Pibf1m1Bei variant results in excision of exon9 resulting in loss of the coil-coiled domain in PIBF1 protein
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Centriolar protein PIBF1 is required for craniofacial and forebrain development: its variants results in ciliopathies, craniofacial anomalies & semilobar holoprosencephaly
by Lylyan Pimentel, Samantha Brugmann, et al @brugmannlab.bsky.social
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To any that knew Ellen in the #DevBio community- you know she was so thoughtful and always willing to help. She cared about all of us and dedicated herself to improving the future of science and our community. She will be sorely missed. Sending my condolences to all that loved her.💔
If you work on #PrimaryCilia 🔬 & spend too much time on manual image analysis, this might help! We built Cilia SubQ — automated cilia detection with analytical pipelines for basal body, transition zone, ciliary tip, and more (~8x faster ⏱️). Free on OSF 🦾 Congrats Ellie Menzel! 🎉 osf.io/hm38f
🚨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
I suppose it's better late than never to mention that this September I started an Assistant Professor position at Rowan University @rowancsm.bsky.social. We will be doing cool work with chameleons 🦎 to understand early development, especially left-right patterning view.rowan.edu/the-human-pu...
Examples of the new model organism shirts for sale on the SDB merchandise website
Excited to share that @socdevbio.bsky.social has a new and improved merch store! Rep your fav model organism in one of the Society’s new original designs 🤗 sdb-official-merch.printify.me
2022 Tweet from Caroline Keroack: "I have a whole PhD I whisper to myself, as I write C1V1 = C2V2 on a paper towel for the 8000th time."
This tweet is all of us.
Screenshot of title and author list: A strong start for sustained success: inclusivity through a national group mentorship program for first-year graduate students Sergio R. Labra1,2,*, Valerie A. Tornini3,4,5*, Maria Pia Rodriguez Salazar6, Daniela M. Cossio7, Rebekah A. Gelpí8,^, Bryan E. Rubio Perez9, Yanitza M. Rodríguez10, Gerardo Leana Sandoval11, Kimberly Hernandez12, Olivia V. Goldman13,*,#, Robert W. Fernandez14,#,†
Happy to share our article on @cientificolatino.com's GSEC program: a national mentorship program for 1st-year STEM grad students, geared for those from underrepresented backgrounds.
We review why programs like this are urgently needed & what we learned while running it 🧵
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Applications for the CSHL Mouse Course are due TODAY!
RNA-binding proteins have recently emerged as crucial regulators of embryonic development and cellular differentiation. We hope that our review on the roles of the RNA-binding protein SRSF3 in these contexts is useful for the dev/cell biology and RNA fields!
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Evan Brooks @ecbrooks96.bsky.social, Charles Griffin and I wrote a review on the roles of the RNA-binding protein SRSF3 in development and cellular differentiation for @diffjournal.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mq8m14Yy4.... We hope that it's a useful resource for the field!
Flyer showing full details for the 2026 Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course hosted at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The top picture shows the Cold Spring Harbor in New York. The course will be held from June 1 to June 21. Instructors for the course will be Danelle Davenport from Princeton University and Loydie Jerome-Majewska from McGill University in Canada. The co-instructors for the course will be Matthew Anderson from NCI-Frederick and Katherine Fantauzzo from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Experimental techniques to be taught during the course include CRISPR/Cas9 editing and allele design, zygote micro injection and embryo transfer, isolation culture and manipulation of pre and post-implantation embryos, zygote and embryo electroporation, in vivo electroporation for somatic cancer modeling, embryo roller bottle culture, in vitro fertilization, fluorescent RNA in situ hybridization, immunofluorescence, skeletal preparation, and live imaging and confocal microscopy. Speakers for the course include Ripla Arora from Michigan State, Richard Behringer from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jeff Bush and Diana Laird from UC San Francisco, Katie Cockburn and Yojiro Yamanaka from McGill University, Anna-Katerina Hadjatonakis from the Sloan Kettering Institute, Ai Ing Lim and Eszter Posfai from Princeton, Francesca Mariani from the University of Southern California, Kate McDole from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Steve Murray from Jackson Laboratory, Virginia Papaioannou from Columbia University, Pedro Rocha and Shyam Sharan from the NIH, Berna Sozen and Kaelyn Sumigray from Yale, Shankar Srinivas from the University of Oxford, Rolf Stottmann from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Xin Sun from UC San Diego, Paul Trainor from the Stowers Institute, and Steve Vokes from the University of Texas at Austin. Pictures on the left show fluorescence images of a mouse embryo, a mouse brain slice, and mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
The deadline for the 2026 Mouse Course @cshlcourses.bsky.social has been EXTENDED until Mar 30!
