🐌 Apple Snail (Pomacea canaliculata). A powerful model for eye regeneration! 👁️Can fully regenerate complex eyes, even after removal. 🌎 Offers insight into how complex organs regenerate #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo #Regeneration 📸 Image by @accorsi-alice.bsky.social
🪱 Serving head-to-tail fluorescence 💅 Whole-animal FISH in the planaria Schmidtea mediterranea: 🔵 Head 🟣 Gut 🟡 Tail ✨ Masters of regeneration and color coordination 📸 Image from Viraj Doddihal #FluorescenceFriday
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✨ Excited to host invited speaker Krist Antunes Fernandes at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Her research explores how environmental exposures during development shape embryonic health and long-term outcomes. 🌎🧪🧬👶✨
🚨 Last Day❗❗to submit your abstract for the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting 2026 in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Don’t miss your chance to share your science, connect with the dev bio community, and join us in Vegas ➡️ www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_abst... ✨ #SDB2026 #DevBio
✨ Excited to host Igor Adameyko as invited speaker at #SDB2026 in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 His lab studies how stem cells make fate decisions during development and regeneration, with a special focus on the neural crest and peripheral nervous system 🧬🧠
Event image card: Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos Date: 7 – 9 September 2026 Location: University of Warwick, UK
One month until early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social & @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium HDBI's 2026 Meeting on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme biologists.com/meetings/dev... and register by 8 May www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
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🚨3 days left❗to submit your abstract for the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting 2026 in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Don’t miss your chance to share your science, connect with the dev bio community, and join us in Vegas ➡️ www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_abst... ✨ #SDB2026 #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology
14th Structural Birth Defects Meeting flyer Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia | September 21-23 2026; Abstract Deadline June 22; Photo of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Abstracts & Registration Open May 1; Keynote Speakers: Erica E. Davis, PhD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University; Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Save the Date! The 14th Structural Birth Defects Meeting will be September 21-23 @childrensphila.bsky.social Keynotes: Erica E. Davis @luriechildrens.bsky.social @feinberg.northwestern.edu & Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social at UC San Francisco. Abstracts & registration open May 1. #14thSBD
Join us in 1 hour! #SDBPostdocSeminar bit.ly/42xUhYh
photo of Yiqun Wang
Tubulin, membrane, nuclei & total RNA staining in a 12-cell stage marine slipper snail embryo
Yiqun Wang of @ucsandiego.bsky.social will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics" Image: Tubulin, membrane, nuclei & total RNA in a 12-cell stage marine slipper snail embryo
photo of Joaquín Navajas Acedo
Somatosensory neurons in the spinal cord of a transgenic zebrafish embryo
.@mads100tist.bsky.social of @biozentrum.unibas.ch will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish" Image: Somatosensory neurons in the spinal cord of a transgenic zebrafish embryo
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, April 10, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Biozentrum at the University of Basel) Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish Yiqun Wang (University of California, San Diego) Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, April 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch and Yiqun Wang @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/42xUhYh #SDBPostdocSeminar
🏅 Fifth Place – DevBio Art Contest 🎨 “The Leech Family” 🪱 Helobdella austinensis, a very dorky segmented worm that’s taught us decades of developmental biology! 🧬 This clay piece by @biyolokum.bsky.social captures their quirky life as hermaphroditic parents carrying babies on their belly 💚
🚨Next DevBioConnect on the way
Developmental Biology Author webinar featuring
Dr. Janelle M. Welton
Dr. Katherine A. Maniates
🗓️Apr. 14th, 2026
⏰11 am–12 pm CST
@socdevbio.bsky.social
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🧬 Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) ✨ A window into early vertebrate evolution! 🧠 Lampreys help reveal how key vertebrate features, like neural crest cells, the vertebrate brain, and craniofacial structures originated and diversified 📸 Image by David Jandzik #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo #Lamprey
✨ This Xenopus 🐸 tadpole came to #FluorescenceFriday serving eye-conic energy 👀
Stage 39 eye stained with a whole rainbow: 💙 DAPI | ❤️ Acetylated tubulin | 💚 RPE | 🩵 Rhodopsin | 💜 Pax6. 📸 Image from Jian Sun.
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, April 10, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Biozentrum at the University of Basel) Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish Yiqun Wang (University of California, San Diego) Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, April 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch and Yiqun Wang @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/42xUhYh #SDBPostdocSeminar
✨ Somite symmetry never fails to mesmerize 🐟
Trunk somites of a 1-day-old zebrafish embryo with nuclear (💙) and membrane (🧡) labelling 📸 Image credit: Matyas Bubna-Litic (Mongera lab, UCL) 🔬 #FluorescenceFriday
The March 13 #SDBPostdocSeminar with Martha Echevarría-Andino of @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social has been posted. Thank you to moderators @gopalkushawah.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja. Watch here: youtu.be/Ohzyftcq2gY
🚨Next DevBioConnect on the way
Developmental Biology Author webinar featuring
Dr. Janelle M. Welton &
Dr. Katherine A. Maniates 📷
🗓️Apr. 16th, 2026
⏰11 am–12 pm CST
@socdevbio.bsky.social
Register here👇
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Submit your abstract by April 10 for what is sure to be an outstanding Southeast Society for Developmental Biology Meeting May 18-20 at Kennesaw State University www.sdbonline.org/sesdb2026 @socdevbio.bsky.social
Gorgeous piece of science history here. Many in the @socdevbio.bsky.social will know the story's protagonist, Victoria Foe. And shout out to those of us who did PhDs @utaustin.bsky.social.
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Join us at 2pm ET today!
Join SDB President Richard Behringer Wednesday, March 18 (tomorrow) at 2pm ET for an Information Session on #2026SDB in Las Vegas. This 30-minute live webinar will highlight what is new in 2026. Ask any questions you may have. Register today! bit.ly/4snV4pS
🌟 Nematostella vectensis (starlet sea anemone) 🪼 A cnidarian model with deep evolutionary insights! 🧬 Nematostella reveals how germ layers and body axes evolved and can even regenerate its body after injury 🔁
📸 Image by Océane Tournière #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo #Nematostella
Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium September 23-25, 2026 Allen Institute, Seattle, WA Apply to attend today! Applications close May 1 QR Code to symposium website: https://alleninstitute.org/events/stem-cell-developmental-biology-early-career-symposium/ Allen Institute logo; International Society for Stem Cell Research logo; Society for Developmental Biology logo
Applications open for the Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium being held September 23-25, 2026 in Seattle, WA. This joint symposium is a collaboration between @alleninstitute.org, @isscr.org and @socdevbio.bsky.social Application Deadline: May 1. bit.ly/4p98dkv
✨Development from the tail up 🦎 Gecko embryo tail glowing with HNK1 🟢 and DAPI 🔵 under the microscope 🔬 Proof that even the tail end of an embryo can be fabulous. 📸 Image by Maria Elena de Ballard #FluorescenceFriday
Applications are now open for the Stem Cell & Development Biology Early Career Symposium!
Together with @isscr.org and @socdevbio.bsky.social, we're hosting a scientific symposium focused on incubating the next generation of research leaders.
Apply by 5/1 at: https://bit.ly/4lriiZm
M. Fernanda (Feña) Palominos
Atp8a1 and tpm3b expression localized to craniofacial muscles in scale-eater pupfish hatchlings
Feña Palominos of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics" Image: Atp8a1 & tpm3b in pupfish craniofacial muscles