Poster for Young Embryologists Network Conference 15th June 2026. Invited speakers: Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro, Christopher Thomas.
This is not an April fool's! The YEN 2026 Conference is really happening on June 15th!
We are excited to have Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro and Christopher Thomas. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions!
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Virtual and in-person options available for this #ZebrafishMeeting featuring @dianapinheiro.bsky.social among others!
YEN 2026 registration is now live!
Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Sign up now to attend and submit your poster/abstract: forms.gle/2HQEmZgEi4hP...
Abstract submission deadline is 15 May.
Stay tuned for more information!
Meet our keynote speakers at #EZM2026!
13th European Zebrafish Meeting, taking place in Vienna, July 7–11.
🧬 Pavel Tomancak (Dresden) has made key contributions to evolutionary developmental biology and tissue morphogenesis, advancing our understanding of how complex biological forms arise.
A series of cleavage-state zebrafish embryos from Edward Roosen-Runge’s 1938 paper.
During this time, he published a more detailed table of zebrafish cleavage and also studied karyokinesis. But that’s not all: in a collaboration with Warren Harmon Lewis, then at Wistar, they produced what is probably the first “motion picture" of zebrafish development. (6/7)
Wow, this sounds like an incredible opportunity!
Last couple of days to vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025 ❤️🔬!
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Many small photos taken from the symposium organised to reveal Spemann and Mangold in the background.
We're in love with this cover image! 🧡
Part II of our Special Collection celebrating the Centennial of the Discovery of The Organiser is here. This issue focuses on the work presented at the Centennial Symposium at the University of Freiburg in September 2024:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...
#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
At first glance, looks like a Gray–Scott reaction-diffusion
But it’s a fertilized starfish 🥚: proteins self-organizing into spiral waves across the membrane
Same dynamics seen in ❤️/🧠/🌊, even quantum fluids. Universality in action!
#ComplexSystems
news.mit.edu/2020/growth-...
Useful new tool for imaging and keeping track of large scale movements in embryo development!🔬
Beautiful images! Save some for the YEN 2026 image competition ;)
Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...
Happy #FluorescenceFriday. This beautiful video shows slice by slice section of a zebrafish embryo's head. The embryo is almost completely transparent, proving that zebrafish is an amazing model system for microscopy.
Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI
📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
A figure illustrating examples of physics-inspired theory in developmental biology. Please read the linked article for more information.
Searching for physical principles of morphogenesis
In this #OpenAccess Spotlight, Nikolas Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns and @streichan.bsky.social highlight the ‘physics of development’, focusing on the interplay between quantitative experiments and mathematical theory
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Can't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉
Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life
🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
#FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI
Fluorescent microscopy image of a 28 hours post fertilization zebrafish labelled with DAPI and phalloidin
Happy (and spooky) #FluorescenceFriday
Switching from frogs (which are underrated btw) to zebrafish has really made me appreciate transparent tissues! 🐟
28 hpf, ⚪ nuclei, 🔴 F-actin
🏆 First Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🖼️
“A Model Meeting” by Karla Akari Garcia
Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt
Amazing day at #GastrulationReloaded with thought provoking science and jaw dropping methods.
Also, for no reason at all, re-posting this open Collection: www.nature.com/collections/...
Don’t sweat the deadline, we’ll extend it and I’ll add relevant papers that come to me @natcomms.nature.com
✴️Sea urchins have illuminated fertilization 🧫, early cleavage divisions 🔬, and gene regulation in embryonic patterning 🧬. A classic marine model that shaped our understanding of cell fate and axis formation. 📸 Image by Laurent Formery #ModelMonday #DevBio
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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 🧵...
#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Faire taire les gènes est aussi crucial que les activer : le répresseur Snail révèle son rôle essentiel dans le développement embryonnaire 🧬
✍️ @laghalab.bsky.social et Ovidiu Radulescu
📕 @natcomms.nature.com | buff.ly/pmtzA1t
Cartoon of a speculative heterogenous cell population performing mesenchymal collective cell migration.
1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉
My first paper as corresponding author—a @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes.
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#cellbio #devbio #science
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SDB logo Webinar: Get Into Grad School September 21, 2025, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET Headshots of Carole LaBonne, Ondine Cleaver, Madison Martinez, Cristina Guerena, Jerry Wei Heng Tan, and Talia Marc
#Undergraduates #Postbacs @socdevbio.bsky.social is hosting a webinar Get Into Grad School September 21 at 3pm ET. Learn about doctoral programs, the key elements of a compelling grad school application, and the interview process. Register: bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
This was the first dev bio textbook I ever picked up and inspired me to enter the field. An iconic image!
Cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin (Phalloidin, orange), imaged by spinning disc confocal microscopy and processed using ImageJ. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.
Issue 16 is complete!
On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.
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