Let's get this hashtag started! The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is happen this August! We will share updates using #SCDB26.

Can't wait!

scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

If you're at #cellbio2025, @atmolines.bsky.social Hernan Garcia and I invite you to attend our Minisymposium “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” for incredible talks on epigenetic mechanical memory, viscoelasticity, cortical flows, morphogenesis, tissue wetting, size scaling, et al!

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

I'm thrilled to be able to share this new paper from post-doc Camilla Teng @xsciteng.bsky.social and our collaborators in the Leslie-Clarkson lab @emorygenetics.bsky.social on mechanisms of tissue fusion and cleft lip url: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩

We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species

➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is an amazing story and important breakthrough! Awesome stuff from @karalmckinley.bsky.social and @cagricevrim.bsky.social

A quadratic paradigm describes the relationship between phenotype severity and variation - Nature Communications Phenotype variation is higher in mutants than wild types. Examining a range of mutant severities, this study unexpectedly found that variation decreases in severe conditions. A quadratic trend best fi...

Lots of great discussion about developmental variability here at #GastrulationReloaded! Super important to consider, and current tools have the power for this.

Related to this recent paper showing that mild phenotypes are more variable than severe ones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of zoom interviews! Come hear Tyler, Heather, and Duc share their thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A.

Registration link in flyer - hope to see you there!

VGZT Season 7 - Nomination Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks (VGZT) is an opportunity to share your science with an engaged, international audience of developmental biologists. Running from October 2025 to July 2026, this online ...

Dear VGZT enthusiasts,
Do you—or someone in your lab—work on exciting developmental biology research? Showcase it at VGZT, a global online seminar series connecting developmental biologists across all career stages. Apply here: www.tinyurl.com/VGZT-Nomination

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:

👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social)

👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

Very excited to present my research focussing on the evolutionary differences of epiblast morphogenesis across amniotes next week at the kick-off of @vgzt2021.bsky.social season 7!
A story of 🐁,🧍,🐓 & many 🦎🦎🦎🦎

To play Paneth or goblet: Shapeshifting secretory cells read the room The intestinal secretory lineage is thought to comprise four distinct cell types derived from one Atoh1+ progenitor, but the mechanisms that distinguish Paneth and goblet cells are unclear. Bhattachar...

I’m thrilled to have our work—“Intestinal secretory differentiation reflects niche-driven phenotypic plasticity of a common signal-responsive terminal cell” (dlvr.it/TK2Fzl) featured in the Preview of this issue of @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social!

Wanna grow organoids to understand human retinal development as a research assistant?

Wanna help run the lab as a lab manager?

The Johnston lab is hiring a research assistant/lab manager.

If you are interested, please apply (also please share!):

jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

🥳 Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint, led by our talented postdoc Justine Creff! 👩🏻‍🔬 We tackled a fundamental question: how the epithelium withstands mechanical stress at the interface of cells with distinct geometries and mechanics, such as enterocytes (E) and goblet cells (G) (1/9)

That's awesome - congrats!

Congratulations to Camilla Teng, for winning the "Platform presentation SDB prize" for post-docs at the Northwest SDB meeting, which sounds like it was a fantastic meeting! Camilla will be on the faculty job market soon, so look out for her! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social

Come check out my talk, where I'll be giving (or attempting) a lesson on *actin* your age

Mark your calendars for our western/evening 🌙 session seminar next week!

We’ll have a 🐁 double feature with:

Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social and

Vera Van der Weijden @vvdw.bsky.social

🗓️ Thursday, March 20th at
⏰ 10:30 PDT (!) / 13:30 EDT (!) / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics - Nature Methods The authors present a computational framework that leverages mechanical force inference and spatial transcriptomics to enable analyses of the interplay between the transcriptomic and mechanical state.

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨
Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

An exciting example of how mechanical forces pattern ECM to drive morphogenesis. Love the movies and synergy between experiment and model!

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Such a cool study by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social - a nice distraction from everything else going on!

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#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 21 sdbonline.org/gethired

Join us tomorrow for the last session for this cycle!

What happens during second visits and how to negotiate your offer?

We will discuss with @lydiagrmai.bsky.social @thuycke.bsky.social Anna Maurer and Ben Vincent

Please notice there is a slight time change at
2 PM EST/ 11 AM PST

Thanks John - hope to catch up with you soon!

Super excited to announce my new lab at the University of Michigan opening Jan 2025! 🎉We’ll study how cells work together to shape the GI tract, with ties to regeneration & disease.

Hiring at all levels—esp. a research tech to help launch the lab! Info: huyckelab.org

#DevBio #CellBio #Hiring

Happening tomorrow! 👇

I've heard great things about this program!