✨ Meet Estefanía Sanchez-Vasquez, our 2025–2026 Chair. @niasv.bsky.social
From exploring nature in the Andes to stem cell research, her journey shows where curiosity leads 🧬🔬
Now she pairs cutting-edge tools with mentorship to make academia more accessible.
Read: sites.google.com/view/latinxi...
🚨 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
Yay! Our paper is now out @emboreports.org! I posted about it a while back (tinyurl.com/yc7td3px) but the work really improved thanks to the wonderful feedback from three anonymous reviewers 🙏 (1/4)
Opportunity for the Global South! #LatinxDB
🥁 New Latinx in Dev Bio interview!
From Argentina to the world 🇦🇷🌎🔬 Martín Estermann shares his journey, research, and exciting next step—starting his own lab at the Czech Academy of Sciences. @martinestermann.bsky.social
Read here: sites.google.com/view/latinxi...
#DevBio #LatinxInSTEM #NewPI
PASEDB community 🤩
We are excited to announce our first Research Webinar series called:
⭐️EvoDevo Mondays⭐️
Save the date - April 13
With our amazing speakers @luiza-o-saad.bsky.social and João Francisco Botelho
Session chair Professor Natalia Pabón-Mora
#PASEDB #EvoDevoMondays #EvoDevo
🚨New paper out in Cell Reports ‼️
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Why do fetal Sertoli cells store glycogen 🍬 during testis development?
It turns out they are feeding germ cells.
We discovered a previously unrecognized metabolic coupling between Sertoli cells and germ cells in the fetal testis 🧵
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, March 13, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Martha Echevarría-Andino (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Hoxa11/Hoxd11 transcription factors regulate extracellular matrix genes during osteochondral differentiation M. Fernanda Palominos (University of California, Berkeley) Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Martha Echevarría-Andino @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/47QVIEK #SDBPostdocSeminar
Hi friends! Please check Dr. Rosa Navarro’s interview: she is a Professor and PI at #UNAM and the current President of the Mexican Society for Developmental Biology 🪱 🧬 🧫
#LatinaxinDevBio #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology @lasdb.bsky.social
Stay tuned as we highlight more #latinx scientists! 🫶
We’re launching our Latinx DevBio interview series 🌎🧬
Our first inspiring conversation features Dr. Rosa Navarro: Leading Developmental Biology research in Mexico.
Read here: sites.google.com/view/latinxi...
Thanks, Dr. Navarro, for sharing your journey and insights with us! #LatinxInScience
Congratulations @mayorlab.bsky.social on this awesome-deserverd recognition by the @socdevbio.bsky.social !
Dr. Roberto Mayor career is a powerful example of the excellence, leadership, and creativity that #Latinx scientists bring to #DevelopmentalBiology!
Society for Developmental Biology logo Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Award Winners Edwin G. Conklin Medal Headshot of Lee Niswander Lee Niswander, University of Colorado Boulder Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award Headshot of Alexandra Joyner Alexandra Joyner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize Headshot of Roberto Mayor Roberto Mayor, University College London Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award Headshot of Jeffrey Farrell Jeffrey Farrell, National Institutes of Health Society for Developmental Biology Trainee Science Communication Award Headshot of Nicholas Desnoyer Nicholas Desnoyer, The Sainsbury Laboratory
Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander
SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor
Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell
SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer
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two researchers working on digital archives
Three years after a devastating fire threatened the Biblioteca Amazónica in Iquitos, Peru, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Latin American Literature Amanda M. Smith and her collaborators have completed the library’s first open-access digital archive.
📣 Applications Open!
SDB is seeking applicants for the 2026 GetHIRED! Internship, a unique chance to gain hands-on experience supporting an e-course for postdocs entering the academic job market.
📆 Deadline: December 15, 2025.
Learn more & apply today: www.sdbonline.org/gethired_int...
Pathway to Independence Support postdocs on the job market Line drawing of a person at a bench transitioning to working at a desk Development
Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
Happy to be part of this mission 🌎🧬🐸🔬#LatinxDB
I can’t believe it’s already been a year! 🎉 Grateful to share this initiative with such an amazing group of Latinx scientists in developmental biology 🙌 More to come! ✨
Vamos por más!
✨ Proud to celebrate our first year as a network empowering Latinx developmental biologists worldwide.
Thanks to everyone helping our mission—here’s to growth and stronger community 🌎 #LatinxDB #LatinxInScience #DevelopmentalBiology
Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration
Interested in development? Cave fish? Enteric nervous system? Pretty pictures? Please join us next Friday! We are looking forward to the talk! 🤩
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
Thank you @sacnas.bsky.social for granting us the space for our professional development workshop! #NDiSTEM2025 #latinxdb
We connected with so many amazing people in the #SACNAS community!
@niasv.bsky.social @fishfena.bsky.social
First time ❤️
🚨Join us today!
We are looking forward to seeing you there! 🌎
@niasv.bsky.social @fishfena.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social
Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo
Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio
Our most recent study shows that stem cells in Schmidtea mediterranea do not rely on physical contacts or fixed structures to maintain their identity and regenerative potential.
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vilcekfoundation.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
💭Transitioning to independence isn’t only a Latinx concern!
One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social
Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!
