LASDB board meeting during the @socdevbio.bsky.social / @isdb.bsky.social / LASDB joint meeting in San Juan, PR 🌴✨! We’re excited for what’s ahead for developmental biology and the growing role of Latinx scientists in the field. 💪🏽🧬 🐸🐟🐣🐭🪰 #DevBio #LatinxInScience #LASDB #LatinxDB

🐣✨ TUJ1 staining reveals the forming trigeminal ganglion in a chick embryo! Image taken by Rocio Márquez from @pstrobl.bsky.social lab, where they investigate how neural crest and placode cells communicate during the formation of this sensory structure 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday

Congrats!!! Beautiful images!!

How an ol'factory' assembly line constantly manufactures neurons: Pleased to share our work in @stemcellreports.bsky.social, led by Sriivatsan G. Rajan in collab w/ L. Nacke, J. Lombardo, K. Wong, E. Somodji, J. Garcia, and the lab of dearly departed Dr. Jie Liang. 1/3 www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...

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The human ciliopathy protein RSG1 links the CPLANE complex to transition zone architecture - Nature Communications The CPLANE complex is essential for ciliogenesis, and mutations to all but one subunit have been associated with ciliopathies. Here they identify three familial mutations in the final subunit, RSG1, t...

Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬 New preprint!
We’ve identified core microRNAs that orchestrate neural crest delamination and condensation in chick embryos, key for trigeminal ganglion formation.
✨ Introducing cranial MET-miRNAs into trunk neural crest cells reprograms them to gain cranial-like differentiation potential

Check out our work using 3D whole gut spatial genomics, where we found spatially-distinct gene expression patterns along the zebrafish enteric nervous system across 4 to 7 days in development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is exactly why I really like this meeting!

Research Organisms in Flight: Revealing the Roots of Vertebrate Form… Organized by Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Ph.D., and Ruth Williams, Ph.D.

The 12th Avian Model Systems Meeting is happening this fall!! tinyurl.com/2s3mynw6 We hope you can join us at the Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social, Kansas City to talk all things birds, biology and breakthroughs!! 🐣🐔🪶

Great to meet with old friends in a fantastic meeting!
#2025lasdb #2025isdb #2025sdb

This won't last long, but if you missed your chance to register, here's another one!

If you want the last spot, let me know and I'll save it for you.

Very nice to see you all!

Felicitaciones Joaquín, muy merecido!!

Congrats!! Hope to see it published soon!

Sure! How about Puerto Rico?!

Very nice to see all the Bronner lab members at the GRC!

Congrats!!!

This paper is now published at @diffjournal.bsky.social! Congratulations to all the hardworking students who made it happen! Shout out to authors 1 & 2! MJ is our “axolotl whisperer” and Raneesh is our computational wizard- both DVM/PhD students @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social! 💫 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

Geraldine Seydoux mid-presentation at #mbiosys23. She’s standing near a podium with a laptop and microphone, gesturing during her talk. In the background, Lake Llanquihue, in Puerto Varas, Chile.

Have you ever given a talk with a view like this? ⛵🌋✨ Join us in Puerto Varas, Chile, for cutting-edge science in a breathtaking setting. #mbiosys25

What are some interesting places you've visited for a conference? Tell us below!👇

(Extra points if you identify the speaker 🏅)

Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer-ear evolution - Nature A study on the evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear finds that it shares genetic programs with the gills of fishes and amphibians, indicating that elements of an ancestral gill have been reu...

Super exciting and beautiful new work from the talented @mathithiru.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Molecular Biosystems Conference Molecular Biosystems Conference

🎯 Calling all students & postdocs! Applications for #mbiosys25 fellowships are now open! 🧬

We have multiple fellowships to support ECRs attend the meeting and join us in Chile for cutting-edge discussions in gene regulation & functional genomics.

📆 Apply by April 30!

🔗 molbiosystems.com

Enhanced RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas technology in zebrafish - Nature Communications CRISPR-Cas13 RNA-targeting systems comprise an invaluable set of tools in the fields of basic and applied sciences. Here, Moreno-Sánchez, Hernández-Huertas, and Nahón-Cano et al. enhanced the use of t...

First seen in Biorxiv and now published and updated with more data in @naturecomms.bsky.social. With this work we have further enhanced CRISPR-Cas RNA targeting in vivo using transient approaches such as RNP or mRNA-gRNA in zebrafish embryos as vertebrate model. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔍 ¿Planeas postularte a financiamiento en los próximos dos años?
@wellcometrust.bsky.social te invita a observar cómo sus comités evalúan solicitudes de financiamiento. Una oportunidad para comprender mejor el proceso antes de presentar tu propia solicitud.
📅 Convocatoria abierta hasta el 14/4.

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...

Molecular Biosystems Conference Molecular Biosystems Conference

🚨 Registration for the Molecular Biosystems Conference is now OPEN! 🚨

Join us in southern Chile to discuss cutting-edge research in gene regulation & functional genomics.

📅 Sep 29-Oct 3, 2025
📍 Puerto Varas, Chile
🔗 Register here: molbiosystems.com

Secure your spot now—space is limited!

MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. Neural crest (NC) cells form a multipotent stem cell population specified during neurulation, which undergo an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migrate extensively in the developing embr...

Pleased to share my latest pre-print from my PhD work
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social

#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A still image of a stage HH4 gastrulating chick embryo electroporated with 3 different fluorescent reporter genes shown in magenta, yellow and cyan.

Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo

🧪🐣 #devbio

🔬Segundo día del Taller de Biología del Desarrollo hoy, Teórico y Práctico 🎲
@pstrobl.bsky.social @juanifernandino.bsky.social