When asked what they liked most about the course, one participant said the course felt “all-inclusive” with “no expectation of previous knowledge.“ We welcome all experience levels!
Apply today!
In grad school, there was this old professor that sat in the 1st row & ALWAYS asked questions at EVERY talk, didn't matter the topic. Drove us students nuts but was also endearing, he just loved science.
That's me, at EVERY talk...now with the title.
Professor Siegenthaler, effective 7/1/2026.
You can apply for the course here: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Stipends and financial aid are available!
Flyer showing full details for the 2026 Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course hosted at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The top picture shows the Cold Spring Harbor in New York. The course will be held from June 1 to June 21. Instructors for the course will be Danelle Davenport from Princeton University and Loydie Jerome-Majewska from McGill University in Canada. The co-instructors for the course will be Matthew Anderson from NCI-Frederick and Katherine Fantauzzo from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Experimental techniques to be taught during the course include CRISPR/Cas9 editing and allele design, zygote micro injection and embryo transfer, isolation culture and manipulation of pre and post-implantation embryos, zygote and embryo electroporation, in vivo electroporation for somatic cancer modeling, embryo roller bottle culture, in vitro fertilization, fluorescent RNA in situ hybridization, immunofluorescence, skeletal preparation, and live imaging and confocal microscopy. Speakers for the course include Ripla Arora from Michigan State, Richard Behringer from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jeff Bush and Diana Laird from UC San Francisco, Katie Cockburn and Yojiro Yamanaka from McGill University, Anna-Katerina Hadjatonakis from the Sloan Kettering Institute, Ai Ing Lim and Eszter Posfai from Princeton, Francesca Mariani from the University of Southern California, Kate McDole from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Steve Murray from Jackson Laboratory, Virginia Papaioannou from Columbia University, Pedro Rocha and Shyam Sharan from the NIH, Berna Sozen and Kaelyn Sumigray from Yale, Shankar Srinivas from the University of Oxford, Rolf Stottmann from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Xin Sun from UC San Diego, Paul Trainor from the Stowers Institute, and Steve Vokes from the University of Texas at Austin. Pictures on the left show fluorescence images of a mouse embryo, a mouse brain slice, and mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
The deadline for the 2026 Mouse Course @cshlcourses.bsky.social has been EXTENDED until Mar 30!
When asked what they liked most about the course, one participant said the course felt “all-inclusive” with “no expectation of previous knowledge.“ We welcome all experience levels!
Apply today!
Science professors and educators all have a role in combating this eugenics resurgence
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Michael B Jordan in Sinners
Michael B. Jordan is now the sixth Black actor to win Best Actor at the Oscars.
Joining Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker and Will Smith.
Applications are due this Friday, March 13th!
Applications are due this Friday to the 2026 CSHL Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social!
I learned a lot as a teaching assistant for the course last year, so you're bound to learn lots as a course participant!
Applications are due this Friday to the 2026 CSHL Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course @cshlcourses.bsky.social!
I learned a lot as a teaching assistant for the course last year, so you're bound to learn lots as a course participant!
Call for Papers! Submit to the Splicing in Development and Disease special issue
Deadline extended: Submit your research on splicing in development and disease to the Differentiation special issue led by Guest Editors Natoya Peart and Karine Choquet by June 30, 2026. Learn more: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/322731/spl...
“I’m not up against the pop girls. I’m not up against the R&B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy." www.nme.com/news/music/s...
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Yes! We literally cannot shut up about our work.
Society for Developmental Biology 85th Annual Meeting poster Compilation of images of research organisms from the Marine Biological Laboratory Embryology Course make up the Las Vegas Sphere. Society for Developmental Biology 85th Annual Meeting Planet Hollywood Resort, Las Vegas, NV, July 23-26, 2026 SDB short logo
Registration and abstract submission are now open for the SDB 85th Annual Meeting being held July 23-26 in Las Vegas! Submit your abstract by April 15. Travel assistance is available. Free t-shirt to the first 250 registrants! Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg #2026SDB
Save the date card featuring a skyline of the host city of Seattle for the SCGDB annual meeting Sept 28-30, 2026
We are excited to announce that the 49th Annual Meeting of the SCGDB will be held September 28th-30th, 2026 in Seattle! The meeting will be hosted by the University of Washington
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
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Still image from the Super Bowl halftime show of Bad Bunny looking serious, talking directly to the camera, pointing at us.
“If I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” —Bad Bunny
Congratulations to Departmental faculty Dr. Kristin Watt @wattlab.bsky.social on winning the H.W. Mossman Award in Developmental Biology through the American Association for Anatomy @anatomyorg.bsky.social!