It’s official!

@bertacava26.bsky.social has received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship 🚀🚀🚀

She will study proteostasis during embryo dormancy @babrahaminst.bsky.social

Very well deserved. proud of this achievement & excited for the discoveries ahead 🐭⌛️

explorers at the farthest reaches of our knowledge 🤩 neuronal ribosomes, and their mysterious rRNA expansion segments

immense story from the dream team @andschwarz.bsky.social & @muellermara.bsky.social in the @erin-schuman.bsky.social lab at @mpibrain.bsky.social

ribosome structure♥️neurons

RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity - Nature Reviews Immunology RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) considerably expand the information content of the genome and can determine the lifespan, localization and function of RNA, thereby controlling when, where and how much pro...

Just out @natrevimmunol.nature.com
RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
gives our perspective on this growing area of research. Special thanks to the editor Alexandra, for streamlining the manuscript.

Post-doc job alert!

We have an exciting opportunity for a post doc to join our team at the Babraham Institute, exploring ageing metabolism and epigenetics.

babrahaminstitute.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...

RNA-binding proteins function through network effects, coordinately binding and weakly regulating many transcripts – or don’t they? Read our new preprint on how LIN28 controls developmental timing through only two targets, one mRNA, one miRNA. doi.org/10.64898/202...

heads up neuro bsky 😎 must-read seminal discoveries:

ultimate translation of genetic information in the farthest reaches of the neuron ➡️ @erin-schuman.bsky.social

& in cortex development ➡️ @debbysilver.bsky.social

thanks again 🤝 @natrevneuro.nature.com Darran Yates for editorial collaboration

Lates from the Briscoe lab: Lineage tracing of neural progenitors in 🐤& 👤 - demonstrates sequential binary decisions & persistence of spatial identity despite temporal competence changes.

Congrats to Giulia and co 🍾🥂

And the next one: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00585-z . Super-fun collaboration with @partchlab.bsky.social & @gotworms.bsky.social to find similarities between developmental and circadian clocks – supported by @fmiscience.bsky.social Facilities and, financially, @snsf.ch and @erc.europa.eu . 1/n

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...

We've updated our first #preprint from the lab! A collaboration with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

🔥 now including in vivo 🐭&👤 embryo data

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

Congrats Vale! 🎉

Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies Menin and SUZ12 as regulators of human developmental timing - Nature Cell Biology Xu et al. perform a whole-genome CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen using directed differentiation systems. They find that MEN1 and SUZ12 modulate human developmental timing by epigenetically controlling biv...

Beautiful work from Nan Xu and the @studerl.bsky.social lab in @natcellbio.nature.com combining directed differentiation of hPSCs and genome-wide CRISPR screens to identify the epigenetic factors Menin and SUZ12 as regulators of developmental pace across germ layers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Species-specific Rates of Fatty Acid Metabolism Set the Scale of Temporal Patterning of Corticogenesis through Protein Acetylation Dynamics Developmental processes display temporal differences across species, leading to divergence in organ size and composition. In the cerebral cortex, neurons of diverse identities are generated sequential...

New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social

Marsupial single-cell transcriptomics identifies temporal diversity in mammalian developmental programs Menchero et al. generate a single-cell transcriptomic atlas in the opossum and show rapid progression of transcriptional programs in specific tissues relative to morphological landmarks. This shift in...

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

Congratulations 🥳

Focus on stem cells Stem cells are inextricably linked with developmental biology. They underpin the formation and maintenance of our tissues, and are activated after injury to enable repair and regeneration. The recent advances in using stem cells to build organoids and stem cell-based embryo models have allowed us to probe deeper into developmental biology to reveal the mechanical, chemical and cellular roles of self-organisation, morphogenesis, pluripotency and differentiation. Curated to complement the 2025 International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting in Hong Kong, this collection highlights recent research and review-type articles discussing the wide range of studies using stem cells. We hope you find this collection interesting and welcome your own submissions for consideration by our expert Editors from the field including James Briscoe, Matthias Lutolf and James Wells.

Excited for the @isscr.org‬ meeting in Hong Kong this week? #ISSCR2025

We've curated a 'Focus on stem cells' collection to complement the meeting, highlighting recent research and review-type articles discussing the wide range of studies using #stemcells.
journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Royal Society announces £30m fund to attract global talent over next two years | Royal Society International recruitment scheme comes amid announcement of Government principles for 10-year research funding

Today we've announced the new Faraday Fellowship accelerated international route, which will grant up to £30 million in funding over the next two years to attract global talent and support the development of world-leading research groups in the UK: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...

So proud of this work finally out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We examined antigenic variation in malaria parasites at single-cell level and found a surprising level of diversity. Make sure to check it out and don’t miss my talk on Thursday to hear about this story! #malaria #scRNA-Seq #EMBLMalaria

Hi @marklewandoski.bsky.social ,

You are already on the DevBio II starter pack. Please check to make sure you can see your @ handle.

Devbio I was filled to its max of 150 members many months ago. So U stated a second pack which is almost full.

go.bsky.app/2qUqVKE

@rrbehringer.bsky.social

the first Dev Bio starter pack:

go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn

Kudos to the organisers for an incredible event! @trayon.bsky.social @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social @bassemh.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social

The @embo.org #EvoDevoTempo ⏳ Paris 2025 just came to an end ⏳🧬 So grateful to be part of this inspiring community! Tons of ideas to take back with me - and already looking forward to the next edition! 🚀

As this @embo.org EvoDevoTempo Paris 2025 comes to close, my biggest takeaway message is that we absolutely must do this again!

Cheers to the organizers and thanks for all the feedback on our work from the lovely Tempo community

Until next ⏰ time ⏰

Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome - Nature The physical organization of the genome in non-bilaterian animals and their closest unicellular relatives is characterized; comparative analysis shows chromatin looping is a conserved feature of ...

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Peer review completed within 7 days!
Paying peer reviewers!
Yes, it's possible.

Fast & Fair peer review by @biologyopen.bsky.social

More innovation from @biologists.bsky.social

Details here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Huge thanks to @trayon.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social and @embo.org that made this possible!

Thrilled to start my collaboration in Lorenzo Calviello’s lab @translatomics.bsky.social at @humantechnopole.bsky.social! Excited to dive into Ribo-Seq, exchange ideas and uncover new insights on translational regulation. Looking forward to what’s ahead!
Let’s get started! 🧬💻✨

Job opening in my research group!! Please share.

I'm looking for a lab technician to join my small team investigating how chromatin structure regulates gene expression in C. elegans.

www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Intergenerational control of ribosomes under dietary restriction

🚨New preprint alert!!! We show using #Celegans that mothers control the #ribosome levels of their offspring depending on their diet. Pioneered by fantastic
Sigma Pradhan (not yet on 🟦). #worms biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