolinska Institute is hiring for 7 new positions!

Individual job details below!👇

#ScienceJobs

My lab is hiring a technician to manage our mouse colony and assist with mouse developmental biology experiments. Please RT and forward to anyone interested! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Targeting macrophages to protect fertility after chemotherapy at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Targeting macrophages to protect fertility after chemotherapy at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

🧫 For anyone interested in doing a #PhD in #fertility preservation, #chemotherapy & #macrophages please see this opportunity at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social in #Edinburgh, supervised by Roseanne Rosario, @rodtmitchell.bsky.social & me.

💻 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📆 Closing date: 6th March

Want to come do a postdoc with us?

We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!

Behind the paper: “Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas” - the Node Behind the paper story from Alejo Torres Cano on their recent paper describing how spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas.

👀 Check out @the-node.bsky.social where
@alejotorrescano.bsky.social (first author) share
#behindthepaper stories about our recent paper
⤵️

Behind the paper: “Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas” thenode.biologists.com/behind-the-p...

The Elbe Program is offering positions for independent postdocs at the interface between theory (physics, maths, computing) and biology. Join us in Dresden! Deadline 13 March.

PhD position in my lab!

Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Congratulations to Rashmi and Karolina and also to the technology development studio of the MPI-CBG without whom the screen would not have been possible.
If you are interested in high-content screening in organoid models, you may want to take a look.

Few days left to join our ambitious and innovative program using human induced pluripotent stem cells derived hepatocytes for cell based therapies against liver diseases.

We are looking for 2 motivated, ambitious and determined technical assistants.

karriere.charite.de/stellenangeb...

279 postdoctoral fellowships!

Download freely our database of postdoctoral fellowships and grants. For each entry, we provide eligibility criteria, $ amount, deadline, etc.

Good luck!

Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...